Netflix Inc. is cutting 6% of its global staff, or about 1,000 positions, as the streaming company struggles with slowing growth.
OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then presenting it to Apple leadership, including the vice president of the company's operations in Asia.
Anthropic PBC told prospective investors its third-quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, as the artificial intelligence model maker pushes ahead with plans to go public.
WhatsApp's new guest calling feature allows you to invite anyone to a call, without needing them to make an account first. They won't need the app, either, since Meta also added support for calls on the web version of WhatsApp earlier this year.
US states sue ChatGPT maker and seek to force the company to change how its products work for young users Eight US states sued OpenAI Wednesday, alleging the ChatGPT maker is harming children en masse.
OpenAI has named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses, marking the latest leadership shakeup for its teams focused on expanding data center capacity.
YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI tools in making music, but according to YouTube, it
Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney game, which is now delayed from its original March release window, according to a report from Bloomberg. The project's developers have been given an "AI-first" mandate directing them to use tools like Anthropic's Claude more to finish the game.
Ukraine's military relies heavily on Elon Musk's Starlink for battlefield communications and drone operations.
Microsoft is officially announcing its Xbox Nano controller today, a smaller and cheaper controller that's designed to fit into your pocket. The more compact controller is also designed for "younger players, smaller hands, or anyone seeking something portable for play on the go."
GlobalFoundries Inc. plans to build two new chip plants with the backing of as much as $21 billion from the Japanese government, part of an arrangement that also includes the US taking a 4% stake in the company.
Shares of conglomerate that owns AOL and Vimeo jumped more than 40% on news of expanded investment before dropping back
Bloomberg reports that Apple plans to finally launch Apple Intelligence in China in December, although some important features could still be missing. Here are the details. more
Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages and additional safeguarding tools. Building on the Scam Detection feature in Google Messages, a new "enhanced protection" setting will be rolling out in the coming weeks that taps into cloud-based
Anduril Industries is in talks to allow employees to sell their shares in a tender that would value the autonomous munitions maker at about $90 billion, according to Bloomberg.
Palantir Technologies Inc. has settled the lawsuit it started against the Mayor of London after alleging that a multimillion-pound service contract with the city’s police force was scrapped over the company’s “values or ethics.”
The five-year donation will support British research into the safety and security of AI agents, providing computing resources rather than cash. The Next Web reports that the providers delivering that access have not yet been selected and that commercial terms still need to be agreed.
We have to talk about this screen. It's the first thing you notice, and maybe the only thing that matters, about the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro.
Huang announced the planned deals while speaking in Paris, the first stop on a tour that will also take him to London and Berlin
The startup is developing Frank, an AI inside sales representative designed to shorten the time between a customer's request and a manufacturer's price quote. Manufacturers can lose work while requests wait in inboxes. Primary Venture Partners and a16z Speedrun co-led the seed round, according to SiliconANGLE.
Uncork Capital and Field Ventures co-led the pre-seed round. Evos is developing autonomous software for industrial businesses that learns from employees’ expertise. According to Unite.AI, the company aims to capture judgments about invoices, carrier exceptions and decisions requiring a manager so its software can complete operational work rather than merely assist staff.
- Evos emerged from stealth, according to The Next Web.
- Crosslink Capital and Utopia Capital also invested, according to SiliconANGLE.
Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic’s Mythos, offering a rare look at costs involved in defending against AI.
Colossal Biosciences is on a quest to bring the dodo back from extinction.
The acquisition would give Payward a Lithuanian banking license through Saldo Bank UAB’s holding company, according to Bloomberg. Co-CEO Arjun Sethi says customers want cash, crypto, tokenized stocks and credit together, with lending and cards coming first, Decrypt reports. The deal advances Payward Banking, the company’s financial infrastructure initiative, according to PYMNTS.
To power the iPhone maker’s next phase, Chief Executive John Ternus needs to raise its AI game.
Asian data center operator Princeton Digital Group Ltd. is seeking a syndicated loan of up to $1.2 billion to fund its Malaysia buildout, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the debt binge to finance artificial intelligence infrastructure continues.
