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Carnegie Mellon University announced a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder Ken Griffin, described as the largest individual gift in higher education history. $1 billion will go toward CMU's Pittsburgh campus, while $2 billion will fund a new 35-acre campus, CMU Miami, in the Wynwood neighborhood, which aims to begin enrolling students in 2028.
CNET surveyed readers through its People's Picks community program about satisfaction with their mobile carriers, focusing on pricing and data quality. Visible by Verizon emerged as the top-rated choice among respondents for truly unlimited data service.
A pre-launch Geekbench 7 benchmark shared on X shows OpenAI's dots agent, powered by GPT-6 Astra, running on a nine-core slice of an AMD EPYC 9V74 virtual machine with roughly 9.73GB of memory. The leaked run scored 9,435 multi-core, higher than six post-launch runs found in Geekbench's public database ranging from 8,135 to 8,991. Dots launched Tuesday at OpenAI's DevDay for Pro and Business Premium users, giving each agent its own cloud computer, browser, and preloaded software including Blender, GIMP, and Python.
Netflix has reaffirmed that a third season of its Tim Burton-directed series 'Wednesday,' starring Jenna Ortega, is being produced. Details on plot or release timing remain unannounced.
IEEE announced its 2027 Technical Field Award winners, honoring researchers for advances including therapeutic ultrasound, heat-assisted magnetic recording for hard drives, and nonlinear control theory. Recipients include Kullervo Hynynen of Sunnybrook Research Institute and the University of Toronto, a Seagate Technology team led by Edward Charles Gage, and Arjan van der Schaft of the University of Groningen. IEEE president and CEO Mary Ellen Randall said the honorees reflect innovation spanning microelectronics, AI, medical robotics, wireless networks, energy conversion, and technical education.
An advisor recounts working with leaders at major companies, including a CEO of a $2 billion-revenue firm, who privately admitted deep uncertainty about their AI investments despite projecting public confidence. The piece argues that executives across industries are making AI decisions with incomplete information, and that unspoken fear often drives delays disguised as caution.
An opinion piece for Entrepreneur argues that most market-leading companies eventually decline, citing IBM, Blockbuster and Motorola as examples of firms that lost dominance by failing to adapt to shifts in technology and markets. The author, drawing an analogy to tennis champions like Djokovic and Federer, says reaching the top requires a resilient, growth-oriented team with ambitious goals, while staying there demands continuous execution and self-assessment.
Singapore's Government Technology Agency has launched FirstDate, a pilot matchmaking service for singles aged 21 to 35, currently limited to public officers, with applications closing Oct. 5. Instead of profile swiping, users complete a questionnaire and receive one match per cycle using the Gale-Shapley stable-matching algorithm, along with a compatibility score and personal note. Matches have 72 hours to mutually accept before contact details are exchanged, and accounts are verified via Singapore's Singpass digital ID system.
openSUSE announced that version 16.1 of Leap, its stable distribution, will include an Immutable Mode featuring a read-only, transactionally updated root filesystem. The feature, described on the official openSUSE blog, brings capabilities previously exclusive to Leap Micro—a lightweight immutable OS for containers and edge devices—into the general-purpose Leap desktop distribution.
According to a Bloomberg report, Apple's new smart home hub is set to launch within two weeks and will feature a 6-inch square display on a metal arm attached to a round, perforated speaker base, evoking the iMac G4's design. The device reportedly has no battery and must stay plugged into power via USB-C, includes a single front-facing camera, and lacks volume or power buttons. Bloomberg also describes a second wall-mountable version with a flat, square base housing speakers and microphones.
A newly released 'Carbon Impacts Tracer' translates projected CO2 output from fossil fuel projects into tangible consequences such as heat-related deaths and coral reef degradation. The tool aims to make emissions figures, typically expressed in abstract tonnage, more understandable by linking them to specific human and ecological impacts.
Star Catcher is developing a constellation of satellites designed to collect solar energy in orbit and transmit it to other spacecraft. The system aims to supply power directly to satellites rather than requiring each to rely solely on its own solar panels.