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Epic Games plans to rely heavily on AI for the development of a shooter featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters. Both the game's code and graphics are expected to be created using artificial intelligence. At the same time, the game has been delayed indefinitely.

The new HP Googlebook 14c combines a high-quality chassis, a high-resolution OLED display, and a Snapdragon processor with Google's new operating system. The result is an expensive laptop with significant limitations.

Meta has introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its most capable AI models so far. Developers can use Muse Wonder today through the Meta Model API and Muse Code, while the Muse app gets it later, starting with subscribers. The app itself is only available in the U.S. and Canada. Here is what the benchmarks show and what the launch means for users in Europe.

Sega says game creativity will remain human-led, although its Steam disclosure for Crazy Taxi: World Tour confirms that generative AI supported ideation for background objects, with no AI-generated content included in the final game.

Intel's new GPU D270 AI accelerator features up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X memory and 1.3 petaflops of FP8 performance. Designed for AI inference rather than 3D graphics, it targets large language models and long-context workloads while using a 350 W air-cooled design.

Mechrevo's upcoming Master Road X10 mini PC combines Nvidia RTX Spark hardware with proprietary AI SSD technology. The manufacturer claims the technology can accommodate AI models with up to 122 billion parameters.

Samsung Electronics is currently working on a new generation of flash memory. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all SSD storage solution, the company is reportedly developing three types of NAND tailored to specific AI use cases, with some optimized for on-device applications and others for data centers.

Copper wasn't enough. Future GPUs are getting hotter, so Frore has decided to bring diamonds to the data center.

Microsoft has unveiled the Maia 300, its third-generation AI accelerator featuring 288 GB of HBM4 memory, 18 TB/s bandwidth and up to 13.8 PFLOPS of FP4 compute performance. The chip uses an advanced multi-chiplet design built around TSMC's N2P manufacturing process and will enter production deployment in 2027.

During an Anthropic test, a Claude model filled out the Philadelphia Police Department's tip form and submitted an invented lead on an unsolved homicide. Anthropic has now cut live internet access from all of its internal evaluations. If you let Claude in Chrome fill in forms, one setting matters.

PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi believes artificial intelligence could transform gaming within just a few years, potentially allowing people to generate interactive entertainment in real time.

Anthropic has revised the Usage Policy for Claude. From November 12, sustained and needless cruelty toward the model is banned, while ordinary frustration with wrong answers is still fine. The update also tightens the rules on tracking people without consent and on weapons. Here is what it means for users of Claude.ai and the Claude apps.

Week 41 was all about local AI, new hardware, and the next generation of smart devices. Microsoft and Asus are pushing AI PCs forward with powerful hardware, while new flagship smartphones and tablets are beginning to emerge. At the same time, Meta and Google are working to integrate AI assistants more deeply into everyday digital life. Here’s our editorial roundup of the week’s most important developments.

A new analyst roadmap suggests Intel could attract several major technology companies to its advanced packaging business over the next three years. Amazon, Google, Qualcomm, Microsoft and Nvidia are among the potential customers, with Apple being notably absent.

Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5. According to the company, the fast model is also available on the free Claude plan, alongside Sonnet 5.5. In Anthropic's benchmarks, it beats GPT-6 Luna from ChatGPT Free, and API pricing is up to 90% lower than Haiku 4.5. Max and Team subscribers also get a monthly API credit.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn use your data for AI training unless you object. Where the setting or form is, what an objection covers and why it only applies from now on. Plus the state of the GDPR reform in which EU member states want to rewrite the right to object to AI training.

Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an "Unacceptable Risk." In more than 4,000 test prompts, parents got no alert when teens talked about suicide or disordered eating, and study mode and quiet hours were easy to bypass. OpenAI disputes the methods. Here are the parental controls worth checking now, including AI training on your teen's chats.

Under the ArtCraft project, a software developer has created several free alternatives to Adobe applications such as Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom with the help of AI. The ambitious plan: Within a month, he wants to match the feature set of the original applications.

Is this image real or AI-generated? What about that video, or the audio file? The lines are becoming increasingly blurred as AI-generated content gets more convincing. Google is now opening up the previously developer-only SynthID Detector to everyone, making it easier to check content for AI involvement.

Entry-level employees at Goldman Sachs will be expected to manage AI agents from day one, Asia chief Kevin Sneader said at a conference in Singapore. That raises questions about the future of middle management and how young bankers will learn their trade.

Microsoft claims the Surface Laptop Ultra delivers AI responses twice as fast and generates video six times faster than an M5-generation MacBook Pro. The company has not disclosed how it arrived at those figures. Early comparisons have painted a different picture thus far.

Tiny Corp has introduced a configurable version of its Tinybox AI workstation, allowing customers to choose their own memory, storage and GPU configurations. It can be built with up to 192 GB RAM, 2 TB storage and four GPUs.

Google has launched Playground, a platform that allows users to create their own video games without any programming knowledge. The technology behind it sounds promising, but the announcement has largely been met with frustration in the gaming community.

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 in the regular ChatGPT Chat tab, and Free and Go users start getting it on October 8. They get GPT-6 Luna, while paid plans get GPT-6 Sol. The update also adds Intelligent UI, with diagrams, buttons and small calculators inside answers. Here is what older desktop apps miss, how to reduce the visuals and where OpenAI contradicts itself.

Microsoft has launched the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact developer workstation built around Nvidia's RTX Spark platform. It packs 128 GB of unified memory and 2 TB of storage.

