• Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
• A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist
• Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
• “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
• PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated
• TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits
• Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand
• Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
• Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
• Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
• Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech
• Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
• Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
• AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport
• Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger
• If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency
• Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says
• OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
• HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”
• It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane
| • Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX (Ashley Campion/CrowdStrike)
• Quantum startup Oratomic raised a $475M Series B at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.5B after raising a $300M Series A in July, taking its total funding to $775M (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
• Analysis: planned and active data center investments in Finland surpass €67B, driven by AI demand, cool climate conditions, and renewable energy access (Kirsi Heikel/Bloomberg)
• Huawei says it aims to increase its overseas smartphone market share and expand HarmonyOS globally within one to three years, as Huawei-powered EV sales slow (CNBC)
• The US Federal Reserve's September meeting shows officials are increasingly citing surging AI investments, not tariffs, as the driver of rising goods inflation (Steve Thompson/Washington Post)
• India's Global Capability Centers, which employ 2.4M people across companies like JPMorgan, are automating entry-level tasks and hiring far fewer graduates (Bloomberg)
• ICANN receives 1,615 TLD applications from 481 applicants; Meta, OpenAI, and eight others applied for .agent, seven companies applied for .agi, and six for .asi (David Pierce/The Verge)
• UK-based quantum computing startup Universal Quantum raised a $100M+ Series A led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures to expand research hubs in Germany and Singapore (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
• Manus' parent Butterfly Effect raised $500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
• A profile of Garmin CEO Cliff Pemble, who helped diversify its GPS product lines and grew its annual revenue from $2.6B in 2013 to a record $7.2B in 2025 (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)
• The Association for Human Mathematics says OpenAI's new math documents show power, not scholarship, and urges mathematicians to stop working with the company (AHM)
• A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built (Cade Metz/New York Times)
• SemiAnalysis: China has 24 GW of operational compute capacity and another 50 GW planned or under construction, compared to 56 GW operational in the US (Financial Times)
• A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have quietly started probing whether their models can break important cryptographic protocols (Scott Aaronson/Shtetl-Optimized)
• Vitalik Buterin says "we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously", backing a "bunker mode" call for the blockchain industry (Felix Ng/Cointelegraph)
| • Teenage Engineering will stop making synths to focus on... whatever it feels like
• The new BMW iX4 is the X4 reborn as an EV
• GPT-6 is coming to all tiers of ChatGPT
• Rivian R2 owners can now put a live pet cam on their phone's lockscreen
• The FCC proposes new mid-band spectrum auction and unlocking 800MHz for drones
• Here's what the $6,000 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box looks like
• Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box costs an eye-watering $6,000
• Surface Laptop Ultra hands-on: A beautiful beast powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark
• Disney+ will stream the Super Bowl, along with some Monday Night Football games
• Microsoft may have finally fixed Windows search by turning it into a chatbot
• Here's everything we know about Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra
• Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event
• We now have images of the smart home products that Apple and LG are reportedly cooking up
• Cisco is bringing a new agentic framework to its Webex enterprise platform
• Ring's smart lock has a hand crank so it works even if the power's out
• Google's AI detection website is now available
• OpenAI just posted hundreds more results on major math problems
• The Social Reckoning is a timely reminder that we shouldn't trust Meta
• Xreal's Aura Android XR smartglasses will cost you at least $1,279
• Google's experimental Playground platform uses AI to create games for you
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