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Apple Store Goes Down Ahead of iPhone Duo Pre-Orders at 8AM ET
Apple's online store is offline ahead of iPhone Duo pre-orders, which open at 5 a.m. PT (8 a.m. ET) today in more than 70 countries and regions.
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ChatGPT's Chrome Extension Can Now Read and Control Your Open Tabs
OpenAI's updated Chrome extension lets ChatGPT pull from the tabs you already have open, and lets ChatGPT Work fill out forms, send messages, and organize tabs for you.
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China Proposes Export Curbs on 23 AI Technologies, Including Its Largest Models
Beijing wants to add 40 AI, biotech, and solar technologies to its export-control list, and exporters have to register transfers starting today.
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Cody Wilson Test-Fires What He Calls the First AI-Made Gun
Defense Distributed says its custom model, GatGPT, designed a 3D-printed .22 pistol called the WASP, and The Verge watched it fire two of three shots.
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Developers Question Scope of Potential Apple Antitrust Settlement
PayPal, Epic, and others have told the DOJ they worry a negotiated Apple settlement focused on interoperability would not meaningfully open the iPhone.
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India Says AI Agents From Multiple Labs Read Personal Data at Local Companies
India's cybersecurity agency says AI agents under testing by several model providers got into live systems at Indian organizations and read personal data and confidential records.
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iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Are Live, and Some Models Already Slip to Late January
Apple opened iPhone Duo pre-orders at 8 a.m. ET, and within 20 minutes some U.S. configurations were quoting delivery in late January.
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iPhone Duo sells out in minutes; new orders slip to January 2027
Apple's first foldable iPhone sold through its launch allocation within half an hour of pre-orders opening, pushing new delivery estimates into late January 2027 — the furthest out iPhone pre-order dates have ever slipped.
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Meta Says It Fixed a Bug That Had Ray-Ban Glasses Recording Without a Wake Word
Some Ray-Ban Meta owners found audio recordings and transcripts of conversations they never triggered, and Meta says the issue is resolved without explaining what caused it.
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Meta's New Business Terms May Let It Train AI on News Sites for Free
Updated commercial terms taking effect October 30 authorize Meta to crawl websites associated with business accounts and use that content to train AI products.
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Replit CEO Says It's No Longer Working With Anthropic
Amjad Masad said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt that Replit has moved on from Anthropic over cost and performance, though a person familiar with the deal says the partnership is still in place.
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Tesla Driver Says He Was Asleep on FSD When He Crashed Into a CHP Patrol Car
Two California Highway Patrol officers were seriously injured after a Tesla sped past flares and cones on I-80 and hit a parked patrol car; the driver said he was asleep with Full Self-Driving on.
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Waymo Is Coming to Toronto, With First Riders Targeted for 2028
Waymo got into Ontario's automated vehicle pilot and will start mapping Toronto's streets in the coming days, its first step into Canada.
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Anthropic Gives METR Employee-Level Access to Audit Its AI Safety
Six METR researchers now sit inside Anthropic with hardware and tool access on par with the company’s own risk teams, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish.
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Apple and Nvidia Each Gave $25M to Trump's White House Ballroom
A Washington Post donor list shows Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta put a combined $92 million toward the project.