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Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals, saying colleagues may now be afraid to speak.
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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.
Google Cloud launched Gemini agent, a cloud-hosted universal enterprise agent for knowledge work, media, coding, and task delegation.
German factory automation startup Daedalus, founded by ex-OpenAI robotics lead Jonas Schneider, has entered insolvency proceedings, Sifted reports.
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.
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.
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.
SK Chairman Chey Tae-won pledged to speed up a new semiconductor cluster in southwestern South Korea amid rising chip demand.
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.
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.
Utopai Studios is moving AI-assisted film and TV into Hollywood guild production and a 2027 slate led by The Most Serious Fart.
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.
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.
CoreWeave is adding managed services, the Forge platform and RL Rollouts to speed AI inference and agentic model iteration as inference workloads grow, an executive says.
Counterpoint expects OLED notebook display shipments to rise 50% in 2026, helped by Apple's next MacBook Pro and AI PCs.
Terence Tao-led Association for Human Mathematicians urged a global boycott of OpenAI after it released over 700 machine-generated proof documents, QuantumBit reported.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, OpenAI added GPT-6 models to ChatGPT, and PC makers showed Nvidia RTX Spark systems. Microsoft reported tens of millions of annual Copilot+ PC shipments, Amazon launched Alexa Tablets, and Apple scheduled an Oct. 13 event.
Nvidia-backed Firmus has withdrawn its planned $5 billion IPO in Australia, citing market volatility.
A South Korean lawmaker said Friday that 16 of 18 suspected overseas hacking attacks on domestic financial companies since 2024 remain unattributed, with only two attackers identified.
Google Cloud introduced Gemini Agent, an enterprise office agent with a persistent corporate identity, four types of memory, cross-app execution and multi-model orchestration that can call Anthropic's Claude.
Apple will hold a product event on Oct. 13 and plans a touchscreen MacBook Pro, while OpenAI, Samsung, Anthropic, Porsche, Xiaomi and XPeng disclosed new AI, supply, job-cut, EV and robotaxi moves.
Gallatin AI raised $50 million in Series A funding for Navigator, its AI-powered military logistics platform used by the U.S. Army and Air Force.
John M. Wilson, Google's former global design and construction chief, has joined Anthropic to oversee EMEA capacity delivery, the latest in a string of Google infrastructure veterans moving to the AI developer.
Elastic has introduced AlertZero, a set of AI agents built into Elastic Security that triage alerts, hunt threats and analyze attacks, with each customer deciding how much runs without human sign-off.