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The Wall Street Journal reports alleged sharing with an outside AI safety group; OpenAI cites policy violations.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission launched Oct 1 from Cape Canaveral carrying commander Jessica Watkins, pilot Luke Delaney, CSA's Joshua Kutryk, and Roscosmos' Sergey Teteryatnikov. Targeted for ~7-hour launch-to-docking to ISS.

Cloudflare introduced Clef and Clef-flash on Oct. 1, published the models on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, and says Clef tops a Jev leaderboard marked self-reported and not yet reproduced upstream.

In a Sept. 29 press release, Volantis said Lachy Groom and Abstract led the Series A and that total funding to date is $97 million as it pitches photonics-based AI inference hardware.

PCMag says the new Kindle Signature Editions have aluminum backs, no bezels and increased storage.

Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reports the AI company could begin formally marketing its IPO as soon as the week of Nov. 9, lining it up to trade before Thanksgiving on Nov. 26.

Techmeme links to a Reuters report saying a16z and Accel led the round for the AI cybersecurity agent startup.

Broadcom agreed to backstop up to $42 billion in convertible notes to finance Anthropic's massive TPU and compute leases, part of a ~$125B five-year infrastructure commitment. The deal could position Anthropic as Broadcom's largest customer by 2027 with potential equity conversion.

MacRumors, citing Counterpoint Research, reports iPhone 18 Pro models in China sold 12% more in their first three days than iPhone 17 Pro models did in their entire first week last year. Separate leak analysis around the standard A20 chip remains speculative and unconfirmed by Apple.

The Verge reports that Sony is bringing its new QSSR upscaling tech to the standard PS5 first through Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, while still calling PS5 Pro’s PSSR the better option.

Reports indicate Google is testing tensor processing units (TPUs) launched into orbit as part of Project Suncatcher, exploring solar-powered AI compute infrastructure in space.

A writer says they spent the past year talking to people close to Ellison for a Vanity Fair story.

OpenAI announced the global rollout Thursday. The new tools let users preview clothing and accessories on their own photos and save products to a Library for later.

Apple Pay rolled out in India for Axis Bank credit cards (Visa/Mastercard) on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, accepted at millions of merchants, after years of UPI-market regulatory hurdles. No UPI or RuPay support at launch; Mac support coming.

MacRumors reports that Apple hardware engineering VP Kate Bergeron said the nano-texture layer can be peeled off and replaced.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian cited cost and ecosystem factors in choosing Amazon's Leo satellite Wi-Fi over Starlink for 500+ aircraft starting 2028. Musk responded on X, predicting Bastian would lose his job and Delta would lose customers.

9to5Toys describes the new Airfly Drive as a wireless adapter for CarPlay and Android Auto.

Gizmodo calls the prospect of Trump asking AI for advice “horrifying” while sharing the reported claim.

Microsoft said its official X account was accessed without authorization. The Verge reported the compromised profile followed a Clippy crypto account, reposted one of its tweets, and changed its image to Clippy before the posts were removed.

Teslarati linked to a TeslaAUNZ video alongside its availability update for both countries.