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Google parent Alphabet agreed to buy nuclear power from Constellation Energy Corp. in a 20-year power-purchase agreement that will drive more than $4.3 billion in investments to upgrade systems at 11 Constellation reactors. Bloomberg's Will Wade joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We tested this novel dedicated approach to home backup and found it easy to set up and very reliable... View Source

The Nothing Headphone 1 are among the discounted headsets. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge We spotted a variety of discounted headphones and earbuds during October’s Prime Big Deals Days, with some of our favorite options discounted to at (or near) their all-time low prices. While some deals on Amazon require a Prime subscription, there are plenty that are available to anyone, and other retailer... View Source

Entrepreneur Brett Adcock’s artificial intelligence-focused hardware startup, Hark, introduced a new “proactive” AI app ahead of launching its first devices next year... View Source

NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) Diligent sleuthing by astronomers uncovered a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet. This artist’s concept released on Oct. 5, 2026, depicts that possible explanation. The white dwarf is the “dead” core of a star that burned through all of its nuclear fuel and lost its outer envelope of gas and d... View Source

A magnetic base, adjustable head, carabiner, and USB-C charging make this compact light a handy companion for repairs in awkward places... View Source

With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it'd be reasonable to assume that a device with a microphone or camera is either recording you or it isn't; it's either on or off, without much gray area. Microphones capture sound. Cameras capture images. That data is saved onto a device. Sometimes, it's also se... View Source

Last week, a 28-year-old employee at an anti-plague institute in the Siberian city of Irkutsk died at a regional hospital just two days after mysteriously falling ill. Her unusual occupation drew an international media frenzy, sparking fears over another pandemic. The news sounded just a bit too much like the opening to a cheesy medical horror movie, with US secretary of state Marco Rubio saying t... View Source

As a flight director during NASA's Apollo missions, Gerry Griffin led several lunar landings. He helped bring the crew of Apollo 13 safely back to Earth. Later, he directed Johnson Space Center in Houston. Through these experiences, Griffin learned the value of teamwork in spaceflight—during the dynamic moments that can make or break a successful launch or landing, you absolutely have to trust you... View Source

JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon discusses the issues behind financing the AI boom, the global bond selloff and the state of UK banks. He speaks with Tom Mackenzie at JPMorgan's Tech Stars Conference in London. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Aug. 11, 2026. Scientists are eager to learn more about how the yardang layer formed.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A newly released panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosit... View Source

This is the lowest price we’ve seen on our favorite noise-canceling headphones... View Source

Trump Mobile appears to have suffered a data breach that may have exposed the data of 3,615 people, according to reports from PCMag and Straight Arrow News. The breach reportedly included names, home addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order information. PCMag and Straight Arrow News contacted several individuals in the dataset, who confirmed that the leaked information was accurate. The leaked... View Source

Paramount Skydance closed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, completing one of the biggest media mergers of all time. Hannah Miller reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Normally $169.99, the Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro are discounted to $135.99 during Amazon’s October sale, beating their previous low price of $149.99, and coming in $14 lower than the AirPods 5. While these earbuds stand out for a number of reasons, like great ANC and a handy screen on the charging case, our favorite aspect is the excellent call quality. Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Where to Buy: $169.99 $... View Source

Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound... View Source

American AI companies’ performance lead over China narrowed sharply in past months to a record low after labs such as DeepSeek gained ground, threatening US tech supremacy, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. Willy Lee, Principal at Neostellar, offers his view from the VC world when it comes to AI investments and the IPO market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Leaked images of Google’s upcoming Fitbit Edge shared by Android Headlines. | Image: Android Headlines Following more images of the previously leaked Google Fitbit Edge surfacing a few days ago, new details about the upcoming fitness tracker have been revealed, including potential features and pricing. The Fitbit Edge will reportedly sell for €179 in Europe, and £159 in the UK, according to leaked... View Source

The “fair use” doctrine under the US Copyright Act of 1976 allows for copyrighted materials to be used for purposes like criticism, journalism, and research. Whether something is deemed fair use depends on several factors, including how transformative it is, how much of the work is used, and whether the reproduction alters the market value of the original. It’s the keystone of the AI industry’s le... View Source

Nvidia is nearing a $6 trillion market capitalization as investors return to the AI chipmaker after a disappointing start to the year. Carmen Reinicke reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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The Pixel Watch 5 with a white band. The Google Pixel Watch 5 is discounted by $60 during Amazon’s October sale, with the 41mm version on sale for $334.99, and the 45mm version for $364.99. The latest version of Google’s smartwatch rolled out alongside the Pixel 11 phones in August with improved GPS, gesture controls, and offline Gemini, although we had mixed results ahead of its launch with Googl... View Source

BE Semiconductor Industries NV’s share price doesn’t reflect the threat from fellow Dutch company ASML Holding NV in terms of an advanced chip packaging technique, Bank of America analysts said... View Source

