Authorities charged the 35-year-old Saudi national with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications at OpenAI’s San Francisco offices. The company said it discovered a hidden recording device, which was concealed behind a television in a conference room, according to the Financial Times.
- OpenAI said its own models identified the person responsible, according to Business Insider.
- A conviction carries up to five years in prison, according to Unite.AI.
Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can access the model in the Gemini app, with rollout also extending to Google Antigravity. Google says Argon supports advanced reasoning and agentic coding. According to Ars Technica, developers will receive a 50 percent discount on API rates through November.
- According to Business Insider, Argon is the first model in the Gemini 4 family.
- According to Engadget, Argon is also available in AI Mode in Search.
Users can build personal Android apps through Google AI Studio and run them privately on their own devices without making them publicly available. Publishing requires a standard Google account rather than a developer account. According to Quartz, users also avoid the $25 developer fee for these private apps.
- According to 9to5Google, Google Play is adding a personal library for these apps.
- According to Ars Technica, Google plans to help personal AI-generated apps reach wider releases.
The chatbot company plans to sell all or most of its assets through a court-supervised process in Delaware. Disney’s opening offer includes a license to selected assets rather than a purchase of the whole business. Character.AI could shut down if no buyer steps forward to support continued operations.
- According to RuntimeWire, the platform will remain online during the sale process.
- According to Quartz, the sale process is expected to conclude in late November or early December 2026.
GamesBeat cites four anonymous industry sources familiar with Rockstar and Take-Two's plans, suggesting PC players could get the game just months after its console debut. Rockstar has not officially announced a PC release window or responded to requests for comment, so the reported timing remains unconfirmed.
The glasses offer audio and AI features without a built-in camera. Reviews from Engadget, CNET and PCMag highlight long battery life, while PCMag also reports a lightweight frame. CNET raises questions about the future direction of the glasses' AI features, despite its positive assessment of their construction.
The Your Algorithm feature lets people add and manage topics they want to see in Facebook Feed and Reels, following its earlier introduction on Instagram. Users can describe interests in their own words, and Meta says recommendations respond immediately when people mark topics as interesting or not interesting.
Nvidia says its updated neural rendering model runs twice as fast and uses 20% less VRAM, with Hogwarts Legacy among the games set to receive support. According to TechSpot, an NBA 2K27 update arriving Friday aims to increase overall frame rates by up to 40% while maintaining similar visual quality.
- Wccftech reports that the model's size has been reduced by 24%.
- RTX Remix support is also coming, according to Wccftech.
- TechSpot says future officially supported titles will use the faster model by default.
Employees using AI can build applications and connect assistants to company systems, creating questions about access and control for security teams. Pluto says it has secured more than 1 million endpoints and signed over 40 enterprise customers, according to CTech, while both CTech and RuntimeWire report millions of dollars in recurring revenue.
- Pluto was founded in 2025, according to CTech.
- Jump Capital led the latest funding round, according to RuntimeWire.
Apple can obtain interview materials involving former employees, private messages and testimony from figures in the dispute, but the court granted only some requests for expedited discovery. According to AppleInsider, Apple alleges former employees Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu took trade secrets and intellectual property to benefit OpenAI.
- Unite.AI reports that the order also requires production of forensic device images.
Field worked on Apple's car project and previously led Ford's EV efforts, according to TechCrunch, which also reports that he oversaw development of the Tesla Model 3. The Verge describes Mind Robotics as Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's startup and says Field was the de facto leader of Apple's unsuccessful autonomous electric car project.
The case concerns the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic’s AI models, and the company is seeking another hearing in Washington, D.C. According to Bloomberg, the federal appeals court previously upheld the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk to United States national security.
The latest developer builds cover iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro software ahead of their eventual public releases. The iOS 27.2 public beta is also available, according to 9to5Mac. The Verge reports that the latest iOS beta replaces Apple Music's red icon with a black-and-white design featuring a slightly sharper musical note.
- The fourth betas arrived a week after the third releases, according to MacRumors.
- MacRumors says registered developers can download the builds through Settings.
