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After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal and we had already turned off liv... View Source

The Trump administration’s embrace of legal liability to enforce artificial intelligence safety sets the stage for future conflicts over who foots the bill when AI models go rogue: the companies that design the systems or the people that deploy the technology... View Source

NASA’s Freedom 250 F-5 team, including NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, perform a flyover during the national anthem at an NFL game between the Cleveland Browns and the Carolina Panthers at Huntington Bank Field, Sept. 27, 2026, in Cleveland. Credit: NASA/Jordan Cochran As part of the agency’s Inspiration Tour flyover, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will pilot one of three F-5 fighter jets to... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of the Channels podcast, about the gigantic Warner Bros.-Paramount merger and the future of the company now simply called Skydance. Skydance is owned by David Ellison, son of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed the day Peter and I spoke. There are some grand... View Source

Ever since the Supreme Court overturned a nationwide sports betting ban in 2018, gambling has taken off in the United States. Enabled by popular apps, the practice has become a common fixture in daily life amid an inescapable barrage of advertisements urging users to start gambling away their hard-earned cash. The rise of prediction platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi, which allow users to bet on... View Source

Technology Journalist and Author Kevin Roose tells Bloomberg This Weekend that a relatively small group of researchers and executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind has driven the race toward artificial general intelligence, raising questions about who controls the technology and its potential risks. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Roose discusses his new book, The... View Source

The LG’s picture is bright and punchy, but its panel is very reflective. When it comes to TVs, the LG name has long been synonymous with OLEDs, continually leading Samsung and Sony as the top OLED manufacturer. But 2026 is all about RGB LED TVs. Almost every major company has released models with the new technology - including LG and its $3,600 75-inch Micro RGB evo MRGB95B that I've been testing... View Source

At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe. Yet Muse itself, a couple of months earlier, had launched as a supposedly safer alternative t... View Source

On Thursday, news that ChatGPT maker OpenAI was set to miss its annual revenue goal by a cool $20 billion sent stock markets into a tailspin. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index took the heaviest hit, falling 1.25 percent by the close of trading. Of course, the stock market happily bounced back to a near-record high as soon as the markets opened on Friday, but the whole episode underscores how fragile the... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 147, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I missed you all, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I'm back from parental leave! Part time, anyway. Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes and tips for managing three kids. I need 'em all. This week, I've been reading about McMans... View Source

Despite spending billions of dollars to automate its warehouses, Walmart is seriously struggling to make even the simplest of robots work. As the Wall Street Journal reports, even something as straightforward as removing an object from a cardboard box to package it for customers is proving exceedingly challenging. After hiring several robotics companies, Walmart ultimately settled on small robots... View Source

I'm bouncing down the road in San Carlos, California, zipping past behemoth tech companies like EA and Oracle, in America's smallest electric truck. The Telo MT1 (which stands for "mini truck") unquestionably turns heads because it looks so remarkably different from everything else on the market right now. It has a nearly cab-over design, meaning that front-seat passengers sit almost directly over... View Source

Renata Reinsve (top center) and Sebastian Stan (top right) play religious Romanians living in Norway. | FLC Press Cristian Mungiu's sixth feature, Fjord, concerns a family on trial. They seem like good people, God-fearing. They've just moved from Romania to a small hamlet nestled in the fjords of rural Norway. There is Mamma (Renate Reinsve), Tata (a bald and bespectacled Sebastian Stan), and thei... View Source

When Meta first launched its cutesy Muse AI agents to the public, the company was immediately met with a virtual tidal wave of headlines, as major errors and glaring privacy issues rose to the surface. As it turns out, the decision to release Muse was far from unanimous. As fresh reporting from the New York Times reveals, the buggy agent was forced onto the market by its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, even... View Source

Turkey has barred social media platforms from providing services to children under the age of 15, according to a regulation published in the Official Gazette... View Source

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion... View Source

I miss my sweet tits. It started off promising enough. Dozens of tiny, colorful birds were drawn to my garden just a few weeks after I mounted a $350 $269 Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 Pro. "Looks like Great Tit!" read the first AI-driven alert sent to my phone. "Looks like Eurasian Blue Tit!" read another. I chuckled, still waiting for adulthood to kick in. This went on for days. Hundreds of miniature ti... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 10… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Lunar Farside Explanation: Tidally locked in synchronous rotation, t... View Source

Elon Musk has accused Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of blocking competition... View Source

Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital systems of outside organizations, including some US government agencies’ websites, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for artificial intelligence companies to secure their systems... View Source

Generous state and local tax breaks for data center building is causing the loss of billions in tax revenue, according to a new report from Senate Democrats... View Source

Semiconductor company Cirrus Logic Inc. made an unsolicited acquisition offer for Synaptics Inc. last month as it looked to spoil a previously announced deal with On Semiconductor Corp., according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the findings of the company's CTRL Tomorrow study on how tech impacts its users, finding opportunity in the AI era, and why design-led hardware still has a major role to play. Faber speaks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Jess Menton. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.-backed OPay Digital Services Ltd. secured about $185 million in a private placement with Africa’s biggest bank as it prepares to list in the US... View Source

