Apple has one more event this month.
Apple is inviting press to a "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles on October 28, its third product showcase of the season. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects touchscreen…
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Sam Altman's World wants to put a "Human Badge" on your bank's video calls.
World launched World ID for banking and finance at Money20/20 in Las Vegas, a set of tools meant to prove a real person is behind transfers, trades, account requests and…
Four AI agents just beat Minecraft on their own.
Google DeepMind dropped four Gemini 4 Argon agents into a random world with no assigned roles, strategies or game-specific tools. Over 27 hours and 14 minutes they wrote…
Elon Musk says he'll give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America.
He says the giveaway happens in 2027 and calls it the "first of many." With more than 70 million U.S. kids and SpaceX trading around $146 a share, that's a gift worth…
Big banks are locking AI agents out of your account.
JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America are blocking outside AI agents from logging in to customer accounts. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon called it "just too risky for…
Anthropic says AI is changing who it hires.
In a new report on its own workforce, Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% of its technical hires to 9%, as the hours worked by its AI agents rapidly grew. By…
DeepSeek's smallest model just got faster, cheaper and better at coding.
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 with open weights under an MIT license. In DeepSeek's own tests it scored 77% on the DeepSWE coding benchmark at just under 20 cents…
A small AI startup says its first model can out-see GPT-6 Astra on some tests.
Elorian, led by former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai, launched Glimpse, a model that keeps going back to images and video while it reasons: cropping in, pulling…
Claude just out-designed the best published quantum circuits.
In an Anthropic study with Harvard and QuEra researchers, Claude Mythos 5 worked in a loop with an automated grader and found cheaper designs than the best published…
Anthropic is paying up to get more AI chips.
The Financial Times reports Anthropic offered Blackstone a yield above 10% on $9 billion of debt backed by its five-year lease payments on chips. It's part of a roughly…
China wants to control exports of its biggest AI models.
A draft from China's commerce and science ministries adds 23 AI technologies to its export-control list, covering model weights and source code for systems over 2…
An OpenAI model took crypto from a wallet it didn't control to finish a coding task, then didn't mention it.
In a new incident report, OpenAI says a GPT-5.6 Sol model in internal training used public recovery phrases to check 362 addresses, found one holding test Ethereum and…
Meta and Apple just teamed up so a frontier AI model can run on your desk.
Muse Spark Open, Meta's new 816-billion-parameter open-weight model, is built to run across two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple's MLX framework. Mark Zuckerberg…
OpenAI and Anthropic are putting money into helping mathematicians keep up with AI.
The Simons Foundation launched a $15 million effort with both labs this week to fund workshops and programs that help researchers check AI-made proofs, learn the new…
TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 are out — and Apple's foldable iPhone Duo is on the cover.
New Apple CEO John Ternus gave TIME his first cover interview about the passport-size phone that opens into a tablet. He was one of six engineers on Apple's original…
Tesla's new Roadster drove upside down, then flew.
At last night's reveal at SpaceX's Texas test site, the prototype climbed a looping ramp on fan suction, used SpaceX cold-gas thrusters to fly and barrel-roll, and hit…
The FBI says an OpenAI engineer hid a recording device in a top-secret meeting room.
Agents arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, accusing him of wrapping a USB recorder in toilet paper and plugging it into the back of a TV in a restricted executive conference…
Eight US states just sued OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn't safe for kids.
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana each filed in state court, accusing OpenAI of putting profits over safety and misleading…
YouTube Music is now labeling songs made with generative AI.
New player-page tags flag Fully or Partly Gen AI tracks using partner disclosures and YouTube's own detection, and the labels are expanding to the main YouTube app. AI…
Apple Intelligence is reportedly landing in China in December — without the new Siri AI.
Bloomberg says Apple plans a limited rollout with iOS 27.3 after Chinese regulatory clearance, starting with Genmoji, notification summaries, writing tools and Photos…
Google finally released Gemini 4 Argon — and it's cheaper than GPT-6 and Claude Fable.
Argon is rolling out to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search, with an intro price of $2 / $10 per million input/output tokens. Google…
Netflix is cutting about 1,000 jobs — 6% of its workforce.
Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters told staff the cuts hit product, technology, legal and HR hardest, while the company says it's still on track for its full-year…
Netflix is cutting about 1,000 jobs — 6% of its workforce — in its biggest layoffs to date.
Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters told staff the cuts hit product, technology, legal and HR hardest, while the company says it's still on track for its full-year…
Claude is writing so much code that Anthropic ditched Git for its own system.
Merges into Anthropic's main code repository jumped from about 2,500 a day in May to over 30,000 a day by September, so a seven-person team built Scion, a version…
Apple just launched the Apple Home Collection, its first co-developed smart home accessory lineup.
Built with LG and Schneider Electric, it includes cameras, a video doorbell, a UWB smart deadbolt, and thermostats that set up with a one-tap iPhone pair and work with…
Apple just launched its first new Apple TV 4K in four years, and it now costs $299.
The 4th-gen box gets an A19 chip, built-in mics for hands-free Siri AI, Wi-Fi 7 and a Siri Remote with Find My. It's one 128GB model, more than double the old $129…
Apple just unveiled HomeView, its first smart home display, for $299.
The 7-inch screen recognizes up to six people by face, runs the new Siri AI, and works as a speaker, FaceTime screen, Matter controller and Thread border router. There's…
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with Disney bidding $20 million for some of its assets.
The chatbot startup listed $50–100 million in liabilities and named Disney as the stalking-horse bidder for a court-supervised sale. Services stay up for now, but…
Anthropic says small AI models may be months away from copying themselves across everyday devices.
Its Frontier Red Team found models of 30B parameters or less can already handle many replication steps on IoT gear like off-brand Android TV boxes and smart ovens. In a…
You can already lock in your iPhone Duo order, days before pre-orders open.
Apple has opened "Get Ready" for its first foldable iPhone in the Apple Store app and online, so you can save your color, storage, carrier, trade-in and payment ahead of…
Smartphone shipments just had their worst third quarter since 2012, and the AI boom is a big reason why.
Counterpoint Research's early estimates show global shipments fell 20% from a year ago, as AI data centers soak up memory chips and drive costs up. Brands raised prices…
Meta just released Muse Wonder, its first frontier AI model.
Meta Superintelligence Labs says Muse Wonder and the bigger Muse Wonder Full go toe-to-toe with GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on its own benchmark tests, with an…
Microsoft just unveiled Maia 300, its new in-house AI chip built to cut its reliance on Nvidia.
The third-generation chip, made on TSMC's N2P process, starts running production AI workloads in 2027. Microsoft says it delivers 40% more tokens per megawatt than…
Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for around $7 billion.
The Wall Street Journal reports negotiations that could wrap soon, citing people familiar with the matter. Decart, valued at nearly $4 billion in May after a round that…
Apple's new smart home hub is reportedly called HomeView, and it won't ship until mid-November.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the A18-powered, Siri-first display comes in a countertop version with a metal speaker base and a wall-mounted one. Apple's "Welcome Home"…
AI companies want your phone running a 100-billion-parameter model nonstop by 2028.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told Sources' Alex Heath that some of the top AI labs are already asking for phones that can run models that big all the time, powering…
Cloudflare is buying Deno, the company behind the JavaScript runtime made by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl.
Cloudflare says it will use the deal to improve Workers, its platform for running code across its global network. Deno recently launched celld, an open-source version of…
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