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Apple Pay went live in India on September 30 starting with Axis Bank credit cards on Visa and Mastercard — but without support for UPI, the bank-transfer system that already handles nearly 8 billion transactions a month through Google Pay alone.
Security researchers at Mindgard found that Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm models could be jailbroken into detailing bioweapon production and assassination methods — and volunteering further harmful ideas unprompted.
A Form 8-K filed Monday shows Tesla has signed $30 billion in credit facilities with Citi and Wells Fargo — a $20 billion delayed-draw term loan plus two revolving lines — to back heavy capex on AI compute, solar manufacturing, and its robotaxi buildout.
Trump announced that AI industry leaders including Dario Amodei, Greg Brockman, and Jensen Huang signed the White House Accord, a non-binding safety commitment, and said his administration is considering a 10-person committee to oversee the industry.
A confidential IPO prospectus reveals Anthropic could pay up to $84.5 billion through 2029 for Nvidia GPU capacity at SpaceX's Colossus data centers — almost double the roughly $45 billion SpaceX itself disclosed earlier.
A high-severity vulnerability in Anthropic's official MCP Python SDK allowed a malicious server to steal OAuth credentials and take over user accounts. The flaw, CVE-2026-52869, is now patched in versions 1.30.0 and 2.2.0.
OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has surged to nearly $70 billion, up more than 70% since July, with business-to-business sales more than doubling in Q3 2026.
The new government portal lets Americans search 29,000 federal websites in plain language, powered jointly by Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok, with a 2027 roadmap to handle full transactions like name changes and passport renewals.
Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, up fourfold from last month, betting that a small team building a personal task-completion agent can outcompete larger rivals like Meta's Muse.
AMD's second-largest acquisition ever brings world-model pioneer World Labs in-house, with Fei-Fei Li becoming chief scientist, as chipmakers race to build AI systems that can understand and act in physical space.
Beijing has asked domestic tech firms how many RTX Pro 5500 workstation chips they want, with ByteDance reportedly considering roughly 1 million units — a workstation-class product that sits outside the strictest US export controls.
A 24-year-old Amsterdam man known online as 'Umbreon,' previously convicted of hacking, appears before a Dutch court following his arrest in an investigation tied to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which denies any connection to him.