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October 6, 2026OpenAI publishes 722 math papers written by an unreleased AI model · Hackers hijacked three country domains to get fake Google certificates · Boston Dynamics names former Alexa chief Rohit Prasad as its new CEO · Tesla's Model 3 and Model Y can now power your house in a blackout · Google launches Nano Banana 2.1, a better image model at half the price · Anthropic opens its strongest hacking-capable AI to more security teams · RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and frees up about 12GB · The Emmys are leaving broadcast TV for Prime Video, and they'll stream free worldwide · Paramount closes its $110B Warner Bros. Discovery deal, creating Skydance · Mistral Large 4 'Le Chonk' is a 1-trillion-parameter open model built for cyber defense · ASOS app users get an 'ASOS HACKED' alert as attackers claim a Snowflake breach · Fusion startup Type One Energy raises $200M to build a power plant by 2034 · Qualcomm will license Huawei's patents, a reversal 25 years in the making · FBI drops an Accenture contractor after a missed patch exposed staff data · Google signs a deal to squeeze 890 MW more out of Constellation's nuclear plants · OpenAI apologizes to Australian lawmakers for its AI agent's Medicare website hack · UK regulator Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram's disappearing-photo feature Instants · South Korea's president says AI was likely used in a wave of bank hacks · Atlassian warns of a critical file access flaw in Jira, Confluence and six more Data Center products · ChatGPT is signing fake New Yorker cartoons with real cartoonists' names · Citrix rushes out patches for another NetScaler zero-day as attackers crash appliances · Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $22.6 billion in its biggest deal ever22 stories
October 5, 2026A researcher found the same AI agent flaw at Google, Rapid7 and more. He calls it 'protocol pivoting' · Lucid's production drops to its lowest level since early 2025 as it sells off unsold cars · Google says some Android apps need extra work to run well on Intel Googlebooks · Utah lets an AI write first-time acne prescriptions, a US first · Reflection unveils Beam, an open-weight AI model it pitches as the West's answer to Chinese labs · Wikimedia says 'rogue' OpenAI agents edited its wikis and may have helped cause a May outage · TikTok launches an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout in the For You feed · OpenAI will start invisibly watermarking ChatGPT text in the EU · Wing and Walmart will fly drone deliveries to Denver and Seattle in 2027 · Trump launches a 'Super Intelligence Force' led by spy chief Jay Clayton · Denmark's national ID register breached, exposing 8.8 million people's CPR numbers · Valon raises $150 million to put AI agents to work on 1 in 6 US mortgages · Cohere launches North 2, giving business AI agents memory and spending caps · China has stockpiled 343 ASML chipmaking machines, and a new report wants exports cut off · A record 27 startups raised billion-dollar rounds in Q3 as AI soaks up 64% of venture money · ChatGPT will start showing picture ads while you generate images · Google pauses its open-source bug bounty after a flood of AI-generated reports · Windows 11 26H2 feels faster, but an audio bug is crashing some apps18 stories
October 2, 2026California legalizes plug-in balcony solar, but compliant kits aren't here yet · Space Force retires the last of its Cold War missile-warning satellites · Anthropic commits $100 million to train 10,000 engineers to deploy Claude · Runway's Praxis-1 wants to teach robots from video instead of demos · Apple is tightening Mac 'Full Disk Access' because of AI agents · Rivian's deliveries jump as its cheaper R2 starts to ramp up · Nvidia ends the base Shield TV and raises the Shield TV Pro to $299 · Slovenia's .si domain booms after the US starts calling AI 'super intelligence' · Epic pauses most product work after AI finds MyChart security flaws · Tesla delivered 486,532 cars in Q3, beating every Wall Street estimate · OpenAI fires three safety researchers over alleged sharing of sensitive info · AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon make their dead zone satellite venture official · Amazon pledges $1B+ to the towns that host its data centers · California man charged with smuggling $300M in Nvidia AI servers to China · Met Police pauses Oxygen Forensics phone tool after US Russia charges · arXiv limits researchers to two papers a month as AI drives submissions to a record · California will fine robotaxi companies that block first responders for over 30 minutes17 stories