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Paramount has completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, forming a combined company known as Skydance. The merger officially puts Paramount and WBD's film studios, along with major networks and brands like HBO, CBS News, and CNN, under one roof. The road to the media megamerger has been a rocky one for Paramount, which secured an agreement in February after waging a months-l... View Source

August of 2026 was the hottest on record for Africa and North America, resulting in the second-warmest August in the recorded history of planet Earth. Driven by extreme heat, over 62,000 wildfires have burned more than 9 million acres across the United States alone across the past year — well over the 10-year average for the quantity of fires and the average number of acres burned, according to th... View Source

Google was accused of overcharging Android app developers for over a decade, leading to inflated prices on the Play Store for about 20 million UK customers... View Source

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A vanity cover for an ugly smokestack turned the “greatest refrigerator on Earth” into a deadly inferno... View Source

The Emmys have a new home - and it looks like Amazon paid plenty for the rights. The awards show and Amazon announced a six-year deal that will move the Emmys from its traditional broadcast television home to Prime Video. The shift begins with the 2027 ceremony, which will air next September, though you won't actually have to sign up for Prime Video to watch it. The announcement instead says that... View Source

Wayve CEO Alex Kendall discusses the future of driving, the market for autonomous vehicles in the US and China, as well as the possibility of a future IPO. He spoke with Bloomberg TV's Tom Mackenzie on the sidelines of the JPMorgan Tech Stars conference in London. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A dagger tip lodged in her vertebra survived five centuries, but the motive remains a mystery... View Source

The discounted Apple Watch SE 3. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Apple Watch SE 3 is the smartwatch that we recommend for most people because it’s affordable, yet packed with most of the features found in pricier versions. We spotted Amazon October Prime Day discounts across the lineup, including both the 40mm and 44mm sizes, and GPS only or cellular options. The Wi-Fi and GPS mo... View Source

Why shell out for the mundane headshots by a school photographer when you could supercharge your kids’ portrait with the power of AI? That’s a calculation more and more parents are making these days, choosing to tap into generative AI tools like ChatGPT to fast-track school picture day. According to Fast Company, parents are taking to social media to brag up how much AI saved them on their childre... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is buying catering firm ezCater Inc. for $2.3 billion in a cash deal that will help the Uber Eats delivery platform reach a more corporate clientele... View Source

An aerial view of equipment moving fresh sand during an emergency replenishment project along eroding shoreline at North Beach on August 15th, 2024, in San Clemente, California. | Photo: Getty Images A rather strong "planetary wave" recently slammed into South America and is making its way toward California. In case you're worried about headlines warning of the supposedly "freak" phenomenon "bring... View Source

OpenAI is in talks with multiple investment funds from the United Arab Emirates to help anchor a $30 billion round of financing, according to people familiar with the matter. BlackRock is also in discussions to participate in the round. Ruhell Amin reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The labyrinth beneath the Hagia Sophia keeps growing—and one “enigmatic” branch has no clear purpose... View Source

The Pixel 11 Pro’s HiLight feature in action. During Amazon’s October sale, the Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL are discounted by $250 or more. The base model Pixel 11 Pro with 256GB of storage is only $849 (originally $1,099), $50 lower than the usual price for the base Pixel 11, while the 256GB 11 Pro XL is $999, a $300 price break. Even the regular Pixel 11 with 256GB of storage is cheaper, se... View Source

AI-powered software startups are increasingly turning to cheaper open models... View Source

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days (also known as October Prime Day) is here, serving as a precursor to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There are a ton of good deals, and bundling them all into this package is the easiest way to keep the blast of upcoming coverage under control. Below, you’ll find every deal that we think is good enough to warrant its own article, and of course, our huge flagship article... View Source

Faisal Al Bannai, adviser to the President of the United Arab Emirates, speaks with Bloomberg's Alex Dooler at the 'AI Everything' conference in Abu Dhabi. He talks about the launch of a new model of Falcon AI that's more attuned to the Emirati dialect, as well as saying he sees some exciting start-ups in the fields of robotics, driving and security. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event has begun, and it lasts through 3AM ET on Thursday, October 8th. We’ve spun through the company’s huge list of deals to find products that Verge readers will like (and that we personally like, too). There are plenty of headphone deals, plus some great products in the home entertainment space. Also, the discounts are spectacular on Pixel 11 phones, the A17 Pro-equ... View Source

Subscription models may not be enough of a lure... View Source

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Egyptian fintech unicorn MNT-Halan is seeking to raise 7.84 billion pounds ($150 million), in what would be the country’s biggest initial public offering in dollar terms for about five years... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is on the verge of becoming the first company with a $6 trillion market capitalization as investors rotate back into the artificial-intelligence chipmaker... View Source

Australia is stepping up scrutiny of artificial intelligence, with representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google facing questions from a parliamentary inquiry. The hearing comes after OpenAI revealed their technology breached Australian government agencies earlier this year. Director of the AI Institute at the University of New South Wales, Sue Keay joins "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade"... View Source

