• Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
• Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths
• Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.
• A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring
• Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails
• Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet
• Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
• RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
• The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers
• Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
• "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
• So what's happening with Russia's new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?
• Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
• Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
• The PS5 hacking scene just took a big leap forward
• Discord gives more advertisers more tools to target its users
• What butterfly wings have in common with barbershop poles
• BMW reveals US 3 series pricing: The EV carries a hefty premium
• OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns
• Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
| • A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists that "Xbox is not for sale" despite mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing division (Zachary Small/New York Times)
• SemiAnalysis estimates ~90% of Anthropic's business comes from agentic AI, while sources say nearly 25% of its revenue in 2025 came from just two clients (Financial Times)
• A profile of Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who has overseen revenue growth from $2.27B in FY2018 to $11.48B in FY2026 as AI reshapes cybersecurity (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
• Anthropic says Claude for Government is now generally available to federal and state agencies, with Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access (Claude)
• Analysis: Google, Apple, and Amazon each have more meetings with European parliament and European Commission officials than any individual European company (Financial Times)
• Salesforce agrees to buy AI customer research startup Listen Labs, reportedly for $2B; Listen Labs had raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says growth is slower than he'd like and defends the WBD pursuit, adding Netflix isn't seeking another acquisition to replace it (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
• Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
• Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says RAM shortages will persist into 2028 and perhaps beyond, and customers will pay "much higher prices" than they did this year (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
• Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year deal with Oracle this year for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
• Docs and sources: Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, including potential cognitive and emotional harm, as the company pushed AI into schools (Wall Street Journal)
• Amazon signs a 20-year deal to buy power from Constellation Energy, including boosting capacity at its Maryland nuclear plant, supporting $3B+ in investments (Will Wade/Bloomberg)
• Flow, a hardware development platform for AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
• Gemini 4 Argon has a 1M-token output limit, up from 64K for prior models; it initially costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
• Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, owner of HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as it expands into a gay hub (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
| • California's new law bans companies from relying on AI to fire workers
• Apple TV is down
• How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch
• Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey will advise the government on the future of warfare
• Fujifilm's Instax Pal 2 can plug directly into your smartphone to transfer images
• Breville's new $600 coffee machine makes pour-overs from scratch
• Reddit imposes new restrictions on Old Reddit
• An Analogue Pocket restock is coming October 2
• Tinder now offers group hangouts as an alternative to one-on-one dates
• Xbox's disc-to-digital feature is now available for everyone
• Freckle's smartphone aims to get kids back outside on their own
• Affordable alternatives to DJI's Osmo Pocket 4
• Nintendo's Mario Kart Tour mobile game is officially dead
• DoorDash drone deliveries are first coming to northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes on board
• Meta introduces a new AI assistant for its Instagram creators
• If only all games had Control Resonant's Assist Mode
• Amazon's new Fire TV interface and mobile app will come with Alexa+ upgrades
• Shure's MV6 Gen 2 microphone gives creators more control over their audio
• Amazon simplifies its Fire TV streaming device lineup
• Amazon unveils a thinner and faster Fire TV Stick 4K, plus a new remote
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