- No fourth tvOS 27.2 beta was available, according to MacRumors.
The cumulative updates address security vulnerabilities and bugs while adding features, according to BleepingComputer, which lists KB5127648 and KB5126653 for several Windows 11 versions. Thurrott reports that this month marks the first Patch Tuesday update for version 26H2 and the last monthly update for version 24H2.
- Neowin lists the October updates as KB5127648 and KB5127646.
- Dark Reading reports security bypasses and unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft's broader update.
Dharana Capital led the round, bringing the startup’s total funding to $12 million. Clueso’s platform uses AI agents to create and update videos for business teams. According to SiliconANGLE, the round also included Founders Fund, Neotribe Ventures, Y Combinator and f7 Ventures as participating investors.
- According to RuntimeWire, Clueso says existing investors supplied more than 80% of the new capital.
The Strategy founder and executive chairman says favorable regulation and faster bank adoption mark the start of a bitcoin bull market, according to Bloomberg. Quartz reports that he declared the bear market over on Tuesday, saying bitcoin had rebounded from a bottom near $60,000 and was moving higher.
- Bloomberg interviewed Saylor at DC Fintech Week.
The transaction would position the buyers to compete with billionaire Carlos Slim’s mobile phone business, according to Bloomberg. Light Reading reports that the purchase price will be paid in cash and that AT&T is putting greater emphasis on its US 5G and fiber networks and services.
Anthropic is in the final stages of talks with NTT Data Group to build its first data center in Japan, Nikkei reported. The facility is expected to have a total power intake capacity of up to 500 megawatts, which would make it one of Japan’s largest data centers.
The glasses could offer dozens of style options through Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, according to Android Central. Forbes reports that nine frame styles are planned for launch, with an announcement expected in November. CNET also reports a November arrival and says Galaxy Glasses is a possible name.
Nvidia's chief executive plans to unveil the investments next week, according to Semafor. Huang discussed the planned deals in Paris, Quartz reports, during the first stop of a tour that will also take him to London and Berlin as Nvidia outlines its investment plans for European technology.
An attacker combined three Connect Secure vulnerabilities to execute commands as root without logging in, The Hacker News reports, citing Volexity. Ivanti urged affected customers to patch immediately, but a fix for the third flaw remains pending, according to the same report. The attacks targeted the company's remote access gateway.
- Cyber Security News reports CVE-2026-104935 has a CVSS score of 8.6.
- CISA added the flaw to its exploited vulnerabilities catalog, according to Security Affairs.
Police arrested more than two dozen people in Ghana and Nigeria during a coordinated operation involving technology companies. According to The Hill, the Justice Department said 117 trafficking victims were rescued from scam compounds in Ghana. PYMNTS reports that the operation also removed 3.7 million online profiles and accounts, citing the UK’s National Crime Agency.
- Meta says it participated alongside 14 other tech companies and law enforcement from ten countries.
The plans combine X’s paid features with access to AI tools, with monthly prices reaching $200 at the upper end. Existing X Premium subscribers can keep their current subscription without moving to the new bundles, according to PCMag, which reports that switching is not required.
- Engadget reports that Grok Bot is also included.
The refreshed model uses Intel's Wildcat Lake chips, with improved performance and efficiency reported by Phoronix. Tom's Hardware criticized its display performance, noting that prices often exceed $1,000. According to Phoronix, the original version launched last year as an upgradeable, Linux-friendly convertible using an Intel Raptor Lake U processor.
- Engadget says the Laptop 12 was conceived as a Chromebook competitor.
The incident disrupted IT systems used by Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles. According to the BBC, TFG London apologised to customers for the disruption after identifying the incident on Sunday. Cyber Security News reports that several systems remained unavailable, but stores continued trading despite the disruption.
- According to Cyber Security News, The Foschini Group disclosed the incident to shareholders on October 13.
The French cloud provider says the system will serve businesses across Europe and use AMD Instinct MI355X chips. It will be Scaleway’s first supercomputer outside France, according to Quartz. Data Center Dynamics reports that the company announced GPU cluster deployments in Sweden and Copenhagen during its AI-Pulse 2026 event.