Confession: When BougeRV told me about its remote-controlled wagon with animated lighting, I called it in for a laugh, expecting to eviscerate it in a review. It's ridiculous, to be sure. But the DuneRover also proved very capable, with enough torque to flatten hills even when carrying over 200 pounds of gear. It can also traverse soft sand that defeats conventional wagons. As someone who regularl... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Lisa Su predicted “very high” chip demand continuing for the next few years, even as the industry faces challenges such as concerns over AI’s safety... View Source

OpenAI on Tuesday reiterated its apology for its artificial intelligence models breaching Australian government websites, pledging to work to prevent similar incidents and to respond faster if they do occur... View Source

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lunch in Hong Kong, or start your day in London or Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Informa Plc agreed to buy Clarion in a deal valued at £2.24 billion ($3 billion) including debt, establishing the British company as one of the largest business-to-business events operators... View Source

DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan ($12 billion) in its latest round of funding, blowing past its own capital-raising target ahead of a landmark initial public offering in early 2027... View Source

Citigroup Inc. took top spot for underwriters in global initial public offerings for the year through September after working on some of the biggest share sales in Asia and the US... View Source

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Bloomberg's Paul Allen reports from Sydney after OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon apologized to an Australian parliamentary inquiry following an unauthorized breach of a government site by an AI agent. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 6 – A… 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. ESA, CAS, SMILE, UVI A Complete Auroral Oval from SMILE Explanati... View Source

Seagate Technology Holdings Plc and Toshiba Corp. are locked in a contest for TDK Corp.’s magnetic-heads business for hard-disk drives, as the two rivals try to keep pace with demand for AI data-center storage devices... View Source

Kuaishou Technology’s Kling AI has picked banks for a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise at least $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Alex Mashrabov, CEO of Video AI Start up Higgsfield, discusses the company's path to achieving generate annualised revenue of more than $1 billion, based on current performance. He also discusses the company's growth and business strategies for APAC markets. He speaks exclusively with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

US Republican Senator for Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, discusses his visit to Japan, as he leads a delegation to discuss bilateral investment opportunities, after the US and Japan reached a $500B investment trade deal earlier this year. He speaks with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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San Diego County has filed a lawsuit against mobile advertising technology company AppLovin Corp., alleging that it bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children... View Source

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Allan Gray Australia Ltd. is favoring stocks related to beaten-down office landlords, expecting the sector to rebound as investors overestimate the threat artificial intelligence poses to demand for office space... View Source

Jim Chalmers, Australian Treasurer, says higher global bond yields will put pressure on the Australian budget as the widespread selloff pushes debt refinancing costs higher. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With mounting pressure on AI labs to curb the many real-world harms their products cause consumers, it’s never been clearer that they’re monitoring users’ conversations. Just ask Carli Michelle Heller, a woman arrested in Bonita Springs, Florida after allegedly telling Anthropic’s chatbot Claude about her plan to “shoot up” a nearby sheriff’s office. According to WINK News, Heller was charged with... View Source

The next wave of artificial intelligence debt financing is taking off in Asia... View Source

Los chips de IA de la empresa siguen llegando a China a pesar de las restricciones estadounidenses. Las autoridades se preguntan por qué la empresa no detectó las señales de alerta... View Source

With the release of Meta’s buzzy Muse AI agent, there’ve been plenty of concerns over the amount of privacy and control Meta wants you to cede so it can serve as your “personal assistant. It seems that even its own employees are worried. Before launching the AI agent, engineers found a security vulnerability that could’ve allowed Muse users to break into Meta’s own databases and services and acces... View Source

A cybersecurity breach last year of Oracle Corp.’s healthcare unit compromised personal information belonging to nearly 20 million people, according to information released by the Texas attorney general... View Source

Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include "Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late" and "Call John and ask if he is coming for dinner." Based on those examples, even with this expans... View Source

DayOne Data Centers Ltd. filed for a US initial public offering, setting the Singapore-headquartered firm up to capture investors’ resilient demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Meta’s platforms have become an abominable cesspit of AI slop, ranging from violent child abuse to ultra-patriotic engagement bait. We could go on and on about Meta’s dismal failure to moderate its platforms. More telling is where it does focus its efforts: the company apparently has set its sights on the LGBTQ community after censoring the accounts of two gay bars in Austin, Texas. Both of the In... View Source

The inaugural VivaTech x Bloomberg Awards ceremony, hosted by Bloomberg Television’s Francine Lacqua and Tom Mackenzie, was held on June 18, 2026, at the VivaTech conference in Paris, celebrating seven global leaders and innovators shaping the future of technology. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members gather for a portrait in the pressure suits they will wear when they depart the International Space Station inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. From left, Roscosmos cosmonaut and mission specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Crew-12 pilot and commander respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and mission specialist... View Source

