Microsoft's Copilot super app bundles Home, Code and Autopilot, shifting agentic work to usage-based billing as Autopilot enters private preview.
Microsoft's Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch add Snapdragon X2 Plus, 5G and brighter screens from $1,149, on sale October 13.
China DeepSeek Moonshot probe: Beijing examines whether the two labs routed user data to Anthropic's Claude, as Chinese AI stocks sold off.
WhatsApp third-party AI agents reach iPhone beta 26.37.10.70 with a five-agent cap, API-key setup and no end-to-end encryption on agent chats.
AI funding tracker: Crusoe's $3.9B Series F leads 23 deals, with training-data, inference and defence rounds pushing AI valuations higher.
Nvidia-backed Firmus IPO seeks A$7 billion on the ASX, launching October 6 and listing October 22, as a $77 million loss tests AI data-center demand.
Independent testing found cheap smart glasses can be hijacked over Bluetooth with no password, exposing stored photos, video and personal data.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 puts on-device AI, Wi-Fi 6E and 128 GOPS of neural compute into earbuds, with 40% less power.
Microsoft Middle East AI investment tops $10 billion by 2030 for cloud and AI build-out across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait.
Samsung's One UI 9 rollout has reached the US, but only T-Mobile carrier-locked Galaxy S26 units get Android 17 so far. Unlocked and AT&T buyers wait.
Oracle's Project Jupiter force majeure notice defers rent on a 2.45 GW New Mexico AI campus, testing how lenders price power risk.
Volkswagen AirConsole gaming reaches six 2027 US models: 20 games on the infotainment screen, playable only in park, then $149 a year.
The White House AI review requires OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new frontier models from UK testers until US security testing is complete.
Waymo safety data claims 82% fewer injury-causing crashes over 271.3M driverless miles, but the same period logs 797 crashes and no outside audit.
BlackRock and IFM Investors are in exclusive talks on a Stack data center deal worth up to $25 billion for Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific assets.