Tesla is set to unveil the production-ready Roadster on Thursday, according to Wired, after a delay of nearly a decade since Elon Musk first announced plans for a next-generation model. Wired says the car arrives in an electric vehicle market that has grown skeptical of hypercars. The Verge notes the car is billed as one of the fastest ever made.
- Elon Musk announced the next-generation Roadster nearly ten years ago.
- The Verge says the project could have stayed vaporware.
- The debut is expected on Thursday, per Wired.
A closely watched gauge of semiconductor stocks erased $1.6 trillion in market value in a six-day losing streak as concerns mount over higher interest rates, stretched valuations and the enormous cost of building artificial-intelligence infrastructure.
Shares of CoreWeave sank 15%, while yields in its bonds blew out further.
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, questioning the company’s $6.6 billion in tax breaks.
Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell.
Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It's called the Square Kiosk.
OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar discusses artificial intelligence security concerns, telling Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie that the firm is "doubling down" on safety and alignment, and is holding back its next generation model while it carries out checks. (Source: Bloomberg)
Apple today added the 12-inch MacBook (2017), iPad (6th generation), and BeatsX headphones to the obsolete products list on its website. Apple considers a product to be obsolete once seven years have passed since it last distributed the product for sale, including to resellers.
Anthropic’s head of international said in Dublin that open alternatives to its models carry greater risks, including cybersecurity dangers. According to The Next Web, his position goes beyond Dario Amodei’s July statement that open-weight models lacking dangerous capabilities are a public good, drawing a distinction between the two executives’ public comments.
A raid on a home in a North Macedonian village led to the arrest of the suspected administrator of the OLVX market, according to the Balkan country's Interior Ministry along with the FBI.
The memorandum covers AI safety, model evaluation and responsible adoption. It also includes security and research on adoption, according to The Next Web. That outlet reports that responsible adoption efforts span the public and private sectors, and that neither the office opening nor the agreement includes a financial figure or headcount.
- Singapore is Anthropic’s fifth Asia-Pacific office.
Earlier this year, we shared an update on our election safeguards. Here, we outline how we’ve continued to strengthen these safeguards ahead of this year’s US midterms.
Workplace artificial intelligence security startup Harmonic Security Inc. today announced it has raised $50 million in new funding to grow its platform for governing how employees use AI tools. The company’s platform inspects anything an employee sends to an AI tool at work before it gets there.
Hitachi Ventures led the Indian startup’s funding round, with customer Henkel joining as an investor, according to The Next Web. The publication says its production network is headed to the US and Japan, not Europe. TechCrunch reports that Scimplify’s annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million.
- Scimplify also supplies specialty chemicals, according to The Next Web.
The seed round attracted backing from CT Innovations, Cardumen, Mana VC and 91 Ventures. Uvi focuses on providing company knowledge to autonomous AI agents. According to The Next Web, the startup plans to use the funding to build a US team, expand sales and continue developing its technology.
- Uvi emerged from stealth, according to The Next Web.
- SiliconANGLE reports that Uvi aims to let agents run at eight times lower cost.
Edge security startup Huskeys Security Ltd. today added Profiling to its platform to map out which parts of a company’s web applications the business depends on. The new capability goes after a longstanding problem at the network edge, where most large organizations run a stack of third-party security products from different vendors.
The malware steals bank account credentials, according to BleepingComputer, by substituting modified banking apps for legitimate ones. Those replacements disable checks within the apps themselves. The Hacker News reports that Dutch mobile security firm ThreatFabric identified patched versions targeting eight Indonesian banking apps.
In less than 10 months, cybercriminals used the arsenal of customized, targeted phishing kits to send more than 1 billion malicious messages to more than 75,000 organizations globally.
Caterpillar Inc. shares are on track to fall more than 30% from their record high as concerns about oil prices, bond yields and the future of the artificial intelligence trade roil the industrial sector.
Unlike a lot of AI features, most of Samsung’s Galaxy AI tools are genuinely useful. Transcript, Call, and Note Assist are awesome tools, and Samsung is bringing those and more to more users and languages. more
One data center developer has a unique plan to squash pushback from community residents in Kansas: Give them $1,000 a year for the next decade.
