PGA of America has dropped data centers, VPNs, Active Directory and its corporate network, leaning on Okta and Auth0 so a lean team can centralize identity as AI agents enter production, CTO Kevin Scott said at Oktane.
Bentley has published full details of the Torcal, its debut electric SUV, which offers up to 876bhp, a 375-mile range and a starting price of £173,300, with first deliveries due in summer 2027.
Starbucks will close about 250 underperforming North American cafes and cut its fiscal 2026 store-opening forecast, while Eli Lilly won FDA approval for a once-weekly insulin and signed a pipeline deal with InnoCare Pharma. U.S. stocks were mixed as Treasury yields and oil prices rose.
Meta has previewed a New York Times Cooking integration for its AI and display glasses, adding a hands-free audio mode that is set to roll out later this fall.
A teardown of Google's Digital Wellbeing beta by Android Authority found code for a flag trivia mini-game and a reworked screen time reminder interface. Neither change is live yet.
KFC will open a 3,400-square-foot test restaurant called Open House in McKinney, Texas, on Sept. 26, offering breakfast for the first time along with table service, boba drinks and new sides as the chain works to regain U.S. market share.
Okta is using its Dex AI agent to streamline employee support and as a customer-zero testbed for the identity controls it sells, after surpassing a 250,000-hour savings goal and setting a 1 million-hour target for this year.
PrismML has adapted its tiny language models for smart glasses running on Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, with Qualcomm showcasing a 1-bit Bonsai LLM that runs locally on devices built on its AR1 Gen 1 Platform. No smart glasses using the model have been announced.
BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B that cuts average thinking tokens by 37.2% across 12 benchmarks at a 0.86 percentage-point macro-average accuracy cost, with drop-in deployment builds and a gated license.
Five Indianapolis officers face criminal charges after authorities say they misused Flock license-plate-reading cameras, including to track exes and women. One also faces stalking counts.
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A false AI-assisted intelligence report about a Chinese vessel’s cargo led US forces to prepare a boarding operation before officials found the assessment was “entirely false,” according to CNN. Sources said the episode “almost started a war” and has raised questions about verification of military AI tools.
Bambu Lab has discounted its H2D AMS Combo dual-nozzle 3D printer to $1,749 from $1,999, and to £1,449 in the U.K., according to TechRadar. The sale also includes standalone and Full Laser Combo units.
TeamGroup's 32GB T-Force Vulcan ECO DDR5-6400 kit is selling for $429 at Newegg, down from $479, with promo code TEF395, according to TechRadar. The $50 cut lands during the 2026 memory crisis.