• 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
• 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
| • Amazon says Fire TV now offers integrated live content from 40+ apps, like YouTube TV and DirecTV, and plans a Music app with podcasts and concerts in the fall (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
• Amazon unveils a faster, slimmer $60 Fire TV Stick 4K, simplifies its Fire TV Stick lineup, and plans to roll out an upgraded Alexa+ living room hub in November (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
• DoorDash unveils new retail partnerships to deliver clothing and footwear; Macy's is listing products directly on the DoorDash app for two-hour delivery (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
• DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent for ordering and a B2B API allowing assistants like Slack bots to execute bulk orders (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely (The Information)
• Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
• Sources and filings: Situational Awareness lacked an investment risk team; after the sell-off, the SEC sent subpoenas to major banks about trades they financed (New York Times)
• GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by ARCHIV with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
• Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing (Reuters)
• Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume (Alex Williams/New York Times)
• Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• OpenAI and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms so far; of 95 ads, all avoided reference to data centers and only some mentioned AI (New York Times)
• Sam Altman says OpenAI will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety claims about its AI models, but waiting too long would be "bad for the world" (Hayden Field/The Verge)
• Sources: Meta is aggressively claiming a tax credit for AI data center build-outs by classifying facilities as experimental and writing off Nvidia chip supplies (New York Times)
| • 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
• The US government's new AI chatbot gives Minecraft's end poem a bureaucratic twist
• Sony implements a lottery system to deal with the PS5 Pro shortage in Japan
• Don't throw away your old router — Do this instead
• The AI industry wants models to assist in legal battles, but will they help?
• Can you still use your router if it doesn't get firmware updates?
• How to prepare your Samsung Galaxy for the One UI 9 update
• How do translation earbuds actually work?
• 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
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