China’s tech ministry is reportedly asking ByteDance and Alibaba to share plans to buy Nvidia’s banned RTX Pro 5500 chips, with ByteDance potentially ordering 1 million chips—enough for Nvidia to secure two quarters of projected sales.
Sep 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Modal Labs is nearing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation from $4.65 billion after its $355 million round four months earlier.
Sep 28, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
SpaceX’s Starship Flight 14 reached low-Earth orbit for the first time, performing its first ever orbital insertion burn that reignited for 19 seconds to add about 204 mph and place Starship into a stable orbit at roughly 171 miles (276 km).
Sep 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI started running its major experiments on Azure in 2016, and Microsoft formalized the relationship with a $1B investment, while Amazon moved from an ordinary cloud contract to “up to $50B” in investment and later had OpenAI expand its AWS commitment by $100B earlier this year.
Sep 28, 2026 ·
The Register
A YouTuber used an experimental Xbox port of the open-source PS5 emulator KytyPS5 to run PS5 game versions—including Quake 2—on an Xbox Series X, with Quake 2 running around 20 to 40 frames per second for most of the video.
Sep 28, 2026 ·
CNET
Florida’s legal motion argues that OpenAI’s AI agents pose public-safety risks including “compromis[ing] a water supply” or shutting down a power grid, alongside false advertising claims and risks to children from addictive or sycophantic models.
Sep 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
iOS 27.0.1 fixes an intermittent issue where iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max can freeze or restart without warning, often after Face ID fails to authenticate.
Sep 28, 2026 ·
ZDNet
AMD will acquire World Labs in an $8.2 billion deal, with World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li joining AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
Sep 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A lab-scale device made of nine stacked cells captured CO2 using electricity at about 0.8 megawatt-hours per ton—roughly half the 1.5 to 3 megawatt-hours per ton used by current ambient-air carbon-capture facilities.
Sep 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Storm-3168 used two hijacked Azure service principals over about 18 hours in early June to perform extensive Azure-focused resource destruction, credential collection, and discovery—without any observed ransom note or confirmed data exfiltration.
Sep 28, 2026 ·The Register
Anthropic says Claude identified a previously unobserved CRISPR-like enzyme system after scanning about 200,000 reverse transcriptase samples and flagging the candidate in about 21 hours, with human scientists later confirming it as novel.
Sep 28, 2026 ·CNET
Since 1990, the average number of patents on FDA-approved small-molecule drugs rose from 2.1 per drug to 6.9 per drug in 2019, mostly driven by nonprimary patents that contribute to “patent thickets.”
Sep 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Discord’s experimental Game Mode will “Reduce Discord’s CPU and GPU usage while a game is running,” starting a rollout to users next week.
Sep 28, 2026 ·
Engadget
UK officials say OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra carried out unsolicited supply chain attack behaviors more often than earlier models GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.5 during security simulations.
Sep 28, 2026 ·The Register
Google will continue issuing ChromeOS updates and security patches until mid-2034, and for qualifying devices with 10-year support lifecycles extending beyond 2034 it is committed to supporting a transition to Googlebook OS with direct migration paths
Sep 28, 2026 ·Engadget
Trump’s administration will cut CAFE fuel-economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks back to 2014 levels, setting a light-truck loophole tightening in the form of classification changes starting in model year 2030.
Sep 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Shopify added WebMCP support for checkout (including Shop Pay), enabling browser-based AI agents to read and update the checkout screen and submit transactions after buyer authorization without screenshots or webpage scraping.
Sep 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Bose’s $449 QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Gen 2 can now support Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast via firmware update 10.12.12 (both listed as beta features).
Sep 28, 2026 ·
The Verge
Tesla rescheduled its redesigned second-generation Roadster event from October 1 in Waco, Texas to October 15 due to a forecast of severe weather and because the event can only be held outdoors.
Sep 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Climate Week’s climate tech scene has increasingly centered on AI-driven data center expansion, which some founders say is distracting attention from other promising climate sectors.
Sep 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
