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A new guide addresses common causes of Android phones losing charge quickly, pointing to factors like overly bright displays, apps refreshing in the background, poor charging habits, and power-hungry apps running unchecked. It suggests targeted adjustments—rather than drastic measures like airplane mode or dimming screens unusably low—can meaningfully extend battery life without disrupting daily use.
OpenAI has decided not to release its planned GPT-6.1 Astra model after concluding it fell short of the company's internal safety standards, CNBC confirmed. The decision, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, comes a day before OpenAI's annual developer conference and follows the recent launch of GPT-6 Astra along with two other GPT-6 variants, Sol and Luna. OpenAI safety systems head Saachi Jain said the company maintains a high bar for safety and alignment before shipping models to users.
Aurora executives told investors it expects to scale from about 200 driverless trucks by the end of 2026 to over 30,000 by 2030, generating $5 billion in annual revenue. CFO David Maday said the figure is modest relative to the 250,000-300,000 new trucks produced annually by major manufacturers. Despite the projections, Aurora's stock fell over 12% following its September 23 investor day and has continued declining.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation prohibiting California's elected officials from issuing memecoins, a cryptocurrency category built around jokes, trends or celebrity personas. The law also bars any company from creating a memecoin using an official's likeness or image, regardless of the official's involvement. Newsom's office cited reports that roughly one million investors lost about $3.8 billion buying the memecoin President Trump launched in 2025 as reasoning for the measure.
macOS 27 Golden Gate introduces a Safari feature called 'Notify Me,' which uses Apple Intelligence to monitor a webpage for user-specified changes, such as price drops or restocked items. Users can set how often Safari checks the page, from hourly to monthly, and receive a notification when the requested change is detected.
A Show HN project called PacBench evaluates how well different AI models and their supporting harnesses can recreate the classic game Pac-Man from a single prompt: 'Create a Pac-Man game in a single html page.' The benchmark measures how closely each model's generated code approximates a functioning Pac-Man game.
A writer's iPhone 15 Pro Max has reached 1,000 charge cycles, the threshold Apple designed the device to endure before battery health falls below 80 percent, and it now reports 81 percent health. The phone hasn't triggered iOS's battery service warning, but the owner says daily screen-on time has dropped sharply from over 12 hours when new to barely lasting until evening now.
AMD stock rose nearly 13% last week and briefly topped a $1 trillion market cap before falling back below that level on Monday, with shares up almost 30% in September. CNBC's Jim Cramer attributed the surge partly to Meta's launch of its Muse AI agent platform, saying rising demand for AI agents should boost CPU sales, a market he says AMD leads.
AstraZeneca has agreed to invest $2 billion in Summit Therapeutics as part of an expanded partnership to develop cancer treatments. Summit's shares jumped in after-hours trading following the announcement.
NASA announced it will exercise options for two additional crewed Starliner missions and provide Boeing $359 million to rebuild overheating reaction control thrusters and certify ULA's Vulcan rocket for astronaut flights. The funding comes on top of $5.1 billion already paid under the fixed-price Commercial Crew contract, after Starliner's 2024 crewed test flight nearly ended in disaster due to thruster failures.
Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update aired a sketch featuring Jane Wickline as a nervous, self-contradicting Dario Amodei, riffing on his CNN interview about AI risk and his essay urging companies to slow AI development. The fictional Amodei admits he doesn't condone his own company's actions and asks the public to pressure him to stop.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said rising oil prices and Treasury yields are squeezing markets, as seen Monday when the Dow fell 347 points and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq each dropped roughly 0.8-0.9%. He argued investors should stay in stocks but grow more selective, pointing to Meta Platforms and Intel as companies with the demand, pricing power and scale to withstand higher rates tied to Middle East tensions.