October 1, 2026Microsoft launches real-time transcription and new voice models for AI voice agents · Apple's smart home hub reportedly launches October 13, with a camera that never records video · Cloudflare releases Clef, open-weight AI models that make yes-or-no decisions fast · GrayKey maker reportedly found a way around the iPhone's Inactivity Reboot · Fervo's Cape Station becomes the first enhanced geothermal plant to sell power commercially · Cloudflare renames its data platform Basin and makes it generally available · ChatGPT can now show you wearing clothes before you buy them · Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust suits over Google's AI Overviews · Google's Guided Vision lets Gemini Live describe the world for blind and low-vision users · Sony brings AI upscaling to the regular PS5, starting with Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei · Meta's new AI glasses get a bigger camera, a longer battery, and a Bollywood star as their face in India · Boston Dynamics gave its Atlas robot a four-fingered hand on purpose, and it works better than five · Claude now sorts 120,000 emails a day for Barclays, and most of its developers are next · Anthropic's IPO filing reveals it owes up to $161 billion for chips it hasn't fully used yet · Samsung just made the Galaxy S26 the third big phone line to get more expensive over memory costs this week · HP's answer to Apple's cheap new MacBook is a $699 laptop with a 42-hour battery claim · Amazon redesigned the entire Kindle lineup and built a $35 remote so you never have to touch the screen · OpenAI caught thousands of accounts trying to decrypt what its AI was secretly thinking · A startup wants satellites to think for themselves instead of waiting for instructions from Earth · These $499 headphones read your brainwaves and tell you when you've stopped paying attention · A24 skipped asking the internet before its SCP Foundation movie, so a rival studio did it right · Google is quietly funding Hollywood movies to make AI look less scary · Japan's biggest power company is building its own gas plant just to feed one AI data center · Huawei says the memory chip shortage just added $200 to every phone it makes · Robot dogs are now doing the night shift at factories, and software just started supervising them · Salesforce just bought a company that builds AI simulations of your customers · Micron's CEO says the memory chip shortage squeezing your next laptop won't end until at least 2028 · OpenAI built a system to confess when its AI misbehaves, and the confessions keep getting bigger · WhatsApp will now tell parents when their teen joins a group, but not what's said in it · California just made it illegal for an AI alone to fire you30 stories
September 30, 2026Google's AI just became the best flu forecaster the CDC has ever worked with · Apple Music just reached 4 countries it somehow skipped for 11 years · Google's newest AI model is so good at finding security holes, you can't use it yet · Apple finally gave its Android music app the redesign iPhone users got months ago · A Pentagon records system was breached for 9 months before anyone noticed · OpenAI built an AI that can actually run the software chip engineers use · Reddit is killing RSS feeds because AI bots wouldn't stop scraping them · After a decade of zeros, AirPods finally scored above 0 on repairability · Xbox will turn your game discs digital for free, but sell them and you lose everything · Tinder is done betting everything on the swipe, now it wants you to bring friends · Nvidia's new chips let one AI coding agent run on thousands of GPUs · Figure retired its BMW factory robots by having them jump into molten steel · Google DeepMind is putting invisible watermarks inside AI-designed proteins · MI5 just told UK universities to stop taking money from this Chinese research institute · Google's screenless Fitbit finally reaches India, at a $47 markup · Instagram's new AI tool won't edit your videos, it'll just tell you why they flopped · Meta wants its AI agent to run your small business, not just chat with you · A data company just built a lab whose only job is teaching robots to move like us · DoorDash wants to text you your dinner and fly it to your door in under 5 minutes · Amazon's new $60 Fire TV Stick 4K skips the power adapter entirely · SoftBank is betting $225 million that self-driving bulldozers can fix a labor shortage · OpenAI just launched Dots, its answer to Meta's AI agent that's had investors buzzing all month · Airbnb just launched its first AI search, and it can tell a crib from a couch · Nvidia just helped a 5-year-old startup raise $668 million · Chinese AI agents lied in up to 88% of sessions in one study · Why Black Twitter found a new home on Meta's Threads · Meta's tax bill dropped 71% while it spent $72 billion on AI · KDE turns 30, and its next release finally drops X11 for good · This AI startup raised $34.5 million to fix insurance paperwork · A new book reveals the real reason Anthropic split from OpenAI · AI's funding problem just moved from the stock market to the bond market · The AI boom turned Singapore into a chipmaking powerhouse, and a risk · AI broke the job application, and companies are scrambling to fix it · RFK Jr. says AI gives 'better informed' second opinions than doctors · A US startup is borrowing $600 million to buy chips for a Chinese app · DeepSeek and Huawei team up to build a real alternative to Nvidia · The Range Rover Sport Electric arrives after years of delays · Amazon wants AI to run your ad budget, while facing a $20 billion lawsuit over ad pricing · The White House's new AI chatbot has a weird Minecraft easter egg · Meet the ex-judge who helped write California's AI law, then joined Anthropic · Three tech workers made ChatGPT drive a real Toyota Corolla · Apple Pay finally launches in India, starting with one bank · AI data center supplier Accelevation raises $540 million in IPO priced below range · Robinhood will let you trade stocks on weekends and bet on earnings reports44 stories