The science behind America’s execution drugs is quietly collapsing—and the alternative is bloodier... View Source

The Trump administration has suspended Microsoft, Adobe and several other companies and universities from a program used to sponsor foreign workers for permanent residency, citing concerns about potential abuse. Erickson Immigration Group attorney Hiba Anver explains why restrictions on employment-based immigration could have broader implications for the technology industry’s talent pipeline. She... View Source

On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and Emma Frederickson discuss six shipwrecks uncovered beneath a Swedish city... View Source

NASA on Friday released a much-anticipated "request" to the US commercial space industry to develop private space stations that, as early as 2030, will succeed the International Space Station as a place for astronauts to live in low-Earth orbit. In a cover letter accompanying the 360-page "request for proposals," NASA stated its plan: "This will ensure NASA has a sustained human presence in LEO fo... View Source

Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman says AI is still in the early stages of reshaping the economy, with opportunities extending from frontier models like Anthropic to consumer agents, autonomous vehicles and robotics. He discusses why the firm sees physical AI as a potential source of the next trillion-dollar companies, the rapid growth of leading private AI businesses, and why he’s increasingly... View Source

It tackled sticky, dried-on messes with ease, but its 18.3-pound build isn’t ideal for quick cleanups... View Source

CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM. Intel and AMD are making new CPUs that'll support the older, more affordable type of memory. On Friday, Gigabyte announced that two of its motherboard lines will support "upcoming" processors built on Intel's LGA 1700 socket. Tha... View Source

A man charged along with Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw of conspiring to send cutting-edge chips to China in violation of US export controls pleaded guilty, according to court documents... View Source

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An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as spam. Anthropic learned its AI model sent the false t... View Source

An Anthropic AI model submitted a bogus tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police, in a blunder the department called “unacceptable.” The unspecified model, not unlike an unscrupulous prankster, submitted the fake info about the cold case through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18. Anthropic, however, didn’t find out about it until September 28 — and further waited until October 8... View Source

Fintech startup Ramp has reached a roughly $60 billion valuation with its latest fundraising effort, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Half of the 1,500 laborers died, and records were suppressed while bodies were buried in mass graves, says one expert on the disaster... View Source

When Microsoft released Windows 11 five years ago, it felt like an operating system that was still being renovated, a work in progress. You'd think by now that those renovations would be complete, with Microsoft turning its attention to Windows 12. Instead, Windows 11 feels like it's here to stay, forming the foundation for Microsoft's next big ambition: transforming Windows into an agentic OS. At... View Source

What if the electronic shelf label you see at the grocery store isn't just showing you the price of the jar of mayonnaise you're about to buy — but actually raising the price because you put a can of tuna in your cart. It's called surveillance pricing and retailers like Walmart appear to be locking down technology that will help them figure out how much they can charge you. Bloomberg's Brad Stone... View Source

Here’s when you should ditch your sanding disc and give some fresh grit a fighting chance... View Source

Google shared a closeup of its upcoming fitness tracker. | Image: Google It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: "Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26." A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has surfaced over the past couple of weeks. So f... View Source

Lockheed Martin Corp. unveiled a new missile interceptor designed to outperform its most capable Patriot variant, as the US Army seeks to expand its air defense capabilities against increasingly sophisticated threats like hypersonic missiles... View Source

This premium purifier combines serious cleaning power with detailed air-quality data... View Source

A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, according to a report from the Columbus Dispatch. Byrnes texted Ohio Sen. Jerry Cirino in May after he dropped out of the state's Senate presid... View Source

Tesla has admitted a major defeat in its branding. No longer will its notorious driving software be called “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” in Europe. After negotiations with Germany’s transportation ministry, it’s agreed to rename it “Tesla Assisted Driving,” in a more accurate representation of the software’s capabilities — and a symbolically humiliating submission by Elon Musk’s automaker. The... View Source

loomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down OpenAI's latest annualized revenue, expected to reach or exceed $70 billion by the end of the year. Plus, Oracle keeps several data centers on track by relying on truck deliveries of natural gas, and a conversation with Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman on the mega AI IPO pipeline and the future of physical AI. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Netgear Orbi 370 Series delivers some powerful 5-GHz speeds, as long as you don’t mind a so-so 2.4-GHz band... View Source

"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the deluge was a deep-seated an... View Source

In the United States, public sentiment against the rising power of AI labs and their CEOs is overwhelmingly negative. As Wall Street Journal polling from late September found, 63 percent of US adults support an immediate pause on AI development, while a Politico survey found about two-thirds of Americans have at least “moderate” anxieties over AI destroying humanity. When the scope of that public... View Source

When measuring the race between artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, investors have run into a problem: The two private companies calculate a closely watched revenue figure differently... View Source

Under the right circumstances, we could be able to enter them... View Source

FCC chairman Brendan Carr said he will defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on whether TV networks can air the planned execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad. The Pentagon has said the execution will be livestreamed, suggesting it'll appear on an online platform beyond the FCC's jurisdiction. But it's common for broadcast TV networks to air live video of governm... View Source

The data drop includes photographs, audio, video, and astronauts’ notes that will be used to study the moon and prepare for future human missions... View Source

