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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding NDAs and lowering power usage during peak times, after Democrats' midterm wins — OpenAI said it will avoid nondisclosure agreements when it negotiates data center deals and ensure residents don't pay for the electricity …
More: OpenAI, Gizmodo, Semafor, CNBC, Fortune, Washington Examiner, DatacenterDynamics, Axios, Neowin, Reuters, Business Insider, abc7NY, NewsMax.com, OpenAI, Techstrong IT, The Decoder, Engadget, Quartz, Wisconsin Watch, valorinternational, and Unite.AI
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: at Jensen Huang's midterms event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans — Americans' vote for anti-data center candidates and ballot measures could rein in AI's expansion and hobble economic growth| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber benchmarks, is better at finding vulnerabilities, and is less likely to go rogue — Classified as ‘Critical,’ GPT-6 Cyber outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber-related benchmarks.
More: OpenAI, Fortune, and CSO
X: @kimmonismus, @tokengremlin, @jessexai_, @argofowl, @ananth7e, @codestantine, @openai, and @openai
| Djohnson / CyberScoop: |
OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber will first launch to a limited number of customers in its Daybreak Red program and has found 81+ “novel” vulnerabilities in Firefox — OpenAI announced a new cybersecurity-focused model Thursday, citing internal benchmark testing that shows improvements … | Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID — Sure, touch is there, too. — Reviews … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
More: Six Colors, The Verge, Forbes, Gizmodo, TechRadar, MacRumors, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, Macworld, CNET, iPhone in Canada, PCMag, Trusted Reviews, iThinkDifferent, YouTube, The Standard, MobileSyrup, New York Times, Creative Bloq, GB News, Tbreak Media UAE, and British GQ
X: @mashable, @chancehmiller, @chriswelch, @mweinbach, @mediastorm_en, @ijustine, @markgurman, @chancehmiller, and @supersaf. LinkedIn: Max Parker. Mastodon: @jsnell@zeppelin.flights. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
More: Bloomberg, Engadget, AppleInsider, Inc, ZDNET, Mashable, iClarified, Tom's Guide, Mashable, and Computerworld
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM — Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language. … Discord is finally giving up on Electron … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is tightening oversight of some data center projects, stepping away from those it deems risky, and debating whether to ink new neocloud deals — Microsoft Corp. helped create the “neocloud” boom, signing tens of billions of dollars in contracts with upstart data center operators …
More: Reuters, Motley Fool, and 24/7 Wall St.
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $468M, as rising Switch 2 component costs cut into its margins; Switch 2's H1 FY 2027 sales fell 37% YoY to 6.49M — Nintendo Co. reported a surprise quarterly profit decline, hurt by a dearth of major new game releases and rising Switch 2 component costs.
More: Reuters, CNBC, Game Developer, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, Comic Book, IGN, GamingBolt, Quartz, and Kotaku. X: @6d6f636869
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
More: IGN, PCMag, The Verge, Eurogamer.net, TheGamer, The Guardian, Wired, Engadget, and Wccftech
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Bluesky: @andrewrweb and @loganjplant
| New York Times: |
Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and “rationalism”, and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — One night in 2007, Dario Amodei regaled a friend who was visiting him at Princeton University with his thoughts on … | Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating profit of $3.94B, both above est., and 2.6M PS5 sales, as GTA VI sparks a US sales jump, especially of the PS5 Pro — Sony Group Corp. raised its profit outlook after a string of entertainment hits propelled better-than-expected results in the September quarter.
More: T3, GamesIndustry.biz, Thurrott, Eurogamer.net, Video Games Chronicle, Associated Press, Eurogamer.net, The Shortcut, Engadget, Comic Book, IGN, Push Square, Implicator.ai, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Kotaku, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety
X: @6d6f636869, @tomwarren, @genki_jpn, @andy_vgc, and @zuby_tech. Bluesky: @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs — Security research that once required a separate, sustained investigation for each finding can increasingly be run as a systematic process.
More: CoinDesk, CSO, The Register, a16z, SecurityWeek, AI News, Washington Technology, The Neuron, TechRadar, Help Net Security, Fortune, QUE.com, and Neowin
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, and Lobsters
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out a Xbox PC app with an overhauled design to Xbox Insiders that it says launches up to 60% faster than before — Xbox Insiders can start testing the new PC app today. … Microsoft is unveiling a new Xbox PC app that launches “up to 60 percent faster” than before …
More: XBOX Wire, Thurrott, Windows Central, Pure Xbox, iPhone in Canada, and DayOne. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational models that run directly on its cars instead of the cloud through a partnership with MIT spinout Liquid AI — The automaker is working with Liquid AI, a startup that spun out of MIT, to run AI models directly in the car, rather than the cloud
More: PYMNTS.com
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60 per 1M output tokens — There's another American victory worth paying attention to today: a new, open weights AI model that its creators claim scores …
More: Ricursive Intelligence. X: @ricursiveai, @kimmonismus, @swyx, @finbarrtimbers, @teortaxestex, @eliebakouch, @azaliamirh, @kumbonghermann, @mark_k, @esonghori2, @ricursiveai, @llmjunky, @miaai_lab, @_albertgu, @nvidiartxspark, @ricursiveai, @dzhang50, @ethanboneh, @natolambert, @elliotarledge, @annadgoldie, @iscienceluvr, @0xsero, and @jenzhuscott. Forums: Hacker News
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and its API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from a prompt or a photo — You can use ChatGPT to edit a GIF's animation speed and individual frames. … ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot.
