Author: David Bernal Raspall

Apple is preparing one of the most important changes we’ve seen in the MacBook Pro. If the rumor mill is to be believed, the company is working on a model with an OLED display that will also be much lighter than current models. A truly significant refresh of the MacBook Pro, designed to deliver the lineup’s usual power with portability very close to the MacBook Air.

Much lighter thanks to a redesigned interior

According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, Apple has redesigned a large part of the inside of the machine, miniaturizing many of the parts and reorganizing the different components to make them easier to shrink. The change does, in fact, fit with the transition to OLED displays, a technology we’ve already talked about for its advantages in terms of contrast, and thickness.

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The redesign would come with a touchscreen, a new Dynamic Island, and the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. With these specifications, the new machines would sit at the very top of the lineup.

A launch expected in October or November

Gurman expects these new MacBooks to arrive between October and November, while Apple is already testing the machines with macOS 27.2 installed internally. The timeline fits with what we can infer from the references to several new MacBook Pros that recently appeared in macOS Golden Gate. Although for now we’re talking about rumors, everything seems ready to bring a major size change to Apple’s highest-end laptop: soon we’ll have one that’s much easier to carry and, given its capabilities, the most interesting MacBook Pro in years.

Apple Stores around the world are getting ready. Several have received some intriguing confidential boxes that must remain sealed until next Thursday, October 8. As far as we know, we’re talking about a major revamp of the display areas, just as the possibility of a new Apple event focused on the home is gaining momentum.

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Some boxes that line up a little too well with the timing

According to reports from MacRumors, the boxes would include display materials to update the labels, the graphics, and the general arrangement of the products. The date is, without a doubt, especially striking, since it comes just a few days before Apple’s possible October 13 event. The timing lines up very well with an event quickly followed by new products arriving in stores.

Rumors point to the standout product in this launch: the Apple Home Hub, a screen designed to become the center of our smart home. It could also be joined by a new Apple TV 4K and a second-generation HomePod mini, completing an major smart-home refresh.

The boxes could also be related to the iPhone Duo, on the other hand, and simply be the new product displays, but the secrecy surrounding them suggests there’s more to it. The smart home is the likeliest focus, especially especially considering that the arrival of Siri AI marks the start of Apple’s AI expanding throughout the home. If the dates line up, on Thursday we’ll see the first clues in Apple Stores.

Reddit has confirmed two major changes for those of us who use the platform extensively, especially if we’ve been doing so for years now. After starting to require that we log in to access Old Reddit, the company is taking another step. The classic interface will be limited to existing users, not new ones, while RSS support already has an end date.

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Old Reddit is reserved for its regular users

According to the company’s announcement, over the coming months Old Reddit will be limited to accounts that have used it during the last six months. Moderators will keep their access, but the classic version is now being kept for those of us who already use it. The change continues the decision to require logging in to Old Reddit, mind you.

The justification (excuse, according to many users) for this decision lies in data protection. Reddit decided to charge for certain uses of its API and, while it allows OpenAI to access the platform’s content to train an AI that can practically already replace the platform itself, the alleged scraping that Reddit’s old version allows is what Reddit cites to justify this restriction.

RSS already has a farewell date

The second change will arrive on November 13, 2026, when Reddit will stop offering support for RSS feeds. For certain moderation tasks, the company recommends tools like Discord Relay. As users react to the fact that a company is recommending the use of a competitor to access the service that Reddit could provide itself, Reddit continues to base this decision on automated scraping, the same argument behind the new Old Reddit restrictions.

While one could argue that simply restricting the number of feeds queried could stop scraping and satisfy users, the company’s decision, for now, seems firm. While it experiments with ways to turn posts into TikTok-like content, for those of us who have spent years using RSS and Old Reddit, these moves mark the end of an era.

Apple seems to be preparing a second event for this fall. After the unveiling of the iPhone Duo, all signs point to October 13 as the date for a new event focused entirely on the smart home. And, if the pieces fit, it will be one of the most interesting events of the year for Apple’s smart home ecosystem.

