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Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, set for 2029, and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion (The Information)
Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites (Adele Peters/Fast Company)
A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product (Bloomberg)
Billionaire-backed AI safety activists have significantly expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings (Washington Post)
Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor (404 Media)
iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
Apple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins at manufacturing time (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming overtakes India's Gautam Adani to become Asia's richest person for the first time, passing $105B, up 8x from $13B in March 2019 (Bloomberg)
Internal documents: Chinese hacker-for-hire company ZRON is selling stolen foreign intelligence and using AI systems to make the data more accessible for police (Wall Street Journal)
An in-depth look at loss-of-control incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, the polarized reactions between the AI safety and cybersecurity communities, and more (AI as Normal Technology)
Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach (Reuters)
Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue (New York Times)
The Trump administration faces strategic constraints in slowing China's AI progress, including avoiding rare earth restrictions, ahead of US-China talks on AI (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg)
Mistral partners with Mozilla to power Firefox's AI browsing assistant, Smart Window, in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026 (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)

Wired

Apple iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max Review: For Camera Fiends
7 Best Android Phones of 2026, Tested and Reviewed
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
Introducing the WIRED App
The EU Plans to Ban Social Media For Under-13s
Best Robot Vacuum of 2026: Shark, Eufy, Roborock
How Self-Driving Cars Might Change Crash Testing Forever
Boox Launches the Palma 3 E-Reader
China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown
Why It Seems Like Great White Sharks Are Overrunning Maine
Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2026): Microsoft, Lenovo, and the iPad
‘Smart’ Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA Directly to Tumors in New Cancer Therapy
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AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’
The FBI Doubles Down on Easing ‘Bestiality’ Hiring Standards
ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
Join WIRED@Night for an Uncanny Valley Live Recording on Women, Tech, and Power
10 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic
Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump
‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag
Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides
The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
Lawmakers Want States to Crack Down on Flock Cameras—or Pay the Price
If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel
A New Headset to Help With Depression Is Now Available in the US
System 76 Pangolin Pro Review (2026): Powerhouse Linux Laptop
The Supreme Court Just Blocked Trump’s Efforts to Control Mail-In Voting for the Midterms
The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites

Engadget

Here's how the iPhone 18 Pro's Apple Reference Image tech works
iPhone 18 Pro review: The standard setter
Breville Eye Q Toaster review: A toaster with a vision
Sony unveils new PlayStation Pulse wireless headsets with 'planar magnetic' sound tech
The new Boox Palma 3 comes with stylus support and an aluminum build
Meta is reportedly gearing up to launch new smart glasses without a camera
Canon's R8 II camera borrowed its styling from a classic SLR film camera
Considering a Level 2 EV charger? How to know if you need one
How to get Spotify's best audio quality
How to manually update Android Auto (and what it might mean if you can't)
Are USB-C flash drives better than USB-A ones?
Microsoft will hold a Windows and Surface event on October 7
Wired vs wireless speakers: What are the pros and cons?
How to improve the audio quality on your iPhone
The safety and privacy concerns of storing your driver's license in a digital wallet
Google's latest Pixel drop will keep you more connected to your VIPs
DOJ says companies used Binance to funnel $1.5 billion in crypto to Iran
X-viewing services Nitter and XCancel shut down after threats of legal action
A Googlebook 'celebration' event is set for October 5
What is IMAX Enhanced and do you really need it?

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