Workers running up their AI use, or 'tokenmaxxing,' has given way to value-maxing, but AI spend is still keeping chief financial officers up at night. Bloomberg's Nina Trentmann joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" for a deep dive into this week's CFO Briefing Newsletter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA is advancing American leadership in space by taking the next step toward a future where commercial space stations lead the way in low Earth orbit. On Friday, the agency released its final Request for Proposals inviting industry to submit plans for the next generation of commercial space stations. “In alignment with the President’s National Space Policy, NASA is committed to maint... View Source

Dodge has reengineered the American muscle car to be as smart as it is brutal... View Source

The original first place video used AI in post-processing. | Image: Dr. Ning Xu Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with th... View Source

Last week, OpenAI fired three safety researchers because they allegedly mishandled confidential information and shared it outside of the company’s approved channels. Now, the fired employees have published an open letter denying OpenAI’s claims — and warning that the company’s actions are scaring workers into staying silent. “We have become concerned that internal and external communications aroun... View Source

Oracle is using a new power strategy to keep many of its data centers on track: trucking natural gas directly to the server farms. The company is considering using this approach to speed up a build in New Mexico, where a gas pipeline needed to help power one of its crucial data centers is delayed. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra in black with 256GB of storage discounted to $949.99, a healthy discount from its usual price of $1,399.99. This phone’s standout feature is the adjustable privacy display, which can hide your entire screen, or just portions of it, from onlookers and strangers. It doesn’t meaningfully hurt the screen’s performance otherwise, and it’s only noticeable at steep... View Source

Video games like ‘Star Wars Zero Company’ have been both critically and commercially successful... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A KREPE-3 capsule floats inside the Northrup Grumman Cygnus XL 24 cargo spacecraft on October 7. Inside the capsule is a 3-D printed heat shield designed by researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.NASA NASA is testing heat shields that can keep astronauts safe as they return from missions to the Moon and M... View Source

Some users are reporting that the new Kindles have a light leak issue that is especially apparent when using dark mode. The latest base-model Kindles have a flush bezel that gives them a sleek appearance and looks great… as long as you keep the lights on. But things can change once you turn down the lights and turn up the brightness on the e-reader. In some cases, users see shadows around the edge... View Source

The swing to deeply-negative sentiment on fixed-income assets this year has gone too far, with the market underpricing the risk of an artificial-intelligence blowup that triggers a rush into bonds, according to Deutsche Bank AG’s George Saravelos... View Source

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 04: Frances Haugen attends the Social Reckoning world premiere at Regal Union Square on October 04, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Entertainment) | Getty Images for Sony Pictures E Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was mostly unfazed watching Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison play a character named after her in The Soci... View Source

The first seven days of October mark an important period in China. Known as one of the three “Golden Weeks,” this holiday period begins with National Day on October 1, marking the founding anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and kicking off one of the busiest travel seasons in the world. With so much holiday traffic, China’s transit authorities regularly deploy unfathomable reso... View Source

Una vez descargados los modelos, es casi imposible rastrear las actividades ilegales... View Source

The Playdate, Panic's tiny yellow handheld that launched in 2022, has slowly but surely become a great deal - which is a good thing, because everything else in gaming has only gotten more expensive. Despite being a weird device with a black-and-white screen and a crank jutting out the side, the Playdate has managed to cultivate a strong and constantly growing library of games. And with the handhel... View Source

In the age of AI, Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram have become breeding grounds for content farms peddling in emotionally charged AI slop. Some click mills traffic in racist incitement against minorities, others in violent depictions of child abuse, but all of them converge on a common quality: bizarre and disturbing attempts at attention-hacking users on a platform that’s all but given... View Source

Credit markets are again becoming jittery over the prospects of more mega debt deals hitting a market already flush with financings to pay for the AI arms race. Jared Gross, Head of Institutional Portfolio Strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, discusses AI asset allocation and why he believes the AI buildout is indeed a boom, not a bubble. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Said this will sound super crazy, but I see a path to SpaceX being worth orders of magnitude more than the current Earth economy The Actual SpaceX plans from mass-produced AI data centers on Earth and reusable Starships to lunar factories, magnetic mass drivers and vast networks of orbital AI satellites. The numbers reveal ... Read more... View Source

It's gadget season, and a lot of companies are launching a lot of new products. But whether it's Microsoft dropping a high-end laptop, Amazon shipping a fancy Android tablet, or Apple diving headlong into the smart home, the actual strategy appears to be almost always the same. All these companies believe AI assistants and agents are the future of computing, and they're building devices that put t... View Source

Electronic Arts has told a group of creditors that it secured an investment-grade rating from Egan-Jones Ratings Co. for a subset of bonds, using the designation to counter claims that it owes them a premium after the video-game maker was taken private... View Source

A NASA-backed experiment shows how engineered microbes can convert discarded water bottles into edible protein... View Source

YouTube, Twitch, Meta, and X aren't saying whether they'll allow the US government to livestream an execution on their platforms. The four companies didn't respond to The Verge's requests for comment after an unnamed Pentagon official said yesterday that the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of a mass shooting at a Texas military base in 2009, will be livestreamed. Two platforms responde... View Source