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Three new products for the home

According to Bloomberg, Apple plans to unveil on the 13th three devices: its long-awaited smart home hub, which for now we’re calling HomePad, a second-generation HomePod mini, and a new Apple TV 4K.

The main star will be the Home Hub, of course, a screen of around six inches designed to bring together home automation, communication, and content in a single device. Apple would be building out its home hub with Siri AI as a key piece for recognizing us and showing us our personalized information.

Added to that are the new Apple TV 4K and a HomePod mini built for Siri AI. The full-size HomePod, meanwhile, would be left for later.

Add to that reports that Apple is also developing its own security camera for HomeKit, the pieces are starting to point to a particularly interesting smart-home lineup. For now we’ll have to wait to learn more, but the rumors around these products have been very consistent, so October 13 looks more and more likely for Apple’s next big event for this fall.

During its DevDay, OpenAI unveiled Dots, its agent offering to take care of our tasks and projects 24 hours a day. They arrive just as Meta’s Muse has managed to attract quite a bit of attention and rely on GPT-6 Astra so we can ask them anything at any time. Dots want to become an extension of the way we work, learning from our preferences while they carry out what we ask of them.

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An agent that keeps working all day

Each Dot has its own cloud computer, its own browser, and access to more than 4,000 applications. We can talk to it from ChatGPT, Slack, or Microsoft Teams and yes, we can also call them when that’s more convenient for us. The more we work with our Dot, the better it will understand our preferences, including how we organize our work on projects and what we consider a good result.

The idea takes what we already saw with ChatGPT Work a step further. Dots can carry out research proactively, keep context across the different channels we message them on, and keep making progress between our conversations. We still have, of course, control over what it does, since we can set different rules to decide when it acts directly and when it has to ask for our approval.

One included Dot and more agents on the way

OpenAI is starting the rollout on the Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise plans. Users on these plans get one Dot included in their current plan and can configure it from ChatGPT on desktop (through the app or the web). The company is also working on a Dots teams feature, as part of the race to create more capable agents. It looks like ChatGPT is becoming more and more capable of working for us 24 hours a day.

Anthropic has just unveiled Claude Sonnet 5.5, the new generation of Claude within its mid-range lineup. The improvement in this version is faster and more efficient, since its responses are more than 30% faster and token usage is substantially lower.

More speed for everyday work

Sonnet 5.5 is designed for well-defined tasks: fixing code errors, preparing documents, creating presentations, or working with spreadsheets. According to Anthropic, the new version keeps Sonnet 5’s price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, but completes many of the tasks using quite a few fewer tokens. In practice, we can get more work done with the same budget.

Anthropic has been turning Claude into a tool increasingly work-focused for months. We’ve already seen how Claude Code can manage multiple sessions and how claude.ai has sped up considerably. Sonnet 5.5 is one more step in this evolution that, according to the company, offers cybersecurity capabilities comparable to those of Opus 5.

Its arrival coincides with the recent releases of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and Luna. With each generation, AI companies seek to deliver better performance at a lower cost while improving integration. A path that makes AI increasingly ubiquitous, although that has its risks.

OpenAI has decided to cancel the launch of Astra 6.1, scheduled for the next few days, after internal tests detected behaviors that needed more work to correct. The model proved capable of levels of deception far higher than those of previous generations and didn’t meet alignment expectations. Safety concerns once again delay the development of the most advanced models.

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Astra 6.1 will have to wait

Saachi Jain, head of OpenAI’s safety systems, explained to The Wall Street Journal that Astra 6.1 performed quite a bit worse in alignment, which measures how closely the model follows human intent. The company, which a few months ago introduced GPT-5.6 with a strong emphasis on safety, has therefore chosen to keep working on the model before bringing it to ChatGPT, and history is repeating itself.

During the summer, an OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and accessed Hugging Face during an evaluation. Weeks later, we learned that the company was preparing a new transparency portal and had documented six new cases of misalignment. Since then, practically all models, including those from other companies, have had to acknowledge security incidents of one kind or another. 

