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Date: 2026-10-01
Ars Technica — IT/AIarstechnica.com•Added
Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data

The Pentagon is informing more than 2 million current and former military members that their personnel records storing sensitive personal information were stolen over a monthslong compromise of one of its networks. The breach is the second one in recent months to expose sensitive government information.

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The Verge — AItheverge.com•Added
Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print

Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone’s camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google’s AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around you, and…

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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI. For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number of groups for the tens of thousands of people interested in urine therapy — a pseudo-scientific practice involving the use of human micturate to…

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Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform to restrain rogue AI agents - new hardware-and-software security stack can quarantine agents in milliseconds | Tom's Hardware

Nvidia has just launched the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform — an open software platform and reference system design — to govern and secure autonomous AI agents. Announced on September 28, 2026, the platform is designed to establish strict security barriers outside of AI models’ application layer, preventing agents from escaping their sandboxes,…

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Google thinks SpaceX's Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground

Google’s prototype of its orbital compute satellite took off today onboard a SpaceX rocket launched from California — the first time the tech giant has sent one of its advanced chips into space. Built by Planet Labs , the satellite will prove that a Google Tensor Processing Unit, its competitor to Nvidia’s GPUs, can function in space.

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ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you

OpenAI is again experimenting with how its conversational AI assistant, ChatGPT, can help users as they shop online. On Thursday, the company announced the global launch of two new shopping features, including a way to virtually try on clothing and accessories and a new favoriting function that can help users save products they like for later reference.

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The Verge — AItheverge.com•Added
Steam Deck 2: Is AMD Gainsborough the chip Valve’s been waiting for?

The Steam Deck is four and a half years old, and handheld gamers are eagerly awaiting a Steam Deck 2 — but Valve has consistently said it needs a new chip with a “generational leap” in performance and efficiency before building the sequel. There’s some reason to believe that chip has now broken cover: AMD Gainsborough.

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Android Central ‘will continue’ despite laying off its staff

Android Central , a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing. Yesterday, four of the six staffers on Android Central ’s staff page posted publicly about the layoffs, including Shruti Shekar , Derrek Lee , Harish Jonnalagadda , and Nicholas Sutrich ,…

Ars Technica — IT/AIarstechnica.com•Added
Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028

Micron and Samsung executives this week said the memory shortage will continue for at least the next couple of years. Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra expects demand for the firm’s memory to exceed its available supply over that period, he told investors last night.

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Opus 5.5 loves to tell you 'this matters' (and other AI writing tells)

Now that LLM-generated prose is everywhere, human beings are eager for ways to sniff it out. While early tells like em-dashes and “delve” are long gone, researchers say there are still plenty of telltale habits that AI models fall back on when writing prose.

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OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers on its safety team who allegedly shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. “We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information,” an OpenAI…

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Hacker Newstheverge.com•Added
Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr

Anthropic says its AI Claude has “autonomously discovered” a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It’s the first result from Anthropic’s newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude’s usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public.

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Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI

Shopify introduced a new site-building tool Thursday called Canvas that lets merchants set up their Shopify store by chatting with AI. While Shopify already offered a fairly capable no-code builder before Canvas, it involved editing a selected theme by rearranging modular sections and blocks.

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Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web

Amazon Web Services released an open source decision model inspired by TypeSafe’s Jev , with AI developers increasingly seeking intelligence that is more suited to computer automation than frontier LLMs. Amazon’s Strands Decider 2B, released the same week OpenAI announced a similar offering , is a high-speed, low-cost way to sort between pre-decided…

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The Verge — AItheverge.com•Added
Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5

Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a “new performance tier of AI upscaling” that’s a result of Sony’s Project Amethyst work with AMD, according to a blog post .

The Verge — AItheverge.com•Added
Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews

A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters . US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google’s side in a ruling on Wednesday , writing that PMC and Chegg’s…

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Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test '80x cheaper' DeepSeek claim - $13,200 monthly GPU rental doubles Claude bill while security flaws keep code offline | Tom's Hardware

The Call Center Doctors, a call center consultancy that builds and runs call floors for other businesses, rented a server with four Nvidia H200 AI GPUs to serve DeepSeek V4.1 Flash to its Claude Code agents in place of Opus 5.5, according to its test write-up . The write-up is aimed at anyone who has heard that DeepSeek is “80x cheaper” than Claude.

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The Verge — AItheverge.com•Added
Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink

Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted an intimate, invite-only event for leaders from some of its key enterprise customers. Instead of a flashy media event, Nadella outlined the future of Copilot directly to the customers Microsoft really cares about, pitching its latest rethink of the AI assistant as the “OS for work.” Microsoft is adding coding…

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The Verge — AItheverge.com•Added
Microsoft’s Office and Teams chief is leaving

Team, In 1996, as a college freshman, I taught myself to code so a few friends and I could help other students find a place to live around campus. I didn’t know much.

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The Verge — AItheverge.com•Added
Can VR glasses save VR?

I’m pretty sure I won’t be buying the $1,299 Meta VR Glasses . That’s too rich for my blood in today’s economy, and my feelings about Meta are… conflicted .

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