Joachim Klement, managing director and research analyst at Panmure Liberum, explains the risks the firm sees on Artificial Intelligence names and discusses the potential for a severe AI-triggered market crash. He speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Instinct’s agent is always just a text away. Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no marketing, and barely so much as a website. And yet, Instinct quickly became the buzziest thing in AI, garnering praise for its straightforward, text message-based interface and its ability to handle chores... View Source

Christa Pike, a woman who’s been on death row since she was 20 years old after being convicted of killing her classmate more than 30 years ago, survived her own execution earlier this month, with the botched killing once again sparking a heated debate over the barbaric practice. Now, the Trump administration is doubling down by inviting the country to celebrate the upcoming execution of a mass sho... View Source

OpenAI is expecting to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, driven largely by growth in its enterprise business. Ed Ludlow reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Furtak, S. Fujimoto Galaxies warp and multiply as if in a house of mirrors in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released on Sept. 29, 2026. The brilliant golden galaxies seen here are part of a galaxy cluster called MACS J0454.1-0300. The orange galaxies bunched together on one side of the image, however, are not actually part of the cluster, but rather... View Source

President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies. His first successful presidential run was built on monikers like "Little Marco" and "Crooked Hillary"; he changed "fake news" from a phrase describing scammy media outlets to a derogatory term for the press at large. Over the past few weeks, he's clearly decided he can work the same magic to promote artificial intelligence -... View Source

It’s safe to say that when it comes to mathematicians, OpenAI isn’t exactly winning hearts and minds. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT maker released hundreds of new papers with purported proofs for all sorts of mathematical problems — fresh off of explosive controversy over how its AI agents arrived at a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations. The handling of the release, as with the Navier-Stokes, has g... View Source

SpaceX is acquiring a crucial swath of spectrum from Grain Management. The new spectrum allows SpaceX to beam cell service to devices indoors from its Starlink network of satellites and will be combined with a terrestrial network to connect devices everywhere. Sana Pashankar reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Young hearts aged. Old hearts got younger. The surprise upside: a much wider pool of usable donors... View Source

Software, software, software. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Google's new operating system is off to a rocky start. The five newly launched Googlebook laptops have hardware that ranges from great to excellent, but the software in its current state is the weak point. There are four of us on staff at The Verge actively testing Googlebooks and, frankly, our internal Slack discussions ha... View Source

TypeSafe AI, the startup behind Jev, a new artificial intelligence model that went viral after it launched only a few weeks ago, has raised about $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation in a financing led by Andreessen Horowitz... View Source

Older, forceful models spray the most microbes, and the plume doesn't always stay in the bathroom... View Source

Meta has banned ads from TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance across the US and several other countries as the rivalry between the major social media operators heats up, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The ban, which went into effect on Thursday, restricts ads and paid marketing messages from ByteDance, along with third-party ads that link to TikTok. "We don't have to run ads from a competi... View Source

We’re one step closer to the final consolidation of America into a single unified corporation. On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that centibillion dollar coffee titan Starbucks has explored a takeover of decabillion dollar Chipotle Mexican Grill, in a venti-sized tie-up that would undoubtedly be the largest ever in the restaurant sector. It’s unclear if Starbuck’s takeover plans are still... View Source

Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari says falling software valuations are creating acquisition opportunities as AI reshapes the industry. He says the company is benefiting twice - from cheaper targets and from using AI to write code, improve products and scale its acquisition model faster. Bending Spoons says AI now writes at least 90% of its code. He speaks to Tom Mackenzie on the latest episode of "B... View Source

A new DNA computer performed 700 computations across several experiments—without silicon or continuous energy input... View Source

Medical technology companies face one more subdued earnings quarter before heading into 2027 with their strongest growth outlook in more than two years, following a punishing stretch of policy uncertainty, cyberattacks and device recalls... View Source

A scholar plans to DNA-test remains from the James Ossuary, the relic at the heart of a forgery saga... View Source

For anybody who thought AI companies were about to unlock trillions of dollars in profits, OpenAI has bad news for you: it ain’t happening anytime soon. Some red-hot reporting from the Financial Times just revealed that OpenAI’s annualized revenue — an estimated guess at a company’s income for the year — is roughly $20 billion lower than anybody had previously expected, including, it seems, OpenAI... View Source

The UK is set to curb hiring restrictions that force employees to wait before moving jobs or starting companies, an issue that has drawn the ire of the nation’s technology startups... View Source

Welcome to Edition 9.14 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week, from our perspective, is that United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket appears to be close to launching. We've seen a no-earlier-than launch date for the return to flight mission of October 29 (an Amazon Leo flight), and the next rocket up after that, also an Amazon Leo mission, is also planned for this year. Assuming the solid ro... View Source

The ‘Social Reckoning’ depicts one insider’s story while another lands in court... View Source

Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky lays out the fintech’s ambitions to crack the US market and take on established players including JPMorgan and American Express. He says Revolut plans to build out a full digital banking offer, from credit cards to loans, while using AI and automation to reshape how customers bank. The company is also preparing to test AI agents that can shop and transact on behalf of use... View Source