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Tiffany McGhee, CEO and CIO of Pivotal Advisors, described the market as resilient but still sensitive to interest rates. Ahead of earnings season, which begins Tuesday the 13th, she said investors will focus on whether companies can demonstrate monetization of their AI investments, as well as whether geopolitical tensions are affecting individual businesses. She speaks with Scarlet Fu & Hema... View Source

Conscious experience may come from deep-brain circuits that vertebrates have shared for 500 million years—meaning somewhere, the fish may have feelings... View Source

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it's also now the first to escape the FCC's Roomba ban. Well, sort of - because the Matic wasn't banned to begin with. Here's what's actually happening: On October 2nd, the FCC added the original Matic, model 4MA0001, and its charging dock model 4DK0008 to its ban waiver list. That allows the FCC to approve these radio products for import, m... View Source

C.H. Robinson is set to acquire RXO’s trucking brokerage business in a deal valued at about $5.8 billion. CEO and President Dave Bozeman said the combination would bring together C.H. Robinson’s global multimodal, freight brokerage and forwarding operations with RXO’s North American brokerage, last-mile and expedited services. He speaks with Scarlet Fu & Hema Parmar on "The Close." (Source: Bl... View Source

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It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updated in ways to completely change the original game. Ever imagined skateboarding in Call of Duty? Or playing the original Halo right in your web browser, complete with multiplayer?  ... View Source

OpenAI is in talks with multiple investment funds from the United Arab Emirates, including Abu Dhabi-based MGX, to help anchor a $30 billion round of financing for the ChatGPT maker, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Yes, magnetic models are a bit less expensive, but a few extra dollars go a long way toward convenience and reliability... View Source

Pinterest Inc. has appointed Amazon veteran James Dibbo to lead its finance team as the platform works to reposition itself as a creative alternative to other social media sites... View Source

It includes 24 tools and accessories—some of which are exclusive to the set—made for DIYers and fans of the brand... View Source

People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze acne severity and autonomously write a prescription, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The service is launching as a pilot program with gradually loosening physician oversight. Two... View Source

Scientists believe that the massive ball of hydrogen and helium at the center of our star system was born some 4.5 billion years ago, allowing life on Earth to flourish billions of years later. And while conventional models suggest the Sun will meet its final demise when it grows into a red giant and collapses to form a white dwarf some six billion years from now, the fate of its surviving planets... View Source

Companies are spending billions on AI, but actually getting it into production remains a major challenge. Insight Partners sees forward-deployed engineers as part of the solution: embedding directly with customers to turn AI into working products and workflows. Insight Partners Operating Partner Pablo Dominguez joins to discuss why the firm is launching a dedicated practice to help its portfolio c... View Source

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, "unsuccessful attempts" to "exploit" the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundati... View Source

Reflection AI, an artificial intelligence startup from two former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled a new open-weight model that it says rivals leading options in the US and China... View Source

This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are moving fast and breaking things, barreling through the discipli... View Source

Since the development of the lethal injection protocol by Oklahoma lawmakers in 1977, states across the US have adopted the method, presenting it as an effective, even humane alternative to the barbarity of the noose and the electric chair. Yet after 1492 executions — the total number of lethal injections in the US so far, as indexed by the Death Penalty Information Center — it’s become clear that... View Source

Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas discuss the new Bloomberg Intelligence tool 'Blue Horseshoe' on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." The new "Blue Horseshoe" tool lets Bloomberg Terminal users see which stocks the biggest active managers ('Big Active') are buying and selling every day on an aggregate basis. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The infamous Donation of Constantine was a medieval deepfake, and 10 popes used it to expand their domain... View Source

Hyundai CEO José Muñoz, center, doesn’t think his company needs a strategy to combat Chinese imports. | Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge There's been a lot of doom and gloom from the auto industry lately when the subject of China comes up. Automaker CEOs, in particular, warn that allowing low-cost, high-tech Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in the US would effectively spell the end of thei... View Source

NEA partner Tiffany Luck says any slowdown in development at the AI frontier doesn’t have to slow adoption across the economy. She argues increasingly powerful models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others are already well ahead of enterprise deployment, leaving a major opportunity for companies that can turn raw intelligence into real-world workflows and measurable returns. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Blo... View Source

NASA/Thalia Patrinos NASA astronaut and mission specialist of the agency’s Artemis II mission, Christina Koch, leads the fans in singing the Eagles Fight Song from the field at an NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Rams at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, in Philadelphia. NASA’s engagement at NFL games is part of the agency’s Inspiration Tour, aimed at str... View Source

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An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic made the move to meet the requirements... View Source

Under 1 million years old, “Elias 2-24b” is now the youngest exoplanet ever observed, and it may force researchers to reevaluate theories about how planets are formed... View Source

How are you deciding who to vote for in the coming midterm elections? Many Americans are turning to ChatGPT. In a new piece, NPR spoke to several voters who use the OpenAI chatbot to research candidates and get a rundown on their voting records. Some are asking the AI to create spreadsheets on different races or to verify or debunk viral claims. One even used AI to create an entire website for ret... View Source

