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On 5 November 2026 Anthropic launched Personal Finance for Claude, a read-only tool that connects bank and credit card accounts through Plaid so users can ask questions about their money in everyday language, with no ads or sponsored recommendations.
A US bankruptcy court approved the bidding procedures for the sale of Character.ai's assets, with a 13 October 2026 agreement with Disney Worldwide Services as the stalking horse and an auction set for 1 December 2026.
On 2 November 2026 Apple told developers that apps with dating or romantic features, including AI companion apps, must carry an 18+ rating, with new content descriptors required from 16 November.
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift in an operating Shanghai convenience store, completing 1,730 tasks on a livestream, with four of the six passing the final assessment.
On 21 October 2026 Liquid AI released LFM3-Omni-2B, the first omni-modal model in its LFM3 family, taking text, images, video and audio as input and returning text or speech. At 2.17B parameters it targets phones and laptops.
On 15 October 2026 Kuaishou's video generation model Kling 4.0 became available to all users, adding longer shots, more dynamic motion and Omni Reference, with a faster Flash variant released alongside it.
On 12 October 2026 Character.ai began a voluntary Chapter 11 case in Delaware to carry out a court-supervised sale of the company, warning that the platform will be wound down if no actionable bid emerges.
Waymo said it will launch its autonomous ride service in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with the first passengers planned for 2028.
On 28 September 2026 ElevenLabs released Eleven v4, a text-to-speech model it calls its most emotive yet, alongside a low-latency Turbo variant; the company says it topped Artificial Analysis and was preferred by about 75% of listeners in blind tests.
Released on 28 September 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the second model of the Claude 5.5 family. It kept the price of Sonnet 5 and was the first Sonnet model to ship with cyber safeguards and anti-distillation classifiers.
On 22 September 2026 PixVerse announced R2, a scaling release of its real-time world model that adds more data, tasks and input types at the same latency, and showed it running playable, prompt-editable worlds.
On 18 September 2026 Character.ai said its CEO Karandeep Anand was joining Disney as its Chief Technology Officer, a newly created role, with members of Character's technical team expected to follow.
Character.ai's CAI-Image family consists of image models post-trained from open-source Qwen-Image and tuned for character-driven storytelling, so the same character stays recognisable across styles, scenes and pages. The company announced the models on 16 September 2026.
On 9 September 2026 Suno released v6, a new generation of music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, offered in three versions and paired with safeguards that screen uploaded audio and lyrics.
Runway published GWM Worlds 2 on 3 September 2026, a research preview that turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into a real-time interactive world model steered by text actions and camera motion.
On 1 September 2026, Manus announced that it had formally resumed independent operations, with its founding team continuing to lead the company as an independent agent lab advancing general AI agents.
On 25 August 2026 Stability AI announced a $76 million Series B whose investors include Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, Electronic Arts and AMD Ventures, taking the funding raised under CEO Prem Akkaraju to about $232 million.
On 11 August 2026 Manus published a note saying it would soon operate as an independent company again, setting out when some users' data would be deleted and when access would return.
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 in July 2026. The model generates up to 30 seconds of video per pass, offers a beta long-video mode, and can edit part of a scene without regenerating the whole clip. It is offered through an API.
Zoox received the first commercial exemption NHTSA has ever granted for a purpose-built robotaxi, letting the company charge fares for driverless rides and start collecting them in Las Vegas.
