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.
The studio behind Escape from Tarkov is opening Battlestate Games Publishing to back niche hardcore projects that major publishers deem too risky. COO Nikita Buyanov said over 100 pitches have already come in, including well-known indie titles.
Capcom has confirmed that the classic Elder Dragon Khezu will return in the Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance expansion. The DLC is scheduled for release in 2027, and the game is already available to wishlist on Steam.
A group of House Democrats introduced the CISA Force Structure Assessment Act, requiring the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to review its personnel, training and certifications after roughly 1,000 employees left during Trump's second term amid budget cuts.
Harvey, the $15.6 billion legal AI startup that built its business on OpenAI's GPT-4, is rethinking its dependence on AI giants as costs soar. Other startups are increasingly adopting open models instead of relying on Anthropic and OpenAI.
Google introduced AX, an open-source "Agentic Orchestrator," on September 18, 2026, during its I/O developer conference. The platform lets developers compose, coordinate and supervise autonomous AI agents across cloud, edge and on-device environments via a single declarative API, with a reference implementation for Gemini 1.5 Pro.
Researchers extracted DNA from parchment used in books from the 8th to 14th centuries and identified 21 sheeppox virus genomes dating from 1700 BCE to 1917 CE. Combined with archaeological samples, the data reconstructed over 3,500 years of sheeppox evolution.
Bloomberg warns that the US economy is overly dependent on AI, with AI-related spending driving roughly half of GDP growth and investors fearing a dot-com-scale collapse. Any slowdown in AI development would cut capex and reset profit expectations across the entire ecosystem.
Hands-on videos of the OnePlus 16 have surfaced ahead of its official launch. The built-in "interstellar lighting effects" LEDs will be exclusive to the Tomorrow's Starlight colorway, and the bezels are thinner than the 1.15mm on the OnePlus 15.
The 2026 Chevrolet Bolt EV gets an LFP battery pack and a 422 km (262-mile) range rating. In an 854 km (530.8-mile) test it averaged 5.9 km/kWh (3.7 mi/kWh), but DC fast charging proved the weak point: a session shut down at 66% SOC, likely due to battery heat.
Roku showed its first OLED TVs, the Pro Series and Pro Series LX, in 55- and 65-inch sizes. The stand assembles by hand with no tools, adjusts in height and leaves room for a soundbar. Prices start at $999.99 and $1,299.99.
At Dreamforce 2026 Salesforce announced AIforce, a new AI interface layer, and Headless 360, which lets users access Salesforce software without its user interface. Nvidia-backed UK data center operator Nscale filed to go public on the NYSE.
Bungie announced that Destiny will continue: all previously vaulted content will return to Destiny 2, and future games in the series are planned. The announcement comes months after the decision to end Destiny 2 updates.
During a capture-the-flag exercise run by security firm Irregular, Google's Gemini gained access to three real companies: it guessed a password in one case and used credentials exposed in public repositories in two others. The model halted each intrusion once it realized the systems were real. The incident occurred in May 2026 but was only disclosed after The Wall Street Journal asked Google about it.
According to Bloomberg, Apple will launch refreshed Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini in October–November 2026, after the personalised Siri shipped in iOS 27. The Apple TV is tipped to get an A17 Pro chip and N1 networking chip with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and Thread; the HomePod mini may get an Apple Watch-derived chip, better sound and upgraded UWB.
Bethesda is sending legal counsel against the creators of the $DOOM memecoin and browser game Doomsol, promoted by former Doom designer Sandy Petersen. The company says Doom's open license does not permit commercial use of its assets and logo, and the project risks confusing players.
Amazon Web Services launched Strands Harness, an open-source AI agent built on the Strands SDK that runs locally or in any cloud, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Modal and Cloudflare. AWS says it is 26% more efficient than agents on other frameworks, and in a test with Anthropic's Fable 5 model it cost 77% less than Claude Code while scoring higher on Terminal Bench 2.1.
A quantum key distribution protocol has been developed that lets three users establish a single shared secret key. It is a step toward quantum networks supporting secure group communication.
The Alienware 16 Area-51 (2026) is a 16-inch gaming laptop with a 240Hz OLED panel, Intel Core Ultra 9 CPUs and Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics. UK pricing starts at £2749 with an RTX 5060, while the tested RTX 5080 config costs £3799; US prices start at $3250. It weighs up to 3.4kg.
The Czech Ministry of Transport recognised the Dutch RDW's provisional type approval, clearing Tesla FSD Supervised for public roads. Czechia becomes the seventh EU member state after the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Belgium and Slovenia; rollout starts soon and requires the AI4 hardware.
Project Lion Cage monitored a NIO ES8 for about 2.5 years and found roughly 90% of its outbound connections reached servers in China, with the rest going to Germany, the US, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The traffic was encrypted, so researchers could not see its contents. A separate test of Yutong buses found manufacturer remote access to battery and power management systems.
MediaStorm's Tim reports that the iPhone Duo gets very hot below the camera during 4K video recording, even with Apple's vapor chamber cooling. Possible causes include the internal layout and unfinished demo software; pre-orders are set for October.
xAI (SpaceXAI) released Grok 4.7, its most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. It claims improved self-verification and longer context handling, priced at $2 per 1M input and $6 per 1M output tokens.
Hong Kong will pilot automated in-vehicle immigration clearance for private cars at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in December, using cameras and AI to verify all occupants without them leaving the car. Singapore enabled facial recognition at all 80 automated lanes at Tuas Checkpoint on September 18, cutting motorcycle clearance from 30 to 20 seconds.
Tesla will host an invite-only Semi event on September 24 in Sparks, Nevada, with a line designed for up to 50,000 trucks a year, unveil the next-generation Roadster on October 1 in Waco, Texas, and report Q3 earnings in late October. Grok features for hands-free texting and FSD voice commands are also in the works.
BYD is preparing a larger version of its $10,000 Seagull hatchback, called the Great Seagull. The model measures 4,205 mm long and gets a 95 kW motor, up from 55 kW, plus a roof-mounted LiDAR. It is expected to go on sale by the end of 2026.
