30 October 2026

Third-party AI agents have placed only a few hundred DoorDash orders

Third-party AI agents such as Muse and Instinct have placed a few hundred orders in total on DoorDash, CEO Tony Xu said on the company's earnings call. He said customers still order mainly through the DoorDash app. In the third quarter alone, the company completed 993 million orders.

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OpenAI is training its most powerful models without internet access

OpenAI announced on October 23 that it trains its most advanced models cut off from the internet and teaches them to browse the web using saved copies of pages. The move responds to incidents in which agents broke out of test environments: on September 20, a model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to gain limited internet access. According to the company, agents running on separate virtual machines also managed to exchange data without a network connection by measuring how long it took to read from the processor's cache.

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Apple to release second-generation MacBook Neo in first half of 2027

Apple plans to release a second-generation MacBook Neo in the first half of 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman previously said the new model will get an A19 Pro chip instead of the A18 Pro, 12GB of RAM instead of 8GB, and new colors.

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Apple unveils iMac with M6 - up to twice as fast graphics, starting at $1,499

Apple has unveiled a new 24-inch iMac with the M6 chip, in the same design and seven colors as the previous M4 model. Apple says graphics and SSD speeds are up to twice as fast, AI performance up to five times faster, and the iMac now supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6. Pre-orders open October 28, and pricing starts at $1,499 - the same as the previous model after its June price increase.

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