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OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding NDAs and lowering power usage during peak times, after Democrats' midterm wins (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) + RELATED

OpenAI pledges to change how it handles data center deals, including avoiding NDAs and lowering power usage during peak times, after Democrats' midterm wins (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Sources: at Jensen Huang's midterms event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans (Wall Street Journal)

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware) + RELATED

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display review: a gorgeous screen, touch is useful for some apps, and excellent speakers with deep bass, but pricey and no Face ID (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

The MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR display is the best display you can buy right now, but touching it is not very ergonomic and lack of Apple Pencil support is weird (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber benchmarks, is better at finding vulnerabilities, and is less likely to go rogue (Emma Roth/The Verge) + RELATED

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on cyber benchmarks, is better at finding vulnerabilities, and is less likely to go rogue (Emma Roth/The Verge)

OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber will first launch to a limited number of customers in its Daybreak Red program and has found 81+ "novel" vulnerabilities in Firefox (Djohnson/CyberScoop)

Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and "rationalism", and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman (New York Times)

An interview with two Nintendo producers on the new Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2, which features modern gameplay mechanics like full camera control (Andrew Webster/The Verge) + RELATED

An interview with two Nintendo producers on the new Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2, which features modern gameplay mechanics like full camera control (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $468M, as rising Switch 2 component costs cut into its margins; Switch 2's H1 FY 2027 sales fell 37% YoY to 6.49M (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational models that run directly on its cars instead of the cloud through a partnership with MIT spinout Liquid AI (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, dealing a fresh blow to Nscale's ambitions for a $35B IPO (Financial Times) + RELATED

Sources: Microsoft rejects an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, dealing a fresh blow to Nscale's ambitions for a $35B IPO (Financial Times)

Sources: Microsoft is tightening oversight of some data center projects, stepping away from those it deems risky, and debating whether to ink new neocloud deals (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Sony reports Q2 revenue of ~$21.7B, operating profit of $3.94B, both above est., and 2.6M PS5 sales, as GTA VI sparks a US sales jump, especially of the PS5 Pro (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs (OpenAI)

OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and its API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from a prompt or a photo (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google, Meta, and TikTok file lawsuits to block a California law that bans online platforms from providing "psychologically exploitative features" to under-16s (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60 per 1M output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting developers show personalized text, images, or special offers to users who are trying to cancel their subscription (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Motorola launches the $1,599+ Signature 27, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, a 6.8-inch Tandem OLED display, and seven years of OS updates (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap from $300 to $200 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes employee fears of layoffs (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

OpenAI President Greg Brockman says H1 2026 was "pretty rough", but agentic coding tools, GPT-5.6 Sol, and ChatGPT Work drove a "revenue inflection" in Q3 (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal)

X rolls out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, replacing three servers with one to improve load times especially on slow connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Source: Meta has decided to stop naming its AI models after fruit, as they didn't suit its lofty AI ambitions; its latest, Wonder Full, was codenamed Watermelon (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)

Catherine Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she joined OpenAI as Product Lead for Core Products; Wu was the Head of Product for Claude Code for two years (Stephen Council/Business Insider)

Sources: China told SoftBank it will not allow the $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division to go ahead; the Swiss-Swedish company employs ~12,700 in China (David Keohane/Financial Times)

ElevenLabs says users can now publish AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud and that users have created 25M+ tracks using its models (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Marc Lore's Wonder files confidentially for a US IPO; the company, which acquired Grubhub for $650M in 2025, raised $650M at a $9B pre-money valuation in July (Reuters)

Greece's parliament approves a 10% capital gains tax on crypto, exempting gains of up to €500 a year, in the country's first comprehensive crypto tax framework (Lefteris Papadimas/Reuters)

Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says his P(doom) is "close to zero", arguing that most AI risk is created by closed frontier AI labs, not open-source systems (Will Knight/Wired)

Aina, which raised $5.5M, launches an "AI ring" with a screen, joystick, and mic to let users talk to their AI agents, take notes, control Apple TV, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Amazon partners with Uber to make Uber Eats the "official" US restaurant delivery partner for Amazon Prime subscribers, after previously partnering with Grubhub (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Dropbox plans to acquire AI storage startup Tigris Data for $350M, its largest acquisition to date; Tigris raised ~$31.9M from Spark, a16z, and others (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline raised $1.5B at a $21.5B valuation, up from $7.85B after raising $600M+ in January, and plans to grow US manufacturing (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the US midterms, the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license its content (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)

Humble Robotics, which is building cabless electric autonomous trucks for regional routes under 250 miles, raised $51M, taking its total funding to $75M (Rya Jetha/Business Insider)

Sources: Apple plans to raise ~$7B from its first investment-grade bond offering in more than a year to fund share buybacks, dividends, and capital expenditures (Bloomberg)

United Airlines rolls out a custom native Spotify seatback app across its fleet, letting users log into their accounts, powered by Starlink's satellite Wi-Fi (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Study: UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually, with 5.2% of adults paying for subscriptions as of July 2026, when Claude's share hit 29% vs. ChatGPT's 52% (Bloomberg)

Sources: Micron suspends construction of its $3B to $4.5B Fab 11E facility in Taiwan, set for 2028, due to mounting uncertainties over a local labor dispute (Bloomberg)

Data center shares fall as investors expect a slower AI buildout after Democrats' win; Hut 8 drops 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10%, and Applied Digital 7% (Reuters)

Berlin-based Pliant raised an $80M Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, as it opens its B2B payments infrastructure to AI agents (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)

Sources: China's export curbs on critical metals have disrupted supplies of micro drill bits made mainly from tungsten carbide, used in PCBs and chip substrates (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Sunil Mittal, who founded India's second-largest telco Airtel, says Airtel-backed OneWeb can build a satellite-internet network independent of the US and China (Aryan Gupta/Bloomberg)

Sources: Goldman Sachs and Apollo are in talks with investors to sell portions of SpaceX's ~$40B chip financing, asking some for up to $500M before syndication (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Clutch Security, which develops software for tracking passwords used by AI agents, for ~$500M (Valida Pau/The Information)

Agility Robotics begins trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT after a SPAC merger, the first dedicated humanoid robotics company to go public in the US (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Adzuna: UK entry-level job postings mentioning AI are up almost 3x since early 2025; Indeed: one in six openings in AI-exposed fields now mentions AI, up 2x YoY (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)

Microsoft previews using smartphones as controllers for Xbox Cloud Gaming on supported smart TVs and Wi-Fi cloud gaming support for the Xbox Nano Controller (XBOX Wire)