Samsung’s $647bn home investment heads for the chip-starved southwest
Samsung’s $647bn home investment heads for the chip-starved southwest

Numbers in the trillions have a way of losing their edges, so it is worth holding this one still for a moment. Samsung is expected to announce plans to invest 1,000 trillion won, around $647.5bn, in South Korea over the next 10 years, according to loca…

The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release
The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release

Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer by customer. For years the debate over slowing down powerful AI models was a matter for company safety teams and outside cr…

SpaceX wants to sell Starlink phone service directly to US consumers
SpaceX wants to sell Starlink phone service directly to US consumers

Every satellite company eventually looks down at the much larger market on the ground, and SpaceX appears ready to make the move. The company has told investors it plans to launch a Starlink mobile service for US consumers, the Financial Times reported…

OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself
OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself

Nearly 98 percent of OpenAI’s employees now use Codex, the company’s AI coding agent, up from roughly 40 percent in August 2025, according to a paper the company published on Wednesday titled “The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex.” The paper de…

Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor
Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor

Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market’s website. Blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield estimated the losses at …

Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job
Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job

Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, less than 18 months after making the email product available to users. The company said the decision reflects a broader shift in how people interact with email, with AI agents increasingly handling t…

Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles
Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles

The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation proposed on Wednesday removing the federal requirement for brake pedals in vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems. The rule change, if adopted, would eliminate one…

Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows
Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows

Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer base and revenue have grown roughly 75 percent since Ja…

Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over efforts to keep her quiet
Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over efforts to keep her quiet

For more than a year, the legal action in the Sarah Wynn-Williams affair ran one way: Meta against its former executive. That has now reversed. Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of the Meta memoir Careless People, is suing the company over its efforts to…

Unconventional AI releases its first model, built on an oscillator architecture its founder says could cut power use by a factor of a thousand
Unconventional AI releases its first model, built on an oscillator architecture its founder says could cut power use by a factor of a thousand

Unconventional AI, the startup founded by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, has released its first AI model, an image generation system called Un-0 that runs on a completely new kind of computing architecture. The model produces results comparable…