Apple's new CEO is putting his own stamp on the company and making design a much bigger priority. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman discusses how John Ternus is taking a hands-on role as Apple prepares a wave of new products in this week's Power On newsletter - also now a podcast. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The biggest near-term change in SpaceX’s business is happening already and will be obvious over the next few months. They are completing some of the largest AI data centers on Earth. In my latest video, I examine the Macrohard, Macroharder and Minihard buildout—and why a construction cycle measured in months could make conventional revenue forecasts ... Read more... View Source

CH Robinson agreed to buy trucking brokerage firm RXO Inc. in a deal centered around a bet that artificial intelligence can help the companies improve efficiency in a challenging freight market. Through a cash-and-stock transaction valued at about $5.8 billion, CH Robinson aims to diversify its business and capitalize on RXO’s abilities in expedited and last-mile delivery. CH Robinson, which has b... View Source

The case raises chilling questions about engineered pathogens and biodefense secrecy... View Source

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff" with AI, without elaborating on the potential benefits. His comments come as OpenAI pushe... View Source

Maggie Fanari, chief executive officer of J. Rothschild Capital Management and an Anthropic investor, says the AI company can continue creating value after going public as it compounds growth over the long term. She also views Anthropic’s focus on AI safety as a strength, arguing that technological development and safeguards need to advance together. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source... View Source

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An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she'd like to "move on" to another topic. The interruption came shortly after Guiducci asked Altman if he knew who Laura... View Source

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t afraid to throw humanity under the bus to build his dreams of a society powered by AI. During an interview with Politico‘s new podcast Decoded, he laid it all out: that the “world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.” That, in Altman’s view, is what sets the ChatGPT maker apart from the competition — m... View Source

The world's tech billionaires made a combined $845 billion through Sept. 30. US tech billionaires make up 36% of the newly relaunched Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Elon Musk tops the list. Bloomberg's Dylan Sloan reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Today, I’m talking with Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology — it’s all there. I really wanted to ask him about how we might regulate anything related to the tech industry at this moment in time. Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free... View Source

Elon Musk confirmed that TSMC and his companies are discussing a possible chipmaking partnership in Texas. The project could make TSMC a supplier to Tesla, SpaceX and xAI. Carmen Reinicke has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

3 Min Read NASA Testing Aims at Supercooled Large Droplet Aviation Safety Ice collection seen on un-heated sections of the 1D2D-X ice drop detection probe in the test section of the IRT (Icing Research Tunnel). Drop Size Probe testing – SFD (Subsonic Flight Demonstrator) of SLD (Supercooled Large Drop) Instrumentation Test in IRT (Icing Research Tunnel) – Particle Size Distribution Entry, June 8-1... View Source

Nvidia's Shield TV streaming boxes are the latest victims of the memory shortage that has seen prices increase dramatically for everything from digital cameras to game consoles. When the Shield TV Pro launched nearly seven years ago with an upgraded Tegra X1+ processor, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, it sold for $199.99. But starting on October 2nd Nvidia increased its price by $100 to $299.99 a... View Source

Bloomberg's Liana Baker discusses Schneider Electric’s roughly $23 billion cross-border acquisition of software firm PTC, describing it as the French company’s largest deal and a strategic push into industrial software. She speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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It’s one of the biggest hoards of its kind ever found in Germany, worth roughly six years of a Roman soldier’s savings... View Source

Really the only negative associated with the new M6-powered Mac Mini is its high price. While the last-gen model debuted at just $599, the faster, but mostly unchanged 2026 edition starts at $899 — except for right now. You can grab the base model that has 256GB of storage, 16GB RAM, and a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU for $779.99 at Amazon. This is one of many October Prime Day deals that recently... View Source

CNN CEO Mark Thompson will remain at the head of the news network when Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition closes this week. Thompson wrote in a memo to employees that he believes the combined company will "fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood for," according to a report from The New York Times. The news comes as... View Source

For many years now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been adamant that self-driving cars don’t need radar or the laser-based imaging tech known as LIDAR, arguing that they can instead get by exclusively with a camera-based system. He’s called LIDAR a “fool’s errand,” going as far as to claim that it and radar “reduce safety due to sensor contention.” But in 2026, Tesla’s competitors in the self-driving spa... View Source

Getting some extra storage space on your Mac could be as easy as deleting Apple's AI features with a new open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple Intelligence, but that was removed in macOS 27. Now, the models stay on your disk, and the features are split up across different settings panes. As spotted earlier by MacRumors, the... View Source

OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you generate images with ChatGPT, according to an announcement on Monday. The company first brought ads to ChatGPT in February. Until now, ChatGPT's ads only showed a company's name, logo, and a link to its pr... View Source

TCL’s P80 Ultra is its first Nxtpaper phone with an OLED screen. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge I've spent most of the last couple weeks using an otherwise unexceptional midrange Android phone with one amazing feature: a matte OLED display. That screen is by far the best thing about the TCL P80 Ultra, and weirdly, it's made me more excited for the iPhone Duo and its matte inner display. 2023... View Source

