Meta's personal AI assistant Muse topped Apple's U.S. free iPhone app chart on September 19, ahead of ChatGPT. Muse works through connected accounts to complete errands and purchases, but requires user approval for purchases; Meta uses sanitized task histories for training with an opt-out option.
GitHub launched Project HydraFusion, a research preview in Copilot CLI that decides how to solve a task rather than just which model to call: a single model, a cascade with escalation to a stronger model, or a critique from a different model family. In offline evals against always running Claude Opus 5 it costs less, though it can cost more than a simple cheap pick.
In a September 21 video message, Bungie studio head Poria Torkan and Marathon GM Josh Dean admitted the game didn't reach as many players as hoped and said it will evolve into a deeper survival experience. They also confirmed Marathon is not replacing Destiny.
Motorola announced a multi-year partnership with Bang & Olufsen to tune speakers, spatial modes and audio processing across its flagship phones. The Motorola Signature 27 debuts the collaboration with top-mounted dual speakers, a 200MP Sony LYTIA sensor and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, with a full reveal expected at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit.
PM Studios, the physical publisher behind Black Myth: Wukong, has responded to Sony's decision to end PlayStation disc production in January 2028. CEO Michael Yum called it "sad and devastating," saying the company will pivot to digital releases and premium collector's bundles.
An experiment by YouTube channel Modern Rogue showed AI lip-reading tools can reconstruct identifiable words and phrases from silent street-camera footage when the face is large, frontal and well lit. Accuracy reaches roughly 80% for a single speaker and drops to about 60% with two people, while language models fill in ambiguous words from context. No law specifically governs visual speech reconstruction.
Nvidia's next-gen GeForce RTX 60 series is rumored for 2028 on the Rubin architecture with GR20 codenames, roughly three years after RTX 50. No official date exists, and high memory prices and component shortages could delay the launch.
Nokia has added A1 Group, Chunghwa Telecom, du, e&, Mobily, stc, TPG Telecom and Zain Saudi to its AI-RAN trials. The platform delivers over 20% spectral efficiency gains, with commercial products expected in 2027.
Astronomers using Japan's XRISM X-ray observatory have directly observed a blue hypergiant's stellar wind being captured by its compact companion, a superdense neutron star. This captured material powers the system's strong X-ray flares.
Minisforum has unveiled the S5, a compact fanless NAS built around Intel's 15W Core 3 304 processor. It offers five M.2 PCIe 4.0 x1 slots for up to 40TB of NVMe storage, plus 10 GbE and 2.5 GbE ports, Wi-Fi 7 and two USB4 ports. Pricing and release date are not yet announced.
Oracle is offering severance to employees in its latest layoff round, capped at 26 weeks of base salary regardless of tenure. Around 3,000 workers in India may be affected, with unvested options and RSUs cancelled.
TSMC has reportedly secured approval for the third phase of its Longtan Park expansion in Hsinchu, Taiwan, covering three fabs for process technologies beyond its A14 node. The first fab is expected to start mass production in 2030.
Flag (formerly GCX) will deploy Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme technology on the Echo subsea cable between Asia and North America. The upgrade enables new 400GbE and 800GbE services on the 17,000km-plus route owned by Google and Meta.
vivo unveiled the Watch 6 alongside the X500 series. It has a 45mm titanium or stainless steel case, a 1.47-inch 466x466 AMOLED with 3,500-nit peak brightness and sapphire crystal, BlueOS 4.0, and a 505mAh battery rated up to 21 days. Prices start at CNY 999 ($149) for steel and reach CNY 1,999 ($298) for titanium with eSIM.
Saturn tested 18 popular AI tools, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot: average accuracy on financial questions was 43%, dropping to 12% on complex multi-step scenarios. Paid Claude Opus 5 (reasoning) performed best with a 61% pass rate, while free Claude Haiku 4.5 was worst with 82% wrong answers.
