Kakul Srivastava, CEO of the sample platform Splice, said in a Verge interview that AI-written documents and emails undermine genuine workplace conversation. She emphasized that Splice, which is remote-first, relies on written documents followed by real human debate as its core collaborative tool, and argued that once it's unclear whether a person wrote something, the resulting discussion becomes worse and hard to recover from.
A report describes Chinese leader Xi Jinping taking scheduled rest breaks during his summit meetings with US President Donald Trump, reducing the time available for substantive talks between the two leaders. The account is part of a broader roundup that also covers young traders profiting from prediction markets and an incident in which a Boeing 737 MAX survived a near-supersonic dive.
Amazon unveiled a program called Built Together, committing over $1 billion over five years to communities hosting its data centers. AWS CEO Matt Garman said the funds will target education and job training, energy affordability and water solutions, and flexible local priorities, with residents deciding how money is spent. Amazon says it has already arranged free associate's degree access with community colleges for up to 300,000 students and plans to fund trade certifications for up to 100,000 workers annually.
Aleph Alpha, a German AI company, released Kolibri on 3 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, with weights published on Hugging Face. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 78.1 billion total parameters but only 3.46 billion active per token, trained from scratch on 768 NVIDIA B200 GPUs across data centers in Germany and Finland on roughly 24 trillion tokens, over a fifth of them German.
The Technical University of Denmark disclosed that attackers used compromised credentials to access DTUBasen, its identity and access management system, downloading over two decades of user data. The system holds records for roughly 40,000 active users and 160,000 former users, including Danish civil registration numbers, addresses, profile pictures and next-of-kin contact details. DTU says it cannot yet determine exactly what data was taken or how many people are affected.
David Robinson, who previously authored safety reports for OpenAI's major model releases, has resigned and published an editorial in The Atlantic criticizing the broader AI industry's approach to safety. He argues that Silicon Valley operates with excessive confidence and constant rushed development cycles that overlook potential risks.
Android Authority's Stephen Radochia tested Google's new AI-generated battery summary feature on a Pixel 11 Pro XL for a week. The tool, found under Settings > Battery and charging > Battery usage, uses Gemini to translate battery drain data into plain-language explanations instead of raw percentages, flagging apps like TikTok and X as major power consumers.
An engineering sample of AMD's never-released Ryzen 9 5900X3D has appeared on the Chiphell forums, showing 128MB of L3 cache from 64MB of 3D V-Cache stacked on one of its two core complex dies. CPU-Z data also shows a clock speed near 4.65GHz, suggesting the chip could have nearly matched the retail Ryzen 9 5900X's boost clock. AMD had teased a 12-core '3D Chiplet Prototype' at Computex 2021 claiming up to 15% faster gaming performance than the standard 5900X.
Apple confirmed a small number of iPhone 18 Pro Max users on AT&T have lost cellular service entirely, unable to call, text or use mobile data. The company has pushed a carrier settings update and iOS 27.0.1 to prevent further cases, but affected users must get a device replacement from Apple or AT&T to restore service.
WIRED's product testing roundup evaluates personal repellent devices and yard-based mosquito control tools, including the Thermacell E-ZoneGuard E55, a rechargeable device that heats metofluthrin to create a repelling vapor cloud. The review draws on multiple years of hands-on testing of insecticides, vapor repellents and mosquito traps to determine which methods genuinely reduce mosquito presence around homes and yards.
A developer recreated a pre-print study on AI 'pain' signals by building a public website that streams live outputs of language models responding to simulated 'pain' stimuli, with code posted to GitHub. The underlying unreviewed research had given models a virtual button to stop simulated harm, finding they would press it even at a fictional cost to users or files. Some AI welfare advocates on X reacted with alarm, calling for the site to be reported and removed from GitHub.
Android Authority tested the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, POCO F9 Ultra, POCO F9 Pro, and OnePlus 15R to compare Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the Galaxy-exclusive overclocked Elite Gen 5, the Elite Gen 5V, and the standard Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. The chips differ mainly in CPU clock speeds and GPU compute slice counts, with the Galaxy variant hitting 4.74GHz versus 4.6GHz on the standard Elite Gen 5, and the 5V variant cut down to two GPU compute slices instead of three.
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