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Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multi-year patent license agreement covering cross licenses across 5G, compute, AI and networking patent portfolios. The deal also includes Qualcomm's purchase of certain Huawei US patents in compute, AI, networking and other fields, pending regulatory approval.
Multiple Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro/Pro XL owners say Google Maps freezes, flickers, or shows pixelated graphical artifacts when used with Android Auto, over both wired and wireless connections. The issue persists despite clearing app data, reinstalling apps, switching cables, or changing resolution settings, and doesn't affect all users or vehicles.
Siemens, which acquired Altair Engineering last year, shut down the OpenRadioss GitHub repository and removed related resources, ending public access to the open-source finite element solver. Brian Clemens, founder of Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, has launched a community fork called OpenCourant, based on the last known public snapshot of the code and continuing under the GNU AGPLv3 license.
Android Authority found a new lock screen customization page hidden in the Wallpaper & Style app on the first Android 17 QPR3 beta. The page is mostly empty but shows buttons for wallpaper, colors, clock, widgets, and a new 'media' option not seen in the current menu. Currently, Pixel owners customize lock screens through a swipe-based menu with separate settings for clock, shortcuts, and notifications.
REK staged cage matches where YouTuber Frankie LaPenna fought three humanoid robots, taking hard kicks and punches that knocked him down repeatedly. The California State Athletic Commission issued a cease-and-desist letter on September 30, citing state laws requiring licensing for any combat exhibition involving a human. REK CEO Cix Liv publicly shared the letter on X rather than expressing concern.
On the launch day of its Googlebook laptops, Google told Android Authority that while all Play Store apps are available on every device, a small number of complex apps or games may not perform smoothly on Intel-based models. The company said this is because many Android apps were built for Arm chips, and it is working with developers, Intel and Qualcomm to improve compatibility. Three of the five launch Googlebooks—from Acer, Asus and Lenovo—use Intel chips, while Dell and HP models use Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon processors.
Amazon's Big Deal Days event returns on October 6, 2026, offering discounts across categories including CPUs, GPUs, RAM, SSDs, laptops and peripherals. The sale is exclusive to Prime members, though a free trial membership grants access, and some early deals are already live ahead of the official start date.
Deutsche Telekom announced it expects artificial intelligence to generate roughly $1.24 billion in gross cost savings outside the United States by 2027. The telecom group framed AI as a tool for both cutting costs and boosting revenue across its operations.
OpenAI will begin testing a new ad format that displays visual ads while users generate images in ChatGPT, starting later this month with a limited group of US advertisers. The company says these ads will be clearly labeled and kept separate from generated images, and insists ads will not influence ChatGPT's responses. OpenAI is also adding measurement and brand-safety tools, partnering with firms including Hightouch, LiveRamp, AppsFlyer, DoubleVerify, and Integral Ad Science.
President Trump announced a new federal taskforce, the Super Intelligence Force, to coordinate government engagement with consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and AI companies. It will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and will include FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Undersecretary of Defense Emil Michael and OPM Director Scott Kupor, reporting directly to Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The move follows Trump's September executive order renaming AI as 'Super Intelligence' and his plan for an AI safety board after tech executives signed a safety pact.
Microsoft is broadening its Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) service beyond AMD Radeon GPUs to also support Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm graphics hardware on Windows PCs, with support arriving later in October. ASD streams precompiled shaders from the cloud rather than requiring each PC to compile them locally, a process Microsoft says it can shrink from several minutes to a few seconds. The feature currently works with Gears of War: E-Day and was confirmed by DirectX program manager Wendy Ho in a company blog post.
A critique argues that the AI industry's foundational assumption—that the human brain operates like a computer processing input, computation, and output—oversimplifies human cognition. The piece traces this model back to Alan Turing and notes that even computing pioneer John von Neumann doubted computational models could capture the full complexity of the human nervous system. The author contends that as AI products become more embedded in daily life, this flawed mental model is causing real problems.