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Firmus Technologies May Cut Valuation or Shelve ASX IPO, Guardian Australia Reports
Firmus may cut its near $44bn valuation or shelve its ASX IPO as investors resist the price, Guardian Australia reports.
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Firmus may cut its near $44bn valuation or shelve its ASX IPO as investors resist the price, Guardian Australia reports.
Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, as Google, Anthropic and Reflection launched new AI models and tools.
OpenAI says its GPT-6 models let ChatGPT decide when to replace text with graphics, tappable buttons, forms and charts. The Intelligent UI rolls out today to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers, and to free and Go users tomorrow.
Amazon’s 2026 fall Prime Day ends at midnight PT with Apple deals on AirPods, Macs, Watches, 9to5Mac says.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said rising borrowing costs are dividing the stock market, with AI data center, chip, power and cybersecurity companies largely insulated while credit-dependent sectors face pressure. He pointed to a strong $39 billion Treasury auction and contrasted SpaceX's planned $40 billion borrowing with Skydance's debt sale.
OpenAI rolled out GPT-6 with an interactive UI; Apple, DeepSeek and Anthropic made major AI and device news.
Nvidia and Samsung joined a $90M Series B for Nous Research, maker of the Hermes AI agent, valuing it at $1.5B.
Samsung estimated record Q3 operating profit of 107.4 tln won, up 782.5% on AI chip demand; Seoul shares opened higher.
Mecka AI, which collects human motion data to train robots, has raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia, with Nvidia and Microsoft's M12 among the participants.
Google and Unity have announced Playground, a platform that lets users 18 and older generate and customize video games from natural-language prompts without coding. Unity Spark, a more advanced creation experience, is set to be integrated later in 2026.
Samsung sees record Q3 profit on AI chips; Korea's August current account surplus hits $46.1B.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small model it says runs at roughly a quarter of Haiku 4.5's cost for most prompts, and halved cache-read prices on Claude Sonnet 5.5 as it competes with OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna.
Rivian's 2026.36 update lets R2 owners watch a live Pet Cam feed or refreshed snapshots of their pets from the phone lock screen, and adds remote Pet Mode controls plus the Rivian Assistant voice AI.
BMW's iX4 SUV offers up to 428 miles of EPA range and starts at $66,200, as BMW positions its Neue Klasse lineup against Chinese EV imports.
A Highwire survey of 1,034 corporate employees finds 78% of managers used AI to shape feedback in the past year, while employee reactions to the results are mixed.
Artcraft developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 to create seven open-source apps that mimic Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign and Acrobat Pro, Ars Technica reported. The software is in a “super early alpha” state and has drawn criticism, but Thomas promises future fidelity.
Apple released the first release candidates of macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 on Oct. 7, saying the updates carry important security fixes. The builds later reached public beta testers with unchanged numbers.
Cisco announced at WebexOne a broad Webex expansion that adds AI agents to meetings and calls, introduces customer-service automation, and connects Anthropic and OpenAI models. Most new features are planned for early 2027.
Aston Martin runs back-end AI on Infor software but keeps AI agents off its customer website, CIO Steve O'Connor says.
President Trump will award science and technology medals to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella and other tech executives Thursday, as SpaceX seeks $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips and Samsung commits $1 billion to a data-center venture with Nvidia and KKR.
Nous Research raised a $90M Series B at a $1.5B valuation and launched Hermes for Businesses, moving its open-source AI agent into the enterprise.
Code found in iOS 27.2 lists a Schneider-branded thermostat and a temperature/humidity sensor as 'second-party' HomeKit devices, suggesting Apple's co-development push extends beyond its reported work with LG.
OpenAI is rolling out new GPT-6 models in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, which lets the chatbot combine text, graphics, buttons, forms, charts, and interactive tools in responses. Paid users get access first, with Free and Go users following on October 8.
Arista unveiled an open Ethernet rack-scale portfolio for AI scale-up and scale-out fabrics, led by Etherlink SU-144, which connects up to 144 XPUs in one hop and 1,024 across racks.