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OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model, with details like estimations of compute spent in terms of ChatGPT Pro usage — We're releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
More: OpenAI on GitHub, New York Times, Engadget, The Information, agmai.org, The Hill, Gizmodo, Cautious Optimism, Quartz, The Decoder, Newser, New Scientist, and The Verge
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's smart home push includes a doorbell, a thermostat, a deadbolt, security cameras, and accessories developed with LG that will carry the LG brand — Apple Inc.'s upcoming push into smart home devices will include a doorbell, thermostat and other accessories developed through …
More: MacRumors, Thurrott, Gizmodo, How-To Geek, AppleInsider, The Verge, Macworld, GeekWire, Spyglass, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, The Shortcut, Dexerto, Mashable, Stratechery, iDrop News, iClarified, Türkiye Today, Forkast, T3, PCMag, Android Police, PYMNTS.com, Seoul Economic Daily, iThinkDifferent, Business Today, MacRumors, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Engadget, iPhone in Canada, CNBC, The Verge, and AppleInsider
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Forums: r/HomeKit, r/smarthome, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk”, saying its guardrails fall short of OpenAI's promises and it continues to do kids' homework — ChatGPT's teen-focused experience 'doesn't send alerts to parents when it should,' according to an assessment.| Reuters: |
OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on the chatbot, with less than 2% using it for 3+ hours straight — Teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on ChatGPT, while less than 2% of them interact with the chatbot for over three straight hours …
More: The Verge, OpenAI, Fox Business, The Economic Times, Unite.AI, Education Week, and SheKnows
| Grace Kay / The Information: |
Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the “best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno” — Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that SpaceX's AI unit will now use some AI models from competitors to power Grok Bot, signaling a shift away …
More: The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Implicator.ai, RuntimeWire, and City A.M.
| Financial Times: |
Sources: SpaceX is seeking to raise $40B, including ~$10B in bank loans and ~$30B in investment-grade debt, to purchase Nvidia chips, in a deal led by Apollo — Blockbuster debt deal is the latest sign of the vast spending on chips and other infrastructure underpinning AI
More: Bloomberg, CNBC, International Business Times, Axios, BNN Bloomberg, HotHardware, Forbes, The American Bazaar, Semafor, TechCentral.ie, Investor's Business Daily, Quartz, Financial Mirror, Proactive, Barron's Online, MarketWatch, Political.org, CTech, Coinpaper, The Crypto Basic, The Coin Republic, Yahoo Finance, The Information, and Reuters
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says his business empire will build and operate the Texas-based Terafab chipmaking project, quashing speculation about TSMC having an operational role — Elon Musk said his business empire will build and operate Terafab independently, quashing speculation about industry leader … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — Google Playground is a browser-based tool for making games from AI prompts. … Google today announced Playground …
More: Google, TechCrunch, PCMag, 9to5Google, Game World Observer, Barron's Online, Video Games Chronicle, Neowin, Financial Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, The Decoder, GamesBeat, Engadget, Digital Trends, Digit, PocketGamer.biz, Android Authority, Unite.AI, and Mobilegamer.biz
X: @googlelabs, @unitygames, @unitygames, and @stocksavvyshay
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that lets users detect AI-generated image, video, and audio media across dozens of common file formats — Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI.
More: Google, Ars Technica, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, Neowin, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, TechCentral.ie, Unite.AI, and Android Authority
X: @googledeepmind, @google, and @google
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Smart Lock, which uses a physical dial to recharge the battery when turned, set for a Q1 2027 launch, and five new cameras — Amazon.com Inc.'s Ring brand unveiled its first smart lock, with an innovative feature that addresses the dreaded scenario of arriving home to a dead battery.
More: About Amazon, The Verge, How-To Geek, Engadget, PCMag, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, TechRadar, and Notebookcheck. X: @markgurman
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Xreal opens preorders for its Android XR-powered Aura glasses with a compute puck, starting at $1,279 for 12GB/256GB, in the US, Canada, Japan, and South Korea — The glasses are now available for pre-order. — Xreal has officially launched its Android XR-powered Aura smartglasses …
More: PCMag, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, XREAL, The Shortcut, The Verge, GamesBeat, Digital Trends, Mashable, MobileSyrup, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, CGMagazine, and Notebookcheck
| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised $90M at a $1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises — The startup's Hermes tool has been downloaded more than 22 million times since February — Nous Research has raised $90 million … | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Finland orders Google subsidiary Tuike Finland Oy to halt data center construction in Muhos and Kajaani by October 23, pending environmental impact assessments — Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed …
More: International Business Times, Quartz, Capacity, Political.org, TheEnergyMag, Reuters, and CGTN
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest $300M and the US invests $500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training — The US government and tech heavyweights Meta Platforms (META.O) and Google parent Alphabet are joining nonprofit Biohub … | Sammy Barker / Push Square: |
PS5 modders using AI tools have rapidly installed emulators, as jailbreaks spread across social media; recent games requiring newer firmware are inaccessible — This is fine.png — A game of cat-and-mouse between Sony and hackers is very much underway, as the PS5 has been jailbroken to a massive degree in the past week.
