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Firmus Technologies has abandoned its planned ASX listing, which was expected to value the AI data centre company at $44bn, after investor demand fell short. The company says it will now seek private capital.
9to5Mac hosts discuss Apple's reported LG smart home partnership, Full Disk Access changes, and OLED MacBook Pro details.
Anthropic announced free AI-generated vulnerability scans for open-source projects through OSS Scanner and a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with 11 founding partners, both under its new Anthropic Cyber Mission.
Isomorphic Labs is reportedly in early talks to raise a round at a $40 billion to $50 billion valuation, as it markets its IsoDDE drug-discovery AI and partnerships with Eli Lilly, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson.
AMD consumer chip chief Jack Huynh says FSR 4 will reach APUs, gaming laptops and handhelds by the end of 2026, but it is unclear whether existing handhelds will receive official support.
Anthropic's annual usage policy update adds a ban on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its AI models, while tightening election rules ahead of the midterms, Engadget reported.
Apple may hold an Oct. 27 event for new Macs and iPads after next week's smart home event, including a possible M6 iPad.
Common Sense Media's 36-page risk assessment found ChatGPT for Teens failed in five key areas, including parent safety alerts, crisis referrals, age prediction and Study Mode, and called it an unacceptable risk for all under-18 users.
Fired OpenAI safety researchers deny misconduct and warn of a chilling effect; OpenAI memo denies retaliation.
California regulator tells robot-fighting startup Rek it cannot hold human boxing or MMA matches without approval.
CoreWeave announced its Forge development platform and partner network at the Fully Connected event, aiming to link training, inference and evaluation in an open full-stack AI cloud. The company also validated Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform and earned a third Platinum ClusterMAX rating.
The October 8, 2026 episode of 9to5Mac Daily covers a sketchy OLED iPad mini rumor, an iCloud+ subscriber perk, mixed Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 repairability results, and an App Store invitation for iPhone Duo-ready apps.
Stack Overflow’s annual survey of 30,000 developers across 169 countries found 45.1% describe themselves as complacent, many citing burnout, and 17% fear AI may replace them. Most use AI coding tools, but skepticism remains over trust and verification.
SpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation as a founding corporate patron and donating $1.5 million in Grok tokens to David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy Linux project, The Verge reported.
Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a $2,599 professional laptop powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark platform and Blackwell graphics. Shipping starts October 16, 2026, with configurations up to $5,899.99 and 128GB unified memory.
Forza Horizon 6 will launch on PS5 on January 26, 2027, after being delayed from 2026, and will arrive alongside its first expansion.
Ben Affleck went viral after interviews explaining neural networks, tensors and filmmaking AI, and his Netflix startup sale.
OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, below a widely reported $68 billion figure, sending Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave shares lower. USA Today sued OpenAI over training data, mathematicians questioned its latest proofs, and Arena raised at a $3.1 billion valuation.
Google unveiled a unified Gemini agent that can plan and complete work on a user's behalf, launching first for businesses before a later consumer rollout, per a TechCrunch report.
Amazon unveiled three Alexa-branded tablets starting at $230, dropping the 15-year-old Fire name and, for the first time, shipping tablets with certified Android 16 and the Google Play Store.
Amazon has built its 1,000th satellite and plans to launch space internet by year-end, challenging SpaceX's Starlink.
AT&T subscribers reported receiving unexpected password-change texts and emails early Thursday, many arriving around the same time. No account compromise has been confirmed, and the carrier has been asked to explain the notifications.
TechRadar says Apple TV will bring Dolby Atmos to F1 for the first time, and Apple's 'Welcome Home' event is set for Oct. 13.
Apple TV has unveiled the trailer for season 2 of its golf comedy 'Stick,' which returns November 4 with Owen Wilson as a former pro golfer chasing an unlikely comeback.