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| 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.
More: Google Help Center, TechRadar, Neowin, Advertising, Marketing …, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, The Decoder, Superpower Daily, and XDA Developers
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Forums: r/Bard, r/Bard, and r/GeminiAI
| 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 … | 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.
More: Wolfram on YouTube. X: @steveinpursuit and @stephen_wolfram. LinkedIn: Kevin O'Bryant. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 … | 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 …
More: Security Affairs, The Hacker News, Hackread, BleepingComputer, and Cyber Security News
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/hacking
| Politico: |
Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor — President Donald Trump said Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will assume the newly created role …
More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Washington Examiner, Times of India, The Guardian, The Information, CBS News, Bloomberg Law, Australian Financial Review, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Economic Times, Deutsche Welle, Reuters, Straight Arrow, ABC News, Cointelegraph, Advertising, Marketing …, and Fox News
| 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.| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse — Alexandr Wang drove Muse to the top of the charts, putting the company back in the AI race—even if he ruffled feathers inside the tech giant| 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.
More: Reuters, Financial Times, Telegraph, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Engadget, OpenAI, Advertising, Marketing …, The Asia Business Daily, Superpower Daily, Notebookcheck, Hürriyet Daily News, CTech, Digg, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, The Economic Times, The Verge, The Decoder, and Business Insider
X: @kevinbankston, @willoremus, @xlr8harder, @boazbaraktcs, @andrewcurran_, @kimmonismus, @bogdanionutcir2, @bhumikatharoor, @adriennelaf, @theatlantic, and @deephumor. Bluesky: @mbkplus
Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, @tante@tldr.nettime.org, @carnage4life@mas.to, and @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, r/ChatGPT, r/Futurology, r/BetterOffline, and r/singularity
| 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| 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 …
More: Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Dow Jones Newswires, and ZeroHedge News
| 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.
More: Banking Dive, This Week in Fintech, Bluevine, PYMNTS, and Finovate
| 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 … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5 — The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link — We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …
More: Muse Gadgets, Advertising, Marketing …, The Decoder, The Indian Express, The Verge, GitHub, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, Tech My Money, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
X: @natfriedman, @viticci, @natfriedman, @wesbos, @benjaminsehl, @alexandr_wang, @alexandr_wang, @rauchg, @alexandr_wang, @rrhoover, @ylecun, @jesikmin, @wesbos, @bubbleboi, @richlightshed, @muse, @alexandr_wang, @phequals7, @symonebeez, @bubbleboi, @andrey__hq, @jaredpalmer, @viticci, @dps, @dps, @rileybrown, @altryne, @anantn, @steveruizok, @dwr, and @mignano. Bluesky: @kosso.co.uk
Forums: r/selfhosted, r/MetaAI, and r/MuseAgent
| 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 … | 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.
More: PCMag, WeRSM, Android Authority, TVREV, Digital Music News, and Digital Trends
X: @mariojoos, @reneritchie, @florkofcows, @zachbussey, and @big_e
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