OpenAI has introduced a feature in ChatGPT that lets users build websites directly within the chat interface. Newly created sites are private by default, visible only to the creator and workspace admins, with options to share with selected people, a workspace, or the public. Sites shared inside a workspace rely on ChatGPT sign-in for access control, and public sites can optionally include a 'Sign in with ChatGPT' option for personalized experiences.
A Financial Times analysis found Apple held 257 meetings with EU policymakers since June 2024, ranking second among tech firms behind Google's 302. Apple spends roughly €8-9 million annually on Brussels lobbying, more than Total, Volkswagen and Airbus combined, while Amazon ranked 14th with 239 meetings and Meta spent over €10 million yearly.
Jim Cramer said on CNBC's Mad Money that enterprise software stocks staged a sharp recovery in the third quarter while chip stocks pulled back after earlier gains. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF rose 17% in the quarter versus an 11% drop for the iShares Semiconductor ETF, with Salesforce up 46%, Microsoft up 37%, Workday up 55%, Veeva up 60% and CrowdStrike up 39%, while Corning fell nearly 40%.
9to5Mac's daily podcast episode for October 1, 2026 summarized recent reporting on production of an 'iPhone Duo' and new details about upcoming AirPods 5. The episode, hosted by Chance, is distributed via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play and RSS, with a sponsorship from the Stuff to-do app.
Several AI company executives joined President Trump this week to sign an AI safety accord that leaves enforcement largely up to the companies themselves. Trump described the arrangement as firms policing 'each other' and 'themselves,' rather than through binding government standards.
A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX's Crew-13 mission from Cape Canaveral, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station for a six-month stay. The launch, originally planned for mid-September, was delayed so SpaceX could cut into a propellant line and replace a faulty valve in the Dragon spacecraft's propulsion system.
OpenAI has fired three employees from its safety team after they allegedly shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization. A company representative told The Wall Street Journal that an internal investigation confirmed the employees mishandled sensitive information outside established procedures, violating company policy and breaking trust.
A new MIT-licensed project called aweb provides AI agents with stable identities, durable mail and chat, and wake-up events that persist across sessions, runtimes and machines. The system is federated and self-hostable, meaning independently run servers can interconnect, and it ships as a CLI and API installable via npm with built-in integrations for Claude Code and Pi.
Cloudflare has released two open-weight models, Clef and Clef-flash, built for structured decision tasks like yes/no answers, multiple-choice, and ranking. The models use frozen, post-trained versions of Qwen backbones, support images, video, and a 64K context window, and are downloadable via Hugging Face.
Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to resolve a lawsuit filed in 2020 by the California Labor Commissioner's Office, which accused the company of wrongly classifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. The case alleged drivers were denied minimum wage, overtime, sick leave and timely wage payments between April 2016 and December 2020. The settlement still requires court approval, and the Labor Commissioner's Office says it will forgo its share so funds go directly to drivers who filed wage claims.
Kevin Mandia's new security startup Armadin has closed a $255.5 million Series B round at a valuation exceeding $2.5 billion, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint, 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins, and Menlo Ventures. The round follows a $190 million Series A just six months earlier, bringing Armadin's total funding to over $445 million. The company builds always-on 'agentic swarms' that continuously probe enterprise systems for vulnerabilities, chaining weaknesses together in a manner meant to replicate how attackers might exploit them.
A GitHub repository has published design files, firmware, and build instructions for a novel physical keyboard called the Gboard Conveyor Belt Version, dated October 1, 2026. The release includes KiCad schematics, PCB layouts, firmware source, and 3D-printable STL files for the case and mechanism, alongside a build guide. The project explicitly states it is not an official Google product, distinguishing it from Google's actual Gboard mobile app.
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