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AI news from The Boston Report: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta and new AI tools, plus the safety, policy and business questions around artificial intelligence.
Google Search schools rules: from early 2027, K-12 districts that turn off Gemini lose Search too, since it now ships with AI Overviews and AI Mode built in.
Supermicro earnings: fiscal Q1 sales hit $19.9 billion, up 298%, and the 2027 outlook rose to $72-82 billion, but gross margin fell to 12.7%. Data inside.
Apple opens Siri AI to all app developers in the iOS 27.3 betas, letting third-party apps add actions and multi-step app skills. Customers get it in a few months; App Store submissions open in spring.
Business report November 2, 2026: oil plunges 7% on U.S.-Iran talk hopes, tech stocks slide, and Apple, Palantir and Anthropic post big quarterly numbers.
Google AI Overviews investigation: Turkey’s Competition Authority opened a formal probe Nov. 2 and ordered interim fixes for news publishers. Fines and data.
OpenAI Grid Protectors program launches with a pledge to cut up to 1,000 MW at its Georgia campus when the grid is strained. What it means for power bills.
Anthropic IPO filing update: Q3 revenue hit $16.96 billion, about 12 times a year earlier, but compute costs pushed the Claude maker to a $567M operating loss.
Business report November 1, 2026: Meta’s AI-driven ad sales outpace Google Search, banks and retailers block AI agents, and tariffs squeeze a Maine factory.
AI news Nov. 1, 2026: Canada takes up to a C$1.6B stake in Cohere at a C$35.7B valuation, Apple adds Qwen in China, OpenAI ships GPT-Rosalind-6, xAI loses bid.
DeepSeek Super-agent, an open-source coding agent that flags fixes without being asked, drew 6,801 GitHub stars in 34 hours. How it works and its limits.