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AI, startup and technology news for the countries that speak your language: the news in two lines and three reasons.
AI, startup and technology news for the countries that speak your language: the news in two lines and three reasons.

Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker now works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Databricks Genie. Adobe says new connectors let marketers use one request to retrieve data and carry out tasks across multiple systems.

Runway demonstrated Continuum, a system that streams an interactive screen generated by a video model. The demonstration included a coding agent using Continuum to reason through a problem involving a 3D bike model.

Traversal has raised $120 million in a Series B funding round for AI agents that investigate software failures. The deal values the New York startup at $1 billion.

Tencent Holdings has released Hy4, an open-weight AI model with visual understanding. Tencent says it can handle desktop tasks across command-line and graphical interfaces, expanding its scope for AI agents.

OpenAI says ChatGPT now handles search queries equal to 20 percent of Google’s volume. The company did not disclose the source of the Google figure used for the comparison.

Apple is opening Siri AI actions to third-party apps through the iOS 27.3 Developer Preview. Developers can create app skills that combine several tasks into a single action.

Brookfield, Drax Group and Radiant have agreed to develop an AI data centre at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire. Investment could exceed £20 billion, but final investment decisions have not been made.

OpenAI plans to combine ChatGPT’s Chat and Work tabs in its desktop app, starting with selected users. ChatGPT and Codex will also share a token allowance, which could mean more frequent waits for usage limits to reset.

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cresta, which builds AI voice agents for customer service. It plans to integrate Cresta with Service Cloud, linking calls to customer history and outcomes.

DeepSeek raised $15.9 billion at a $90 billion valuation, according to Crunchbase. The funding round is the largest private financing for a Chinese technology company on record.

Apple’s Audio Intelligence features for Apple Watch have entered developer beta testing with iOS 27.3. Live Rewind retrieves the last 15 seconds of speech, while Siri Recaps creates conversation notes without saving raw audio, according to Apple.

Anthropic says AI-assisted research could soon meet its threshold for dramatically faster model development. The forecast rests on expectations for future models, and no current model has been designated as crossing that threshold.

OpenAI says India has become ChatGPT’s largest market by weekly active users. Its Indian user base has doubled since January 2026.

South Korea proposes 21.3 trillion won for AI and semiconductors in 2027, nearly double the 2026 allocation. A separate 4.7 trillion won would support a sovereign AI model, but the budget still needs parliamentary approval.

DeepSeek has released Super-Agent, an open-source AI coding agent that connects software work with team chats. The MIT-licensed code is a research prototype, not an official DeepSeek product.

Apple Intelligence will reach China in December with iOS 27.3 and access to Alibaba’s Qwen model. A developer beta starts on 4 November, but the rollout excludes Apple’s rebuilt Siri AI and its newest features.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company will keep releasing AI-generated mathematical results despite researchers' concerns. Researchers say inadequate explanations and insufficient verification leave them doing the work of checking the findings.

Baseten has released joey-1, an open-weights AI model for yes-or-no and multiple-choice decisions. Baseten says it costs $0.01 per million tokens, offering a cheaper option for tasks such as support-ticket routing.