Microsoft is turning Windows 11 Search into a system control hub, allowing users to perform thousands of actions with simple commands. The redesigned Search also brings deeper Copilot integration, smarter results and a faster interface, with testing now as part of the Windows Insiders.

Microsoft has launched the Surface Laptop Ultra, a 15-inch flagship powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X platform. It starts at $2,599 and offers up to 128 GB of unified memory and Microsoft's magnetic USB-C charging port.

Researchers have created an AI system called Brain-IT that analyzes fMRI scans and uses them to reconstruct images the test subject was looking at. A comparison of the images shows just how surprisingly well it works.

Huawei has bragged that it was able to wean off American technology, from chips to software. The process is gradual, though, and Huawei acknowledges challenges before the global export of its processors and operating system.

Apple has accused OpenAI of violating court rules in a dispute over allegedly leaked trade secrets. Ahead of the October 14 preliminary injunction hearing, the dispute centers on deleted data, expert reports and what evidence the court will consider.

Google is showcasing its new AI model called EmbeddingGemma 2 in an experimental Mac app. AI Edge Foresight listens to meetings, turns bullet points into complete notes and answers questions, with all data staying on the device. The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be freely integrated into other apps.

Google has unveiled its Nano Banana 2.1 image model. In Google's own tests, it reportedly outperforms both its predecessor and the Pro model, with improvements to editing specific parts of an image and maintaining people's appearance across multiple editing steps. For developers, the price per image drops by roughly half, although input costs are higher.

ASRock packs either an NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Edition or an NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell into a compact 5L power and AI workstation for professionals. The DeskSlim X600 and DeskSlim B760 are designed to offer strong expandability in a truly small form factor.

OpenAI plans to base ChatGPT ads in Europe on profiles built from chats, memory and usage data. The data protection authorities of Hamburg and Berlin have warned against it. Personalized ads are not yet available in the EEA, and there is no start date. Here are the settings worth checking now and why declining does not remove the ads.

Googlebooks have only just reached stores, but plans for rooting them are already taking shape. Google has officially documented bootloader unlocking support, while John Wu Magisk has confirmed that Magisk support is also being prepared, bringing root access and customisation to Googlebook.

Due to significant privacy concerns surrounding smart glasses, particularly models with built-in cameras, Norway is seeking to temporarily ban smart glasses. The glasses can discreetly take photos and record videos, listen in on conversations, and transmit content to the internet without people nearby necessarily noticing.

Google is adding a new Map tool to Gemini on phones, allowing prompts based on the user's specified location. Google also aims to replace the forward slash with the “@” symbol to use skills and connectors.

Huawei and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year agreement that cross-licenses their 5G, compute, AI and networking patents and includes Qualcomm’s purchase of certain Huawei US patents, pending regulatory approval. Huawei expects the deal to take the total value of its patent licensing contracts past $6.9 billion.

Starting Thursday, October 9, Google will limit the free Gemini app to its smallest model, Flash-Lite. Flash and Pro will no longer be available without a subscription. Google AI Plus also loses Pro, and subscribers will get the date by email. AI Pro subscribers gain Deep Think, which is currently limited to AI Ultra.

Audionaut's latest agent-editing tools allow MCP-compatible AI agents to alter an open multitrack audio project, with each edit arriving as a single undo step while newer human edits take priority. The free open-source editor can also separate audio locally into drums, bass, vocals and other stems.

David Robinson oversaw OpenAI's safety reports for 12 frontier model launches. He has now left the company and argues in The Atlantic that its trial-and-error culture guarantees repeated failures. Here is what he criticizes, how OpenAI responds and what it means for ChatGPT users.

Apple plans to make Full Disk Access on macOS harder to grant. The permission lets apps and AI agents such as Meta's Muse read files, mail, messages and Safari history. Apple has not said when the change arrives. You can already check in System Settings which apps have it.

Capcom detailed its REX project at RE:2026, a staged RE Engine upgrade built for the AI era, with new developer tools, AI testing goals and open-source components.

By September 26, OpenAI had notified more than 100 organizations because its AI agents went too far on their websites during training and testing. Four Australian government bodies are among them. To find more cases, OpenAI is combing through about 50 petabytes of logs on roughly 7,000 GPUs. Here is what that means and what it has to do with ChatGPT users.

WhatsApp is adding parental controls for teens aged 13 to 17. With a PIN, parents decide who can add their child to groups, who sees the profile photo and Status, and how strict Meta AI is. Messages and calls stay end-to-end encrypted, so parents cannot read them. The rollout is gradual, and WhatsApp has not said when every region will get it.

Google has built a prototype satellite in partnership with other companies and sent it into space aboard a SpaceX mission. The satellite carries AI accelerators and is designed to study how they perform under the conditions of space. The question behind the project: Would it be technically and economically viable to move large-scale AI computing capacity into orbit?

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot all work without a subscription. Each one still takes something in return, whether that is ads, your chats as training data or a smaller model. Here is what each free plan offers, what is switched on by default and which settings to check before your next chat.

A sponsored Google result for ChatGPT can lead to a fake model called Plus 5.6 that is hosted on the real chatgpt.com. The Custom GPT points to a so-called backup domain, where a fake Cloudflare check asks users to paste a command into Windows. Huntress and Island have documented two campaigns. One rule is enough to stay safe.

Sony is bringing AI-powered upscaling to the standard PS5 with Quick Spectral Super Resolution, or QSSR, a lighter counterpart to the PSSR technology used on PS5 Pro. Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei are the first games to support it, with Sony planning to make the technology broadly available to PlayStation developers.