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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summary and classification requests — Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we've ever released.
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft opens preorders for the $2,599+ Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping from October 16, with an RTX Spark and three USB-C ports; one is magnetic like MagSafe — Surface Laptop Ultra is available to order today, with shipments expected to begin on October 16.
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November — Microsoft's high-end AI mini PC for developers starts shipping in November. — Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box …
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| Janine Liberty / MIT News: |
Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90 — Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase — Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs among lenders in talks to finance megadeals worth tens of billions of dollars apiece| OpenAI: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes graphics and interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers — Last month we introduced the first GPT-6 models for paid customers and today we're bringing that next generation of intelligence …
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| Politico: |
German search engine Ecosia, used by government services, ditches Mistral for open-source models, including Chinese ones, citing Mistral's disappointing quality — “We are disappointed with the quality of Mistral,” Ecosia founder and CEO told POLITICO. — BERLIN — A Berlin-based search engine used …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Playground, a no-code web platform for making games using AI prompts, 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 …
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| Reuters: |
OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes per 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 …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others — Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots … | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
Unsealed docs: in its lawsuit, New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including youth, non-functional safety features as part of placebo experiments — TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions …
More: Bloomberg Law and Greensburg Tribune-Review
| Grace Kay / The Information: |
Elon Musk says Grok Bot going forward will use the “best back-end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno, and other leading APIs” — Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that SpaceX's AI unit will now use some AI models from competitors to power Grok Bot …
| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
The DOD offers chipmaker Wolfspeed, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a conditional loan of up to $1.5B in exchange for warrants for up to 7.5% of the company — By continuing, I agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. … Explainers| Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — In a letter to the board, recently-terminated employees ask that the industry not move forward with work that would degrade the ability to monitor AI| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches SynthID Detector, which lets users identify AI-generated image, video, and audio from Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Kakao across 20 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.
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| Connor Jones / The Register: |
The AGs of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska sue TP-Link, alleging it deceptively marketed its routers' security and didn't properly disclose ties to China — Router maker rejects allegations it misled buyers about protection and its reliance on Chinese suppliers| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B — Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery startup spun out of Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise new funds … | 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 …
More: Nous Research, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Ventureburn, WOWTALE, and RuntimeWire
| Priyanka Salve / CNBC: |
Elon Musk claims “certain oligarchs” are stalling Starlink's India launch to protect a “monopolistic chokehold”; SpaceX signed MOUs with Jio and Airtel in 2025 — SpaceX founder Elon Musk has accused vested interests of blocking the launch of his company's satellite internet service … | The Information: |
Source: Nvidia considered a last-minute OpenRouter bid, telling its leadership it was prepared to make a generous offer, but OpenRouter didn't want to wait — This July, Nvidia caught wind of a looming takeover of OpenRouter, a three-year-old startup that had emerged as a popular marketplace for AI models … | Bloomberg: |
Filing: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$515M in a new share sale; Biren's Hong Kong-listed stock is down 50%+ from a June peak but up ~70% YTD — Shanghai Biren Technology Co. aims to raise HK$4.04 billion ($515 million) in another share sale to help bankroll …
| 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, TechCrunch, Engadget, Cord Cutters News, Digital Trends, Quartz, and How-To Geek
X: @panos_panay, @ring, @amazonnews, @markgurman, and @chriswelch
| 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 …
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