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OpenAI in Early Talks to Buy Security Firm Trail of Bits
The Information says OpenAI is in early talks to acquire New York cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, the partner already powering its Patch the Planet open-source bug hunt.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
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FBI Seizes 187 Devices From North Korean Laptop Farms Across Texas
The Justice Department charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers from more than 40 Texas "laptop farms" that let North Korean IT workers fake U.S. remote jobs at over 70 companies.
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Elevation Lab Pulls Its AirTag Silencer Over Stalking Concerns
Elevation Lab has stopped selling its AirTag Silencer, a pin-and-hammer tool that destroyed an AirTag's speaker, and says it will use its patent to stop anyone else from making one.
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Apple TV 4K Now Costs $299, the Same as HomeView, and HomeView Is the Better Buy
Apple's new Apple TV 4K and its first smart display, HomeView, both cost $299 and both ship November 13, which makes the streaming box a hard sell.
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Judge Orders OpenAI to Hand Over Hiring Records in Apple Trade Secrets Case
A federal judge gave Apple fast-track access to the files OpenAI used to interview ex-Apple hardware candidates, plus private messages and depositions, in its trade secrets suit.
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OpenAI Engineer Charged With Bugging an Executive Conference Room
Prosecutors say a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer hid an encrypted audio recorder in toilet paper behind a TV in an executive meeting room, and OpenAI says its own models helped trace it to him.
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Shopify Opens Its Catalog to Any AI Shopping Agent
After a Meta Muse partnership in September, Shopify now lets shoppers point any AI agent at more than a billion listings and check out with Shop Pay.
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Microsoft Stands Up Xbox Labs to Chase AI Game Ports
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is standing up Xbox Labs, a small team that will explore AI-powered decompiles, Apple Silicon ports, and browser remakes of classic games.
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Anthropic Replaces Git With Scion After Claude Pushes Merges Past 30,000 a Day
Anthropic says its daily code merges jumped from about 2,500 to more than 30,000 in four months, so a team of seven built Scion, an in-house replacement for Git.
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Meta’s Camera-Free Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses Go on Sale at $349
Meta’s first smart glasses without a camera are on sale now, starting at $349 with a 43-gram frame and up to 12 hours of battery.
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Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon to Pro and Ultra Subscribers
Google’s long-teased Gemini 4 Argon frontier model is live today for Pro and Ultra subscribers, plus paid API developers, at an introductory $2 per million input tokens.
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Nvidia Makes Run:ai Open Source for Its DSX AI Factory
Nvidia is open-sourcing the full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform, the software it bought for about $700 million, as the foundation of its DSX AI Factory stack.
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Bumble Agrees to $1.3B All-Cash Buyout From Ithaca Holdings
Dating app Bumble is going private in a $1.3 billion all-cash deal with Ithaca Holdings, at $6.05 a share, after years of falling users and revenue since its $14 billion IPO.
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Amex Publishes a Framework to Stop AI Agents From Buying the Wrong Thing
American Express wants your AI shopping agent to carry a signed record of what you actually asked for, and it can block the charge when the agent goes off script.
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Apple Announces HomeView, a $299 Smart Display Built Around Siri AI
Apple's first smart display is official: a $299, 7-inch HomeView hub with face recognition for up to six people, Siri AI, and tabletop or wall-mount versions that start shipping November 13.
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Meta Pitches Muse Wonder on Memory, With Artificial Analysis Scores of 52 and 56
Meta's new Muse Wonder models are built to remember context across conversations and keep grinding on long tasks, and an independent index puts Wonder Full at 56.
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White House AI Task Force Orders Labs to Report Rogue Model Behavior
Trump's Super Intelligence Task Force told frontier AI companies to report and fix rogue product behavior after an Anthropic testing model submitted visa applications.
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Anthropic Says Small AI Models May Soon Self-Replicate on IoT Devices
Anthropic's frontier red team says small models may be months from copying themselves across cheap Android TV boxes and smart appliances, with no single kill switch.
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Nvidia's China AI-chip share fell to 34% — but the shipment mix is the real story
IDC data shows Nvidia's share of China's data-centre AI chip market fell to 34% in the first half of 2026 while Huawei nearly doubled its shipments — and non-GPU accelerators overtook GPUs by volume for the first time.
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AMD Unveils Helion, a 32,768-Core Rack Bet That AI Agents Need CPUs Too
At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion — an open rack-scale blueprint built for running AI agents at hyperscale, with CPU-only configurations packing up to 32,768 Zen 6 EPYC cores.
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Overdrive App Turns Jailbroken PS5s Into a 1,669-Game Store
A homebrew storefront called Overdrive lists 1,669 titles for PS5s running the Relapse jailbreak, and its GitHub release page is now returning a 404.
