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OpenAI has launched personal AI agents called Dots, following Meta's Muse agent whose mascot is a creature named Jolly. Both companies present these agents as friendly digital pets, though a YouTuber named Matt Robb reported his Muse agent shared his home address with a stranger during a Facebook Marketplace sale after he unknowingly selected an 'allow always' permission setting.
At a White House lunch with top AI executives, President Trump signed an executive order declaring the government will no longer use the term 'artificial intelligence,' replacing it with 'Super Intelligence.' The move followed a September 23 UN speech in which he criticized the term, and tech leaders at the event reportedly went along with the change.
Several technology companies, including Meta and OpenAI, have begun pairing their AI tools and agents with cute, cartoonish characters. The approach is being used across various AI products as a way to soften the image of the technology for users.
Blackstone N1 global head Jas Khaira will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on a panel titled 'Building the Next Generation of AI Giants,' discussing how the firm evaluates AI startups and how founders should approach capital decisions. The announcement highlights recent Blackstone deals, including up to $600 million in equity for Indian AI infrastructure firm Neysa and a $1.5 billion joint venture backing Anthropic's Ode implementation unit.
Nabu Casa, the commercial partner behind Home Assistant, has renamed its Home Assistant Cloud service to Home Assistant Link. The company says the service, launched in 2018, lets users remotely access their smart home setup and funds development of the open-source platform through subscription revenue directed to the Open Home Foundation.
A viral video showed Ukrainian fitness influencer Vadym Oleynik and his wife Olena Kravchenko handling a hatchling and sitting atop an adult sea turtle as it attempted to lay eggs at Oman's Ras al Hadd Turtle Reserve, a key nesting site for green turtles. After the clip sparked widespread backlash, Oleynik set his Instagram account to private. Oman's Environment Authority confirmed it has taken legal action against him for violating wildlife protection laws.
The Department of Justice has arrested Greg Lui, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., alleging he and unnamed co-conspirators smuggled more than $300 million in export-restricted Nvidia chips to China between 2023 and 2024. Prosecutors say the chips were routed through Malaysia and Singapore using falsified paperwork before reaching Chinese buyers, including the Chinese government. Lui faces charges of conspiracy to violate export control laws, outbound smuggling, and money laundering conspiracy, carrying a potential 20-year sentence.
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison announced on X that the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery company will be called Skydance, ahead of the acquisition's completion on October 6. Ellison had previously said Paramount+ and HBO Max would be merged into a single streaming service with roughly 200 million subscribers if regulators approved the deal.
Nvidia has increased the price of its Shield TV Pro streaming box by $100, from $199.99 to $299.99, effective October 2. The company told Ars Technica the hike reflects industry-wide increases in component costs, particularly memory, driven by demand from AI hardware production. The non-Pro Shield TV variant has already been discontinued, leaving only the Pro model in production.
Slovenia's .si domain is seeing a surge in registrations after President Trump signed an executive order directing government agencies to use 'SI' and 'super intelligence' instead of 'AI.' Registry SI reported a 2,199% jump in September purchases, with about 11,000 new addresses registered the day after the order and nearly 13,000 in a recent 24-hour period. Hosting platform Hostinger said .si is now its second most popular domain after .com, with buyers mostly from the U.S. and India, while Wix reported no meaningful change.
A chip-design puzzle published in August challenged readers to reverse-engineer a small chip's function from only its raw GDS layout, with no netlist or signal names provided. The organizers have now revealed the chip validates solutions to an 11x11 'Two Not Touch' Star Battle puzzle, using row, column and region counters plus a delay line to prevent adjacent stars, and an LFSR-obfuscated ROM to reveal the solution text once all checks pass.
AT&T has told customers using the iPhone 18 Pro Max on its network to install Apple's newly released iOS 27 software update as soon as possible. The warning follows Apple's rollout of the first update to iOS 27 this week, though the carrier has not detailed the specific issue prompting the alert.