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- Margaret Hamilton, who led an MIT software team for NASA's Apollo program and helped establish software engineering as a discipline, died on September 30 at 90 (Janine Liberty/MIT News) [15d]
- The AGs of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska sue TP-Link, alleging it deceptively marketed its routers' security and didn't properly disclose ties to China (Connor Jones/The Register) [15d]
- The DOD offers chipmaker Wolfspeed, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, a conditional loan of up to $1.5B in exchange for warrants for up to 7.5% of the company (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg) [15d]
- Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (Wall Street Journal) [15d]
- OpenAI says GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat tab is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers (@openai) [15d]
- Sources: former White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is raising a ~$500M fund to back growth- and later-stage US AI companies, prioritizing national security (Leo Schwartz/The Information) [15d]
- Anthropic cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 and adds monthly API credits: $100 for Max 5x, $200 for Max 20x, up to $500 shared by Team users (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [15d]
- Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 above, vs. $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5 (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [16d]
- OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers (OpenAI) [16d]
- Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification (Anthropic) [16d]
- Microsoft opens preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping October 16; it has a breakaway port like Apple's MagSafe, but on a standard USB-C (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) [16d]
- Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) [16d]
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- Moving beyond chips and screens: Samsung joins Nvidia and KKR in a massive $1 billion data center infrastructure deal [15d]
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- The Sony Inzone H6 Air is an 'incredibly lightweight' gaming headset with studio-grade drivers — here's how to get it for its lowest-ever price [15d]
- The Amazon Prime Day deals I’m buying to upgrade my new home cooking space [15d]
- Netgear reveals new dark web monitoring tool which will tell you if your personal data turns up online [16d]
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