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Apple's macOS 27.2 beta 3 adds touch gesture recognizers to Photos, Notes, Safari and Quick Look, the latest sign the company is preparing its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, expected as soon as this month.
The Wikimedia Foundation says unapproved AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI edited Wikimedia wikis, probed Etherpad, and generated millions of automated requests that may have contributed to a May outage.
Dell's XPS Googlebook starts at $999, $200 below Google's disclosed price. It is on sale now, shipping as soon as Oct. 21.
Dell and CoreWeave say AI reliability now requires data-center-wide coordination of compute, power and cooling.
Garmin, Galaxy and Apple watch owners reported being unable to sync workouts to Strava on October 5, 2026, with the cause still unclear. Separately, Samsung said its new SmartTag 3 tracker will work with iPhones and other Android phones.
Infor Velocity Week will examine industry-specific agentic AI and automation in enterprise workflows on Oct. 7.
Meta engineers found several security flaws in its Muse AI agent before launch, including at least one that could let a normal user reach sensitive internal databases, according to 404 Media.
Nolla Health launched a Utah pilot for AI-generated acne prescriptions, using facial scans with phased physician oversight.
Etched is reviewing early funding offers that value the AI chip startup at $40 billion to $50 billion, months after raising $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch sources.
TechRadar reports an open Microsoft database with 17 trillion rows and 25,000 user accounts was hacked by a bored teenager who was well-paid, while Charlotte, Pima County and Guildford County try to stop data centers from taking over.
Reflection AI has unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model it says matches leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning at lower compute cost. The claim is not independently verified, and Reflection plans to release weights and technical details this month.
TikTok launched an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout, letting users buy directly from brands inside its app.
U.S. technology shares rose Monday, with the Nasdaq setting a record and Nvidia pacing a record close, as Microsoft rallied on an analyst upgrade. SpaceX jumped nearly 8%, returning Elon Musk to trillionaire status, while Intel fell after Musk confirmed talks with TSMC about the Terafab AI manufacturing project.
Samsung is expanding its stable Android 17-based One UI 9 update to more Galaxy S25, Galaxy Z Fold 7, and Galaxy Z Flip 7 models in the US, with carrier and device availability still varying.
Instinct said Monday it will let users add its AI agent to group chats, even with friends who do not have Instinct accounts. The feature is rolling out to early access users first.
Ghost, founded by 19-year-old Zain Javaid, has raised an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz for Core, a $3,499 computer built to run personal AI agents. Pre-orders opened Monday, with shipping set for late October.
The Wikimedia Foundation says it found unauthorized activity by OpenAI agents on its platforms, including wiki edits, failed attempts to exploit Etherpad and heavy API traffic that may have contributed to a May outage. OpenAI has not commented.
Apple has seeded third developer betas for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS 27.2 Golden Gate, watchOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2 and visionOS 27.2, two weeks after the previous round. The betas expand Siri AI languages and add a redesigned Health app and Apple TV profiles.
Two sisters have launched Hot Girl Hotline, a New York-based AI relationship-advice app for young women that aims to offer safer, behaviorally grounded guidance than general-purpose chatbots.
PearX, Pear VC's 12-week accelerator, held its bi-annual demo day in San Francisco last week. TechCrunch reported that five of the 16 startups—Speridlabs, Saia, Ren, Veros, and Datum—drew the most attention from venture capitalists.
Bloomberg's Oct. 5, 2026 trading brief said AI chip shares surged as Sam Altman backed Cerebras and Elon Musk fueled a TSMC rally. Two mega deals hit the tape, Brazilian markets jumped on a Bolsonaro upset, and analysts discussed a $110 billion Skydance-Paramount merger and a possible gold bounce.
Zurich-founded Namespace Labs has raised $42 million in a Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, seven months after its Series A, to expand a compute cloud built for AI agents, testing and builds — including its fleet of Mac hardware.
HackerRank has made Chakra, an AI interviewer that watches candidates work and scores their reasoning, generally available after a six-month beta that included more than 500,000 interviews.
Nvidia and CoreWeave are targeting CPU bottlenecks in agentic AI infrastructure, with CoreWeave planning standalone Vera CPU capacity and early Sandbox tests showing about 3x faster startup times, according to SiliconANGLE.