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Trump Reportedly Consulted Grok About Venezuela Before Maduro Capture

President Donald Trump reportedly spent hours using Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot during a private meeting in December 2025, including asking how Venezuelans might react if President Nicolás Maduro were captured.…

OpenAI Adds Virtual Try-On And Favorites To ChatGPT Shopping

OpenAI has introduced two new shopping features for ChatGPT, adding virtual try-on for clothing and accessories and a Favorites tool for saving products inside the app. The update marks another…

Google Sends TPU Into Space As Project Suncatcher Tests Orbital AI Computing

Google has sent one of its Tensor Processing Units into space for the first time as part of Project Suncatcher, a long-term effort to determine whether large AI computing clusters…

Fervo Energy Starts Selling Power From Cape Station Ahead Of Schedule

Fervo Energy has started commercial electricity sales from the first section of its Cape Station geothermal project in Utah, one day ahead of its contractual deadline. The first GeoBlock reached…

OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Information Sharing

OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers on its safety team after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information outside established procedures. The researchers allegedly shared confidential information…

Graphite Study Finds Thousands Of Persistent Writing Tells Across Leading AI Models

Graphite researchers have found that leading AI models still produce thousands of recurring words, phrases, and sentence patterns at substantially higher rates than human writers, even as familiar signals such…

MyMonthlyCar Connects Dealerships With Drivers For Month-To-Month Used Car Rentals

MyMonthlyCar is building an online marketplace that lets dealerships rent their used vehicles to drivers on a month-to-month basis. The Florida-based startup aims to give dealers another way to use…

AWS Releases Open Source Strands Decider 2B For Faster AI Agent Decisions

Amazon Web Services has released Strands Decider 2B, a small open source AI model designed to make fast decisions inside agent workflows without relying on a full large language model…

Shopify Launches Canvas To Build Online Stores By Chatting With AI

Shopify has introduced Canvas, a new AI-powered workspace that lets merchants build and customize online stores by describing what they want to Sidekick, Shopify’s AI agent. Instead of relying mainly…

California Governor Newsom Vetoes Bill Targeting Secret Recordings With Smart Glasses

California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have imposed new restrictions on secretly recording people with wearable devices such as smart glasses. Newsom said the proposal used definitions…

Tesla’s ‘Amazing Abundance’ Vision Still Lacks Detail More Than A Year After Master Plan IV

More than a year after Tesla published its fourth Master Plan, CEO Elon Musk continues to describe a future of “amazing abundance” driven by AI, humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, and…

Airbnb Adds AI Search As Brian Chesky Questions Chatbot-Only Travel Interfaces

Airbnb has introduced AI-powered search as part of its fall product update, while CEO Brian Chesky says chatbot-only interfaces still do not work well for travel discovery. The company is…

Photon Raises $4.5 Million To Build AI Agents Across Messaging Apps

San Francisco, United States, October 2, 2026 — Photon has raised $4.5 million in seed funding as it builds infrastructure for AI agents that communicate through services such as iMessage…

Legato Launches $999 AI Hearing Glasses for Adults With Hearing Loss

Hearing technology startup Legato has launched Legato Frames, a pair of AI-powered hearing glasses designed for adults with up to moderate hearing loss. Starting at $999, the glasses integrate hearing-assistance…

Audible Adds AI Character Guides, Interactive Stories and Visual Extras

Audible is adding three new features designed to make audiobooks more interactive, including real-time character guides, AI-powered conversations with fictional characters, and visual information tied to places mentioned in a…

Amazon Gives Kindle Lineup a Major Redesign With Flush Displays and Lighter Bodies

Amazon has redesigned its Kindle lineup with flush-front displays, thinner bodies, and lighter hardware, replacing the raised bezels that have surrounded Kindle screens for years. The company says new touch…

Amazon Launches $34.99 Kindle Click Remote for Hands-Free Page Turning

Amazon has introduced the Kindle Click, a $34.99 Bluetooth remote that lets readers turn pages without touching their Kindle. The accessory arrives alongside a redesigned Kindle lineup featuring thinner bodies,…

Satlyt Raises $8 Million to Build a Shared Computing Layer for Satellites

Satlyt has raised an $8 million seed round to develop software that lets satellites run AI models and eventually share computing workloads across orbit. Rather than building spacecraft, the startup…

Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon With Focus on Cybersecurity and Complex Coding

Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model designed for complex coding, research, writing, and cybersecurity work. The company says Argon can autonomously identify, validate, and patch critical…

Pentagon Launches Project Meridian With Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich

The Pentagon has launched Project Meridian, a 120-day effort to study how future wars could be fought and identify technologies the US military may need to develop, test, and deploy.…