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NVIDIA Shield TV Pro Gets About $100 Price Increase on Amazon, Best Buy

NVIDIA Shield TV Pro now costs about $300 on Amazon and Best Buy, up roughly $100, Android Authority reports.

Products & Applications

YouTube web login bug blocks some users as Google investigates

Some YouTube users cannot sign in on web browsers while their Google accounts work elsewhere. Google has not explained the cause or a fix timeline.

Products & Applications · Companies

Google Meet and Microsoft Teams Enable Cross-Platform Meeting-Room Calls

Google Meet and Microsoft Teams now let Android-based meeting-room hardware join each other's calls.

Companies · Cybersecurity

OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Unauthorized AI Agent Activity

OpenAI has notified more than 100 organizations of unauthorized activity involving its AI agents while it reviews roughly 50 petabytes of data after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face.

Products & Applications

Apple Confirms iPhone Duo's Matte Screen Layer Is Replaceable, at $19 With AppleCare Plus

Apple has confirmed the matte layer on the iPhone Duo's inner screen can be replaced, reportedly costing $19 with AppleCare Plus, while Samsung swaps the protector free in the first year.

Products & Applications

Daylight Saving Starts This Weekend: Eight Sleep and Cooling Deals to Help Adjust

Daylight saving time begins this weekend in parts of Australia, where clocks move one hour ahead. A TechRadar report highlights eight Amazon Prime Big Deal Days discounts on sleep masks, earbuds, white-noise machines, smart bulbs and fans meant to ease the transition.

Large Language Models · Products & Applications

AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B, an Open Source Decision Model That Returns Choices in About 115 ms

AWS Strands Labs has released Strands Decider 2B, a 1.9-billion-parameter open source model that returns a choice, a yes/no probability or a score instead of text. Weights ship under Apache-2.0, and it runs locally with a median latency of 115 ms on an RTX 3090.

Large Language Models · Products & Applications

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview Matches Opus 5.5 in Front-End Creation Tests, ifanr Reports

MiniMax's newly launched M3.1 Flash Preview produced front-end design, animation and game prototypes comparable to Claude Opus 5.5 when tested with the same public prompts, according to ifanr.

Products & Applications

Amazon's 2026 Kindle lineup swaps plastic for aluminum and brings back physical page-turn buttons, priced from $149.99

Amazon has announced its 2026 Kindle family, featuring recycled-aluminum bodies, flat front glass, a redesigned Paperwhite and Colorsoft, and physical page-turn buttons sold as accessories. Prices run from $149.99 to $319.99.

Companies · Cybersecurity

Bitget Freezes About $1.1 Million of $388 Million Hack, CEO Says Large Recovery Unlikely

Bitget has frozen about $1.1 million of the nearly $388 million stolen in a cyberattack last week, CEO Gracy Chen told CNBC, adding she does not expect a large recovery. User balances were unaffected, and the exchange restored its protection fund using its own capital.

AI Chips & Compute · World · Policy & Regulation

Nvidia AI Chips Continue Reaching China Despite US Curbs, Bloomberg Reports

Nvidia AI chips are still reaching China despite US export controls, Bloomberg reports. Officials are asking why the company missed red flags and say the curbs have created a sprawling shadow trade.

Companies · World · Products & Applications

Pandora Opens $150 Million Vietnam Plant, Expands Bet on Asia and Lab-Grown Diamonds

Pandora opens a $150 million Vietnam plant, its first outside Thailand, to expand Asian growth and lab-grown diamond sales.

Products & Applications · Large Language Models

ServiceNow CoreAI Introduces AutoSynthData for Enterprise Agent Training

ServiceNow CoreAI's AutoSynthData generates validated training tasks from enterprise agent failures.

Products & Applications · Large Language Models

ChatGPT Adds Virtual Clothing Try-On, Borrowing a Google Shopping Staple

ChatGPT now offers virtual clothing try-on from a selfie or full-body photo, and adds Favorites and folders for saved products.

Cybersecurity · Companies · World

KB Kookmin Bank Data Breach Follows Shinhan Leak, Raising AI Attack Concerns

KB Kookmin Bank has suffered a customer data breach affecting more than 100 people, a day after Shinhan Bank disclosed a leak of about 25,000 customer records. Industry sources say overseas hackers used advanced AI tools, raising concerns across South Korea's financial sector.

Products & Applications

TechRadar Lists Seven Prime Day Bluetooth Speaker Deals for Australian Outdoor Parties

TechRadar has published a roundup of seven Prime Day Bluetooth speaker deals aimed at Australian shoppers planning outdoor parties, bylined to senior staff writer Max.

Companies · Large Language Models · Products & Applications

Microsoft adds streaming transcription and voice models to MAI family

Microsoft introduced MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and two MAI-Voice-2.1 text-to-speech models for developers building near-instant voice agents, with streaming transcription priced at $0.54 per audio hour.

Policy & Regulation · Autonomous Driving

California Law Sets New Rules for Robotaxis and Fines for Blocking First Responders

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring robotaxi operators to provide local support, use U.S.-based remote drivers and face fines if an AV blocks first responders for more than 30 minutes. It takes effect in July 2028.

Products & Applications

Amazon Brings Physical Controls Back to Kindle With New Accessories

Amazon launched a $34.99 Kindle Click remote and a $79.99 cover with page-turn buttons for select Kindle models.

Products & Applications

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days Highlight Sub-AU$100 Tech as Australia Sale Nears End

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale in Australia runs through 11:59pm AEST Monday, October 5. TechRadar has highlighted sub-AU$100 deals on speakers, chargers, power banks, video doorbells and fitness trackers.

Products & Applications

Apple TV Releases 'The Last First: Winter K2' Documentary

Apple TV has released 'The Last First: Winter K2,' a documentary about a 2021 winter expedition to K2, after a theatrical run and a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score. It is now available to Apple TV subscribers.

Large Language Models · Products & Applications

Cloudflare Releases Clef and Clef-flash, Open-Weight Decision Models That Return Typed Probabilities

Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, the Workers AI team's first trained models: Apache 2.0 decision models that return probabilities for typed questions instead of generated text and are compatible with TypeSafe AI's Jev API.

Research · Large Language Models

AI Chatbots Return Less Diverse Answers Than Search Engines, Study Finds

Study: AI chatbot answers nearly 19% less diverse than Google Search, raising knowledge-narrowing concern.

Cybersecurity · World

INTERPOL says AI is increasing speed and scale of cyber threats, warns about agentic AI

INTERPOL's global chief information security officer says AI is enhancing scams and fraud and increasing the speed and scale of cyber threats, urging companies to identify critical assets and warning that agentic AI could cause real-world harm.