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OpenAI says it is rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 and a smaller version called GPT-Live-1.1 Quip for ChatGPT Voice, with more natural accents across languages. New voices cover French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Mexican Spanish, plus a new English voice called Bubbie.

AMD and Intel have chosen oneDNN, an open-source deep learning library, as the default for PyTorch on x86 processors to speed up AI workloads. Developers running models on Ryzen, EPYC, Core or Xeon CPUs should no longer need a separate path for each brand.

Snap has appointed Robert Downey Jr. as the honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer to promote its $2,195 Specs AR glasses. The role is honorary, and Snap did not disclose any figure regarding his compensation.

A Delaware jury found that Arm breached its architecture licence with Qualcomm but awarded Qualcomm only $2 in damages. Qualcomm designs its Snapdragon chips for phones and Windows laptops under that licence, and whether it can stop paying Arm royalties is now up to the judge.

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol passed 86.6% of COBOL migrations at low reasoning effort in two new tests that OpenAI itself built and ran, up from 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol, while costing 39% less to run. The reported result at higher reasoning effort was not fully disclosed.

The Khronos Group has ratified OpenXR's "spatial containers", a standard way for several XR apps to share one space, and Google says Android XR will support them. Spatial containers are system-managed spaces that apps draw into, allowing OpenXR apps to run side by side.

According to leaker Jaykihn, Intel's next desktop and laptop processors, Nova Lake, will reportedly share the name Core Ultra 4000; Intel has not commented. Current Core Ultra chips use three-digit model numbers, so the expected next step would have been Core Ultra 400.

ChatGPT is rolling out a 'locked chats' feature that hides individual conversations behind a 4-digit PIN. OpenAI says that if a user forgets the PIN and resets it, every locked chat is deleted, and its support staff cannot restore them. The feature is rolling out gradually.

Following its Early Access release on Quest, co-op space adventure Sol Protocol comes to PC VR on November 11 with crossplay support. A demo is available now for Steam Next Fest.

The new independent version of the VR fitness app Supernatural has launched in Early Access on Meta Quest. No further details were provided in the report.

Nvidia claims that its new DLSS 5 model is twice as fast as the version released in September and requires 20% less VRAM at 4K. These figures are provided by Nvidia and have not been independently tested. DLSS 5 uses AI to add lighting and material detail to a finished frame.

Meta AI is now available on Quest headsets in the UK, Australia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore, arriving with Horizon OS v2.9 and enabled in headset settings. Meta says the assistant also adds seven languages: German, French, Korean, Japanese, British English, Spanish and Italian.

The subscription-based VR fitness app Supernatural has re-launched into early access on Quest after spinning out from Meta earlier this summer. It is now run by Supernatural Health, a 15-person independent team, and involves dodging, squatting and hitting orbs to the beat.

AMD's machine-learning upscaler FSR 4.1 now runs on Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards, the RDNA 2 generation first sold in 2020, arriving in the Adrenalin 26.10.1 driver. AMD says it also reaches Ryzen AI laptops and Z2 handhelds; previously the newest FSR version required an RX 7000 or newer card.

Psytec Games says Titan Isles, its co-op VR shooter, has added a fifth playable exo suit called Cage. The suit can reportedly fly anywhere on anti-gravity rotors, fire laser-guided homing rockets and launch charged Vortex shots, joining existing suits including Hunter, Goliath and Blink.

EssilorLuxottica reported that revenue from its wearables grew by 20% in the third quarter of 2026. This category includes its AI glasses, developed with Meta, and its Nuance Audio hearing glasses.

Anthropic says companies that resell Claude or build apps on it can now tell Anthropic which end customer each API request belongs to. If one customer breaks the rules, a safety ban can target that customer instead of the whole account, a risk that previously existed.