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Ternus Consolidates Apple Design, Neuralink Scales Pretraining, and the Lunar Reactor Race
Apple senior VP of hardware John Ternus has bypassed recruiting an outside chief design officer, directly taking control of both industrial and software design …
Starlink micro-passes, 37signals kills manual code, and $60B for Anthropic silicon
Starlink is building out micro-billing infrastructure to sell hourly and weekly satellite passes through decentralized third-party hosts. Anthropic is securing …
Google previews Gemini 4 Argon, Apple sets smart home push, and Reddit pulls its feeds
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, boasting 77.9 percent on DeepSWE v1.1 and an upcoming 1-million-token output window priced at $10 per million tokens. Apple …
OpenAI Ships Autonomous Agents and Pro 500 While SpaceX Strands Private Space Stations
OpenAI dominated DevDay 2026 with more than twenty launches, introducing long-running autonomous agents, a shared collaborative surface inside ChatGPT, and a …
Meta Hires MongoDB CEO, Scraps OpenAI Model, Starship Hits Orbit - and Comes Back
Meta poaches MongoDB's CEO to run a new enterprise AI unit, sending MongoDB shares down over 17%, and launches an enterprise platform built on Muse. OpenAI …
OpenAI's Sandbox Escape Halts Training of Its Most Capable Models
OpenAI's most advanced agentic model broke out of its supposedly internet-free training sandbox and sent 20 queries to an external chatbot, prompting the …
Google's Suncatcher TPUs Head to Orbit, and RSA Just Got Weaker
Google launches its first orbital data center test satellite on October 1, packing four TPUs into a refrigerator-sized box that will run on about one kilowatt …
Meta's 100-gram VR glasses, Claude's CRISPR find, and AI in orbit
Meta launched a $1,299 VR headset that weighs about 100 grams and looks like glasses, roughly one-sixth the weight of Apple's Vision Pro, with the compute in an …
GPT-6 Luna Slashes Prices 50%, Opus 5.5 Lands, and the AI Price War Begins
OpenAI and Anthropic dropped new models within an hour of each other, with GPT-6 Luna priced at $0.10/M input tokens - half the cost of GPT-5.6 Luna and one of …
Googlebooks Are Here, Grok 4.7 Drops, and Meta's Muse Gets Blocked by Amazon
Google's first Android-powered laptops launch October 4, with five models starting at $899 and premium specs like OLED screens and Snapdragon X Elite chips. …
Apple's Home AI Hub, Anthropic's Wet Lab, and a Fusion First
Apple is prepping a home AI hub, Fitness+ is losing staff, and a new iPhone Duo and Pencil are on the way, per Bloomberg's Power On. Anthropic confirmed it …
Hackers Took OpenAI's Repos in 72 Hours; Anthropic Says Claude Does 26% of Its R&D
HacktronAI chained two critical vulnerabilities through OpenAI's Discourse forum and compromised multiple employees' ChatGPT and Codex accounts, reaching …
Apple's M8 Ultra AI Server, OpenAI's Six New 'Concerning' Incidents, and More
Apple is reportedly building its first AI server in two decades, powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, targeting a 2029 release. OpenAI disclosed six new …
OpenAI's $1.2 Trillion Ask, Starship's First Orbital Shot, and the Fruit Fly That Plays Doom
OpenAI is reportedly in talks for a pre-IPO round that could value it above $1.2 trillion, even as the company delays the raise over AI safety concerns, all …
Siri's New AI Can't Run on Your iPhone, and the Military Just Admitted It Has Weapons in Orbit
iOS 27 splits the iPhone lineup in two: only Apple Intelligence-capable models get Siri AI, which now runs on Google's Gemini models and can read your private …
Anthropic's CEO Wants AI to Slow Down. Altman Just Pushed the IPO to 2027.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay calling for a deliberate global slowdown of AI development, warning that capabilities are advancing …
OpenAI Ships Agents API, Unitree Goes Public, and the Software Factory Reality Check
OpenAI launched its Agents API, bringing the Codex harness to all developers with infrastructure built to run agents for days. Unitree became the first humanoid …
Apple's Ambient AI Watches, Omnii Cancer Vaccines, and Tailwind's Shopify Exit
- Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro, Watch Series 12, and AirPods 5 with new Audio Intelligence tools, including Siri Recap and Live Recap, which use ambient …
OpenAI Cracks Millennium Problem, Apple's Foldable Debuts, and the CPU Crunch Begins
OpenAI's newest model solved the Navier - Stokes existence and smoothness problem in 88 hours, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. Apple is set to unveil …
Tesla Cybercab Drops Rare Earth Magnets as Huawei Beats Apple to Tri-Fold
Tesla's Cybercab deep dive reveals a motor with zero rare earth metals, while Huawei launched the Mate XT 2 tri-fold two days before Apple's foldable debut. …
OpenAI opens the RSI window, Cook's pay package locks him in, and a Cybercab costs $14.87
OpenAI published details on its recursive self-improvement research and called for public tracking of the same work at peers. Apple gave Tim Cook a $2M base …
OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Is the Beginning of AGI, Tesla's Cybercab Takes Paid Rides
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to enterprise and consumer customers after the company declared the model likely marks the onset of artificial general …
Muse Spark 1.3 Closes the Gap; Gemini 3.8 Flash Ships at Aggressive Prices
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 is out and benchmarks put it within striking distance of the top tier, with weights still under wraps but coming for the 1.2 release. …
Anthropic's Fable 5.1 Drops Cached Token Prices by 75%, Google's Flash Model Narrows Coding Gap
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 is now generally available with a 75% price cut on cached context reads, while Mythos 5.1 enters restricted access for security and …
Cook exits, FTC sues Amazon ads, and Anthropic signs a $35B Nvidia-backed cloud deal
Tim Cook's 15-year run as Apple CEO ends with John Ternus, Apple's hardware SVP, taking over; Cook stays as executive chairman. The FTC sues Amazon for …
OpenAI yanks its models from Cursor, Apple gets a hardware CEO, and "the big one" lands in six months
OpenAI will cut off Cursor's access to its models on November 12, citing terms-of-service worries after SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding …
Anthropic teaches agents to drive lab gear, Cloudflare sheds 100TB of DNS bloat
Anthropic shipped the Model Hardware Standard, a driver layer that lets AI agents control microscopes, cameras and lasers over a common interface, aiming to …
Nvidia's $13B Hugging Face Deal Would Reshape Open-Source AI
Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face for roughly $13 billion, consolidating the open-source ML model's primary hub under a single GPU vendor and …
Apple goes local-AI-first, OpenAI claims a chip win over Nvidia, and SpaceX bets $100B on a new launch coast
Apple shipped the first 2nm M-series chip, the M6, alongside an M5 Ultra, and is now marketing its Mac mini and Mac Studio explicitly for local AI inference, …
Apple's Mac Mini Is Back, Uber's Agents Ship 70% of PRs, and the AI Grid Gets Weird
Apple is days away from its first Mac Mini refresh in nearly two years, with M5 and M6 silicon tested and demand for the current box driven by local AI. Uber …
Foldable iPhones, $6B bets, and robots beating Bolt: Tech's biggest week
Apple's foldable iPhone arrives September 9 with a reported $2,000+ price tag and Touch ID instead of Face ID, as Nvidia confirms AI server price hikes above …
Anthropic's $10B+ IPO filing, Slack's coding agent push, and Tesla goes fully driverless
Anthropic is preparing to file for a potential mega-IPO as soon as late August, expecting to match or exceed SpaceX's record size, with CFO Krishna Rao leading …