6 November 2026

Amazon lets customers shop by texting Alexa

Amazon has started taking orders through text messages sent to Alexa. Customers describe what they are looking for or send a photo, and Alexa suggests products, adds them to the cart and places the order. It can also keep an eye on a price and send an alert when an item gets cheaper. Since November 6, the feature has been available to a small group of U.S. customers invited by text, and millions more are due to get it in the coming weeks. In September, Amazon blocked Muse, Meta's AI agent, from its store.

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Netflix tests AI Discover - a feature that matches movies and shows to the viewer's mood

Netflix has begun testing AI Discover, a set of movie and show suggestions matched to the viewer's mood, Digital Trends reports. Instead of a genre, the viewer picks a theme such as “something lighthearted,” “something scary,” “a family movie” or “a quick watch,” and the AI serves up matching titles from the catalog. Any suggestion can be dismissed, and that title won't show up again. For now, the feature is available to some users in the U.S., only in the TV app and only in English.

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Anthropic bans Claude Code from copying other people's games

Anthropic has barred Claude Code running Opus 5.5 from copying existing games, even under a different name, but you can still build your own games, including in a chosen genre. According to Anthropic's Addy Osmani on X, the ban is two sentences added to the model's instructions, based on a usage policy that prohibits infringing others' intellectual property. Users complain the model also refuses to help with reverse engineering, Tom's Hardware reports.

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OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Cyber - the model found 81 serious vulnerabilities in Firefox

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Cyber, an AI model for finding and fixing security vulnerabilities, Digital Trends reports. In Firefox it uncovered 81 previously unknown flaws, all of which Mozilla rated as serious and many of which it has already patched. It also wrote working exploits for 948 Linux kernel vulnerabilities. The older GPT-5.6 Sol managed 166 under the same conditions. For now, only a small circle of security teams approved by OpenAI can use the new model.

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