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Google says Extended Thinking can talk through longer tasks as it works, with rollout beginning in Gemini Live, developer tools and selected Workspace features.

Core and Premium combine paid features across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Meta says the apps’ core experience will remain free.

The company says it banned accounts, but has not established harmful intent or an imminent biological threat.

Meta is advancing custom MTIA silicon, planning to deploy MTIA 450 (Arke) in H1 2027 and MTIA 500 (Astrid) by end-2027. These target efficient inference workloads with better performance-per-watt and cost than Nvidia systems. Meta partnered with Broadcom and TSMC.

The September 14 updates address Remote Desktop failures, Linux shared folders and multichannel audio. Microsoft says some USB audio devices still may not work.

The PV7 is longer than Kia’s previous electric van, The Verge reports.

The Verge described the under-$400 printer as one of the best for beginners. It also highlighted discounts on Switch Joy-Con, a portable Bluetooth speaker and an Anker charging station.

The Verge says the game’s designer explains how the “brutal edutainment adventure” came together on its Version History podcast.

The Verge reports that the monochrome Light phones are adding rideshare access while still minimizing feeds and notifications.

The Verge reports that the San Francisco event will include a conversation about local AI, more than two years after the last major Windows event.

Apple’s rebuilt assistant starts in English as a beta, requires a newer iPhone and initially excludes iPhones and iPads in the EU.

The redesigned interface debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, Ars Technica reports. Engadget describes split-screen support for CarPlay and Android Auto.

The account-free X reader cites a new legal development. Nitter’s repository is read-only, but permanent closure remains unconfirmed.

Tom's Hardware reports that natural gas consumption by US AI data centers is projected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day as demand for computing increases.

Business Insider reports that Agility shared renderings of the teal-blue robot, which is supposed to detect nearby people and slow down or stop when they get too close.

CoinDesk reports that two Chinese firms allegedly laundered oil-sale proceeds through Binance accounts on behalf of the IRGC.

GitLab has released fixes for CVE-2026-85706. Administrators running their own servers need to update; GitLab-hosted services are already patched, the company says.

BofA raises growth forecasts for AI semiconductor sector while funding announced for quantum/AI chip facilities and data center ventures, contrasted against market dips from AI pacing debate.

Jacob Coxon, ex-OpenAI and recent Anthropic pretraining researcher, resigned and posted that AI labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Senior Anthropic figure Evan Hubinger backed similar concerns, estimating >10% chance of human extinction in a decade without solid alignment plans.

MarketWatch reports that SpaceX plans six orbits of Earth during a nearly 10-hour Starship flight.