AT&T’s 70%–80% Open-Model Target Needs a Switchboard
AT&T says open models handle about 25% of its AI usage across an average 45 billion tokens a day. Its planned shift toward 70%–80% puts model selection, private data and operating cost inside the same production decision.
OpenAI’s One-Fifth-Price Sol Meets Agent Limits
OpenAI says Sol nearly matches Astra on some work at one-fifth the standard price, but its always-on Dots agents run on Astra. Apple is adding disk-access controls as the FTC examines potential consumer harms.
Cloudflare’s $1,100 Next.js API Rebuild Tests Vercel
A Cloudflare engineer reportedly recreated 94% of the Next.js API in one week for about $1,100 in Claude tokens, while open models supplied 56% of Vercel’s August tokens.
Google Paused Product Reports in Its OSS Bug Bounty
In October 2026, Google paused OSS product-flaw reports but kept supply-chain submissions open; its broader VRP had paid $10 million to 632 researchers in 2023.
OpenAI’s 10GW Ohio Lease Comes Before the Power
AI data center project finance now reaches beyond the building: SB Energy reports 8.8GW contracted or under construction and a $430B backlog, while OpenAI’s 20-year Ohio agreement carries a conditional Nvidia backstop.
Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement
Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service.
David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over
What I'm about to tell you has, I realize, become something of a cliché: I resigned this week from OpenAI.
A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment
Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5
The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link — We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …
Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called “Super Intelligence Force”, to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days
The White House group will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton who will serve as AI czar
Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor
President Donald Trump said Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will assume the newly created role …
Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter
Also: A big update on the touch-screen MacBook Pro. — Apple's John Ternus is spending much of his time overseeing the company's hardware and software design work.
Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums
In a blog post published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says it's already taking around data centers.
Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka “Rey,” was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach
A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee …
Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles “a page for every person in the user's life”, with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more
Millions have downloaded Meta's AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace “artificial” intelligence with “super”
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI …
YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize “original content” and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content
YouTube says it wants to ‘focus on originality’ in a push to surface better Shorts recommendations for users.
A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents
Swarm chasers hunt for clues of bad behavior. Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong.
Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch
The ongoing memory shortage has prompted Nvidia to create a 64GB version of its DGX Spark mini PC, which runs AI models locally. The only problem?
Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash
Following the compute-based usage change in May, Google will soon introduce limits on which Gemini models free users and AI Plus subscribers can access.
Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic …
Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more
VP Hardware for Jalapeño … In June 2026, OpenAI confirmed what the industry had assumed for a year …
A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse
Alexandr Wang drove Muse to the top of the charts, putting the company back in the AI race—even if he ruffled feathers inside the tech giant
Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10%
MANILA — Japanese technology group Toshiba plans to double production capacity for hard-disk drives used in artificial intelligence …
Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM
DUV tools, though not as advanced as EUV, can be adapted to manufacture 7-nm logic chips and advanced memory for AI processors, report says.
As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask
Headlines and History — The headlines keep coming: such and such an AI system has solved such and such a math problem.
Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more
Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow and deliberate about AI.
Elon Musk confirms TSMC discussions on a Terafab deal to supply Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, as TSMC also mulls a Texas presence; Musk didn't elaborate
Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access”
Sources: Schneider Electric is in advanced talks to buy US engineering software firm PTC for ~$20B, its largest acquisition; a deal could come as soon as Monday
Acquisition would be French group's largest and expand its industrial software capability — Schneider Electric is in advanced talks …
Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages
Google and Apple lobbyists are engaged in a massive effort to press state lawmakers to adopt kids' online safety laws …
Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M
The acquisition will give the bank a digital small business platform while accelerating its technology and AI strategy.
Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid
Sources: UK neobank Monzo is in talks with CVC and Advent to sell up to a 15% stake, after Nubank takeover talks collapsed over the ~£10B valuation Monzo sought
Eleven-year-old UK fintech searching for growth capital after bruising year of boardroom tusslesForums:r/monzoForums:r/monzo:Monzo courts private equity after Nubank walks away
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model
The focus of OpenAI's Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined …LinkedIn:Nicholas ArbuckleLinkedIn:Nicholas Arbuckle:Some very inter...
Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture “frontline intelligence”
The business communications startup Relay Inc. says it's trying to capture “frontline intelligence” …
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks
For years, former and current employees of Flipkart pinned their hopes on the Walmart-owned e-commerce major's eventual listing …
DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's “third-party infrastructure arm” after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed
DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data centre investment group will be SoftBank's ‘third-party infrastructure arm’ after $4bn takeover
Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027
Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports — Google has officially suspended product …
Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied “excessive” charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015
British claim over Google Play Store is latest effort to challenge market power of Big Tech groups
Nasdaq-listed neocloud Nebius acquires Inferize, whose tech helps optimize GPU utilization and reduce AI request costs, sources say for $100M to $150M
Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M
A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them
Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders
When Anthropic shared financial figures recently with prospective investors in its planned initial public offering …
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week
and he's seeing it now at Standard CharteredMaximilian Schreiner /The Decoder:Three firings and a fourth departure shake up OpenAI's safety teamArasu Kannagi Basil /Reuters:OpenAI says that as of Sept...