The White House task force is intended to address AI safety concerns and maintain U.S. leadership in the technology. According to The Information, it plans to report on AI risks and opportunities within 120 days. Fortune reports that it will consult consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, infrastructure providers and AI companies.
- Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, will help lead the task force.
The redesigned laptop is expected to introduce a touchscreen and OLED display, with a debut anticipated by next month. According to 9to5Mac, it would be Apple's first touchscreen MacBook and its first with Tandem OLED. AppleInsider reports that Apple has made no design changes to the MacBook Pro since 2022.
A White House task force will examine AI's risks and opportunities while focusing on keeping the United States first in the field, according to The Wall Street Journal. Politico identifies Clayton as the current director of national intelligence and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chair.
- The new AI czar unveiled the task force's goals and members, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Saif al-Din Khader, allegedly known online as Rey, is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the extortion group. Reports cite Reuters and three people familiar with the detention. According to The Economic Times, the FBI declined to discuss specific arrests abroad but said it had worked with partners to arrest multiple suspects.
- The detention occurred September 29, 2026, according to The Hacker News.
Robinson was a leader on OpenAI’s Safety Systems team, according to Business Insider, and described the company’s culture as broken. He also warned that AI companies were taking insufficient care in developing the technology, joining other insiders calling for greater caution, according to The Guardian.
Terafab is backed by SpaceX and Tesla, and Musk’s confirmation followed a report that TSMC is considering operating new chip factories in Texas, according to DigiTimes. Tom’s Hardware reports that the discussions cover multiple potential ways for TSMC to collaborate on the Terafab project.
Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra said Saturday that the next financial crisis could begin outside finance. The Next Web, citing Bloomberg, reports that he identified war and technology failures among the possible triggers and spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi.
Ukraine’s president says he requested sanctions on companies developing Rassvet, according to the Financial Times. The Next Web, citing the FT report, says the companies are Russian and Chinese and that Zelenskyy raised the request with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New York.
Authenticated attackers could access other users' mailboxes within the same organization through CVE-2026-96940, potentially exposing messages and attachments, according to Cyber Security News. Neowin reports that administrators running on-premises Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 need Period 2 ESU enrollment to obtain the V2 security updates addressing weak authorization bugs.
- Cyber Security News identifies the patches as September 2026 V2 updates.
The changes will restrict which models people can use in the Gemini app, with access to the best models requiring payment, TechRadar reports. According to 9to5Mac, the planned restrictions follow a change Google made in May that based usage limits on the amount of computing required.
- AI Pro will add Deep Think, according to 9to5Mac.
According to RuntimeWire, Tibo Sottiaux replied to developer Ben Davis on October 4 about the forthcoming mode, which has no firm release date. The outlet says GPT-6.1 Sol launched on September 29; WinCentral describes latency during multistep commands, web searches and code execution as a bottleneck in autonomous AI workflows.
Kolibri uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 78.1 billion total parameters, activating 3.46 billion for each token. Its weights are available under the Apache 2.0 license. According to MarkTechPost, the English-German model also offers a context window of one million tokens and lets users set reasoning effort for each request.
- RuntimeWire reports 78 GB of FP8 weights.
- RuntimeWire says the model card calls for at least two A100 80GB GPUs.
- MarkTechPost says the FP8 weights run on a single B200 or H200.
The game is tentatively called RS4, and Jagex plans to share more details next year, according to Engadget. Wccftech reports that the developer announced the project at RuneFest, where more than 6,000 fans attended the event at the NEC in Birmingham, with an orchestral performance opening proceedings.
- Mod Ash joined the Manchester Video Game Orchestra onstage, according to Wccftech.
Tesla’s self-driving cabs use cameras to detect cats and other street hazards, according to Business Insider. Musk described difficulty spotting animals that blend into roads at night, including grey kittens on grey tarmac, as Austin service hours extended from 10pm to 11pm, according to The Next Web.
- According to The Next Web, an EU committee votes October 6 on the camera-only sensor suite.
AWS CEO Matt Garman outlined a five-year funding commitment covering education, workforce pathways and energy affordability, according to Tom's Hardware. Amazon also says it has stopped using nondisclosure agreements for data center projects. That change concerns agreements with government agencies and applies only going forward, according to Implicator.ai.
- Tom's Hardware reports Amazon is allocating $220 billion to data center infrastructure in 2026.
The 128GB DGX Spark now lists at $6,950, with ServeTheHome attributing the increase to memory pricing. Partners will ship the 64GB version on October 23, according to Implicator.ai. That version costs $1,000 more than the price of the 128GB system when it first launched, the publication reports.
The iPhone Duo’s foldable form allows more placement options when taking group selfies, according to Engadget. The publication also reports new camera features alongside that flexibility. Android Authority says the iPhone Duo could help make Android foldables better, pointing to potential benefits beyond Apple’s device.
The launch window comes from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, according to iPhone in Canada, which reports that OLED would be a first for the iPad mini. Engadget describes Apple’s iPhone Duo as offering a tablet-like experience through its inside screen, while questioning whether it suits users better than a dedicated iPad.
Intel’s graphics driver version 32.0.101.9034 brings support for the two games to Arc graphics and Core Ultra processors, according to Neowin. Tom’s Guide identifies Ace Combat 8’s full title as Wings of Theve and describes it as the latest entry in the long-running aerial combat series.
The attacks have affected critical infrastructure, government and education organizations. According to The Hacker News, researchers observed activity targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries. Security Affairs reports that the group continues to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities more than a year after gaining attention for attacks using the SharePoint flaw chain called ToolShell.
- The Hacker News reports that Warlock disables security tools.