AI News for November 4, 2026 — 7min.ai

[TOOLS] Apple opens Siri AI to all third-party apps with new 'app skills': Apple now lets developers integrate Siri AI into any app, so it can act inside third-party apps using personal context, natural language and on-screen awareness.
[NEWS] ChatGPT search volume hits 20% of Google's, OpenAI says: ChatGPT now handles about one-fifth as many search queries as Google, said ChatGPT's consumer product lead.
[NEWS] Google makes school AI opt-in, but blocking it also blocks Search: Google will switch off Gemini, NotebookLM, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search for K-12 student accounts until administrators turn them on.
[NEWS] Binance says a fake job interview and its own AI tool enabled the $6.3B heist: Binance's postmortem says the record $6.3B theft started in June, when an engineer installed a tampered tool from a malicious ad.
[RESEARCH] MIT shows GPT-6 Astra can fix other AI models by rewriting their weights directly: MIT researchers showed that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can improve smaller models by editing their weights directly, with no extra training.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic unveils FlashProve, a cryptographic proof of which model produced an output: Anthropic is building FlashProve, an open-source 'provable inference' system that cryptographically proves a given output came from a specific model.
[NEWS] Fal raises $1.3B at a $16B valuation as inference demand surges: AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3B in a Series F led by Bessemer, with Nvidia, Sound Ventures and T.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week: OpenAI's hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for talking to the Codex agent as a side project, finishing in under a week.
[TOOLS] Apple Watch's Live Rewind and Siri Recap enter beta: Apple began beta testing two always-listening Audio Intelligence features in watchOS 27.3.
[RESEARCH] Google DeepMind adds Cheminformatics Skills to Antigravity for drug discovery: Google DeepMind released Cheminformatics Skills for its Antigravity agent platform.

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