Apple CEO John Ternus discussed the offer to lead the company, lessons from Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, the potential of generative AI, and Vision Pro in an interview with Clique TV. He also touched on iOS 27 parental controls and the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Space Research revised estimates of Mercury's contraction: earlier calculations underestimated the shrinkage by 10 to 30%, meaning the planet lost up to 14.5 miles of its peak diameter over billions of years. The cause is a cooling, shrinking core, with wrinkle ridges and lobate scarps marking the surface.
ASUS is rolling out beta BIOS updates for AM5 motherboards across AMD 600 and 800 series (X870, B850, X670, B650), based on AGESA ComboAM5 PI 1.3.0.1d. The builds add optimized low-latency support for DDR5 modules using CXMT chips via memory training and subtiming tuning.
After unveiling the X500 series in China, Vivo is expected to bring the X500 and X500 Pro Max to India in October or early November, priced from Rs 95,000–1,00,000 and Rs 1,40,000–1,50,000 respectively. The X500 Pro may stay China-exclusive. Leaks point to Dimensity 9600M/9600 Pro chips, batteries up to 8,000mAh and a 200MP periscope on the Pro Max.
Blizzard confirmed that StarCraft, announced at BlizzCon, will launch in 2030 and won't be an Xbox exclusive. A studio spokesperson said the game "won't be exclusive," but the full platform list remains unconfirmed.
California and Paramount Skydance reportedly reached a settlement allowing the company to complete its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal combines Paramount+ with HBO Max and gives Paramount control of CNN and CBS, drawing condemnation from Democrats and media advocates.
Researchers from HKUST (Guangzhou) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University demonstrated InjectEave, an attack that makes analog components in consumer headphones re-radiate the audio they play. With a USRP B210 and a ~$400 RF amplifier, intelligible audio was recovered through walls at up to 30 meters; 11 devices were tested, including Sony ZX110AP and Philips TAH2020.
Sony appears to be testing an unannounced PlayStation Store rewards program that gives wallet credits for buying select games. A UK player reported receiving $10 in credit immediately after buying The Blood of Dawnwalker. The program likely replaces PlayStation Stars, shut down in 2025.
An experimental NvpwrControl utility pushed the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 to roughly 215W combined CPU and GPU power, with the RTX 5090 drawing about 185W and the Intel Core Ultra 386H around 31W. Temperatures reached 84°C on the GPU and 95°C on the CPU, while fans spun at up to 6,800 RPM, close to thermal throttling.
Personal AI agents like Meta's Muse, Instinct from Spear Street Technology and a possible OpenAI rival run persistent cloud VMs and browser automation, shifting demand toward CPUs. Estimates for the CPU-to-GPU ratio range from 4:1 to 40:1, while Intel says it can meet only 50% of frontier labs' CPU demand.
Anthropic could begin public trading as soon as November after filing a confidential draft registration with the SEC. Its AWS commitment exceeds $100 billion over ten years, and annualized revenue is expected to top $100 billion by year-end. CEO Dario Amodei is simultaneously calling for slower advances in AI capabilities.
TSMC co-COO Y. J. Mii said AI is useful for coding and chip design but cannot independently solve the hardest problems in developing future process nodes such as A14 and beyond 1.4nm, where no historical data exists to train models. He compared today's AI to a "three-year-old Superman" and said final decisions must remain with humans.
Volkswagen issued another profit warning, drawing a wary reaction from shareholders. Investors are hoping heavy spending on new vehicles will revive the company's prospects in Europe and China.
A New York court unsealed executive statements in The New York Times lawsuit over using millions of articles to train AI. Chatbots were called an "existential threat" to journalism and the training "the largest theft of labor in human history." The disclosures raise the odds of a major settlement with licensing or a NYT trial win.
A benchmark of 475 long-form prompts compared 24 LLMs with human writers: GPT 6 Astra scored an 87.8% predicted win rate versus 86.6% for the combined human group, though professional writers scored substantially higher when measured separately. Scoring relied on a reward model of human preference, not objective writing quality.
