• ExxonMobil's own scientists doubted climate fixes the company hyped
• 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”
| • The US suspends Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, and others from a program that lets skilled foreign workers gain permanent residency, citing alleged fraud (Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff/Reuters)
• Gallatin AI, which uses AI to digitize and streamline military logistics data, raised a $50M Series A, bringing its total funding to $70M (Colin Demarest/Axios)
• European venture funding rose 77% YoY to $25B in Q3, the region's strongest funding quarter in four years, representing 16% of global VC and led by AI startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
• Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• OpenAI disrupts a Russian influence campaign tied to the Politology network that targeted schools, media, and foreign officials, and gives it a 5/6 impact score (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
• Google Cloud unveils a universal Gemini agent to handle multi-day enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack that supports several AI models (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• Amazon retires the Fire brand for tablets after 15 years, replacing it with Alexa Tablets that run Android and ship from October 14, including the $499 12 Pro (David Pierce/The Verge)
• AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
• Drones struck a data center owned by Russia's Yandex in the town of Sasovo, marking the first major attack on a Russian data hub since the Ukraine war began (Reuters)
• Spotify and Joe Rogan renew their multiyear licensing and ad sales deal; sources say the terms are similar to Rogan's last deal, worth $250M, signed in 2024 (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)
• Xbox launches XP, a unit that will manage four non-gaming "investment areas": Xbox Pictures for film and TV, Xbox Products, Xbox Places, and Xbox Partnerships (The Verge)
• 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)
| • Xbox's new division will focus on TV and movie adaptations of its biggest franchises
• The new Stylophone Mini packs in iconic sounds and comes in three nifty colors
• Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro vs Amazon Fire HD 10: What's changed, and is the upgrade worth it?
• Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro hands-on: Taking aim at the iPad Pro for less than half the price
• Amazon's Panos Panay teases more Alexa-branded devices and a new design language
• Amazon's new Alexa tablets include a 12-inch model with anti-glare screen
• Amazon's new Alexa tablets will have full access to Google Play
• Amazon is releasing kids' versions of its new Alexa Tablets
• 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
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