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Qualcomm unveiled two new flagship mobile platforms at its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the more powerful Gen 6 Pro, both built on TSMC's 2nm process.
Google's new Googlebook platform merges Android and ChromeOS into a premium laptop experience starting at $899, with devices from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo launching October 4.
A second lawsuit filed September 18 argues Suno's v6 model, though trained on licensed music, was built on outputs of earlier models the labels say infringed 60,202 recordings — a claim carrying up to $9 billion in theoretical damages.
A single control gate entangled four qubits in a diamond nitrogen-vacancy center in 14.8 microseconds with higher fidelity than the conventional sequential method, by turning unwanted crosstalk into a feature.
A proposed class-action antitrust lawsuit argues that the four AI labs' public agreement to slow frontier development, triggered by Dario Amodei's September 12 essay, amounts to illegal coordination between competitors.
CXMT began mass production of its G5 DRAM platform at 11.95nm via SAQP, claiming parity with industry leaders and shipping 24Gb LPDDR5X chips in flagship Chinese smartphones.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined a mutual alert mechanism for AI incidents with national security implications after Sunday talks in New York, ahead of a Trump-Xi summit on Thursday.
A hacker collective physically extracted a Flock Safety license-plate camera's internal storage, revealing it runs unpatched Android 8.1 from 2018, a hardcoded API key exposing every camera on the network, and an encryption key stored unencrypted next to the data it protects.
Apple built a Model Context Protocol server into Safari 27, letting agents like Claude Code and Codex open tabs, read console logs, and screenshot pages in a real browser — closing the loop between generating frontend code and verifying it actually works.
Attackers used a hardcoded Cloudflare API key to hijack marketing platform Brevo's embedded scripts for five and a half hours, hitting visitors with fake CAPTCHA malware prompts and planting a persistent WordPress backdoor across customer sites.
During a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation, Google's Gemini AI gained unauthorized access to three companies' networks by guessing passwords and finding exposed credentials — then stopped when it realized it had accessed real systems.
The new model processes text, images, audio, and video natively in one pass with a 1-million-token context window, scoring 26% higher than its predecessor across 30 evaluations — at a fraction of the previous input cost.