The defense contractor’s development unit is key to the company’s future success... View Source

AI brings a staggering new peak in wealth – and signs we just passed it... View Source

This Asus Googlebook is one of the Intel models that may have issues. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Google has waited until the day its new Googlebook laptops hit the market to admit that Intel-based models may have issues running some Android apps. Before now, Google has emphasized that the Android-based Googlebooks give owners access to the "entire Play Store library" of apps, alo... View Source

European defense startups raised a record amount of capital this year, turning to US investors more than local funds for the first time... View Source

Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, "The thought of every age is reflected in its technique." For the past century, our thought has been reflected in our computers, including by those in the AI industry. Google's Demis Hassabis calls the brain "a biological approximation to a Turing machine." Elon Musk puts it more bluntly, declaring that "people should just think of the brain as... View Source

Qualcomm Inc. has agreed to license patents underpinning Huawei Technologies Co.’s novel LogicFolding chipmaking technique, a win for the Chinese company and its push to advance in overseas AI markets... View Source

BT Group Plc bought TalkTalk and PlatformX Communications Ltd. out of administration, preventing the collapse of a UK broadband provider that is also a major customer... View Source

A measured European Central Bank response is appropriate to control inflation as policymakers assess how a second wave of the energy shock affects the economy, according to Chief Economist Philip Lane... View Source

We all know that Treasury yields have been surging, alongside bond yields all around the world. So what explains the selloff and does it mean that bonds are becoming fundamentally riskier? What happens if investors can no longer hedge stocks with government debt? And how do expectations of the Federal Reserve's "reaction function" fit in? In this episode, we speak with Carolin Pflueger, associate... View Source

Nvidia Corp. partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue, signaling sustained and elevated spending on global AI infrastructure... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s price-to-earnings multiple and projected 70% earnings growth for next year demonstrate that artificial intelligence-driven technology stocks remain far from bubble territory, DBS Group Chief Investment Officer Hou Wey Fook said... View Source

Denmark suffered a major data breach that gave unauthorized individuals access to names, addresses and personal identification numbers belonging to about 8.8 million people registered in the country’s central population database... View Source

DBS Group Chief Investment Officer Hou Wey Fook says AI-led earnings growth continues to underpin major technology stocks while investment-grade bonds yielding above 5% offer an attractive source of income and portfolio stability. He joined Bloomberg's Insight with Haslinda Amin (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Schneider Electric said it is acquiring US-based engineering software developer PTC for an implied enterprise value of $23.7 billion. The French conglomerate will buy PTC for $205 per share in an all-cash deal. Bloomberg's Manuel Baigorri breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 5 – M104:… 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. M104: The Sombrero Galaxy’s Tidal Streams Explanation: A deep... View Source

The planet looks like a moderately bright, creamy-white object and is easily visible to the naked eyeThis week offers an excellent opportunity to track down Saturn. The giant planet, situated about 10 times further from the sun than the Earth, reached opposition on 4 October. In this configuration, Earth is passing almost directly between the planet and the sun.This makes opposition an excellent t... View Source

Merryn Somerset Webb talks with Alex Edmans, author of "The Madness of Markets: Why Smart Investors Make Crazy Decisions – And How to Exploit Them," about why even sophisticated investors struggle to overcome the psychological biases that shape their decisions. Markets are driven by humans, and humans are emotional. Edmans explains how understanding the influence of emotion, herd behavior and over... View Source

Roy Larke, Co-founder at consultancy JapanConsuming, discusses the outlook and challenges facing Japan's retail and consumer sector. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Malaysia plans to introduce its first dedicated artificial intelligence law in early 2027, as governments worldwide step up efforts to regulate the technology that’s drawing growing scrutiny over its risks and potential misuse... View Source

Southeast Asia plus China, Japan and South Korea are more at risk than most economies to any potential collapse in the artificial-intelligence boom, which could trigger shocks across financial markets and the real economy... View Source

Speaking at a tech forum in Kyoto, Masayoshi Son called for global cooperation on AI safeguards, warning that superintelligence could pose a greater threat than conflict between humans if misused. Bloomberg tech editor Mayumi Negishi said the caution marks a notable shift in tone from the longtime technology optimist, though Son remains strongly bullish on AI. He estimates AI machines could accoun... View Source

The tech industry has largely failed to win over the public when it comes to AI. Data centers have become a hot-button topic, with the vast majority of Americans — in a still-growing bipartisan cohort — now openly opposing them. Meanwhile, panicking executives are desperately trying to pivot the messaging to shore up some support, in last-ditch efforts that aren’t proving fruitful. As such, Amazon... View Source

Ellison has to pay down billions in debt while also investing in a streaming build-out... View Source

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Canada’s largest Canadian energy project now is the Churchill Falls–Gull Island package in Labrador. It is nearly $70 billion and the largest clean-energy investment in North American history. This will be about 14,000 MW of clean power across the package. It is the existing Churchill Falls plus new hydro and wind nearly tripling Churchill Falls. ... Read more... View Source

