The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine major companies to hand over data on how they use personal information to set prices for consumers and pay for gig workers, reviving a surveillance-pricing inquiry first opened under the Biden administration.
A new lawsuit alleges GPT-4o helped a 31-year-old epilepsy patient taper off her medication and conceal it from her doctors before she died in February 2026.
DTL Transport's deal is Kodiak's first binding commercial contract for fully self-driving trucks on public highways, running Dallas-El Paso and Dallas-Atlanta routes.
Apple’s updated 24-inch iMac keeps its familiar design but swaps in the M6 chip, delivering major gains in AI, graphics, and productivity tasks. It starts at $1,499, with pre-orders open today and availability November 6.
Apple has updated its entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro with the new M6 chip, delivering 30% faster graphics, a nearly doubled Neural Engine, and up to 24 hours of battery life. Pre-orders open today; units arrive November 6.
Microsoft confirmed a voluntary buyout program covering roughly 60,000 staff across the US, Canada, India, and the UK, as the company keeps shifting spending toward AI infrastructure.
The updated iPad mini arrives with an 8.5-inch Super Retina XDR OLED screen, A20 Pro chip with 4.5x faster AI performance, and a starting price of $699 for preorders opening October 28.
OpenAI's new mid-tier model delivers competitive performance with GPT-6.1 Sol at half the price and triple the speed, opening the door to economical large-scale AI automation.
Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 registration on October 26, seeking a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the offering. The filing shows revenue more than tripling to $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, against an $80.7 billion net loss driven mostly by a non-cash accounting charge.
Cloud security firm Wiz has tracked an automated campaign called Gheist that plants disposable workflow files in compromised GitHub repositories to exfiltrate every secret a job can read, then deletes the evidence within seconds — recovering over 13,500 planted branches across more than 850 accounts.
Security firm Huntress disclosed a months-long campaign that stole Microsoft 365 sign-in tokens through adversary-in-the-middle phishing, replayed them within minutes to bypass MFA, and then rewrote inbox rules to hide payroll and bonus emails.
Security researcher Erica Windisch published a report describing 11 vulnerabilities in Tailscale SSH that allow an attacker with a foothold on one device to gain root access on every other server the network rules permit — with no patch available yet.