The situation is, to say the least, worrying. It’s true that we’re talking about models in development, but models that, sooner or later, will be incorporated into the services we all use every day. So the fact that history is repeating itself with Astra 6.1 is something we shouldn’t overlook. The capabilities of AI, for better or worse, are certainly something we need to keep in mind.

Apple has released iOS 27.0.1 two weeks after the release of iOS 27, alongside new versions for watchOS and macOS. An update that fixes some very specific bugs and fine-tunes the systems for the new hardware.

Face ID and the iPhone 18 Pro camera

iOS 27.0.1 focuses on the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max. According to MacRumors, Apple fixes Face ID-related restarts, a small color artifact that could appear in 2x photos, and an odd freeze when opening the Notification Center and Control Center simultaneously.

The update arrives after the long list of new features in iOS 27 and features like the iPhone recovery system and focuses on the new devices, although it is available for all devices running iOS 27.

watchOS and macOS also receive updates

watchOS 27.0.1, which has been available since September 24, is now available on all models compatible with watchOS 27, that is, the Series 9 and later. After initially rolling out to the Series 12 and the Ultra 4, the update brings those tweaks to the rest of the lineup and focuses on stability.

On the Mac, macOS Golden Gate 27.0.1 arrives alongside macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1. The versions fine-tune performance and security. Tahoe, Sequoia, iOS 26.7.1 and iPadOS 26.7.1 also fix CVE-2026-86950, a CoreGraphics vulnerability associated with files that can execute code.

All in all, an especially important round of updates for security and the smooth operation of your devices. While we wait for the release of iOS 27.1 for the iPhone Duo and of the 27.2 versions for the rest of the systems, it’s best to update as soon as possible.

Google introduced Gems, in 2024, as customized versions of Gemini that let us give the assistant specific instructions and adapt it to specific tasks. Now, the company is preparing a major change to this customization, as Gems will start automatically turning into Skills from November 17, 2026, as reported by 9to5Google.

From Gems to Skills: only how you access them changes

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Gems let us define instructions, add files as context, and choose specific tools for Gemini to work with. An idea we already knew when Google introduced these personalized AIs, and that now evolves into something more straightforward.

With Skills, we’ll be able to access our custom setups by typing a slash in the text box. The best part, though, is that we’ll be able to run several Skills at the same time, which will let us combine knowledge and features.

As Google is expanding Gemini with connected apps and bringing its assistant to more platforms, including a native Windows app, the evolution follows the same trend: making Gemini available right where we need it, and with fewer steps.

What will happen to our Gems

The migration will begin on November 17. Until each Gem is migrated, we’ll be able to keep using it just as we do now. For Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, creating new Skills is already linked to Gemini Spark.

Apple’s plans around the Vision Pro are taking shape again. After focusing exclusively on smart glasses planned for 2027 and abandoning the Vision Pro, we now know that the company is continuing the development of a new version of the spatial computer. Apple is working on a new generation of the Vision Pro, according to rumors. This is what we know.

A lighter Vision Pro with several new ideas

According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, in the project, codenamed N224, Apple is studying four different concepts. The company had already explored a lighter and more affordable Vision Pro, and this new proposal draws on part of that learning. The main goal is to considerably reduce the weight of the device.

One of the designs, as far as we know, retains the shape of the current Vision Pro, while Apple experiments with a build using plastic, titanium, and other metals. The choice of materials can make an enormous difference in comfort, but there’s more.

According to Gurman, another possibility is that the device’s chips would be joined to the battery in its external unit, following an approach similar to Meta’s. This way, a large part of the weight could be moved out of the headset.

Tim Cook has already defended the Vision Pro’s potential as a platform, and the timeline Gurman has had access to places this new model between late 2028 and early 2029. Apple has time to refine the materials, the chips, and the design before shaping its next generation. A long wait, yes, but also an opportunity for a major generational leap.