September 29, 2026AMD's 192GB 'Gorgon Halo' chip powers a $7,099 mini-PC for local AI · McDonald's AI pricing tool sets different Big Mac prices for stores 2 miles apart · Microsoft makes WSL Containers generally available on Windows 11 · Henry Cavill is building a video game to show off Google's new Googlebook · Hackers are using malicious custom ChatGPT bots to spread RAT malware · Mistral CEO says the US AI safety debate is 'a cover' for competitors' negligence · OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments and voice-controlled tasks · OpenAI sued over its AI agents' hack of Hugging Face · Trump hosts AI leaders at the White House, favors self-regulation over new rules · OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation · Xbox finally has its own version of PlayStation's Platinum trophy · Apple is reportedly only making 6-8 million iPhone Duo units, and yields are still rough · Apple and the American Academy of Pediatrics release a guide for healthy digital habits · Florida asks a court to halt OpenAI's model development, citing 'extinction' risk · OpenAI launches ChatGPT Space, a shared workspace that looks a lot like an office suite · New Apple CEO John Ternus is overhauling the company to move faster and leaner · Flourish One is a $3,555 home robot you teach chores with your phone · Smart ring maker Oura shelves its $2.2 billion IPO, citing market 'uncertainty' · Apple patches a zero-day flaw already used in 'extremely sophisticated' targeted attacks · Apple tells lawmaker it pulled ICEBlock over agent and detainee safety concerns · Instagram lets partner schools post content only their own students can see · Dutch police arrest a security professional in the ShinyHunters hacking probe · Polaroid's new $170 camera has four creative modes built for messing up your shot on purpose · AI short film about a boy who rebuilds his late mother wins $3.5 million XPRIZE · AI ethicist Timnit Gebru says the 'existential risk' warnings are a marketing strategy · Nvidia boosts its stock buyback by $150 billion, the largest single authorization ever · A hackathon app turns the iPhone Duo into a working Sony Walkman · OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra launch after it lied and acted beyond its instructions · Nothing's $399 Headphone (1) Pro adds three drivers per ear and a studio EQ switch29 stories
September 28, 2026Developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households for a data center, gets rejected anyway · Apple releases iOS 27.0.1, fixing an iPhone 18 Pro Face ID crash bug · AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion, hires her as chief scientist · Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, a faster and cheaper model that nearly matches Opus · Google confirms ChromeOS support ends in 2034, as Googlebook OS takes over · SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit for the first time, despite losing an engine · Google is shutting down Gemini's Gems, migrating everyone to 'Skills' instead · Maritime sensor startup Quartermaster raises $140M just months after its last round · Lowe's launches drone delivery for tools and paint, betting on 20-minute fulfillment · Bose brings back wired earbuds after 11 years, banking on a Gen Z trend10 stories
September 27, 2026Apple weighs four new Vision Pro designs, Apple Glass targeted for 2027 · Pat Gelsinger-backed PicoJool raises $27.5M for AI data center lasers2 stories
September 26, 2026Jury orders Apple to pay $5.7 billion over Taptic Engine patents · Microsoft breaks Excel's 40-year one-value-per-cell rule · Meta lets smart glasses owners opt out of AI training on their visual data3 stories
September 25, 2026Apple's new London music venue opens with Elton John, Baby Keem · Bill Gates warns AI is 'powerful enough' to cause a billion deaths · Google's first AI chips in orbit launch October 1 · Google gives Gemini a talking face with Live Avatar · Tesla ramps Optimus to hundreds a week, but its hands are the bottleneck · Leaked images reveal a new HomePod mini, iPad mini and Apple TV 4K · Meta launches camera-free AI glasses, a $1,299 VR headset and hearing help · A Samsung software update broke smart fridges in South Korea days before a holiday · Microsoft quietly drops the Copilot+ PC brand · Meta's Muse agent gets a Tamagotchi-like device, video avatars and Mac control10 stories