• Lawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused 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
• 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
| • Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization (Bloomberg)
• Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of cybersecurity partners and says it outperforms GPT-6 Astra on certain coding and knowledge work benchmarks (Madison Mills/Axios)
• Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
• Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers (Ben Weiss/Bloomberg)
• Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
• Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• CScale, which is developing optical interconnect for accelerators, emerges from stealth with a $145M Series C led by Atreides, Valor Equity, and Premji Invest (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
• Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods for AI-designed proteins to help with biosecurity and scientific integrity (John Timmer/Ars Technica)
• Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
• Alex Stamos is joining Cognition as its new chief security officer; he most recently oversaw security at AI security startup Corridor and SentinelOne (Sam Sabin/Axios)
• Metaview, which uses AI agents to automate recruiting workflows, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• ElevenLabs says existing investors and employees have sold $300M worth of stock in a tender led by Wellington and T Rowe Price and valuing the startup at $22B (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
• An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
• Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
| • 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
• Apple's smart home hub could arrive next month
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: The apex Android tablet
• Airbnb is adding a personalized map and other discovery tools
• The Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 3's special feature is being a pet activity monitor
• Apple Pay finally arrives in India on a limited basis
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