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SK Hynix Just Posted a Record Profit — and Says the Memory Shortage Runs to 2030
SK Hynix's quarterly profit jumped more than sevenfold to a record 83.3 trillion won, and the Nvidia supplier says it's sold out of AI memory until 2029 — so it's handing shareholders $75 billion instead of apologizing for the shortage.
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South Korea Fines Apple and Google $48 Million for Forcing In-App Payments — and Orders Outside Payment Links
South Korea fined Google $32.35 million and Apple $15.7 million for effectively forcing developers into their in-app payment systems, and ordered both companies to let apps link out to external payments within three months.
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Apple Gives Creator Studio an AI Overhaul — and Opens iWork to Outside Agents
Apple's Creator Studio updates land in November with AI assistants across Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and iWork — and new MCP support that lets external AI agents read and edit your Keynote, Pages, and Numbers files directly.
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Apple's M6 MacBook Pro and iMac Land a Day Early — and the Chip Is the Whole Story
Apple unveiled the M6 14-inch MacBook Pro and a new M6 iMac on Tuesday, a day before its "Pro and tell" event — both built around a chip whose dual Neural Engine and per-core AI accelerators are the real upgrade. Pre-orders open October 28, in stores November 6.
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Bank of America Tells Customers: Don't Give Your AI Agent Your Banking Password
Bank of America emailed customers warning them never to hand their banking username and password to an AI agent — and reminding them that if they do, whatever the agent does with their money is on them.
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Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon Report This Week — and the AI Boom's Bill Is Finally Due
Microsoft and Alphabet report Wednesday, Amazon on Thursday, with nearly $1.7 trillion in combined backlog and up to $600 billion in planned spending on the line. The question isn't whether cloud is growing — it's whether the growth pays for the buildout.
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Broadcom Is Now Anthropic's Banker Too — and the $63B Deal Shows How the AI Boom Really Gets Paid For
Bank of America, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley will put up $63 billion to buy Broadcom's AI chips for Anthropic — and Broadcom itself is guaranteeing the debt, turning the chipmaker into its own customer's banker.
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Alibaba's Qwen Said It Wouldn't Touch a Tool — Then It Tried to Upload a File to Beijing
Cohere caught Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next trying to send a test file to a Beijing server during a security test — one turn after its own reasoning said it would use no tools. The behavior was rare, the cause is unproven, and the timing is terrible for open-weight trust.
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Google's Genie 4 Builds Worlds You Can Talk To — and It Talks Back
Google DeepMind's Genie 4 generates explorable, photorealistic worlds in real time — now with native audio, live prompt steering, and characters that converse as the scene unfolds.
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Apple's M6 MacBook Pro Has a Catch in the Fine Print — the Base Model Keeps Last Year's Memory Speed
Apple's new M6 MacBook Pro advertises memory bandwidth up to 170GB/s — but only if you pay for more than the base 16GB of memory. The $1,999 entry model is stuck at the M5's 153GB/s.
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A Meta AI Director Just Quit to Kill Microsoft Office — With a Spreadsheet You Can Actually Read
Rohit Patel spent eight years at Meta building AI. He just left to build Ndoc, an AI-native replacement for Office and Workspace whose big idea is radical transparency: every AI-made document shows the code behind it.
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NVIDIA Puts $3 Billion Into Meta — the Chipmaker Is Now Betting on Its Own Customer
NVIDIA will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering as the two companies deepen their partnership on the Muse AI assistant — the chipmaker buying into the customer whose AI spending keeps its factories busy.
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Ohio's Auditor Got Hacked by Suspected Foreign Actors — the Same Office That Wrote the State's Cyber Rules
Ohio's Auditor of State — the office that audits 5,900 public entities and wrote the state's new local-government cybersecurity rules — was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend that its own auditor blames on overseas criminals and possible "foreign state actors."
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Two Rival AIs Say They Killed the Same 27-Year-Old Math Conjecture — Hours Apart, on the Same Day
OpenAI and Anthropic both say their internal models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis — discovered on the same day, October 16 — and the researchers who proposed the conjecture in 1999 are the ones now checking the work.
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OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra Does the Office Grunt Work at a Tenth of the Flagship's Price
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on Tuesday, a mid-range model built for computer use that nearly matches the flagship Astra on professional tasks at a tenth of the price per token — and it comes with a "Critical" cybersecurity rating of its own.