More: OpenAI, PCMag, Thurrott, The Rundown AI, Moneycontrol, Digital Trends, The Neuron, WinCentral, Storyboard18, TestingCatalog AI News, The Decoder, Decrypt, The Next Web, XDA Developers, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/ChatGPT
| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M+ in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing — CEO Keller Cliffton says the company's skyrocketing valuation is a sign that autonomous delivery has finally gained wider acceptance
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Quartz, and Reuters
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting developers show personalized text, images, or special offers to users who are trying to cancel their subscription — Apple today rolled out a new subscription retention tool for developers looking to reduce cancellations. Here are the details.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google, Meta, and TikTok file lawsuits to block a California law that bans online platforms from providing “psychologically exploitative features” to under-16s — Google (GOOGL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O) and TikTok sued California to block enforcement of a new state law intended … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Motorola launches the $1,599+ Signature 27, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, a 6.8-inch Tandem OLED display, and seven years of OS updates — Motorola is officially back in the flagship space, with its new Signature 27 phone available for pre-order starting today, but it'll cost a pretty penny.
More: Tech Advisor, Android Police, PCMag, Digit, Gizchina, AndroidGuys, Ars Technica, CNET, The Verge, Techaeris, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, Wired, Trusted Reviews, and GSMArena.com
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
X rolls out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, replacing three servers with one to improve load times especially on slow connections — X is moving signed-in users to its new web app one country at a time, but it's already using the rewrite for X's logged-out web experience.| Reuters: |
Marc Lore's Wonder files confidentially for a US IPO; the company, which acquired Grubhub for $650M in 2025, raised $650M at a $9B pre-money valuation in July — Wonder Group, a food-delivery startup led by former Walmart executive Marc Lore, said on Thursday it had confidentially filed for a US IPO … | Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was “pretty rough”, but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a “revenue inflection” in Q3 — The ChatGPT maker's president said it experienced a ‘revenue inflection’ in the third quarter of 2026, driven by a growing enterprise business| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap from $300 to $200 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes employee fears of layoffs — Apple Inc. is reducing employee budgets for artificial intelligence usage as part of a cost-cutting effort …
More: TechCrunch, ITPro, Macworld, The Ankler, The Decoder, and Times of India
X: @markgurman, @zenoware, @theo, @doriandevelops, @hesamation, @0xtriboulet, @zachmoskow, @orcdev, @tenobrus, @ric_rtp, @gergelyorosz, @constancewaing, @steipete, @petergostev, @autismcapital, @zeeg, @quinnypig, @hassankhan, @azeem, @thezachmueller, @chadmoran, and @artificialanlys. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/artificial and MacRumors Forums
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Aina, which raised $5.5M, launches an “AI ring” with a screen, joystick, and mic to let users talk to their AI agents, take notes, control Apple TV, and more — Hardware startup Aina released a smart ring today that features a screen, a joystick, and a mic so that you can talk to your agents and take notes.| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
Sources: China told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; the Swiss-Swedish company employs ~12,700 in China — Swiss-Swedish company's unit is focused on Chinese market and has mega-factory in Pudong — China has told SoftBank … | Charles Rollet / Business Insider: |
Source: Meta has decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest, Wonder Full, was codenamed Watermelon — Meta is done with fruits. — The social media giant has internally decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit, a person familiar with the matter said.| Lefteris Papadimas / Reuters: |
Greece's parliament approves a 10% capital gains tax on crypto, exempting gains of up to €500 a year, in the country's first comprehensive crypto tax framework — Greece's parliament approved on Thursday a bill that imposes a 10% capital gains tax on cryptocurrencies …
More: crypto.news
| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March — Defense tech startup set to acquire Echodyne Corp., which sells radar sensors to government and commercial customers.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to raise ~$7B from its first investment-grade bond offering in more than a year to fund share buybacks, dividends, and capital expenditures — Apple Inc. is planning to raise about $7 billion from its first investment-grade bond offering in more than a year to help fund share buybacks …
More: Yahoo Finance, MacDailyNews, and Reuters
| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, letting users connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid with read-only access to analyze spending trends — Anthropic has released what appears to be its answer to ChatGPT Finances. — ZDNET's key takeaways
More: 9to5Mac, Reuters, The Verge, and TechCrunch
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