There's an entire cottage industry of iPod mods out there, but Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico are two of the few full motherboard replacements that combine many of the most popular mods into a single upgrade. Both versions add Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-C, a microSD card slot, FLAC playback, and more.
Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.
A startup called Salience Labs Inc. wants to play a bigger role in speeding up artificial intelligence workloads after raising $125 million in a Series B funding. Today’s round was led by Bullhound Capital and saw the two of the chipmaking industry’s most iconic names participate via their investment arms, Intel Capital AMD Ventures.
Estonia’s Skeleton Technologies has become the country’s latest tech unicorn after raising investment from Siemens AG to manufacture energy storage systems for AI data centers in the US.
The round, led by Accel, follows a $355M Series C in May; Modal says usage has tripled since then and its Sandboxes product has a $300M run rate.
The funding comes through the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science, which supports organizations using artificial intelligence in scientific research. According to Unite.AI, the open call attracted applications across 30 countries, covering fields including climate, health and foundational science, and Google.org announced the recipients on October 14, 2026.
CodeWall is building autonomous attack agents to test whether weaknesses across applications, identities and infrastructure can combine into an intrusion, according to Unite.AI. The London startup begins engagements without credentials or inside knowledge of its targets, according to SiliconANGLE, aiming to simulate attacks by outside hackers against enterprises such as banks.
- Unite.AI describes the funding as a pre-seed round.
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud are providing the researchers with $3 million in computing credits alongside access to scientific AI tools. Those tools include AlphaFold 3 and WeatherNext, while Unite.AI also lists AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve and AlphaEarth Foundations among the models available under the company's pledge.
- AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure of proteins and other molecules, according to The Next Web.
NVIDIA today announced semiconductor leaders are adopting NVIDIA CUDA-X™ libraries — including the new NVIDIA cuPotential library, which developers can use to build AI agents that simulate how atoms and molecules interact — to advance AI-defined fabs.
Cities are working with local software, infrastructure and integration partners to build systems for urban operations. NVIDIA says the work addresses decisions that affect residents, including when to repair roads and how to use energy more efficiently, as city teams seek support for managing everyday services.
- Unite.AI dates NVIDIA's announcement to October 14, 2026.
The elite consulting firm is rolling out a new avatar that plays the part of a client in some consulting interviews.
The operation, which targeted Russian-speaking victims across the U.S., seized 112 servers and disrupted the network's entire back-end infrastructure
The free Apple Invites app for the iPhone was updated today with two new features: hosts can now more easily manually add guests to an event and mark their RSVP status, and the app's Home Screen widget now supports the extra large size option.
Apple is rolling out its stunning Detailed City Experience in Apple Maps for users in Austin, TX. This marks a robust overhaul of Apple Maps in Austin, similar to what we’ve seen in other markets like San Francisco, Chicago, and London. more
The 702-megawatt facility near Cheyenne will use Bloom Energy technology and is expected to be operational by end of 2028
The Nvidia-backed cloud provider is seeking capital for its data centre expansion, according to the Financial Times. Co-founder Brannin McBee wants investment-grade ratings to attract insurers to more chip-backed loans, according to RuntimeWire, which says contracts with lower-rated AI labs will be the next test.
Continuing the analog approach of the Instax Square SQ6 that launched in 2018 and follow-ups like the Square SQ1 and SQ40, the new Fujifilm Instax Square 2 skips digital functionality while still introducing the ability to customize the look and feel of instant photos. A new mood filter switch slides one of two colored filters
Kairos Power LLC, a nuclear-energy startup, lined up $643 million in private and government funding to support construction of its demonstration reactor in Tennessee.
Britain's online safety regulator remains concerned about how effectively X removes illegal hate and terror content, even though the platform now reviews reports faster. According to The Economic Times, X has submitted its first quarterly report describing its moderation approach. Ofcom is also examining X's compliance with illegal content rules and its age verification processes.
- In May, X promised to review UK illegal content reports within 24 hours on average.
- X is now reviewing reported posts more quickly, The Next Web says.
- Ofcom is also watching how well X's age verification works.
The $0.08-a-minute API model led Artificial Analysis's October 13th index, but placed third in its blind preference arena.
