• Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
• Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
• Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
• Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
• The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
• Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
• Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
• Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
• KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
• Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
• Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
• Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
• Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
• What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
• Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time
• Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
• Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution
• Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites
• Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
• Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling.
| • Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak (Dylan Sloan/Bloomberg)
• Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)
• In its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI risks and develop protocols for labs to provide early warnings (John Harney/Bloomberg)
• Source: Intuit acquired UK-based B2B revenue management and billing startup Sequence in a sale worth ~$200M; Sequence raised $19M led by a16z in 2022 (Jess Jones/The Times)
• Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: powerful, useful Magnetic Connect port, bright screen, but heavy, loud, and Windows doesn't take advantage of RTX Spark (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)
• Sources: PayPal, Epic, and others voiced concerns to DOJ as it signaled a preference to settle its Apple antitrust suit with a deal focusing on interoperability (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
• Organizers abruptly cancel 2026's Grace Hopper Celebration, one of the biggest events for women in tech, after sponsorships and registrations fall short (Bloomberg)
• Waymo plans to launch its robotaxis in Toronto in 2028 in partnership with Element Fleet Management, the company's first deployment in Canada (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters)
• Taiwan plans to curb AI server and chip exports to China as part of a US trade deal and make shipping restricted AI hardware to China a criminal offense (Bloomberg)
• US candidates and PACs, mostly tied to Republicans, have spent $137M+ on 220 AI-generated campaign ads in 2026; ~70% of the 220 videos didn't disclose AI use (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
• India's cyber agency says AI agents broke into Indian organizations' systems and read confidential files undetected; AI model providers flagged the incidents (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
• China is considering adding 23 AI technologies to its export control list, including LLMs and chip designs, to keep closer control over homegrown advancements (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
• A look at China's AI learning frenzy, as economic anxiety and fear of being left behind fuel a booming market for courses promising prosperity through AI (Afra Wang/New York Magazine)
• Chinese state media: during an interview, Tim Cook says China has approved Apple Intelligence, and a test version will arrive in late October without Siri AI (Reuters)
| • Analogue returns to the 16-bit era with the Mega Sg+ and Super Nt+
• If memory shortages last, tech companies should offer cheap battery replacements
• MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood
• Technics EAH-A1000 review: Superior sound and excellent ANC in a premium package
• An OpenAI research agent 'stole' test Ethereum to finish a coding task
• Steam Achievement Sets will stop DLCs from ruining your 100 percent record
• ChatGPT can now look at your Chrome tabs to do tasks for you
• Apple's $2,000 iPhone Duo goes on pre-order today at 8AM ET
• Gmail's Live AI search feature arrives for Google AI subscribers
• Relive Tesla's ridiculous(ly fun) Roadster stunt show
• Tesla's redesigned Roadster has a cold-gas thruster option, but you'll need $250,000 just to reserve it
• Withings wants new users to pay $100 a year to sync with Apple Health
• The UK may expand the BBC license fee, charging residents to watch streaming services
• NY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership
• FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic following safety failures
• E Ink's new Kaleido 4 could inch us closer to the perfect color e-reader
• Riot will sunset League of Legends Classic in January 2027
• Alexa Tablet 12 Pro review: Amazon's premium tablet gets almost everything right
• Trump ballroom's biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies
• Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need 1TB of RAM to run it
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