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Christian Mueller-Glissmann, head of asset allocation research at Goldman Sachs, discusses market skepticism toward artificial intelligence. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, he says investors are questioning whether ongoing capital expenditure will translate into monetizable products. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita ⁠Balesni were dismissed for violating "clear policies on handling sensitive information." It insisted the decision was not about the trio speaking out about the company... View Source

Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities... View Source

Mobile payments firm Airtel Money starts trading on the London Stock Exchange on Friday, a listing that may mark the largest initial public offering for the bourse in five years. How the company trades will be the next test in London’s efforts to revitalize its capital markets. A strong first day would imply the city is fertile ground for IPOs and may encourage more companies to list on the LSE. A... View Source

Artificial Intelligence deployment across banking is moving at its fastest pace yet, with JPMorgan yet again leading Evident Insight’s ranking of the world’s most AI-advanced banks. Evident CEO and co-founder Alexandra Mousavizadeh explains why early movers are pulling ahead and why banks investing most heavily in the technology are still growing headcount even as AI changes jobs. She speaks to To... View Source

Firmus abandoned its attempt at one of Australia’s biggest-ever initial public offerings, after the Nvidia-backed data center company failed to lure global investors who’ve grown increasingly skittish over frothy AI valuations. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Firmus Grid Ltd. is exploring raising up to $3 billion in a private funding round, people familiar with the matter said, after the data center company abandoned plans for what would have been one of Australia’s biggest initial public offerings... View Source

OpenAI is expecting to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter. The company's annualized revenue was roughly $50 billion at the end of September, the people said. Bloomberg's Neil Campling breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft bundled its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions last year, but it only allowed the primary account holder to access the AI benefits. Now, Microsoft is about to let Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers share Copilot and AI usage features, alongside access to Office apps and OneDrive storage, with up to five other people on a plan. In an... View Source

Franklin Templeton Chief Executive Officer Jenny Johnson said short-term debt issued by major technology companies offers investment opportunities in artificial intelligence, citing strong cash flows and balance sheets... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. seeks to raise as much as $100 billion from Gulf investors to help it amp up its bets on AI, the Financial Times said... View Source

Uzbekistan’s leading fintech firm may soon tap the international debt market after becoming the largest private corporate issuer domestically... View Source

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson believes investing in artificial intelligence remains a durable long-term opportunity. She speaks with Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of '2026 Milken Institute Asia Summit'. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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China’s tech hardware shares are rapidly losing value after bumper gains earlier in the year, as growing doubts over the global AI trade make those high-valuation names particularly vulnerable... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 9… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Stickney Crater Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on t... View Source

The dramatic cancellation of an Nvidia-backed data center company’s initial public offering is revealing fresh cracks in the AI funding boom... View Source

OpenAI’s most senior Asia-Pacific public policy executive is departing after six months in the job, according to a person familiar with the matter, just as the ChatGPT maker faces scrutiny from regulators in the region... View Source

Atlas Atomics, a nuclear startup cofounded and backed by Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, has raised capital at around $1.9 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

OpenAI is expecting to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter, driven largely by growth in its enterprise business... View Source

Seema Shah, Chief Global Strategist at Principal Global Investors, discusses the AI capex cycle and the impact on investor sentiment. She speaks with Avril Hong on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tesla just registered a record 150 Cybercabs for its Robotaxi fleet, bringing the total number of Cybercabs registered to date to 319 (up from 169), according to the Texas DMV. Tesla just nearly doubled its registered Cybercabs overnight. 739 unsupervised Tesla robotaxi registered in Texas... View Source

Lumentum Holdings Inc.’s optoelectronic parts are “completely sold out” through almost 2029 on demand from tech companies clamoring for faster AI data centers... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Mandeep Singh highlights that despite questions over OpenAI's revenue accounting, booming token growth indicates solid AI infrastructure demand. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A mathematician reflects on how AI is changing his profession... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance Ltd., the former controlling owner of TikTok, intensifying the competition with the popular social video site... View Source

Autonomous vehicle companies believe there’s a huge market opportunity in delivering after dark, if the technical challenges can be overcome... View Source

Windows Search has been one of the most frustrating parts of Windows 11, and now Microsoft is addressing this with a significant overhaul. A new redesigned Windows Search is now in testing that is much faster, more capable, and a lot more modern. "This new Windows Search experience is built for speed," says Anshul Rawat, corporate vice president of the Windows product team at Microsoft. "It's buil... View Source

Applied Digital shares fell about 2.5% after its earnings report, despite first-quarter revenue rising more than 320% year over year and beating estimates. Founder and CEO Wes Cummins said that gap should narrow faster over the next 12 months, with all contracted capacity expected to be online in roughly 20 to 22 months. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Jess Menton on "The Close." (Source: Blo... View Source

The United States' execution of the Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed, anonymous officials from the Defense Department told the BBC and Associated Press. The planned execution of Nidal Hasan, the former US Army major convicted of killing 13 people at the Texas military base, was announced this week. He is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on December 3rd at 2PM ET. The Verge contacted... View Source