- According to RuntimeWire, Scaleway already has a separate Swedish partnership with Tele2.
- HPCwire describes the Swedish system as Europe’s first commercial AMD AI supercomputer.
The Dell Technologies CEO said AI models need safeguards and controls, with responsibility shared by companies and government. According to Quartz, he also called for limits on the permissions given to models and agents, alongside human oversight, but did not specify what the government's role should look like.
The update is available to Windows 10 users enrolled in the Extended Security program as part of October 2026 Patch Tuesday. According to BleepingComputer, it includes the month's security fixes alongside a few bug fixes and changes; the publication describes this month's Patch Tuesday fixes as record-breaking.
According to Bloomberg, Space Capital’s analysis links a potential investment record to SpaceX’s IPO, growing defense demand and infrastructure needs. Quartz reports that SpaceX stopped accepting rideshare reservations beyond late 2028, creating a launch bottleneck that has encouraged investment in space infrastructure as companies seek access to launches.
Atlassian Co-Founder & CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes thinks rather than killing enterprise software, making software cheaper and faster to build, will lead organizations to create more applications, workflows and agents, increasing the need to connect and manage them. He speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslinda Amin."
The New York City Council is investigating safety risks associated with artificial intelligence and issued a subpoena to the company. According to Quartz, SpaceX missed an October 5 hearing despite that subpoena, leading the council to threaten enforcement through a state judge before the company agreed to appear.
- According to the New York Post, Council Speaker Julie Menin announced the agreement Tuesday.
Silicon chip startup xMEMS Labs Inc. today said it has started mass production of its XMC-2400 and XMC-4800 chips for cooling artificial intelligence hardware. No one has commercialized solid-state active cooling at this scale before, according to the company.
The proposal would increase launches and landings at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas and is under US government review. Quartz reports that the company currently has authorization for 25 launches a year from Boca Chica, with the FAA examining the environmental impact of the proposed expansion.
Mark Zuckerberg said Meta committed up to $200 billion to AI infrastructure before knowing whether its models would succeed. His claim about the company’s current AI capabilities follows the release of Muse Wonder, according to the Financial Times, which described the spending as part of Meta’s effort to challenge rivals.
- Meta’s second-quarter free cash flow fell 91%, according to The Next Web.
Ottawa startup Dominion Dynamics has partnered with Ukraine's Tencore to jointly manufacture uncrewed ground vehicles in Canada. BetaKit reports the armoured vehicles are intended for front-line deployment by Ukraine's military. According to the Financial Post, the deal could be worth tens of millions.
- Dominion Dynamics is based in Ottawa, according to BetaKit.
- The vehicles will be built in Canada for the Ukrainian military.
The memory-chip sector is prone to “vicious” boom-and-bust cycles and the problem may only worsen as Chinese companies ramp up capacity, according to Cathie Wood of ARK Investment Management LLC.
The jury found Arm breached its architectural license agreement and intentionally sought to disrupt Qualcomm’s business, according to The Economic Times, citing a Qualcomm spokesperson. Arm said it won on four claims, while Qualcomm received one dollar on each of two other claims. Both companies’ accounts highlighted different parts of the verdict.
Docker fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-105445, on September 30 and says it found no evidence of exploitation. According to The Hacker News, the bug sat in the feature that converts a personal account into an organization, and Docker published its advisory on October 12. It let one user push, pull or delete another's images.
- Cyber Security News says personal access tokens transferred during account conversions were affected.
- Attackers could publish container images under trusted names.
- The Hacker News describes the flaw as two years old.
The operation, called Operation Lonestar Roundup, used stolen identities to send about $3 million from 70 U.S. employers to Pyongyang. According to The Record, a federal sweep in September targeted more than 40 residences in Texas, and two people were arrested as laptop farms were taken down.
- The scheme relied on stolen identities to obtain remote jobs.
- The Record reports the September operation hit more than 40 Texas residences.
- Two arrests were made during the takedown, according to The Record.
