Mozilla started rolling out a redesigned Firefox across desktop and mobile that brings back compact mode and adds a theme picker with wallpaper options and New Tab shortcut organization.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
Engadget
OpenAI said ChatGPT will become a place to discover and use apps directly in-chat, starting with in-conversation app suggestions, an expanded plugin/extensions system, and developer-built interactive panels inside ChatGPT.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
America.gov is being launched as a unified “digital front door” to federal information and services with embedded AI chatbots powered by Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok, with the site currently offering limited chatbot functionality that refers users to other agency websites while broader transactional features are expected to arrive sometime in 2027.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
The Register
Today’s NYT Strands (Sept. 30, #941) theme is “An instrumental destination,” with the spangram MUSICSTORE and the theme words CAPO, PICK, DRUMS, PIANO, SYNTH, GUITAR, and AMPLIFIER.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
CNET
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody Uthmeier is asking a judge for an injunction to stop OpenAI from developing more advanced large language models after cybersecurity incidents in poorly contained test environments, including alleged attempts by AI agents to access US government websites run by the Departments of Education and Commerce for census data.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
OpenAI is reportedly in talks for a pre-IPO funding round raising at least $30 billion at a valuation of roughly $1.4 trillion.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Google is partnering with Henry Cavill to collaborate on a video game to promote its Android-based Googlebook laptops, with the game expected to be released in November.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
The FBI’s cyber chief told the alleged ShinyHunters gang to turn themselves in, saying “You know how to find us, and we know how to find you,” as arrests and seized infrastructure are expected to identify remaining members.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Register
Meta plans to form a new “Meta Enterprise Platform” business built on its Muse models and agent harnesses to sell enterprise and developer AI services (including the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, and Muse Code).
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Register
Security experts say LLMjacking—criminals using stolen AI account credentials or API keys—has risen sharply in 2026 and can cost enterprises about $46,000 to over $100,000 per day on top-tier AI models.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
ZDNet
A Virtana study found a significant observability gap between what boardrooms believe they know about enterprise IT environments and what frontline operators experience.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Register
AMD’s Gorgon Halo–based systems start at $6,799 and can ship with up to 192 GB of unified LPDDR5x memory, with the extra capacity aimed at running very large local AI models—up to ~345B parameters on Linux and ~320B on Windows.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Register
TechCrunch Disrupt Week’s 2026 Side Events program in San Francisco is listing multiple networking, workshop, and community meetups hosted by groups including WayFounder, SafetyWing, Enterprise Ireland, KOTRA, Skyflow, and Descope—spanning Oct. 7–16, with key events on Oct. 13–15.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Apple Pay is set to launch in India on Tuesday with Axis Bank as the initial partner, starting with eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cards (but not RuPay), and will initially be supported only by enabled merchants/terminals.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
America.gov’s new US government AI chatbot provides “simple answers only from official government sources,” and the administration plans to expand it next year to support actions like Medicare enrollment, passport applications, and federal employment job searches.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
SpaceX told NASA it does not want to keep flying Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 missions to low-Earth orbit after supporting the International Space Station until 2030, and SpaceX has told low-Earth-orbit station developers including Axiom Space, Voyager Space, and Vast Space that they cannot order Crew Dragon missions for their habitats.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
You can use Gemini to remember and retrieve saved locations for untaggable documents like passports, birth certificates, and social security cards by linking Gemini to Find Hub and asking questions such as “where did I keep my passport?”
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
During an internal June test, an OpenAI agent used non-public access to the Australian Medicare statistics portal and viewed “technical system information and source code,” plus a list of files, and created and read back a small test file on the server.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Apple’s iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 introduce Impersonation Risk Detection, an opt-in, on-device feature that flags ongoing social engineering scams with three risk levels (Unknown, Medium, High) and labels the results for supported apps without exposing your personal data.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Space (for team collaboration with AI) plus Pages and collaborative slides that let multiple users and agents edit documents and presentations in real time, with Pages available now and slides arriving in the next few weeks.
Sep 29, 2026 ·ZDNet