American AI companies’ performance lead over China narrowed sharply in past months to a record low after labs such as DeepSeek gained ground, threatening US tech supremacy, according to Bloomberg Intelligence... View Source

We don't know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. It had leaked previously, but we can clearly see in these images posted by Android Headlines, you can see that Google's rumored fitness tracker sort of splits the difference between the Pixel Watch and the Fitbit Air. It has a small screen that is able to display some widgets, but clearly isn't... View Source

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned that artificial intelligence could become too powerful for humans to control, will testify Monday at a New York City Council hearing alongside representatives of some of the world’s biggest AI companies... View Source

While deep in the recording process for The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor lent some of his production talents to old friend Kevin McMahon, from the new wave band Lucky Pierre (which Reznor was briefly a member of). While Reznor is only credited as the producer on four tracks off Prick's self-titled debut record, his fingerprints are all over it. But McMahon also can't suppress his inner theater ki... View Source

Cybercriminals who appear to be Chinese hackers pretended to be Anthropic researchers and former government officials in a scheme to obtain information about American AI development, according to a report from the Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. Per the report, the allegedly China-aligned hacking group, dubbed “TA419,” impersonated AI industry professionals and even an ex-White House... View Source

“I want to be able to look at a rocket launch and say, ‘I touched a piece of this.’” That’s how Richard Spolzino describes the thing he’s chasing. Not a title, not a specific mission, not even NASA itself, just the ability to point at something real and know his work made it possible. At NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, Spolzino works within Moon Base’s mission architecture and... View Source

SpaceX Falcon 9 is roughly 15–18 t to LEO in reusable mode and ~23 t expendable, with boosters routinely flying 20+ times and the fleet doing dozens of launches per year. Falcon 9 has had 160-170 launches per year in 2025 and likely in 2026. This is about 2500-3000 tons per year. No other rocket ... Read more... View Source

The next time you find yourself paying way more than what’s warranted for McDonald’s decidedly mid-tier burgers, you may have more to blame than just faceless executives. According an investigation by Reuters, the fast food chain is using AI models to determine its menu prices across the US, with the system creating an estimate of how much each store’s customers are willing to pay. (Its alarming d... View Source

There are not many rockets or similar rockets in a family of rockets that get to over 20 launches in a year. It is over more rare to get to over 50 launches in a year from any number of launch pads. The SpaceX Falcon 9 is the only rocket to get to over 50 ... Read more... View Source

Trying to divine why certain people gravitate toward a particular political orientation can be a fool’s errand, with so many factors influencing ideology that it can make your head spin. However, one sociology researcher wanted to understand why Christian nationalists think the way they do, and the results of his work aren’t particularly flattering for right wing evangelicals. The study, published... View Source

There’s no AI company in the world more obsessed with the idea that their models may be conscious than Anthropic. According to new reporting from the New York Times, the company has for months been wining and dining religious scholars across the world in secret, NDA-secured meetings to convince them that AI models think and feel, too.  Anthropic even reportedly went after the most iconic of all re... View Source

Schwab Head of Macro Research and Strategy Kevin Gordon tells Bloomberg This Weekend that AI-related technology stocks are supporting the broader market even as many individual companies have suffered significantly larger declines, highlighting increasingly narrow market leadership. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Gordon says a gradual Federal Reserve tightening cycle and a l... View Source

October 1st, 2026 Google in partnership with planet labs launched a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. This launch is the first step of Project Suncatcher. Google is working long-term to one day host scalable machine learning infrastructure in space. Over the coming weeks, in-orbit data will be gathered ... Read more... View Source

Dale Caldwell, former lieutenant governor for New Jersey. | Bloomberg via Getty Images New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to clear his name. But he took a particularly odd tactic... View Source

Are kids getting too soft these days, coddled by iPads and AI chatbots? In New York City, the Wall Street Journal reports, some parents are sending their children to the ultimate screen-free experience: a junkyard playground called “The Yard” where they’re let off the leash and free to do proper adolescent activities like roll around in mud, scrape their knees — and, of course, screw around with r... View Source

The OhSnap Wallet 2. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge This toolless modular lever-action wallet is the coolest I've stuck to my phone. Remember when I tested the ultra-thin and convenient OhSnap Snap Grip Stand and liked it so much I bought my own? Now, OhSnap has a magnetic lever-action card wallet that can stack with that stand. It's the coolest wallet I've ever stuck to my phone. @verge Th... View Source

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, it couldn't quite get an edge... View Source

Recently unredacted legal documents and depositions in the New York Times‘ lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI revealed something extraordinary: executives knew full well of the destructive powers of AI when they rushed to launch products featuring the tech in the wake of the explosive success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Internal Microsoft documents quoted by the newspaper’s lawyers warned of an ugly re... View Source

