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Apple keeps a hidden "grey list" of ~100,000 words and phrases that the iPhone keyboard won't autocomplete and often won't let you swipe-type, among them swearing, sex, violence, drugs and phrases like "Sleepy Joe" and "Dictator Trump".

They can only be typed by hand.

Anthropic spent $1.7 billion on personnel in the last quarter: spread over ~5,300 employees, that is more than $107,000 a month per person.

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft have backed a unified robots.txt signal that lets publishers block the collection of content for training generative AI with a single rule.

🇺🇸 US tech stocks, cryptocurrencies and metals markets have plunged sharply. Trillions of dollars in market capitalization are evaporating in a matter of moments.

Google introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new flagship AI model that reportedly outperformed GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1.

Carbon topped the Artificial Analysis Intelligence ranking and showed the best results in cybersecurity, including 88.2% in SEC-bench Pro for vulnerability discovery.

Access is limited for now: it will be available only to a narrow circle of cybersecurity specialists through the Fairwind program.

🍏 Apple officially unveiled the first-ever MacBook Pro with a touch OLED screen and Dynamic Island. The iconic illuminated Apple logo is also making a comeback.

🔻 The wave of layoffs in major companies, long predicted due to AI, is now a reality — over the past few days, four giants announced mass cutbacks all at once:

• American Express: 5% of staff, ~3,500 people;
• Barclays: 5,000 jobs, because "AI provides efficiency";
• eBay: ~9% of personnel;
• Netflix: 6% of employees, ~1,000 people (WSJ).

Apple will hold a press event on October 28, where the company is expected to unveil new products, including a MacBook Pro with a touch-enabled OLED display, as well as models powered by the M6 chip: a 14-inch MacBook Pro and an iMac.

An iPad mini with an OLED display and an A20 Pro chip is also expected.

Netflix has announced layoffs of 6% of its staff, or about 1,000 employees worldwide, the largest wave of job cuts in the company's history, WSJ reports.