OpenAI hardware VP Richard Ho details Jalapeño, its Broadcom co-design, and use of OpenAI models in chip design.
Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore : Q&A with OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho on its Jalapeño inference chip co-designed with Broadcom, using internal OpenAI models to design the chip, and more — VP Hardware for Jalapeño … In June 2026, OpenAI confirmed what the industry had assumed for a year …
Google froze OSS vulnerability rewards after invalid AI-generated bug reports overwhelmed the program.
Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware : Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 — Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports — Google has officially suspended product …
Ex-OpenAI safety lead David Robinson argues AI labs need safety practices borrowed from other high-risk fields.
David Robinson / The Atlantic : David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over — What I'm about to tell you has, I realize, become something of a cliché: I resigned this week from OpenAI.
OpenAI’s DevDay plans position ChatGPT as a place to discover and launch software, challenging app stores.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model — The focus of OpenAI's Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined …
The New York Times reports on Anthropic’s meetings with religious scholars about AI and its moral implications.
Brian Chesky lays out Airbnb’s agent-to-agent ambitions and why current chatbots fail at travel commerce.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more — Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow and deliberate about AI.
Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri technical report documents its new model system and its capabilities.
Stephen Wolfram examines what AI formalization can automate in mathematics—and the human role in choosing problems.
Stephen Wolfram / Stephen Wolfram Writings : As AI automates parts of pure mathematics research, a look at formalization challenges and why human imagination remains key to deciding which questions to ask — Headlines and History — The headlines keep coming: such and such an AI system has solved such and such a math problem.
Yann LeCun says he has zero concern about AI extinction risk and addresses recent purported rogue incidents.
Toshiba plans to double HDD output for AI data centers by FY2027, targeting 30% of storage capacity.
Keigo Yoshida / Nikkei Asia : Toshiba plans to double HDD production capacity for AI data centers within FY2027 from its 2025 level, targeting a 30% share by storage capacity, up from ~10% — MANILA — Japanese technology group Toshiba plans to double production capacity for hard-disk drives used in artificial intelligence …
A close reading of what Meta got right with Muse, its generative world-model research direction.
A practical argument that agents need maintained documentation rather than ever-larger persistent memories.
A UK killer’s sentence was quashed after an AI video depicting the victim was shown during court proceedings.
Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase, a concrete open-source governance response.
Cloudflare invites developers to build a next-generation Git platform on its infrastructure.
FTL presents a new operating system designed specifically for cloud environments.
A Rust change that emits metadata earlier reportedly makes building and checking crates up to twice as fast.
OpenBSD developers reject uutils coreutils, a consequential compatibility and implementation decision.
Vx proposes one programming language targeting every chip architecture.
A technical exploration of using C2PA provenance metadata to manipulate or “hack” time.
gpuvis is an open-source visualizer for inspecting GPU execution traces.
YouTube is changing Shorts recommendations to favor original work and suppress re-uploaded content.
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google : YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize “original content” and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content — YouTube says it wants to ‘focus on originality’ in a push to surface better Shorts recommendations for users.
Sen. Sanders proposes the Ban Flock Act, targeting Flock’s networked surveillance-camera technology.
Google prepares its defense against a £1.2B UK class action over Play Store charges since 2015.
Financial Times : Google prepares to defend a £1.2B UK class action lawsuit over claims it levied “excessive” charges on Android apps downloaded from Google Play since 2015 — British claim over Google Play Store is latest effort to challenge market power of Big Tech groups
Nolan Lawson examines why developers bypass native platform capabilities despite their long-term advantages.
A concise technical guide to RSS feed best practices, useful for resilient publishing and ingestion.
The Los Angeles Times examines an AI-human radio show expanding across cities and its labor implications.
Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times : A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them — - 8 min Click here to listen to this article — Coyotec, an AI co-host on Los Angeles' José FM …
An experiment with three AI agents across two countries exposes uneven access and behavior on the web.
404 Media investigates the debate over prompting LLMs with simulated robot-prison scenarios.
Astral Codex Ten offers a firsthand account of deploying an AI midwife in a sensitive real-world setting.
Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google says free Gemini users will be limited to the 3.5 Flash-Lite model from October 9, while Plus subscribers will be limited to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.6 Flash — Following the compute-based usage change in May, Google will soon introduce limits on which Gemini models free users and AI Plus subscribers can access.
Moneycontrol : Sources: Walmart's Flipkart faces sagging employee morale as Indian startup rivals power ahead with IPOs; at least eight VPs and SVPs have quit in recent weeks — For years, former and current employees of Flipkart pinned their hopes on the Walmart-owned e-commerce major's eventual listing …
Meir Orbach / CTech : Valley National Bancorp agrees to acquire New Jersey-based Bluevine, which provides digital banking and payments services for 175K SMBs in the US, for $340M — The acquisition will give the bank a digital small business platform while accelerating its technology and AI strategy.
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal : Sources: AI czar Jay Clayton to chair the WH's AI task force, called “Super Intelligence Force”, to pen a report on AI's risks and opportunities within 120 days — The White House group will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton who will serve as AI czar
Reuters : Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka “Rey,” was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach — A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee …