• 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
• Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034
• Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
• F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing
• OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
| • Mark Zuckerberg says the voluntary "accord" on AI standards that tech executives agreed to includes internal risk reviews and external auditors (Axios)
• Trump says he signed a "morally binding" AI doc with AI leaders; Mike Johnson calls it a statement of principles that are "voluntary on behalf of the industry" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
• After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new federal AI rules, says "we automatically have regulation" via DOJ and FBI but "self-regulation is very important" (Bloomberg)
• Baseten partners with OpenAI to let OpenAI enterprise customers use existing commitments for open models served by Baseten within Codex or via the Responses API (Dannie Herzberg/Baseten)
• Interviews with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah and 20 religious and philosophical leaders about their summits to investigate consciousness in Claude (Elizabeth Dias/New York Times)
• Sources: some potential Oura IPO investors decided to hold off, citing its ~$15B target valuation and poor post-listing performance of peers like Fitbit (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5, and says it performs well on safety tests (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
• OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with interactive panels and file viewers, launches a Plugin Creator tool, and adds MCP Events support for plugin automations (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $220M at a $6.2B valuation, for $650M+ in total funding (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
• OpenAI says Plus and Pro subscribers can use their existing plan allowance with 16 launch partners, including Vercel and Devin, via Sign in with ChatGPT (Paul Sawers/The New Stack)
• OpenAI unveils Decisions API, which returns predefined answers with confidence scores, available in limited preview with no pricing details (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
• OpenAI announces ChatGPT Space, a collaborative hub for shared pages and files, available on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans; it replaces Library (Kris Holt/Engadget)
• Sources: OpenAI aims to raise at least $30B at a pre-money valuation of around $1.4T, meant to be a bridge round to provide it with capital in place of an IPO (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI says users can message Dots through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams and join a waitlist to text via iMessage or RCS messaging on Android (Reece Rogers/Wired)
• OpenAI unveils a $500/month Pro plan, offering its highest usage allowance and access to its new Ultrafast tier, with up to 8x faster token generation in Codex (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
| • 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
• Do you really need a travel router? Here's what to know
• How IMAX Dome theaters offer a different experience to regular IMAX
• Affordable alternatives to Sonos speakers
• Senate report claims Iran is using Tether's stablecoin to evade sanctions
• OpenAI Dev Day 2026: Live updates on the latest ChatGPT and Codex announcements
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