• DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
• Nvidia has a Jensen Huang problem—and no obvious successor
• FDA warns GLP-1 drugs may pose risk of rare condition that causes vision loss
• Polestar has a new look with its Formula 2030 concept
• Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
• Review: Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is good, but it's missing all the exciting stuff
• DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger
• Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling
• A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management
• Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation
• Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
• Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub
• SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
• Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem
• F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires alive
• New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome
• Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery
• The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
• British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed
• Doctors pull knife from man's eye that went through his brain—and he's fine now
| • Google rolls out Gemini 4 Carbon to paid API and AI Ultra users two weeks after releasing it to cyber defenders, and previews a swarm feature in Antigravity (Koray Kavukcuoglu/Google)
• AI training startup Mercor raised a $750M Series D from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Nvidia, and others at a $20B valuation, up from $10B in October 2025 (Reuters)
• IBM ends H-1B and green card sponsorships for most of the sponsored roles in IBM Consulting; source: workers can still work with IBM outside the US or leave IBM (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Goldman Sachs expects Anthropic revenue of ~$52B in 2026 and $600B+ by 2030, operating profit in 2029, and positive free cash flow in 2030 (Financial Times)
• Reddit launches Reddit Reviews, a built-in hub using AI to turn subreddit comments into product pages with pros, cons, and sentiment, starting with 10K items (Mia Sato/The Verge)
• Rockstar plans to make GTA VI available on Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch next week, likely restricting streaming exclusively to consoles; GTA VI runs at 30fps (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• TSMC plans to invest up to $500M in Anthropic at its IPO price and up to $500M in OpenAI to acquire preferred stock (Reuters)
• Scale Labs and CAIS' Remote Labor Index: Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of freelance projects at professional quality, above Opus 5.5's 21.3% and GPT-6 Astra's 20.8% (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
• Cyanogen's co-founder and two others debut Kora, a Linux desktop OS that integrates AI models at a system level, set for a 2027 launch on Snapdragon and x86 PCs (Reece Rogers/Wired)
• Tel Aviv-based Bay, which helps companies find AI agents and set guardrails, emerges from stealth with a $37M Series A led by Battery Ventures and a $13M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• Path Robotics, which develops software for autonomous manufacturing robots, raised a $300M Series E at a $2.45B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$610M (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• At Adobe Max, Adobe unveils Creative Cloud and Firefly AI updates to make designing and editing easier, including Premiere's new Generative Remove tool (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
• Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Drone Cam and the $999 Ring Rover Cam, utilizing its AI Pilot navigation software, under new subbrand Ring Robotics (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
• Filing: Alibaba says its chip design unit T-Head filed on September 11 for a Hong Kong listing after exchange clearance; T-Head is set to remain a subsidiary (Bloomberg)
• Sources: Microsoft is among a group of companies lobbying the Trump administration to halt the FCC's plan to ban imports of Chinese optical transceivers (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
| • What is the difference between rest mode and shutdown for your PlayStation 5?
• GTA 6 is targeting 30 fps and has ray-tracing support on PS5 Pro
• Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is now widely available around the world
• Apple brings Sign Language interpretation to a selection of original Apple TV titles
• Why does your phone keep switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data?
• Reddit is (sort of) getting into the product reviews business
• A Chinese team made a big splash with a drone swarm world record
• The HDMI port settings you should change for the best picture quality
• BT won't launch Starlink deal until people forget about Ukraine
• Spotify adds new voices for its AI DJ
• Adobe Firefly AI Assistant can now take on recurring tasks for you
• Here's what the red dot on your Apple Watch means and how to clear it
• Amazon finally launches the $250 Ring Drone Cam and also the Ring Rover Cam
• What does 'Floating' mean on your Anker smart chargers?
• SpaceX's first attempt to catch both Starship stages takes place November 13
• SteelSeries Rival Pro review: Rock solid connectivity, speed and a nifty battery system
• Garmin users can now share their cycling location through Waze for extra safety
• GTA 6 is now available for preload if you have a spare 212GB
• DOJ lawsuit says Lyft routinely refuses service to passengers with disabilities
• HoverAir Versa review: Convenience and creativity with compromises
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