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Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Dispute Dismissals in Open Letter
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals, saying colleagues may now be afraid to speak.
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals, saying colleagues may now be afraid to speak.
OnePlus has confirmed the OnePlus 16 will launch in China on October 12 with a 9,000mAh battery, a 165Hz BOE X4 display that can reach 185Hz in games, and 100W wired plus 50W wireless charging. It will not be sold in the US or EU.
Underdog released Saluki 27B under Apache 2.0, a 2-bit GGUF of Qwen3.8-27B that fits in 7.89 GB and runs in stock llama.cpp. It scores 88 versus 84 for the full model on Underdog Bench and 42 versus 35 on parallel tool calls, while losing 12 to 18 points on math and multi-step reasoning.
Google Cloud launched Gemini agent, a cloud-hosted universal enterprise agent for knowledge work, media, coding, and task delegation.
Google is rolling out several Pixel Watch 5 watch faces to the Pixel Watch 4 through the Google Pixel Watch Faces app, Android Authority reports.
German factory automation startup Daedalus, founded by ex-OpenAI robotics lead Jonas Schneider, has entered insolvency proceedings, Sifted reports.
TechRadar published an interview with Proton founder Andy Yen on age verification, Big Tech, AI and digital privacy. The headline quotes Yen saying nine out of ten people prefer Proton’s version of the internet over Google’s.
A Lancet study found Google's diagnostic AI chatbot AMIE safely assessed 98 patients before emergency visits, with no conversations interrupted and 90% diagnostic agreement, according to QbitAI.
OPPO is reportedly developing a 16:9 wide-format flagship phone with 1mm symmetrical bezels and a roughly 81mm-wide body, joining a wider-screen push so far led by foldables.
A review published by Sspai on October 9, 2026 says the vivo X500 Pro Max brings the company's straight-out-of-camera color philosophy to video, pairing Film Style presets with stabilization, audio capture and a new Humanities-mode monochrome simulation.
Control Resonant composer Petri Alanko says studios that respect their games and their players should bring composers in early and stay away from library or AI music.
Porsche plans 5,000 more job cuts and a return to combustion-engine models, Tencent weighs up to $5 billion in offshore bonds, Alibaba's Tsai urges Europe to back open-source AI, and OpenAI makes GPT-6 available to all ChatGPT users.
Margaret Hamilton, whose Apollo guidance software helped land astronauts on the moon and who helped establish software engineering as a discipline, has died at 90, MIT News reports.
Historian Theresa Musgrove links Alice Shepherd, a Hendon pauper punished in 1836 for asking to walk, to Dickens's Oliver Twist.
Apple has scheduled an Oct. 13 home event in New York, with a 'Welcome home' teaser and expectations for a HomePad screen, a new HomePod mini and an Apple TV 4K update.
Lei Feng Net has published the fifth, sixth and seventh layers of the Carbon-Silicon Daotong Cross-domain Migration Governance Code, covering meta-regulation, civilization-level risk control and final self-audit.
MarkTechPost has published a walkthrough of RRSI, a Google Research method that lets an LLM agent rewrite its own prompts, tools, memory and control flow around a frozen model without overfitting.
SK Chairman Chey Tae-won pledged to speed up a new semiconductor cluster in southwestern South Korea amid rising chip demand.
South Korean police added 15 personnel to a team probing recent hacking attacks on several financial institutions.
The first Test between South Africa and Australia is scheduled for October 9-13, Australia's first five-day match in South Africa in eight years. Coverage is split across Sky Sports, Willow TV, FanCode and Kayo Sports, with no dedicated free live stream.
South Korea's spy agency was excluded from a June trilateral meeting on North Korean cyber threats, reportedly at Washington's request, as a delayed U.S. visa for an opposition lawmaker adds to concerns over alliance friction.
ByteDance Seed researchers found DeepSeek-V4 models can flip answers based on token position, with retrieval accuracy gaps up to 40.2 percentage points in 128K tests. The pattern is tied to chunked KV cache compression.
TRAE has combined its TraeWork and TraeCode products into one entry point with switchable Agent and IDE modes, folding automation tasks, templates, an assistant and artifact management into a workflow that runs on desktop, web and mobile.
Microsoft will let Family and Premium subscribers share Copilot and AI features with up to five people, but OneDrive storage drops from 1TB per person to a shared 2TB pool.