Baiju Bhatt, Cowboy Space’s Founder and CEO, says the company is developing an energy grid in orbit. Its first satellite, Reason 1, reached orbit on a SpaceX rideshare, and the team has made contact and is communicating with it daily. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Varda hd a $250M Series D raise, bringing the total amount of capital raised to $598 million with a $1.6Billion valuation. Varda is a microgravity-enabled life sciences company that processes materials in orbit and returns them to Earth. This funding will help them build more vehicles, grow pharmaceutical partnerships, and advance toward the first medicine ... Read more... View Source

It's already possible to get AMD's framerate-enhancing FSR 4 boost on handhelds as old as the Steam Deck - but in June, AMD reserved the right to disappoint handheld gamers by not officially bringing FSR 4 to older handhelds. Now, AMD consumer chip boss Jack Huynh says he will bring the tech to some handhelds by the end of the year. Which handhelds? It's still not clear if it will come to existing... View Source

Suzanne Shank discussed how Siebert Williams Shank has expanded since launching in 1996 as a municipal bond underwriter. The firm now works across corporate debt markets, serves 80 of the Fortune 100, and remains active in municipals, with growth supported by mergers and acquisitions. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Jess Menton on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost." That could mean open-source projects get alerted about possible security issues sooner, but the trade-off is that OSS Scanner's reports don't come with h... View Source

Bloomberg Originals unpacks how the artificial intelligence boom has resulted in a concentration of immense wealth, pushing global trade imbalances to levels unseen since the 2008 financial crisis. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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SpaceX has acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses - a move the company says "will pave the way" for its Starlink Mobile service to become a "major" US carrier. When the Federal Communications Commission signs off on the deal, SpaceX says it will deploy its new architecture that combines its satellite-to-mobile constellation with a terrestrial mobile network, directly competing with T-M... View Source

Joe Rogan re-upped his deal with Spotify, but other networks have struggled to retain and replace talent... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) As it maps the sky, NASA’s SPHEREx telescope is finding thousands of brown dwarfs hiding in the dark. A selection is shown in this collage of observations, listed by spectral type, distance, and temperature in degrees Kelvin.Zafar Rustamkulov/NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Uni... View Source

Apple is set to introduce a new MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and an updated iPad Mini "on or around" October 27th, Bloomberg reports. If true, that would put the event just two weeks after the October 13th event Apple announced today, which is rumored to focus on smart home products. Bloomberg says that the late October event will include an "online video presentation" and an "in-person componen... View Source

On this episode of Power On, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman breaks down how he believes Apple might streamline the company under John Ternus as the company pushes for a leaner, faster organization. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

An artist’s concept of JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft at Mars. Credit: JAXA Media are invited to join NASA for a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 15, to preview the agency’s contributions to JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. The mission is scheduled to launch from JAXA’s Tan... View Source

At $60, this combo stud finder–level is like an x-ray for your walls and inspires plenty of confidence... View Source

The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times. The fight, which took place on September 18th, pitted a human, Frankie LaPenna, against a humanoid robot owned by a tech startup, Rek, that was being piloted by a human using what the NYT described as a "remote virtual-r... View Source

Parenting is hard. Why not let an AI model take over some of your childrearing duties? It may come at the expense of forming lasting emotional bonds with your progeny, but that’s a tradeoff that some AI adherents, evidently, have calculated to be worth it. OpenAI Sam Altman has bragged about how much he relies on ChatGPT to raise his son, and also thinks it’s a good idea to let an AI-generated pod... View Source

On this episode of the Power On podcast, Mark Gurman addresses backlash over his Vision Pro coverage, reporting that even top Apple executives don't use the heavy, expensive headset. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA is launching two new science and technology initiatives to deepen scientific understanding and accelerate the innovation that will shape America’s future in space. The initiatives are announced in conjunction with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) “Golden Age Summit” in Washington on Thursday with top U.S. agency leaders. The programs reflect NASA’s... View Source

Building a bookshelf calls for cutting clean, straight edges, while sheathing a backyard shed calls for speed. Here’s how to choose the saw that fits the build... View Source

Detainees are seen in a yard at the Folkston ICE Processing Center on September 9, 2025, in Folkston, Georgia. (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images Four men detained at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia used the facility's video conferencing software to expose both the conditions inside and President Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the immigration court... View Source

Citrini Research is making the case that a “new paradigm of ‘fundamental crypto investing’” has arrived because agentic finance will be built on top of blockchains... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Technicians at Starfish Space prepare the Otter spacecraft ahead of NASA’s SSPICY technology demonstration mission. The CubeSat spacecraft will demonstrate technologies that could reduce orbital debris. Starfish Space A new NASA-supported spacecraft will get up close to satellites that are no longer in service, demonstr... View Source

Cyberpunk 2077 is heading to the big screen. Deadline reports that CD Projekt Red's popular sci-fi video game franchise is being adapted into a live-action film by Paramount Pictures. There's no details just yet on when the film might premiere. But Deadline says that Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who is known for producing the Transformers films, will be a producer on the movie. Despite its rocky 2020 l... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down the Trump administration's decision to suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft, alleging widespread abuse of that worker visa system. Plus: Samsung's quarterly profit jumps and TSMC sales surge, but investors are still worried about the staying power of the AI investment boom. And, NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 makes it way back down to... View Source