Workday announced new AI agents for HR, payroll and finance at its annual Rising conference, alongside plans to use its business data and rules to support agentic AI tools. According to Unite.AI, the company also signed an agreement to acquire C1.ai, an identity platform for people and AI agents.
- According to The New Stack, Workday uses TypeSafe’s Jev to generate interfaces dynamically.
The Federal Trade Commission alleges the company charged victims thousands of dollars to fight sextortion scams while the operation itself was fraudulent. According to CyberScoop, the lawsuit names Dmitry Belkin and his companies, claiming they generated fake evidence, failed to deliver protection services and denied refunds. The Record reports the company netted at least $60 million.
- The company is based in Ohio, according to The Record.
- The complaint says customers were charged thousands of dollars each.
- CyberScoop reports the defendants allegedly refused refunds to victims.
Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software's MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says. Progress published all 31 on October 12 and scored five of them critical.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B on October 13, 2026, an open-weight 24B-parameter reasoning model with 2B active parameters built for agents that run on-device. The company published the base and post-trained checkpoints on Hugging Face and detailed the release in a post on the Hugging Face blog.
The dating app which recently ditched its "women-first" chat rule has been bought by an investment firm.
The changes partially reverse earlier cuts to Chrome's bug bounty program and focus on complex memory safety vulnerabilities, according to SecurityWeek. Google is also adding new reward categories, Android Authority reports, as it offers payments of up to $20,000 for finding security bugs in the browser.
Siri can learn which music app a user prefers, according to TechCrunch, so requests no longer need to name the app each time. For Spotify listeners using iOS 27, that applies to requests for songs, podcasts and playlists made through Apple's voice assistant, the publication reports.
Netflix has secured exclusive streaming rights to the 2030 men's World Cup in Spain and Andorra. According to Quartz, the deal covers all 104 matches of the tournament. Quartz also reports that some of the games will be made available on a free-to-air broadcaster.
- The agreement covers both Spain and Andorra.
- Some matches are expected to air on free-to-air television, per Quartz.
Microsoft has added roughly $1.5 trillion in market value since its June low. According to The Next Web, the company last posted a record close in October 2025, before a decline driven by fears of AI disruption that also hit SAP, whose shares have not recovered.
D-Wave will work with SkyWater's Minnesota team on specialized chip development under a multi-year agreement. According to HPCwire, the deal continues an established collaboration at SkyWater's Minnesota fabrication facility, covering semiconductor process development and manufacturing to support D-Wave's roadmap for its two superconducting quantum computing platforms.
The vulnerability can send an application's OAuth2 client credentials to an attacker-controlled server, according to The Hacker News, citing SAP's advisory. It affects multi-tenant applications on SAP Business Technology Platform that use the SDK, and exploitation requires control of the tenant subdomain, the outlet reports. BleepingComputer reports SAP addressed 20 flaws in its October 2026 updates.
- The flaw carries a CVSS score of 10, according to The Hacker News.
The spinout from Eleven Therapeutics is developing an AI-enabled platform designed to deliver gene-silencing medicines to specific cells beyond the liver, where RNA-based treatments have had their greatest success.
Today is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.
Oppo has officially revealed ColorOS 17, its Android 17 update, to global markets this week and, along with that, confirmed a list of devices poised to get the update. more
Around 400 scientists signed an open letter seeking an international body to oversee advanced AI. The letter calls for isolating frontier models from networks and creating a security incident registry, according to Quartz. BetaKit reports that it also seeks public disclosure of AI breaches following recent high-profile cybersecurity incidents.
According to The Verge, the ad-supported subscription rises from $5.99 to $6.99 a month starting Tuesday, while the ad-free option increases from $9.99 to $11.99. The Verge reports that the changes come one week after Paramount completed its acquisition of Warner Bros., affecting both subscription tiers.
According to The Verge, shoppers can save 33 percent on an Amazon order by combining black or white Nothing Headphone A headphones with the CD edition of Charli XCX’s Music, Fashion, Film. Android Police reports that the workaround brings the headphones to $98, a discount of 51 percent.
Devices running these editions will no longer receive monthly security updates or non-security preview updates, according to BleepingComputer. Neowin reports that no Extended Security Updates option is available to continue support for Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro after the end of their support period.
