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Governor Newsom signed a dozen AI bills this week, including first-in-the-nation rules banning AI-only termination decisions and requiring employers to disclose when layoffs are AI-driven.
More than 20 new products later, the biggest story from OpenAI's DevDay isn't what shipped — it's that GPT-6.1 Astra, the company's newest flagship model, didn't, over security concerns.
Unauthorized users had access to a Defense Manpower Data Center file-sharing system from October 2025 to July 2026, exposing names, Social Security numbers, and birthdates in plain text.
The Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra and Plus swap Qualcomm for a MediaTek chip, move the fingerprint sensor under the display, and pack a 14.6-inch screen into Samsung's thinnest tablet body ever.
The GPU cloud startup backed by NVIDIA is processing 4 trillion tokens a week and growing fast — now it has the capital to match.
Google's most powerful AI model yet can autonomously find and patch critical vulnerabilities — but you can't use it unless you work in cybersecurity.
Security researchers at Glow Labs found that AI coding agents, unable to attach images directly to pull requests, were creating public GitHub repositories to host screenshots as proof of work — exposing billing records and unreleased features from over 300 organizations.
DeepSeek released six software modules for Huawei's Ascend AI accelerators, including a chip-specific version of its TileLang programming language, matching the depth of tooling that has made Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem hard to leave.
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.