NASA/Keegan Barber The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen moments before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California in this Oct. 8, 2026, photograph. Aboard were NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The four spent nearly eight months... View Source

Scientists are investigating the mysterious surge in consciousness that some people experience in their final moments... View Source

Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO in September, handing over the top job to former hardware chief John Ternus and taking an executive chairman role. Cook's still a visible representative of the company, having been recently photographed attending a state dinner at the White House. But in an interview with The Independent, Cook says he's "not meddling" in Ternus' work. "First of all, John and I ha... View Source

In yet another confounding testament to the sorry state of the United States education system, New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has expressed skepticism about the country’s Moon landings over half a century ago. “I don’t know about the Moon, you know,” he said during a media appearance on Monday. “I think I can see back in the day why we would put on the mask if we went there, but I’m n... View Source

New York City-based venture firm Union Square Ventures is reinventing itself to better compete in the AI race by nearly doubling the size of its core fund, raising $900 million in new money, including $500 million for its latest early-stage fund. The firm is also whittling down its general partnership to just four investors - including Nick Grossman. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source... View Source

New analysis of 5,000-year-old skulls reveals how royal retainers may have met their grisly end... View Source

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a mysterious flash of energy was released into the universe.Astronomers have now detected that flash, a burst of radio waves which travelled for more than 10bn years before reaching Earth – what they believe to be the most distant fast r... View Source

Playground Games first revealed earlier this year that Forza Horizon 6 would be arriving on PS5 in 2026, but the launch is now being pushed back. I reported last month that there would be a delay to early next year, and Forza Horizon 6 is now officially debuting on January 26th, 2027. The delay means the PS5 version will now coincides with a new expansion for the game. Playground Games will also s... View Source

Apple Inc. is naming a new mergers and acquisitions chief, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the latest management change under new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus... View Source

USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing on Thursday, the publisher asks for damages of more than $250 million, alleging OpenAI's unauthorized use of its content "has done real and continuing" harm to its outlets. This is... View Source

For years, illustrators, photographers, designers, and video editors have been held under the thumb of a single software company: Adobe. The infamous Adobe Creative Suite, later rebranded as the Creative Cloud — a change which brought about an end to true offline use — has long dogged creatives with its incredibly high subscription fees, representing an ironclad grip on the world of artists and ot... View Source

Australian data center company Firmus Grid Ltd. is set to postpone its initial public offering, and the company is weighing a private funding round instead, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles on Oct. 8, 2026. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber After more than seven months aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 miss... View Source

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward Claude. Last August, the company announced it would allow Claude... View Source

A fully AI-generated feature film is set to get a theatrical release and has already been rated R, making it the first AI film to be blessed by an official MPA rating. And the studio behind the movie, titled “Gods Don’t Give Gifts,” is even gearing up for an awards push. But whether it looks any better than all the slop that AI art has become known for is up for debate. The film’s creator, the pop... View Source

Oracle Corp. is using a novel power strategy to keep several data centers on track: trucking natural gas directly to the server farms... View Source

The Trump administration is suspending some tech companies, including Microsoft, from an immigration program that lets an employer hire foreign workers that can reside permanently in the US, as reported by Reuters. In a press conference, Vice President JD Vance claimed the permanent labor certification program - intended for use when there aren't "sufficient" US workers available to do a job - has... View Source

Apple Inc. on Thursday confirmed it will hold an Oct. 13 product launch in New York to introduce new smart home products... View Source

3 min read NASA Advances LISA Mission Contributions With New Test Telescope NASA has taken the next step in the process of developing a new all-glass telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, a space observatory designed to detect ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. L3Harris Technologies will design, assemble, and integrate the new telescope for NASA. Calle... View Source

Crew hurried to International Space Station eight months ago after astronaut fell ill in spaceFour astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew.SpaceX brought the US, French and Russian crew back with a splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of Los Angeles. Continue reading... View Source

Apple has just announced a new October event, taking place in New York on October 13th at 9AM ET. The event company is rumored to be launching smart home-focused products this month, and the event invite hints that'll be the case: Apple is using the tagline "Welcome home." Welcome home. October 13. pic.twitter.com/ChelGSDOTI- Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) October 8, 2026 At the event, Apple is rumored t... View Source

The world's largest retailer wants to sell you something else—Internet from space. Amazon has been developing a constellation of satellites to deliver broadband Internet from low-Earth orbit for the better part of a decade, and the company is just about ready to pull back the curtain. It is entering a market that SpaceX, with its Starlink Internet, has dominated for the last half decade. Amazon's... View Source

Winnie Cisar, global head of strategy at CreditSights, says the surge in AI financing is making credit analysis increasingly difficult as investors weigh uncertain returns, potential data center overbuilding and more complex financing structures. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, seated left, and U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, seated right, hold the signed Memorandum of Understanding, “Accelerating American Leadership in Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion,” as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios, looks on, during the Golden Age Summit, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, at the Donald J... View Source