Othello, whose customers include Microsoft and Capital One, acts as a real-time coach on sales calls to help reps close deals.
The deal announced Wednesday brings together Humanly's automated chat and interview systems with CareerArc's social media recruiting and career-site mapping platforms.
Sachin Katti, who joined in late 2025, is expected to stay on as an adviser while Uday Ruddarraju is set to take over strategy
A few other scare-tastic games, like Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2, are also coming to the service in time for Halloween as well.
Boca Raton, Florida, October 14th, 2026, Financewire Collaboration combines INmune Bio’s clinical research with QCi’s Dirac-3S quantum optimization machine to identify potential new treatment indications and biomarkers for XPro. Initial engagement marks QCi’s first commercial customer in pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets, expanding the application of quantum computing to drug development.
According to MacRumors, HomeView offers customizable faces featuring photos, animations and smart home controls, with named options covering calendars, weather and home cameras. The publication reports that Apple says some faces change their appearance between morning and evening, while promotional images show additional clock and widget layouts that remain unnamed.
- MacRumors lists Flow and Home Modular among Apple's named faces.
Three accounts were using the same weak password, allowing a threat actor to rummage through files for ten days.
Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will apply Kyndryl’s agentic AI framework to Toyota Finance’s IT change management, infrastructure design and impact analysis, in its production environment. No contract value, timeline or measured result has been disclosed.
Observability and information technology management software company SolarWinds Worldwide LLC today unveiled Avior, a standalone agentic artificial intelligence system built to take on first-line operations work for enterprise IT teams. The launch goes after the reliability problem that comes with letting AI agents act on production systems.
A reliable source says that Nothing is building out its own AI smart glasses that feature ChatGPT integration, a camera, and two very different models. more
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A57 in March, and it is already working on the Galaxy A58, which could arrive in March or April next year. There is no word from Samsung about the Galaxy A58, but a new report from GalaxyClub shares its camera details, and they are nothing to get excited about.
Apple is reportedly preparing a substantial production run for the standard iPhone 18 , following the iPhone 17 's success as the world's best-selling smartphone.
Amazon's new Kindle Page-Turn Cover promises extra convenience, but our readers have strong opinions about the price tag.
Collaboration will bring together NVIDIA AI technologies and Danaher’s scientific instruments, laboratory workflows and data WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2026 — Danaher Corporation today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to advance autonomous science and help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery.
Event producers can stream directly from OneDrive instead of embedding media into PowerPoint or running local video players over screen share. General availability hits all tenants in December.
Microsoft has confirmed that non-admin users may be unable to connect to devices via Remote Desktop after installing recent Windows updates if the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled.
Google is offering larger payments for finding Chrome vulnerabilities, according to Android Headlines. Separately, Cyber Security News reports that a Chrome update addresses 37 vulnerabilities, including seven critical flaws, across Windows, Mac and Linux. The fixes cover browser components including graphics, PDF handling, media processing and networking.
- Cyber Security News says the flaws could allow memory corruption and code execution.
Genpact has launched a suite of agentic artificial intelligence solutions designed to handle accounts receivable tasks for industrial clients in manufacturing and mining, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release.
Elon Musk has criticized memory chip suppliers for charging what he called "extortionate" prices while praising Micron Technology's approach to future pricing, highlighting tensions between chipmakers and customers as prolonged supply shortages strengthen manufacturers' bargaining power.
Some back-end manufacturing equipment intended for SK Hynix's sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) production may be deferred from the second half of 2026 into 2027, raising questions about the chipmaker's expansion plans as rising conventional DRAM prices create competing opportunities for capital spending.
They could be sticking with a Galaxy S23-era selfie cam.
Magen David Adom teams reported three people seriously injured at the chipmaker’s southern Israel facility. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.
AI tools like ChatGPT are making it easier for consumers to pursue legitimate complaints, including grievances they might previously have ignored.
Founder Bernardo Quintero says the app checks files, URLs and domains; VirusTotal warns that submitted material may be shared with security partners.
As AI allows games to cross over with one another with ease, Microsoft is trying to harness wild new developments like that, without mentioining AI specifically.
A flaw in Linux's vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host's memory and hijack the program that runs the virtual machine.