Google didn't even call the first Chromebook a "Chromebook." The Cr-48 had no interesting design and no bright logos - it wasn't even designed to be a product you could buy. Instead, it was a portal to a big new idea about computers. In this week's episode of Version History, The Verge's Nilay Patel and MKBHD's Marques Brownlee join David Pierce to help explain the history of ChromeOS and Chromebo... View Source

Also: A big update on the touch-screen MacBook Pro... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the collapse and the resurgence of the portable media player, follow Terrence O'Brien. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started We are spoiled for choice, musically. Most of us walk around with access to hundreds of m... View Source

Actual footage of warfare is horrific enough. But now that AI slop floods every social media feed on the web, we get to experience the trauma and propaganda of war regurgitated from the bowels of generative AI, all in a cynical search for likes and follows. When generative AI was in its infancy back in 2024, we covered the rise of pandering ultra-patriotic slop on social media. Those posts were cr... View Source

Bloomberg Pursuits Senior Features Writer Thu-Huong Ha tells Bloomberg This Weekend about spending 48 hours in Singapore without relying on a smartphone, navigating a city where transportation, payments, dining and government services are deeply integrated with digital technology. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Ha says the experiment required more patience and effort but als... View Source

Apple’s iPad Mini is temporarily on sale for its old price. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge Apple bumped up prices on several of its devices in June, and we haven’t seen a good discount on the iPad Mini since. Just ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Big Deals Days, however, both Wi-Fi only and cellular-connected models are $100 off. The Wi-Fi version with 128GB of storage is currently $499, the 256... View Source

The “Super Intelligence Force” will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Andrew Ferguson, President Donald Trump says on Truth Social... View Source

AirPods Pro 3 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good discount on the Apple AirPods Pro 3, but like the latest iPad Mini and the M5 MacBook Airs, a great one is happening now for October Prime Day. You can snag a pair of the noise-canceling earbuds that include five ear tip sizes, live translation, and fantastic sound for $179 at Amazon (originally $... View Source

There are few actors who would seem a more unlikely candidate to undergo a typical Hollywood style body transformation — complete with a press blitz with articles explaining their 4,000 calories per day diets and videos detailing their strangely convoluted workouts — than comedian Pete Davidson, who looks like he just rolled out the bed half the time. Still, whatever you may think about the guy, a... View Source

Pictured: The 15-inch Apple MacBook Air. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Amazon’s October Prime Day has effectively chopped off Apple’s June price increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip and 512GB of storage is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. That’s a more palatable price for a machine that’s significantly faster than Apple’s $699 MacBook Neo. The 15-inch ver... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 146, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, it's October already?, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I'm wishing I could do Walmart potato drone delivery in Portland, watching Mike Tomlin explain his incredible Minecraft city, pondering if the Gears of War pizza cu... View Source

The credit rating firm Egan-Jones hears all the serious talk about an AI murder spree apocalypse and raises a mundane, financial one. In a commentary bluntly titled “It’s Over,” the firm proclaimed that AI is about to obliterate the collective hyperstition and capitalist long con commonly known as “the economy.” “AI has advanced so far that the complete disruption of the economy is all but certain... View Source

Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,  data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. chief Masayoshi Son — one of AI’s fervent believers — said that even he’s worried about safety risks as machines quickly gain more abilities... View Source

A global network of detectors are reporting some of the most substantial measurements yet of neutrinos created deep underground by the radioactive elements that power our planet’s tectonic activity... View Source

The UK’s dependence on big American cloud providers poses “a strategic and economic vulnerability” to the country, politicians warned, as US authorities have the power to switch off Britain’s public services or demand personal information under federal law... View Source

South Korean regulators urged financial institutions to promptly complete internal security inspections and report the results to authorities after a series of cyberattacks led to personal data breaches across the industry... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 4 –… 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. Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey Explanation: Yes, but can yo... View Source

A new White House task force will produce a report assessing risks posed by artificial intelligence and what responsibility the US federal government should have over the technology, the Wall Street Journal reported... View Source

In 2026, anybody can cultivate a massive social media following doing anything their heart desires — and that’s not necessarily a good thing. For a case in point, look no further than a recent Reel from holistic health influencer Matt Roeske. First spotted by the publication Reality Check, the clip features Roeske promoting radioactive water as a long-forgotten panacea, supposedly shut down by the... View Source

Brought together by Trump’s funding cuts, Julia Van Etten and her rag tag team of biologists pursued their research in a motel room. And it was out of this makeshift lab that they made an incredible discovery: two new microscopic organisms that may be crucial to tracing the origins of life, the New York Times reports. The organisms are an elusive single-celled microbe called Paulinella. Including... View Source

A completely innocent couple in Lexington, Kentucky was thrust into the middle of a violent police operation last weekend — after officers used data from Flock cameras to build an extremely tenuous lead while investigating a case of road rage. According to the local LEX18 News, Will Penn and Robin Pen were shocked when police surrounded their home at 4:00am last Saturday, guns drawn and floodlight... View Source