The Retro Song Bird may look similar to devices like Epilogue's GB Operator with a slot on top for Game Boy cartridges, but it's not designed for playing retro games. The featureless box is instead a media player designed to play through all the music and sound effect files on Game Boy cartridges using a basic set of play controls on board for skipping tracks and adjusting the volume of its built-... View Source

For decades, gaming console emulators have allowed tech-savvy users to play their favorite games on officially unsupported devices. While the trend has broadly been confined to older-generation consoles like the Nintendo 64 or GameBoy, hackers are now starting to get even games exclusive to current-generation hardware, like Sony’s PlayStation 5, to run on a PC. Thanks to rapid advancements in emul... View Source

Moove, the Nigerian-founded mobility startup valued at $2.1 billion, plans to exit the African country after Uber Technologies Inc. closed its operations in early September... View Source

Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight, is free to use and runs on macOS using the company's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. Similar to AI note-taking apps like Granola and Wispr Flow, Foresight summarizes your meetings while providing a space wh... View Source

“I’m recording you right now and you probably can’t tell, because there’s no annoying little blinking light on these glasses,” a creator boasting nearly half a million followers declares in an August TikTok video. “I’m gonna be the first one to tell you, go save that $400, and grab some of these from TikTok Shop.” A disclaimer on the video denotes that the creator is “eligible for commission,” mea... View Source

Broadcom is planning its next blockbuster deal after launching a $60 billion debt financing to help fund Anthropic PBC's artificial intelligence build-out. Sarah Frier has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Music is always a major part of a Grand Theft Auto game, and Rockstar Games says GTA VI will have the series' "biggest and widest-ranging selection of in-game radio yet." There will be at least six radio stations players can listen to in vehicles or on foot, ranging from talk radio to classic rock: Cocoteo FM, Back Country Radio, AfroBank FM, The Chamber 106.6, Flash FM, and Dirty South Classics... View Source

In 2024, award-winning singer songwriter Taylor Swift became the victim of a wave of pornographic deepfakes flooding social media feeds. The controversy set the stage for a pandemic of nonconsensual AI-generated nudes, forcing big tech companies into damage control mode and even striking up a political brawl during the runup to the 2024 presidential elections. Even at the time, Swift’s lawyers wer... View Source

David Ellison and his family invested approximately $17 billion to complete Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to public filings. Dylan Sloan reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Wi-Fi connectivity, whisper-quiet loads, and tall-tub capacities maximize your kitchen efficiency—and make hosting a breeze... View Source

It’s always a little awkward when this many deals survive what was supposed to be the “end” of a big Amazon sale. Nevertheless, I’m happy to say that most of the sale’s heaviest-hitting deals are still around — Apple’s discounts on its Mac Mini, MacBook Air, and AirPods Pro 3, plus all of Sony’s current and last-gen flagship headphones, and more. In some cases, prices went up a smidge but are stil... View Source

OpenAI is in talks to raise $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation, with Tiger Global poised for a paper profit of $5 billion. Hema Parmar reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Was it a dice workshop, a healing ritual, or the Roman Empire’s secret casino?... View Source

Alongside its new collection of Alexa Tablets that run Android with full access to the Google Play store, Amazon is introducing kid versions with similar functionality but the ability for parents to limit what software and content they have access to. The Amazon Kids Tablets also come with two different styles of colorful cases featuring characters from Paw Patrol, Barbie, and SpongeBob: a thicker... View Source

AI book scammers are still thriving on Amazon’s marketplace. Just a day after a new book about the AI industry’s race to build a powerful artificial general intelligence hit the shelves, its author Kevin Roose discovered that a scammer was already trying to trick his readers — by using AI. On Amazon, an apparent machine-generated duplicate of the book, titled “The AGI Chronicles,” is freely circul... View Source

New Apple Health features narrow the gap, but people who are serious about fitness shouldn't ditch their purpose-built health trackers yet... View Source

Artifacts from 9,000 feet up are rewriting what we thought we knew about the earliest inhabitants of North America... View Source

The GTA VI leaks keep coming - and the latest is almost as long as the game's official "extended look" on Netflix. Only instead of showing off all the various gameplay details, this one is more of an "extended look" at Jason running around Vice City naked. As Kotaku reports, GTA leaker Cyberleek, who cashed out on a memecoin and seemingly disappeared earlier this year, is back with a new 25-minute... View Source

Fortastra, a Southern California-based startup led by a former SpaceX engineer, has closed a $30 million fundraising round to provide “bodyguards in space” that can help protect civilian and defense satellites... View Source

The 3,000-year-old puzzle points to the exact moment an ancient Chinese capital lost its power... View Source

Spotify has renewed its licensing agreement with Joe Rogan, whose podcast remains the number one show on the platform - and in the world. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the multi-year agreement is valued at around $250 million, allowing new episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience to appear on Spotify and across other platforms each week. The renewal builds on the lucrative relationship betwe... View Source

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. OpenAI has made an eyebrow-raising claim: that teen users can talk to ChatGPT about suicide and other harmful topics for hours before the chatbot notifies their parents. The... View Source

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox unit is formalizing its film and TV foray with a new division focused on expanding the video-game giant’s franchises into other media... View Source