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• Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
• Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
• The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
• US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
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• US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches
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• Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
• The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
• Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract
• TCL is right to question Samsung’s use of the term “Mini LED”
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• Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
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• Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer
• Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
| • Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
• Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5 (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
• Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles (Ashley Gold/Semafor)
• Memo: the US Army is creating an autonomous systems command, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Meridian and Agincourt robotic warfare projects (Colin Demarest/Axios)
• TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida says Jev is in use by ~25% of Fortune 500 companies and "we were at a trillion tokens per day about a week ago" (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
• Tavus unveils Griffin, the "first Human Interaction Model", which it says passed the "video Turing test", with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats (@tavus)
• Apple says it is adding additional controls around "Full Disk Access" on macOS as AI agents have increased "the risks associated with this level of access" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• Anthropic launches the Claude Frontier Academy with a $100M commitment to train 10K "Frontier Deployed Engineers" by 2028, starting with Accenture, Bain, others (Anthropic)
• Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance (Grace Kay/The Information)
• Source: FieldAI, which is developing a "universal general-purpose brain" for robots, is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, up from $2B in 2025 (Rya Jetha/Business Insider)
• Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
• Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI "super intelligence" (Laura Cress/BBC)
• Sources: Broadcom's Wall Street syndicate is amassing $60B in AI chip financing to help Anthropic and others access chips and other key AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)
• Sources: an EU investigation is set to find that Azure and AWS meet DMA thresholds, as the EU strengthens its regulatory scrutiny of the cloud sector (Bloomberg)
• Suno debuts Speech, which generates spoken voices from scripts or prompts, with optional background music, in public beta, as its music generator faces lawsuits (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
| • Lyft agrees to pay $272.5 million to settle worker classification lawsuit
• Meta wants people to build their own Muse gadgets, too
• Batomon Showdown is the hottest new auto battler on the block
• Samsung and Google are raising prices on their budget phones
• Apple sounds the alarm on AI agents and 'Full Disk Access'
• iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: Comparing their displays and batteries
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra vs Apple iPad Pro: Here's how they stack up
• YouTube takes aim at clipper accounts, will prioritize original Shorts
• Soon-to-be merged Paramount and Warner Bros. will be known as Skydance going forward
• AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have officially teamed up to end coverage gaps
• Affordable alternatives to Apple's AirPods Max
• Don't let the adorable AI agents fool you
• NVIDIA's smuggling problem is getting worse
• Apple is reportedly building a smart home camera that won't record video footage of you or anyone else
• What to expect at Microsoft's Windows, Surface and AI event on October 7
• Tesla rolls out an emergency drive-away feature after Supercharger shooting
• FDA approves artificial heart valve for kids that grows as they do
• Balcony solar installations will soon be legal in America's most populous state
• New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40 billion in penalties for Cambridge Analytica scandal
• Florida county finds 11 unpermitted Flock cameras with unidentified owners
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