OpenAI employee arrested over hidden recording device in office
An OpenAI employee was arrested and charged with planting a hidden recording device in a San Francisco office, per OpenAI and the US Justice Department.
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Nvidia commits $250M over five years to UK agentic safety research
Nvidia will give UK researchers $50 million in computing annually, part of a $250 million five-year commitment, as European cities deploy Nvidia-powered AI agents for urban operations.
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Nvidia and ChipAgents launch benchmark for AI chip design
Nvidia and ChipAgents released a benchmark measuring how AI models perform at chip design tasks. Anthropic's Fable 5.1 powered the best agent, scoring only 16.6%.
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ASML beats on AI demand, says it can't keep up
ASML raised its full-year sales outlook and forecast Q4 revenue above expectations as AI-driven chip demand surges, but warned it will be unable to meet customer demand in 2027 and 2028.
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OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju to lead compute and data centers
OpenAI named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infrastructure and compute units. Current computing chief Sachin Katti will depart next month, per WSJ.
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xAI launches Grok Voice 3.0 speech-to-speech model
xAI released Grok Voice 3.0, a speech-to-speech model for building voice agents; it is reportedly already handling Starlink and Tesla calls.
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Danaher and Nvidia partner to bring AI into lab instruments
Danaher is collaborating with Nvidia to integrate AI into scientific instruments, with initial work focused on select instruments to advance autonomous science and AI-supported research.
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Coinbase launches agent payment stack on x402 anniversary
Coinbase debuted an agent payment stack for its business unit anniversary; Chainalysis says AI agents made 138 million x402 payments on Base, though half may be fake.
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Nvidia CEO says he would cut off unsafe AI customers
Jensen Huang said he would halt chip supply to any customer developing unsafe AI software, while adding he thinks current concern about the technology is overblown.
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NEURA Robotics launches Neuron AI foundation model for robots
German robotics unicorn NEURA Robotics introduced Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model that gives robots perception and memory for physical AI and humanoid applications.
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Coinbase launches agent payment stack on x402 anniversary
Coinbase debuted an agent payment stack for its business unit anniversary; Chainalysis says AI agents made 138 million x402 payments on Base, though half may be fake.
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China approves Alibaba Qwen AI for Apple Intelligence iPhones
Chinese regulators cleared Alibaba's Qwen AI models for use in Apple Intelligence on iPhones, arriving just ahead of the iPhone Duo launch.
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Android adds Gemini-powered scam detection in Messages and calls
Android is rolling out scam defense features, including an enhanced protection setting that uses Gemini to warn users about scammy messages in Google Messages and on calls. The feature rolls out as opt-in protection.
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Visual Studio Code 1.141.1, Cursor, Zed, Warp, Kiro, Trae updated
New releases: Visual Studio Code 1.141.1, an open-source code editor for macOS, Windows and Linux; plus Cursor 3.24.18, Zed 1.23.3, Warp 0.2026.09.30.08.29.stable_01, Kiro 1.3.0 and Trae 2.3.61406.
Version 1.141.1 路 macOS / Windows / Linux
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Google adds MCP support to Apigee hybrid 1.17.0
Apigee hybrid 1.17.0 adds native Model Context Protocol support, letting the MCP data plane run inside a user's own Kubernetes cluster so AI agent traffic and tool execution stay on their infrastructure.
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Google Play adds vibe-coded app creation and AI comparisons
Google Play Store now supports creating apps without developer fees, AI app comparisons and personalized game discovery, letting users vibe-code private apps.
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More: Gagadget.com, Qazinform
Square launches Kiosk with conversational AI ordering
Square launched the Square Kiosk, a large pill-shaped touchscreen ordering device with an agentic conversational voice layer that understands a seller's menu and listens to orders.
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Google open-sources AQuA ambient quality agent for production AI
AQuA is a reference implementation that runs beside your production agent on Google Cloud, sweeping logs and traces to catch silent quality regressions. The same roundup covers EmbeddingGemma 2 developer guides, edge multimodal search and TPU video-diffusion kernels.
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OpenAI employee arrested over hidden recording device in office