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Google DeepMind's Genie 4 world model generates explorable, photorealistic scenes in real time with sound and talking characters, and lets users steer them by typing. It's in research preview, with Google AI Ultra and Gemini API access coming.

KDDI and ELYZA have launched ELYZA Robotics, a physical-AI company backed by ¥30 billion (about $190 million) in R&D through fiscal 2030. The goal: more than 1,000 robots working at real job sites, starting with Lawson and other KDDI group companies.

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is a fast, cheaper model for everyday computer work at $1/$5 per million tokens. OpenAI says it matches GPT-6 Astra on Agents' Last Exam at one-tenth the price per token and runs over 3x faster.

Anthropic's S-1 says it agreed to spend up to $120.5 billion on SpaceX compute through 2029, about $3.1 billion a month once all capacity arrives in December. The same day, SpaceX filed the details of its $40 billion Vera Rubin GPU lease with an Apollo-managed entity.

Anthropic publicly filed its Form S-1 on Oct. 26 and applied to list on Nasdaq as 'ANT.' The filing confirms $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss, mostly a paper charge, and shows more than 11,900 customers paying $100,000 or more. Price range and share count are still blank.

Elon Musk says SpaceX has closed $40 billion of debt to buy GPUs, mostly callable debt for chips arriving in Q1 and Q2 2027. He credits Starlink and launch revenue for keeping lenders on board while, in his words, more than 200 neoclouds face 'guppy-level death and consolidation.'

Grok Imagine has released the first episode of its AI-made Odyssey series, a 7-minute, 12-second film made with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. It's the first installment of the full-length adaptation Elon Musk promised by the end of 2026, and reviewers say the usual AI-video tells are still there.

Amap and Alibaba's Token Hub have released λ0, a whole-body humanoid model trained mainly on 500 hours of first-person video and motion data from people doing everyday tasks. The team says it runs zero-shot on a Unitree G1 with a 62.5% success rate, though nobody has reproduced it yet.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a 1M-token context that Artificial Analysis ranks fourth on its Intelligence Index. Weights are due by Nov. 4, prices are 33% lower, and Moonshot says it deliberately cut its hacking skills.

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is the first person from video games to receive Japan's Order of Culture. At his Kyoto press conference he split creative work into "making" and "doing the work," and said AI will push everyone to think about what making really means.