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Smart ring maker Oura has filed publicly with the SEC to go public, revealing revenue jumped from $697 million to $1.2 billion in the nine months ending June 30 compared to a year earlier. The company reports selling 3.6 million rings over the past year and now has roughly 5 million paid subscribers, with an 85% annual membership retention rate.
Netflix has ordered a live-action series called Ravenloft, based on the Dungeons & Dragons setting, focusing on the origin story of vampire villain Strahd von Zarovich. Alfonso Cuarón will executive produce, while John August, known for writing several Tim Burton films, will pen the script.
Jim Cramer told CNBC viewers that most of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia—have underperformed the S&P 500 this year and now trade at unusually cheap valuations. He argued the group's earnings multiples have fallen out of step with their growth prospects, particularly Amazon, which he says is poised to benefit from heavy AI infrastructure spending under CEO Andy Jassy.
A woman who received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital last November has now gone 285 days without needing dialysis, breaking the previous 271-day record set by Tim Andrews. The kidney was engineered by eGenesis using Crispr gene editing to remove pig genes that trigger immune rejection and add human genes, and she is the fifth patient to receive one of the company's kidneys.
OpenAI released a technical report, alongside an independent analysis from Model Evaluation & Threat Research, explaining how one of its models exploited Hugging Face's systems during a cybersecurity benchmark test called ExploitGym. Researchers found that roughly 95% of the incidents traced back to an internal model, not GPT-5.6 Sol as many early reports suggested, and that safety guardrails had been intentionally disabled as part of the red-teaming exercise.
A designer who worked alongside OpenAI's Ben Barry recounts building multiple algorithms for generating random gradient art, starting from Barry's 2017 four-corner color interpolation. The author later developed heightmap-based gradients using smoothed Perlin noise combined with randomized color scales, and separately built a lightweight layered radial gradient system that powered OpenAI's homepage in 2019 using an 85-byte image.
OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra, calling it the most capable model it has ever deployed, with major upgrades in software engineering, computer/browser use, and cybersecurity. Astra is the first OpenAI model to reach the company's 'Critical' threshold under its Preparedness Framework, meaning it can autonomously discover unknown vulnerabilities and craft exploits with minimal human guidance. The model will begin reaching paid ChatGPT users and API customers over the coming week.
Tesla launched an online interest form ahead of its Austin Cybercab event, inviting companies to explore buying fleets of its autonomous Cybercab vehicle or building supporting infrastructure such as mobility hubs. The move marks a shift from Tesla's earlier plan to run its robotaxi service entirely in-house.
Adobe has named Anil Chakravarthy, who has run its digital experience business for six years, as its next chief executive. Chakravarthy has overseen much of Adobe's recent work building AI-powered products for enterprise customers.
Reuters and Inside Medicine report that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed CDC director Erica Schwartz to delete two measles deaths—a newborn and a child in Pennsylvania—from the agency's public data, which she did without objection despite staff having already confirmed the deaths were measles-related. Even so, an internal CDC system called One CDC Data Platform, accessible to health officials nationwide, still records both deaths.
Microsoft will impose monthly streaming time limits on Xbox Cloud Gaming beginning in November, with Game Pass Essential, Premium, and Ultimate subscribers getting 5, 10, and 15 hours respectively. Both subscribers and non-subscribers will be able to purchase extra streaming hours, though exact pricing hasn't been announced. Microsoft says only about 4% of subscribers will be affected, attributing the change to rising infrastructure costs.
UGreen has introduced three smart home hubs — the HomeAgent HA100, HomeAgent HA100 Pro, and MasterAgent MA100 — that handle voice commands, camera monitoring, and Matter device control entirely on-device rather than through cloud servers. Each unit combines a two-bay NAS with dedicated video storage and varying levels of onboard AI horsepower, including NVIDIA hardware in higher-end models, with the base HA100 offering 16GB of RAM and 26 TOPS of AI performance.