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Valve's Steam Autumn Sale runs through October 8 at 1PM ET, discounting recent releases like Resident Evil Requiem and 007 First Light by 30 percent and Metaphor: ReFantazio by 60 percent. Older titles such as Death's Door, The Talos Principle II, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Monster Hunter Rise and Skyrim are also marked down to just a few dollars each.
Fervo Energy said it started delivering electricity to the grid from its Cape Station facility on September 30, a day ahead of schedule, after the plant synchronized with the grid about a week earlier. The initial phase represents one-third of a planned 100-megawatt facility that took 23 months to build from groundbreaking to operation, with the full site potentially scaling to 4 gigawatts.
A business advice column distinguishes between a marketing problem, where customers understand an offer but aren't reached enough, and a positioning problem, where they hear the pitch but can't quickly grasp what the business does or why it's different. The author advises owners to write one clear, defensible statement of what they want to be known for and compare it against their recent content, homepage and bio before increasing ad or marketing spend.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, which the company says improves coding, cybersecurity and complex-task performance, matching OpenAI's cybersecurity benchmark scores and leading on software engineering tests. Its launch pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens mirrors OpenAI's discounted GPT-6.1 Sol model. The release comes as Meta's Muse app and OpenAI's new Dots personal agent draw heavy consumer attention, while Anthropic's CEO has called for slower AI development pace.
Google has rolled out Guided Vision, a new Gemini Live capability that lets blind and low-vision users share their phone camera and receive real-time spoken descriptions of their surroundings. The feature can also verbally direct users to reposition the camera, such as panning or stepping back, to get a clearer view. It works on Android 9 and newer in regions where Gemini Live is supported, and was developed with input from accessibility group Aira's Trusted Tester network.
Mattel Inc. is bringing in a new chief executive, while Condé Nast and the newly merged Paramount-Warner Bros. are also undergoing leadership changes this week. Each company's incoming leadership is reportedly tied to experience in streaming media.
xAI has released Grok for Intune, a standalone version of its Grok AI assistant app designed for organizations using Microsoft Intune to manage devices. The app supports Intune Mobile Application Management, enforces company app protection policies, and requires sign-in with a work email. It is now available on the App Store and includes Grok's standard features like chat, image and video generation, voice mode, and live camera analysis.
OpenAI has terminated three members of its safety team after an internal investigation found they shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, according to The Wall Street Journal. A company spokesperson said the individuals violated policies on handling sensitive information, but OpenAI has not named the researchers, the organization involved, or the specifics of what was shared.
A new Quinnipiac University national poll finds that more than 70% of Americans say they are concerned AI technology could threaten humanity's existence. The survey indicates public anxiety has expanded beyond job displacement and rising energy costs linked to data centers to encompass broader fears about AI's long-term dangers.
An open-source project called Bez proposes generating a web rendering engine automatically, using web specifications as source material and checking output against Chromium, Firefox and WebKit plus the WPT test suite. The system reportedly lets a model produce candidate implementations, verifies them against the three browsers' rendered layouts, and commits matching code as standard Rust. Bez can also produce 'tree-shaken' builds containing only the web features a given site or app actually uses.
In an interview with Time magazine, President Trump reportedly said he does not want data centers built near his own properties, even as his administration promotes rapid AI infrastructure expansion nationwide. The comment surfaced amid broader discussion of his views on AI and energy policy.
Marvel Studios released its last trailer for VisionQuest, a limited series concluding the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued with Agatha All Along. Paul Bettany returns as Vision, alongside James Spader as Ultron, with Vision now on the run after a bounty is placed on him, accompanied by a mysterious boy named Thomas Shepherd, played by Ruaridh Mollica.