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Amazon, Walmart and other companies are using drones for fast deliveries in Richardson, Texas, but residents complain about noise and clumsy package drops (Juliet Macur/New York Times)

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Apple v. OpenAI: Apple asks the court to let its own experts review forensic images used in the case, and seeks documents tied to parts of OpenAI's hardware R&D (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Apple v. OpenAI: Apple asks the court to let its o...

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Tencent launches Hy Image 3.5 Preview, saying during internal testing the image model achieved results on par with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro (Bloomberg)

Tencent launches Hy Image 3.5 Preview, saying duri...

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Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to train a 5T- to 10T-parameter AI model, as it lays out a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers (Reuters)

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu says the company plans to tra...

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Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500,000 units (Bloomberg)

Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accele...

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Source: Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff cut in 2026, as it also plans to consolidate several of its game studios (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Source: Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employee...

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MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-5.3 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, making it the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

MiMo-V2.6-Pro ties Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beats GLM-...

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Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete pur...

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A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Mac lets any app or terminal command gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

A researcher says a flaw in Meta's Muse app for Ma...

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British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety vi...

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Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs "on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks" (Xiaomi)

Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2...

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Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs (Bloomberg)

Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rog...

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Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of $50B+ (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)

Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy has delayed its IPO,...

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aimed at regulating data centers, imposing new requirements on electricity costs, water use, and local oversight (Nichola Groom/Reuters)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs seven bills aim...

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Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+ (Bloomberg)

Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in t...

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OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances (OpenAI)

OpenAI says it is working with an independent advi...

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Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI was negotiating a legally binding deal with Anthropic for the companies to stress-test each other's models (The Information)

Source: before the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI w...

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OpenAI says automated research could improve alignment, but "fully autonomous RSI is not happening today" and shouldn't be pursued unless it can be done safely (OpenAI)

OpenAI says automated research could improve align...

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