
Siri AI will soon be able to carry out tasks across a wider range of apps.
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Siri AI will soon be able to carry out tasks across a wider range of apps.

Google announced that K-12 students using Google Classroom will lose access to Google search unless their school administrators explicitly opt in to AI tools including Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Gemini in Classroom. The policy change follows backlash from educators, parents, and child development experts after Google turned on Gemini for many students in August. Critics, including former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of using its search monopoly to coerce schools into adopting AI.
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 wireless earbuds are discounted to $169 at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store until November 8th, matching the lowest price seen; other deals include Borderlands for Nintendo Switch at $5.99, a refurbished Fellow Aiden coffee maker at $299.95, and ESR's Cyclone Magnetic Charging Pad at $36.99 for Prime members.

Fal, a San Francisco-based AI inference startup, raised $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation in a Series F round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Nvidia, Sound Ventures, and T. Rowe Price participating. The company also announced a combined $1.65 billion across Series E and F rounds, doubling its valuation from $8 billion in April.

Apple has introduced Siri Recap and Live Rewind in the watchOS 27.3 developer beta, allowing Siri to summarize conversations and generate transcripts of the last 15 seconds of audio from the Apple Watch microphone, with privacy protections detailed in an Apple Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview.

OpenAI claims ChatGPT handles one-fifth the search query volume of Google, according to a brief report from The Verge Daily.

CrowdStrike is acquiring AI observability firm Fiddler AI for around $400 million and AI security testing company Dreadnode for about $95 million to expand its Falcon platform's ability to monitor, test, and secure AI models and agents across enterprises.