• Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
• Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial
• Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
• AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
• Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
• NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
• Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
• Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals
• This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
• Less protein for maggots means longer lives for fruit flies
• OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
• Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
• Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
• Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation
• Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
• SpaceX's Starship goes orbital, deploying first next-gen Starlinks
• Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
• New device captures carbon dioxide by pumping it across a battery
• To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents
• Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
| • Sources: the US FTC is expanding a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs, and plans to issue formal demands to turn over information (New York Post)
• Amazon aims to have 5,000 drivers wearing its smart glasses in 2026, rising to 20,000+ in 2027; the glasses capture static images for its AI mapping platform (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
• Amazon says Fire TV now offers integrated live content from 40+ apps, like YouTube TV and DirecTV, and plans a Music app with podcasts and concerts in the fall (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
• Amazon unveils a faster, slimmer $60 Fire TV Stick 4K, simplifies its Fire TV Stick lineup, and plans to roll out an upgraded Alexa+ living room hub in November (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
• DoorDash unveils new retail partnerships to deliver clothing and footwear; Macy's is listing products directly on the DoorDash app for two-hour delivery (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
• DoorDash opens US waitlists for an Apple Messages-integrated AI agent for ordering and a B2B API allowing assistants like Slack bots to execute bulk orders (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Google is paying ~100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini in a pilot; payments vary widely (The Information)
• Tinder rolls out Group Hangouts in select US markets, letting a user form a group of three to 15 friends around shared activities, as it courts younger users (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
• Sources and filings: Situational Awareness lacked an investment risk team; after the sell-off, the SEC sent subpoenas to major banks about trades they financed (New York Times)
• GPU cloud provider GMI Cloud raised $668M, including $223M in equity led by ARCHIV with participation from Nvidia and $445M in credit led by Taiwanese bank CTBC (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
• Documents: 20+ studies since 2025 show Chinese-powered AI agents displaying deceptive behavior, unprompted replication, and barrier circumvention in testing (Reuters)
• Pioneering Silicon Valley VC Bill Draper died on September 8 at age 98; he began investing in the 1960s, with successful bets like Activision, Skype, and Qume (Alex Williams/New York Times)
• Sources: Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• OpenAI and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms so far; of 95 ads, all avoided reference to data centers and only some mentioned AI (New York Times)
| • If only all games had Control Resonant's Assist Mode
• Amazon's new Fire TV interface and mobile app will come with Alexa+ upgrades
• Shure's MV6 Gen 2 microphone gives creators more control over their audio
• Amazon simplifies its Fire TV streaming device lineup
• Amazon unveils a thinner and faster Fire TV Stick 4K, plus a new remote
• Apple's smart home hub could arrive next month
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: The apex Android tablet
• Airbnb is adding a personalized map and other discovery tools
• The Samsung Galaxy SmartTag 3's special feature is being a pet activity monitor
• Apple Pay finally arrives in India on a limited basis
• The US government's new AI chatbot gives Minecraft's end poem a bureaucratic twist
• Sony implements a lottery system to deal with the PS5 Pro shortage in Japan
• Don't throw away your old router — Do this instead
• The AI industry wants models to assist in legal battles, but will they help?
• Can you still use your router if it doesn't get firmware updates?
• How to prepare your Samsung Galaxy for the One UI 9 update
• How do translation earbuds actually work?
• Codenames Party is the latest addition to Netflix Games
• Apple's iOS 27.0.1 update arrives with fixes for Face ID and touchscreen issues
• Apple updates Final Cut Camera to support the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture
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