The partnership adds LangSmith for agent testing and monitoring as DXC says its OASIS platform is scaling toward 125 customer environments.
Let’s not pretend; if you weren’t sold on a Chromebook, Googlebook isn’t for you either. more
The price increases reach as much as 20 percent, according to Ars Technica, which reports that the higher charges are said to be unrelated to the Skydance merger. Engadget places the increase just one week after the merger, noting the timing of the change in prices.
Backed by Base10, Causa Prima’s software lets buyers’ and suppliers’ AI agents negotiate payment terms.
The accuser also believes he was being physically followed and watched by local law enforcement.
An October 13th X post points to a LiteLLM entry tied to an Azure endpoint, while Microsoft's public documentation still lists Fable 5.1 as the newest Fable model.
Plume's workspace connects network data to support, retention and revenue workflows, with staff able to review agent guidance before acting.
The multi-year agreement gives the homebuilder access to Promise's factory and robotics service, advancing co-founder Ramtin Attar's push to sell production capacity, not standalone machines.
HomeView supports third-party audio and video apps from an iPhone or iPad, according to MacRumors, which also lists preinstalled Apple apps including Music, Podcasts, Calendar and FaceTime. Apple is relying on a curated app selection supplemented by existing CarPlay apps, according to iPhone in Canada, citing Wired's hands-on reporting.
- Preinstalled apps also include Apple News and Messages, according to MacRumors.
Samsung’s first Android XR glasses are right around the corner and, ahead of launch, another leak reveals every style you’ll be able to buy. more
Compare OnePlus 16 and Galaxy S26 Ultra battery, cameras, gaming, pricing, support and US availability to see which flagship is the smarter buy.
The ESA describes the emulation handhelds as “superfakes,” and Anbernic could be barred from selling them in the United States, according to Android Authority. Ars Technica reports that third-party sellers, rather than Anbernic itself, are the ones routinely supplying SD cards filled with game ROMs.
Topgolf had deep ties to VMware before its migration, according to Ars Technica. Separately, SiliconANGLE reports that Broadcom introduced VMware HyperArmor to protect the hypervisor underlying VMware Cloud Foundation against threats including stolen root credentials, while giving administrators more time to test and deploy security patches.
- According to SiliconANGLE, Broadcom announced HyperArmor at VMware Explore in Frankfurt.
Liquidity Capital has collected $9.6 million against a roughly $20 million debt, prompting the company’s trustee to seek a halt to collections as Insight Partners, Georgian and other investors consider fresh funding.
Some of Google's biggest services run through Chrome instead of native Android apps.
Android Police and Android Authority report that a Reddit user has found a method for restoring Google Assistant. Android Central says the workaround brings the assistant back on Android. The reports describe a way to return to Google's older assistant for users who do not want Gemini.
GitHub has taken the step of expiring unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations 48 hours after creation after researchers found that it was possible for an attacker to push new versions of a different user's package without having to steal their credentials.
Arena Physica announced that Heaviside, its foundation model for electromagnetism, is now available on Microsoft Discovery. According to the company, it predicts full 3D electromagnetic field responses in milliseconds, about 100,000 times faster than a traditional solver. RuntimeWire reports that Discovery agents can use it for fast predictions, with conventional solvers still available for final checks.
- Unite.AI says the announcement was dated October 13, 2026.
- The announcement describes Microsoft Discovery as a platform for agentic engineering.
- RuntimeWire names Pratap Ranade as Arena Physica's CEO and a Kimono Labs co-founder.
Ubitium, founded by Hyun Shin Cho and processor veteran Martin Vorbach, says its new seed round will move its reconfigurable design toward commercial use.
The October 13th release extends a voice model first soft-launched in August; Fish Audio says its API is 80% off for 30 days.
The characters on Antigang no longer use iPhones. Cops, bikers and gang members on the show now call and text exclusively on Android phones, mostly Samsung Galaxy devices.
Are robot companies spending billions on physical AI when new foundation models will just give us easy solutions?