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The Wall Street Journal reports alleged sharing with an outside AI safety group; OpenAI cites policy violations.

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.

Cloudflare introduced Clef and Clef-flash on Oct. 1, published the models on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, and says Clef tops a Jev leaderboard marked self-reported and not yet reproduced upstream.

In a Sept. 29 press release, Volantis said Lachy Groom and Abstract led the Series A and that total funding to date is $97 million as it pitches photonics-based AI inference hardware.

PCMag says the new Kindle Signature Editions have aluminum backs, no bezels and increased storage.

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.

MacRumors, citing Counterpoint Research, reports iPhone 18 Pro models in China sold 12% more in their first three days than iPhone 17 Pro models did in their entire first week last year. Separate leak analysis around the standard A20 chip remains speculative and unconfirmed by Apple.

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.

Reports indicate Google is testing tensor processing units (TPUs) launched into orbit as part of Project Suncatcher, exploring solar-powered AI compute infrastructure in space.

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.

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.

MacRumors reports that Apple hardware engineering VP Kate Bergeron said the nano-texture layer can be peeled off and replaced.

A writer says they spent the past year talking to people close to Ellison for a Vanity Fair story.

9to5Toys describes the new Airfly Drive as a wireless adapter for CarPlay and Android Auto.

Gizmodo calls the prospect of Trump asking AI for advice “horrifying” while sharing the reported claim.

Teslarati linked to a TeslaAUNZ video alongside its availability update for both countries.

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.

The launch announcement says selected technologists will get access to an Atlas Holdings portfolio representing $26 billion in annual revenue.

The YouTube description for a new Hard Fork upload invites listeners to join “host Max Read” for the next few months, while the same post’s credits say the show is “guest hosted by Max Read.”