october 27 in ai, in five stories from our daily digest

genie 4 from google deepmind builds worlds that now have their own sound and talking characters, in real time.
apple is putting an ai assistant into pages, keynote and numbers – plus mcp, so outside agents can edit documents.
machenta raised $40m for a robot model that learns a task from one demo: 74 of 74 block placements in its trials.
oracle will sell google tpus, cerebras chips and nvidia vera rubin in one cloud.
and the rest: lfm3 open models at ~2b, a 43.1m-line lean proof, $30m for gpu resale

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