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Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting device had Saudi support says court filing
The Saudi government did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment.
SandboxAQ launches tools to test AI agents and track what they cost
SandboxAQ has added two products to its Switch AI platform. Switch Trust finds a company’s AI agents, tests them for attacks such as prompt injection, and blocks unsafe behaviour.…
Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week
Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month, and it's scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. At the event, Apple is set to announce new Macs and a r…
Nvidia reportedly wants all its HBM suppliers to use TSMC’s 3nm process
Samsung Electronics will make a core part of Nvidia’s custom memory chips on TSMC’s 3-nanometre process. The Seoul Economic Daily reported the move on Sunday, citing industry sour…
US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under a 2018 supply chain secu…
Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indiana
Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. The proposed plant, which would re…
Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a…
TP-Link moves to assemble routers in the US following an import ban
Routers could start rolling off a Missouri production line as soon as early 2027.
Power To The Players Act would make the games you buy yours to own
Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, plans to bring a video game ownership bill to Congress. He announced the Power To The Players Act on 15 October. The bill w…
More premium games hit the App Store this year than last, Apple says
Indie games make up many of the new premium games on the App Store, says Carson Oliver, Apple’s head of App Store Worldwide. More console and PC franchises are also coming to mobi…
Don't throw away your old USB charging cables — Repurpose them instead
The charger from your three-generations-ago phone can still be useful. Here are several ways to use old cables, both indoors and out.
Microsoft fixes game, app crashes caused by recent Windows update
Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused games and apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding to crash after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 preview update (KB5124010…
Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits
Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
One of the rarest GameCube consoles sells for thousands of dollars today
While the GameCube came in several colors, a few of the most elusive variations command thousands from game collectors.
Apple’s last-gen Mac Mini with the M4 is $150 off
Best Buy has a great deal for the rest of the day on the M4 Mac Mini base model that has 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Normally, it doesn’t make a ton of sense to buy the M4 model for…
A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield
All the evidence points to the debris being part of a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket.
Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation so AI assistants can work as a team
Town, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI work assistant, has raised $108m in a Series B that values it at $1bn. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co…
JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running…
Major European mobile carriers are teaming up for a ‘direct’ satellite program without Starlink
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satel…
Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs
Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company …
Microsoft adds tools to limit and monitor AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7
Microsoft has announced new tools to control AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception platform. The tools limit what each agent can reach and tighten those limits …
Elon Musk promises to give one SpaceX share to every child in the US
Elon Musk says he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the US starting next year. With around 72 million children in the US as of July 2025, Musk would be givi…
Emil Michael tells The Information export controls can rein in AI labs
Emil Michael says the US government can use export controls on AI companies that do not cooperate with it. The under secretary of war is the Pentagon’s chief technology officer. H…
Netflix faces engagement questions ahead of Q3 results
Netflix will report its third-quarter results on Tuesday, October 20, as investors look for signs that viewers are spending less time on the service. Analysts expect revenue to ri…