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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, Quartz, The Decoder, Newser, New Scientist, and The Verge
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| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
| 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 …
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Forums: r/HomeKit, r/smarthome, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
| 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, International Business Times, Axios, HotHardware, Forbes, Reuters, The American Bazaar, Semafor, TechCentral.ie, Investor's Business Daily, Barron's Online, Coinpaper, Yahoo Finance, Quartz, Financial Mirror, Proactive, MarketWatch, Political.org, CTech, The Crypto Basic, The Coin Republic, Daily Sabah, Financial Express, 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 … | 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: 9to5Mac, City A.M., and RuntimeWire
| 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 … | 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, Android Authority, TechCentral.ie, and Unite.AI
X: @google, @google, and @googledeepmind
| 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.| 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
| 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
| 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, Techstrong.ai, CNBC, Silicon Republic, The New Stack, Courthouse News Service, Wccftech, Tech.eu, The Decoder, Finimize, Wall Street Journal, Unite.AI, Quartz, ZDNET, RuntimeWire, and The Deep View
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Forums: r/singularity, r/BuyFromEU, r/SillyTavernAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLaMA, r/accelerate, r/technology, and r/MistralAI
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Forums: Hacker News, r/eutech, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/europe, r/MistralAI, and Slashdot
| 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: RuntimeWire
| 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, Notebookcheck, The Peninsula Newspaper, The Hans India, and Android Authority
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| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Xreal's Aura and Meta's VR Glasses hands-on: both have a compute puck and are light, but Aura's arrive in 2026 and have passthrough lenses suitable for walking — Xreal's long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here's how they fare against Meta's recently announced VR Glasses.
More: The Verge
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
More: PCMag, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, XREAL, 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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, CGTN, and Macau Business
| 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, 9to5Mac, RTÉ, 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.| 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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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Game studio Gardens Interactive raised a $35M+ Series B led by Lightspeed at a pre-money valuation of $190M, taking its total funding to $71M — A studio led by the makers of the hit titles Sky: Children of the Light and Journey has raised $35 million in new funding to upend the viral …
More: Gardens Interactive and RuntimeWire
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| 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: Finimize, Barron's Online, Seoul Economic Daily, Focus Taiwan, and Semafor
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