AI
Gemini 4 Argon Ships With a 1M Context and a Dec. 1 Bill
Google's Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra on the Intelligence Index with a unified 1M window, while a 62K-token output habit and a Dec. 1 price hike loom.
Technology
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday: 1,413 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days
AI
Muse Wonder and Wonder Full Put Meta Back at the Frontier
Geopolitics
A Diesel Deal With Putin, Then a Call to Replace Zelensky
Technology
The Memory Squeeze Hits Demand: iPhone 18 Pro Orders Cut, PCs Down 20%
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AI
Claude Haiku 5.5: Ten Times Cheaper, Until Prompts Pass 100K Tokens
Anthropic's small model costs a tenth as much per token as Haiku 4.5 on prompts up to 100K tokens. Effort settings and token counts set the real bill.
AI
Did iOS 27 Break ChatGPT Voice Mode with Apple CarPlay?
Since upgrading to iOS 27, incoming texts end my ChatGPT Voice sessions in CarPlay. Here's what happens and what I've checked.
Technology
Pentagon Breach: 3 Million Records, Nine Months, No Encryption
A DMDC file-sharing server held unencrypted Social Security numbers that intruders read from October to July. Letters came in September. Nobody has said who.
AI
Meta Hires MongoDB's CEO to Sell Muse to Business. No Prices Yet.
Meta named a third business pillar and hired MongoDB's CEO to run it. Four products, no pricing, no customers, and a trust question shaped like Workplace.
Technology
iOS 27.0.1: Three Fixes, No CVEs, and a Zero-Day Patch for iOS 26
Three fixes and no CVEs for phones on iOS 27, led by the iPhone 18 Pro's Face ID reboot. Phones still on iOS 26 get the patch that matters: an exploited flaw.
AI
AI Now Writes AI. 22 Scientists Say the Window to Prepare May Close.
22 scientists, Hinton to OpenAI's chief scientist, say automated AI research could pack a year of progress into five weeks. They want auditors inside the labs.
AI
AI Labs Signed a 308-Word Accord. Trump Calls It 'Morally Binding.'
Seven signatures, four layers of self-audit, no enforcement: what the White House AI accord says and omits, plus the order renaming AI 'super intelligence.'
AI
Anthropic's IPO Filing Leaks: $42B Lost, $518B Owed, 80 Pages of Risk
Reuters read Anthropic's S-1: $4.6B revenue, $42B net loss, $518B in compute deals mostly locked in, 80 pages of risk, and founders keeping 50.1% of the vote.
AI
GPT-6.1 Sol Gets Close to Astra at a Fraction of the Cost
OpenAI's new Sol approaches Astra in independent testing at much lower API rates. The gains over its predecessor come with limits worth checking.
AI
Claude Sonnet 5.5: Half the Token Price, but Effort Sets the Bill
Sonnet 5.5 nears Opus 5.5 at half the token price, but outside tests show effort settings drive the real bill. It is the first Sonnet with cyber safeguards.