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A leak says Apple's LG co-developed smart home devices will support 'Proximity Control,' a Dynamic Island feature showing thermostat, camera and doorbell controls when an iPhone is nearby.
Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and startup Instinct are expanding AI agents from chatbots into shopping and life-admin tasks, while Revolut plans agentic shopping. Investors are weighing the impact on retail and fintech stocks.
At SailPoint's Navigate event in Austin, executives and experts said AI agents are forcing identity security to machine-speed remediation, with just-in-time access, human ownership and enforcement outside the agent.
Flock is cutting about 270 jobs, or 18% of its workforce, through a voluntary separation program as the surveillance company faces growing privacy and civil liberties backlash.
Caloroga Media launched Linnet, a browser-based podcast production studio with an AI assistant that handles scripting, editing and publishing under one subscription. An invitation-only beta gives testers 30 days of the Creator plan free; public pricing is undisclosed.
U.S. stocks rose Friday, helped by calm oil and bond markets, as investors weighed SpaceX's Starlink mobile expansion, conflicting OpenAI revenue reports and a surge in options hedging against a tech pullback.
Raspberry Pi has raised prices again because of rising memory costs. TechRadar reports the 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 costs $199.95 on Amazon, while the $259.99 CanaKit Starter Kit Pro adds a case, cooling, power, cables and a 128GB microSD card.
Apple's Oct. 13 'Welcome home' event is expected to bring a smart display, new Apple TV, HomePod mini and HomeKit gear.
Xona Space Systems is preparing to launch six satellites this month to begin beta-testing Pulsar, a commercial navigation and timing service that promises centimeter-level precision and stronger signals than GPS.
Volkswagen has introduced the ID. Tiguan as the replacement for the ID.4, after nearly a million ID.4 and ID.5 sales worldwide. The new electric crossover uses the MEB+ platform and offers up to 600 km of WLTP range.
MIT Tech Review’s Oct. 9 newsletter covers AI refusal failures, GLP-1 side effects, and Envision’s renewable data centers.
Anthropic offers free vulnerability scans to open-source projects via OSS Scanner, using AI reports without human review.
Shaquille O'Neal joined NordVPN in Times Square to teach Americans about digital threats and promote its antivirus tools.
As CF patients meet in Atlanta, the final 10% still await a breakthrough after recent trial setbacks.
Credo Technology has moved from eight years of DSP work into optical modules and silicon photonics, pushing its ZeroFlap line from 800G to 1.6T and combining its Cardinal DSP, Kfir200 PIC and PILOT diagnostics, according to Leiphone.
TRAE has merged TraeCode and TraeWork into a single platform featuring Agent and IDE modes, multi-agent workflows, shared artifacts, templates and Feishu/WeChat access, QuantumBit reported.
BMW has unveiled the all-electric iX4, reviving its X4 coupe SUV line on the Neue Klasse platform with up to 828 km WLTP range and European prices starting at 70,900 euros.
Li Auto revealed the new i6 with flagship features, a 96 kWh 5C battery and the self-developed Mach M100 chip. The five-seat SUV will debut in Europe on Oct. 12 and launch on Oct. 28.
After OpenAI released more than 700 mathematics manuscripts, the Human Mathematics Association urged mathematicians to stop working with the company, setting off a dispute over how AI-generated results are verified and credited.
New research presented in Boston suggests GLP-1 drugs may reduce biological age by two to three years in overweight and diabetic users. Use is rising, side effects range from gastrointestinal issues to hair and nail changes, and WHO says it does not recommend the drugs for children under 10.
Lenovo's TianxiCode, paired with DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash, topped SWE-bench-Live Lite with a 71% solve rate and passed verification.
Aether AI released demos of CRIS-0, a causal-reasoning robot controller that halts in 0.2 seconds when a hand interrupts a task and replans in about two seconds after disturbances. QbitAI reported 9 of 10 perturbation recoveries and 18 of 20 correct responses to ambiguous instructions.
OpenAI is standing by its dismissal of three AI safety researchers, saying they violated policies on sensitive information. The researchers say they were fired for raising safety concerns and have called for more transparency.
Google unveiled Gemini Agents, always-on cloud AI agents that work toward goals and can get their own Gmail accounts.