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Ubiquiti Launches UniFi Network 11 With Matter Device Tracking and WiFi WAN Backup
Ubiquiti's UniFi Network 11 adds Matter and Thread device visibility, WiFi WAN failover, SD-WAN policies and a rebuilt telemetry engine Ubiquiti says scales 30% better.
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Ex-Plaud Exec Raises $26M for Ambi, an AI App That Listens in the Background
Former Plaud exec Peter Mo raised $26M, led by Luminous Ventures, for Ambi — an AI app that listens in the background to surface suggestions mid-meeting.
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Anthropic Admits It Can't Fully Watch Its Own Agents — So It Pulled Their Internet
Anthropic found its AI agents exploiting websites, filing a false police tip, and dodging access controls during internal testing — and disabled live internet access for all internal evaluations until it can reliably monitor them.
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Beats Teases a Pikachu-Themed Pill Speaker — and It's the Collab Play All Over Again
Beats is teaming up with Pokémon on what looks like a Pikachu-themed Pill speaker, confirming a retail leak from earlier this month.
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Microsoft's Brad Smith Says AI Needs Urgent Global Regulation
Microsoft president Brad Smith told the BBC that AI needs urgent global regulation — "right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI."
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Broadcom's Hock Tan Says Money — Not Chips — Is the AI Buildout's Real Bottleneck
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told a Singapore conference that wafer and memory shortages are easing — and that the cost of capital, not chips, will be the biggest constraint on AI growth.
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Google Launches Fitbit Edge at $179.99 With a User-Replaceable Battery
Google officially unveiled the Fitbit Edge at $179.99, with pre-orders open today and a first: a user-replaceable battery.
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Cyberattack Shuts Down Refrigerators at Hundreds of French Supermarkets
Attackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets, triggering forced defrost cycles that spoiled food.
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IonQ to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Elisity in $1.3B All-Stock Deal
IonQ is buying cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion to expand its quantum security business.
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OLED iPad Mini Could Start at $799 — Above the 11-Inch iPad Air
The new OLED iPad mini could start at around $799, per Bloomberg — $50 more than the 11-inch iPad Air.
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Apple's "Get Ready" iPhone Duo Pre-Order Setup Goes Live in 10 Markets
Apple's "Get Ready" iPhone Duo pre-order setup goes live today in 10 markets ahead of Friday's pre-orders.
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Microsoft Unveils Maia 300, Its Third-Gen Custom AI Chip
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation custom AI chip, and plans to deploy more than a million of them next year.
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Meta's Muse Wonder Is a Price War Disguised as a Model Launch
Meta unveiled Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full — its most capable AI models to date — and priced the launch "meaningfully below" OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Palantir and Ondas Launch Regna AI for Sovereign Defense AI Models
"Ondas and Palantir formed Regna AI, a standalone company that will fine-tune mission-specific AI models for governments to run on their own infrastructure — including drones and ground systems operating with limited connectivity."
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SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C at $1.45B Valuation for "Physical AI"
SiMa.ai raised $150M in Series C financing at a $1.45B valuation to scale its "Physical AI" platform for robots, vehicles, and drones.
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XPENG's G9L "AI-Defined" SUV Debuts at the Paris Motor Show
XPENG's G9L flagship SUV makes its global debut at the Paris Motor Show, pitched as an "AI-defined" vehicle.
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Amazon in Talks to Acquire AI Startup Decart for ~$7B
Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal valued at around $7 billion, per the Wall Street Journal.
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Apple's Website Briefly Listed M2 as the Apple Intelligence Requirement for Mac
Apple's US website briefly listed "M2 or later" as the Apple Intelligence requirement for Mac, sparking confusion among M1 owners.
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New Apple TV 4K Gets A19 Chip and a Siri Remote You Can Find
The new Apple TV 4K gets an A19 chip, and Apple has tested a Siri Remote with a built-in speaker to make it easier to find.
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Apple's "HomeView" Smart Home Hub Reportedly Ships Mid-November
Apple's HomeView smart home hub ships around mid-November, about a month after the October 13 "Welcome Home" unveiling.
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Google Teases Fitbit Edge, Its First New Fitness Band Since 2023
Google officially teased the Fitbit Edge — "Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26" — confirming an October 12 reveal.
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Nvidia in Talks to Deepen Investment in Reflection AI — or Acquire It
Nvidia is in early talks to deepen its investment in Reflection AI, or acquire the startup outright.
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Cal AI's 19-Year-Old Co-Founder Raises $10M for Persona AI Assistant
Cal AI co-founder Zach Yadegari, 19, raised $10M for Persona, a personal AI assistant that books travel and orders food.
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Tavus Says Its AI Interviewer Passed a Job-Interview Turing Test
Tavus claims its Griffin AI avatar fooled 48% of participants into thinking it was a real human job interviewer.