• “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
• Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
• Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth
• Support Ars and get a better reading experience in return
| • Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
• Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are "chilling those who remain at OpenAI" (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)
• Samsung reports preliminary Q3 operating profit up 782% YoY to ~$80.1B, vs. ~$81.2B est., and revenue up 127% to ~$145.7B, lower than expected (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
• Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90 (Janine Liberty/MIT News)
• The AGs of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska sue TP-Link, alleging it deceptively marketed its routers' security and didn't properly disclose ties to China (Connor Jones/The Register)
• The DOD offers chipmaker Wolfspeed, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a conditional loan of up to $1.5B in exchange for warrants for up to 7.5% of the company (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (Wall Street Journal)
• OpenAI says GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat tab is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers (@openai)
• Sources: former White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is raising a ~$500M fund to back growth- and later-stage US AI startups, prioritizing national security (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
• Anthropic cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 and adds monthly API credits: $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, up to $500 shared by Team users (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 above, vs. $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5 (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
• OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes graphics and interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers (OpenAI)
• Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summary and classification requests (Anthropic)
• Microsoft opens preorders for the $2,599+ Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping from October 16, with an RTX Spark and three USB-C ports; one is magnetic like MagSafe (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
• Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
| • 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
• Microsoft Windows and Surface event 2026: Live updates on the Surface Laptop Ultra and NVIDIA RTX Spark
• Ultrahuman now offers on-demand heart rhythm scans
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