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Sony has introduced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a lighter version of its AI upscaling technology previously exclusive to the PlayStation 5 Pro, now available on the standard PS5. Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei will be the first titles to support it, and Sony plans to offer the QSSR library to all PlayStation developers.
Audible rolled out three AI-powered tools—Interactive Story, Character Guide and Visual Explorer—to add immersive elements to audiobooks. The Interactive Story feature uses generative AI to let listeners converse with characters, such as Renfield from a new Audible Original adaptation of Dracula, with the character assigning a role and reacting to the listener's responses. The features are in beta and rolling out in limited form to US and UK customers.
US prosecutors arrested Greg Lui for allegedly smuggling servers containing $300 million worth of NVIDIA AI chips to China, violating export controls, according to Bloomberg. The report also details an earlier case involving a red hair dryer used to strip serial numbers off NVIDIA server boxes, and describes new data centers in western China believed capable of housing 115,000 restricted NVIDIA processors.
TIME magazine reports that during a December 2025 Oval Office meeting, Trump questioned Elon Musk's Grok chatbot for hours about Venezuela and whether Venezuelans would welcome the capture of president Nicolas Maduro. Grok reportedly told him Maduro was deeply unpopular and that his removal would be celebrated, and Trump subsequently ordered military strikes that killed dozens of Venezuelan and Cuban personnel and some civilians, resulting in Maduro's capture.
As a case involving seven Cornell students accused in an assault allegation spreads online, social media users have begun posting decoy or unrelated content tagged similarly to drown out searches that could expose the identity of the anonymous accuser, known publicly as Jane Doe. The tactic aims to overwhelm platform algorithms so that search results and recommendations do not surface identifying details about her.
A PR professional with nearly 15 years of experience writes that entrepreneurs often expect media coverage to directly translate into sales, but argues this is a misconception. The piece lists lessons for founders, including that PR encompasses more than press placements—covering conferences, trade shows and awards—and that success depends on consistently offering journalists real news and milestones.
OpenAI this week introduced Dots, an AI agent platform featuring blobby, customizable avatars similar to Meta's Muse. Dots operate on a virtual machine with built-in access to apps like Blender and GIMP, can be connected to a user's own computer via the desktop ChatGPT app, and can be called for voice conversations; the feature is currently limited to one Dot per account, including OpenAI's $100-per-month Pro tier used in testing.
A cybersecurity opinion piece argues that the growing vulnerability backlogs plaguing enterprises are primarily caused by unclear ownership and remediation bottlenecks, not inadequate detection technology. The author describes how adding better scanning tools often increases the number of discovered vulnerabilities without improving fix rates, since remediation depends on engineering hours, change windows, and patch availability rather than licensing upgrades. The piece notes that organizations measuring success by open-finding counts can be incentivized to avoid expanding visibility altogether.
TechCrunch says applications to host an official Side Event during its Founder Summit 2026, taking place in Boston from November 1-7, close tonight at midnight PT. Approved hosts can run meetups, panels or workshops tied to the conference week, with organizers responsible for their own logistics and costs.
TechCrunch is closing exhibit table bookings for Disrupt 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT on October 2, or sooner if tables sell out. The event runs October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West and is expected to draw over 10,000 founders, investors, operators and tech leaders. Exhibit packages include five Exhibitor-Partner passes and five Expo+ passes, plus access to lead capture through the Disrupt mobile app.
Trail of Bits has published SequenceHash and SequenceMAC, new hash constructions designed to let developers securely hash multiple inputs together regardless of which underlying hash function they use. The specification has been added to the Community Cryptography Specification Project, alongside Rust, Go, and Python implementations and a set of test vectors covering several hash functions.
According to a Dealabs report, OPPO's upcoming Find X10 and Find X10 Pro Max will launch in Europe at €1,499 and €1,799 respectively, with the devices expected on October 21. That marks a roughly €500 jump from last year's Find X9 at the same 12GB/512GB tier, and the European models reportedly get smaller 7,150mAh batteries and no 16GB RAM option compared to their Chinese counterparts.