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Control Resonant composer Petri Alanko tells studios to avoid AI music and give soundtracks more time

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.

Companies · Large Language Models · Markets

Porsche Cuts 5,000 More Jobs and Returns to Combustion Cars as Tencent Plans $5 Billion Bond and OpenAI Launches GPT-6

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.

Research

Margaret Hamilton, Who Wrote the Apollo Flight Software, Dies at 90

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.

Research

Historian Finds Likely Inspiration for Oliver Twist in Punished Hendon Pauper

Historian Theresa Musgrove links Alice Shepherd, a Hendon pauper punished in 1836 for asking to walk, to Dickens's Oliver Twist.

Companies · Products & Applications

Apple Sets Oct. 13 Home Event; HomePad, New HomePod mini and Apple TV Expected

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.

Research · Policy & Regulation

Lei Feng Net Publishes Final Three Layers of Cross-Domain Migration Governance Code

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.

Large Language Models · Research

Google Research's RRSI Lets LLM Agents Rewrite Their Own Harness, MarkTechPost Tutorial Shows

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.

Companies · AI Chips & Compute

SK Chairman Vows to Speed Up New Semiconductor Cluster in Southwest Korea

SK Chairman Chey Tae-won pledged to speed up a new semiconductor cluster in southwestern South Korea amid rising chip demand.

Cybersecurity · Policy & Regulation

South Korean Police Expand Team Investigating Hacking of Financial Institutions

South Korean police added 15 personnel to a team probing recent hacking attacks on several financial institutions.

World · Products & Applications

South Africa vs Australia First Test Begins October 9 as Australia Returns After Eight Years

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.

World · Cybersecurity

Spy Agency Snub Raises Concerns Over South Korea-U.S. Alliance

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.

Large Language Models

ByteDance Seed Finds DeepSeek-V4 Performance Shifts With Token Position, Tied to KV Cache Compression

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.

Products & Applications

TRAE Merges TraeWork and TraeCode Into a Single Full-Link Development Platform

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.

Products & Applications · Companies

Microsoft 365 Family Subscribers to Share Copilot AI Benefits as OneDrive Storage Shrinks to a Shared 2TB Pool

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.

Large Language Models · Policy & Regulation

PM Pledges to Uphold Hangeul's Value in AI Era, Sets 2030 Expansion Targets

Prime Minister Han Seong-sook pledged to uphold Hangeul's value in the AI era, announcing plans to expand Korean-language corpora for AI training and overseas King Sejong Institutes by 2030. The National Hangeul Museum is set to reopen in 2028 after a fire.

Companies · Robotics · Research

Xingdong Jiyuan's VPP2 Tops RoboDojo Benchmark, Beats GPT-6-Astra and NVIDIA GR00T

QbitAI reports that Chinese robotics company Xingdong Jiyuan's World Action Model VPP2 has ranked first on the RoboDojo simulation benchmark, beating GPT-6-Astra, π0.5 and NVIDIA GR00T-N1.7. VPP2 also led real-robot zero-shot tasks and several generalization tests.

Robotics · Products & Applications

Sharpa Unveils Humanoid Robot D01, Dexterous Hand W02 and Data Glove AE01 at IROS

Sharpa, founded by former Hesai executives, introduced its first fully self-developed humanoid robot D01, a smaller tactile dexterous hand W02 and an exoskeleton data glove AE01 at IROS. The company is building a full-stack manipulation system that combines body hardware, tactile control, world models and real-task data.

Companies · World · Products & Applications

Utopai Studios Moves AI-Native Film Into Guild Production and 2027 Slate

Utopai Studios is moving AI-assisted film and TV into Hollywood guild production and a 2027 slate led by The Most Serious Fart.

World · Research

Chance Instagram photo leads to discovery of new giant waterlily in Colombia

New giant waterlily species found in Colombia after chance Instagram photo; it is already critically endangered.

Companies · Robotics · Products & Applications

Isembard Opens London Factory Making Components for Rockets, Drones and Humanoid Robots

Isembard, an automated manufacturing startup, has opened a factory in Southwark, London, that it says is the largest in the UK capital since World War II. The plant makes components for rockets, satellites, drones and humanoid robots, and is staffed by veterans, Amazon alumni and a former VC.

Products & Applications · Companies

openJiuwen Releases Enterprise-Grade AgentOS as Open Source to Scale Agent Adoption

openJiuwen has released and open-sourced an enterprise-grade AgentOS that brings multi-agent collaboration, self-evolution, compute affinity, and enterprise security into one foundation for large-scale agent deployment. The platform is part of an open ecosystem and an all-in-one acceleration offering announced at Huawei Connect 2026.

Products & Applications

Pixel 11 Is the Pixel Most People Should Buy Despite Modest Upgrade, TechRadar Review Says

TechRadar says Google's standard Pixel 11 is a modest update over the Pixel 10 but the better value over the Pixel 11 Pro, which offers little extra everyday performance for $200 more.

Products & Applications · Large Language Models

Doubao Work Adds Canvas Feature, Integrates Doubao 2.1 Lite Model

Doubao Work has added a canvas feature for complex creative tasks and integrated the lightweight Doubao 2.1 Lite model for daily office work, according to Leiphone. The canvas also connects to the new Seedream 5.0 Flash image model.

Research · World

First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Built Independently in Vienna and Beijing

Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clocks based on thorium nuclei oscillations. The clocks are precise enough to lose about a second over millions of years, though they do not yet match the best atomic clocks. The findings were published in Nature.