The Wall Street Journal reports alleged sharing with an outside AI safety group; OpenAI cites policy violations.
San Francisco startup Volantis announced an $88M Series A on October 1, 2026, led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, to develop optical chip-to-memory interconnects using VCSEL lasers. The technology aims to enable far more memory chips per GPU and boost inference speeds to 10k tokens/sec.
PCMag says the new Kindle Signature Editions have aluminum backs, no bezels and increased storage.
YouTubeiPhone 18 Pro series sales in China jumped 12% in first 3 days versus prior Pro models. Apple captured ~33% smartphone market share. A20 and A20 Pro chips (TSMC 2nm) feature different GPU tiers (5-core vs. 7-core) but share Neural Engine specs for AI tasks.
An October 1 announcement calls them Cloudflare’s first homegrown models and links to a demo and leaderboard.
Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reports Anthropic is seeking to go public as soon as mid-November after pushing back listing plans.
Techmeme links to a Reuters report saying a16z and Accel led the round for the AI cybersecurity agent startup.
Sony announced QSSR—an AI upscaling tech optimized for base PS5 to improve image detail and clarity. First supported in patches for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, with wider developer support planned.
MacRumors reports that Apple hardware engineering VP Kate Bergeron said the nano-texture layer can be peeled off and replaced.
Apple Pay rolled out in India for Axis Bank credit cards (Visa/Mastercard) on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, accepted at millions of merchants, after years of UPI-market regulatory hurdles. No UPI or RuPay support at launch; Mac support coming.
Teslarati linked to a TeslaAUNZ video alongside its availability update for both countries.
OpenAI announced the global rollout Thursday. The new tools let users preview clothing and accessories on their own photos and save products to a Library for later.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission launched Oct 1 from Cape Canaveral carrying commander Jessica Watkins, pilot Luke Delaney, CSA's Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos' Sergey Teteryatnikov. Targeted for ~7-hour launch-to-docking to ISS.
A user says they'll be hosting Hard Fork and shared a YouTube link with the announcement.
Techmeme, citing PhoneArena, reports that prices for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 stayed unchanged.
The launch announcement says selected technologists will get access to an Atlas Holdings portfolio representing $26 billion in annual revenue.
Techmeme shares a Colossus profile of Vélez as Nubank enters the US.
Windows posted a save-the-date for an Oct. 7 YouTube stream, and the linked page says viewers will get a look at what’s next from Windows, Surface and NVIDIA, including RTX Spark.
Broadcom agreed to backstop up to $42 billion in convertible notes to finance Anthropic's massive TPU and compute leases, part of a ~$125B five-year infrastructure commitment. The deal could position Anthropic as Broadcom's largest customer by 2027 with potential equity conversion.
His new explainer draws a recommendation from Stefan Rows, two weeks after Jev’s early-access debut.
