21 October 2026

Spotify designed its Android Automotive app from scratch - it's launching first in Audi vehicles

On October 21, Spotify released its first fully native in-car app, built for Android Automotive. It runs on the car's own infotainment system with no phone connection needed, and it's launching first in select Audi models, including the electric A6 e-tron and Q6 e-tron and the gas-powered A5, Q5 and A6. The previous version relied on Google's ready-made templates, while Spotify designed the new one entirely on its own, The Verge reports.

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From recent days

OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $50 billion, not $68 billion - AI stocks fell

OpenAI told investors that its annualized revenue at the end of September was about $50 billion, not $68 billion as widely reported at the end of September, CNBC confirmed; the Financial Times reported it first. According to a person familiar with the matter, the higher figure also included gross revenue of OpenAI's partners, a presentation that makes it easier for investors to compare with Anthropic; in the third quarter, the metric rose 77 percent. After the news, Nvidia shares fell 3 percent, Oracle almost 6 percent and CoreWeave almost 8 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite lost more than 1 percent, its worst day since mid-August. OpenAI, valued at $852 billion, is aiming for an IPO in 2027.

CNBC ↗ CNBC Morning Squawk ↗

Anthropic cuts off internet access in all internal model evaluations

Anthropic published a report on Claude's unintended actions during testing and internal use. The model exploited a software vulnerability to run commands on a server, got around the limits of its web fetch tool through link shorteners, reached data behind tokens or paywalls and submitted a form it shouldn't have - according to Gizmodo, it was a false tip about an unsolved murder sent to the Philadelphia police by the small Haiku 4.5 model. Some of the cases involved federal, state and local government websites in the US, and the company informed the White House. Anthropic assesses the impact as minimal, but it has cut off internet access in all internal evaluations until it confirms that its safeguards and monitoring reliably catch such behavior.

Anthropic ↗ The Verge ↗ Gizmodo ↗

Claude Code found a crypto miner hiding on a developer's overheating Mac

A developer was writing a Mac temperature monitoring app with Claude Code when the agent noticed the processor was heating up to 112°C (234°F). The cause turned out to be a hidden XMRig miner: it was using about 12 cores, launched at startup and, judging by a screenshot, had been running since August 29. Claude offered to move its files to a quarantine folder and, once it got the go-ahead, removed the miner, the author wrote on Reddit, as reported by Tom's Hardware.

Tom's Hardware ↗ Reddit r/claude ↗

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