• Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial
• Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
• AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
• Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
• NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
• Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
• Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals
• This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
• Less protein for maggots means longer lives for fruit flies
• OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
• Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
• Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
• Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation
• Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
• SpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks
• Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
• New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery
• To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents
• Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
• Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws
| • Singapore doubles down on chipmaking as the AI boom lifts its economy, but high costs, scarce land and labor, and US trade scrutiny threaten its ambitions (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
• Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
• Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT (Casey Newton/Platformer)
• Sources: US-based PaleBlueDot AI is seeking $600M in private credit to buy chips for its South Korea site, to be used by Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu (Megawati Wijaya/Bloomberg)
• South Korea's Kospi was the world's worst-performing stock market in Q3, down 18.8% due to Samsung and SK Hynix sell-offs in early Q3, but remains up 60% YTD (Financial Times)
• US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer "a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country" and "free us from medical tyranny" (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
• DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative (Reuters)
• Apple Pay launches in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch (Dhruv Mohan/The Economic Times)
• A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025 (Brandon Pho/Mission Local)
• A profile of Travis Kalanick, CEO of Atoms, whom Silicon Valley has welcomed back with VC support despite his unapologetic stance on his 2017 ouster from Uber (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
• An interview with Bill Gates about the need for more than natural incentives under capitalism to regulate AI's risks, the effects AI will have on jobs, and more (New York Times)
• AI infrastructure company Accelevation and backer Olympus raise $540M in a US IPO after selling 30M shares for $18 each, below its marketed $20-$24 range (Bloomberg)
• Robinhood plans to let users trade some US stocks round-the-clock during weekends, wager on specific corporate earnings metrics, and trade perpetual futures (Reuters)
• Trump releases a voluntary AI accord with tech leaders, asking companies to partner with external auditors and set up internal controls to monitor AI alignment (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
• At the unBoxed conference, Amazon moves AI from being a feature to playing a more central role in ad-buying and brings previously separate ad workflows together (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
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• Codenames Party is the latest addition to Netflix Games
• Apple's iOS 27.0.1 update arrives with fixes for Face ID and touchscreen issues
• Apple updates Final Cut Camera to support the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture
• Mozilla deploys a new-look Firefox across desktop and mobile
• Google partners with known nerd Henry Cavill on a video game to showcase Googlebooks
• Xbox just unveiled Mythic Achievements, which are basically PlayStation platinum trophies
• There's now an official US government AI chatbot
• Gemini and Find Hub can help you locate your important documents — here's how
• Apple's new iPhone and iPad security feature can protect you from scammers
• ChatGPT Space is a shared hub for work projects and personal AI agents
• OpenAI adds $500(!) Pro subscription, nerfs its existing $200 tier
• Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them
• McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
• How to get your money's worth from Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
• The reason why prebuilt PCs might be a better buy in 2026
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