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OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models — OpenAI announced Monday that it's releasing a new version of GPT-5 to its AI coding agent, Codex.
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
A now-removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel shows Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a HUD shown to one eye, used for Meta AI and on-foot navigation — Meta's HUD glasses with sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked clip which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals.
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
The now-removed video from Meta also showed the rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses with a centered camera, highlighting their use in skiing and running — As well as the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the leaked video also reveals the design of the rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses with a centered camera.| Financial Times: |
China says US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the deal with the US includes “licensing the algorithm and other IP rights” — Agreement with Washington includes ‘licensing the algorithm and other intellectual property rights’, says Beijing official
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| Zachary McAuliffe / CNET: |
iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing, many quality-of-life upgrades, call screening is a true game changer, but the Games app feels unfinished — It's been a long three months since Apple announced iOS 26 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but the wait is over.
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| Brandon Russell / The Verge: |
Amazon plans to hold its 2025 Prime Big Deal Days from October 7 at 12:01am PT through October 8, exclusive to Prime subscribers — The event jumpstarts the holiday shopping season, giving Prime members two days to save on TVs, headphones, and more. … Amazon has announced its fall Prime Big Deal Days event.| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to invest £5B in the UK on AI, energy, R&D, and more over the next two years, and expects to add 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the country — The company said the investment would add more than 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the U.K.
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Filing: the Internet Archive and major music labels settle a copyright infringement lawsuit against IA over its project to preserve early music recordings — A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project … | Reuters: |
A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to — Major AI chatbots were happy to help. — Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam …
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Seon, which uses AI to detect and prevent fraud, raised an $80M Series C led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total funding to $187M — Fraud prevention and anti-money-laundering compliance company SEON Technologies Kft. announced today that it has raised $80 million in new funding …
More: SEON and SecurityWeek
| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Sources: US FTC is probing if Ticketmaster does enough to stop bots from illegal resales, focusing on its compliance with a law against automated ticket resales — Live Nation Inc.'s Ticketmaster is being probed by the US Federal Trade Commission over whether it's done enough to keep bots … | New York Times: |
A new super PAC called the Fellowship PAC says it will spend $100M+ to support pro-crypto legislators; sources say Tether is expected to be one of the backers — The effort, called the Fellowship PAC, is the crypto industry's latest move to help elect legislators that will force through its interests in Washington.
More: Blockworks, Decrypt, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, BeInCrypto, and The Crypto Times. X: @fellowship_pac
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making “Hypernova”, through a spate of dealmaking — Goertek takes stronger grip of US tech giant's supply chain, even as Zuckerberg aligns with Trump's anti-China stance
X: @mattocko and @byron_wan
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spend; he left xAI in July — OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk's xAI, to be the artificial intelligence startup's business finance officer …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood has filed an application with the SEC to launch a new publicly traded fund called “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” that will hold shares of startups — Robinhood announced Monday it has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch …
More: Robinhood Newsroom, Ventureburn, Blockonomi, TheStreet, The Information, Cryptonews, MarketWatch, and Cointelegraph. Forums: Slashdot
| PYMNTS.com: |
Doctronic, which uses generative AI for health guidance and offers video visits with licensed doctors, raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Doctronic raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to expand its services and grow the adoption of its artificial …
More: Doctronic, Pulse 2.0, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Axios
| New York Times: |
How UAE's $2B investment in Trump family's WLF is linked to the deal allowing the UAE's G42 to access AI chips, in which David Sacks played a key role — This summer, Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, paid a visit to the coast of Sardinia, a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea crowded with super yachts.
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Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/neoliberal, r/moderatepolitics, r/Buttcoin, and r/politics
| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia's China-only RTX 6000D receives lukewarm demand, with some seeing it as expensive given its performance lags the RTX 5090 — - RTX6000D not cost-effective; better card can be found on grey market, sources say — Tech firms awaiting clarity on H20 orders, potential B30A chip, sources say| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $450M+, and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025 — Smartphone startup Nothing announced today that it closed its Series C round of $200 million, which was led by the investment firm Tiger Global.| Nikkei Asia: |
Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai jumped 7.7% in its Hong Kong debut, giving the company a ~$4.5B market cap after raising ~$514M from the IPO — HONG KONG — Hesai Group, China's leading producer of laser sensors for cars, got off to a roaring start in its Hong Kong Exchange debut on Tuesday morning.
More: South China Morning Post, TechNode, Financial Times, CnEVPost, Blockchain.News, and Bloomberg
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: the SEC settles a lawsuit accusing crypto exchange Gemini of failing to register the Gemini Earn lending program before offering it to retail investors — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused an exchange run by billionaire twins Tyler … | Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
A Google executive says users increasingly want “contextual answers and summaries”, but Google is not going to abandon the model that provides “10 blue links” — When asked about a new lawsuit over AI Overviews, Google said users increasingly want the AI summaries.
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