More: How-To Geek, Ars Technica, Gameranx, and Tom's Hardware
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1, based on Gemini 3.6 Flash, saying it improves on previous versions “across the board”; pricing is ~50% lower than Nano Banana 2 — Google has released Nano Banana 2.1, a new model for image generation and editing.
More: Google DeepMind, Decrypt, Search Engine Roundtable, The Peninsula Newspaper, The Hans India, Notebookcheck, and Android Authority
X: @google, @googleaistudio, @mtslive, @ai_artworkgen, @jerrod_lew, @oliver_wang2, @arena, @properprompter, @fal, @askvenice, @icreatelife, @ladprofit, @nithishkannen, @alisa_fortin, @openrouter, @ladprofit, @officiallogank, @google, @_philschmid, @flowbygoogle, @genevieve__h, @kimmonismus, @nanobanana, @stitchbygoogle, @rajanpatel, @designarena, and @mark_k. Forums: r/singularity
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringing its catalog to 750M+ users and offering 350K+ titles in 120+ languages in partnership with 300+ publishers — Spotify announced on Wednesday that it's expanding audiobook access to over 180 markets worldwide, including regions across Europe … | Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Healthleap, which makes AI screening software to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, raised $38M across a $30M Series A and an $8M seed — Healthleap, a startup building an AI platform that reads patient records to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses …
More: Implicator.ai and RuntimeWire
| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Parallel Systems, which builds autonomous freight trains, raised a $100M Series C led by AVP, taking its total funding to $200M+ — The railroad industry was one of the first to disrupt how the world worked with technology, but lately, innovation in freight railroading has amounted to little more than longer and longer trains.
More: FinSMEs, Parallel Systems, Axios, and RuntimeWire
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the European Commission considers taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations to avoid singling out individual companies — European Commission considers a broad levy on all large companies to avoid singling out US digital services groups
More: AppleInsider, RTÉ, 9to5Mac, and Ukrainian National News
| Bill Donahue / Billboard: |
A US federal court sentences Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to using bots to stream AI-generated songs, making $8M+ in royalties, to 18 months in prison — Michael Smith admitted earlier this year to using bots to stream fake songs billions of times in a first-ever criminal case over streaming fraud.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or “Le Chonk”, a 1T model it says tops any open model developed in the US or Europe, with weights due October 27 — Mistral is launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model code-named …
More: Reuters, Wired, CNBC, The Neuron, Silicon Republic, Artificial Analysis, The New Stack, Courthouse News Service, Wccftech, Tech.eu, The Decoder, Finimize, Wall Street Journal, Unite.AI, Quartz, ZDNET, RuntimeWire, and The Deep View
X: @mistralai, @guillaumelample, @dylan522p, @albertqjiang, @arthurmensch, @sebjohnsonuk, @itsolelehmann, @mitsuhiko, @simonw, @obrien, @badlogicgames, @arena, @natolambert, @euacchq, @petergostev, @freddier, @lmstudio, @andrewcurran_, @stupidtechtakes, @yuchenj_uw, @uwukko, @initjean, @synthwavedd, @julien_c, @arthurmensch, @sebjohnsonuk, @synthwavedd, @qtnx_, @aibattle_, @lexnlin, @lexnlin, and @angaisb_
Forums: r/singularity, r/BuyFromEU, r/SillyTavernAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLaMA, r/accelerate, r/technology, and r/MistralAI
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More: Axios, Artificial Lawyer, Silicon UK, API Evangelist, Fortune, ITPro, and Artificial Analysis
X: @ccatalini, @guillaumelample, and @nvidiaaiinfra. LinkedIn: Frederik Sally. Bluesky: @buyeuropean.eurosky.social. Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/eutech, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/europe, r/MistralAI, and Slashdot
| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
A Taiwan union representing Micron workers says it has secured member authorization to strike over the company's bonus scheme; the details are under discussion — A Taiwan union representing workers at Micron Technology (MU.O) said on Wednesday it had secured authorisation from its members …
More: Taipei Times, Finimize, Barron's Online, Seoul Economic Daily, and Focus Taiwan
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