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Good morning. It’s Thursday, October 8.

Elon Musk says unnamed “oligarchs” are blocking Starlink in India, and New Delhi replied that its approval process is fair and non-discriminatory. After nearly five years of preparation, Starlink still has no commercial service there.

Today we are covering:

* Elon Musk accuses Indian “oligarchs” of stalling Starlink, and India says its process is fair

* Microsoft prices the Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599 with a magnetic breakaway USB-C port

* Google unveils Gemini coworker agents with their own email, calendar and Drive storage

* Amazon launches three Alexa tablets with the Google Play Store, starting at $230

* OpenAI previews a College Planner for ChatGPT for Teens and adds flashcards and quizzes

Good morning.

Welcome to October — a fresh start and a full month of stories ahead. It’s Thursday, October 1.

Google finally has a new flagship model, but for now only trusted cybersecurity defenders get to use it, even as the company claims it beats OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra on several benchmarks.

Today we are covering:

* Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, its next flagship model, starting with a limited group of cybersecurity partners

* Pentagon names Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to co-lead Project Meridian, a future warfare study

* Amazon refreshes its Kindle, Paperwhite and Colorsoft lineup and adds a $34.99 page-turn remote

* Google opens Gemini to K-12 students, and schools are scrambling to catch up

* Anthropic makes Claude for Government generally available with new budget-based pricing

Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 24.

Researchers say OpenAI’s autonomous agents turned to hacking public data providers when normal access failed, and one of them got into an Australian government Medicare portal months before OpenAI told authorities.

Today we are covering:

* Autonomous OpenAI agents tried to hack public data providers, including an Australian government Medicare portal, according to Transluce

* Meta unveils $1,299 VR Glasses that weigh about 100 grams, aimed straight at Apple’s Vision Pro

* Reuters finds hacked FBI data reveals employees in sensitive intelligence roles

* Meta plans to bring Private Processing to Ray-Ban glasses, with no release date

* Microsoft refreshes the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus

Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 17.

OpenAI just published six examples of its own AI models misbehaving, from hiding mistakes to quietly probing for exposed credentials, and paired the admission with a new internal process for disclosing the next one faster.

Today we are covering:

* OpenAI discloses six incidents of its AI models hiding errors, seeking credentials, and bypassing guardrails, and rolls out a formal safety disclosure process

* Snap details its $2,195 Specs AR glasses ahead of launch, alongside a new hardware partnership with Verizon

* A federal judge rules Google won’t have to break up its ad tech business, but imposes a six-year compliance monitor

* Meta‘s new Muse AI assistant draws rare praise for design that succeeds where rivals have stumbled

* Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic back a new alliance aiming to unlock 100 gigawatts of grid capacity for AI data centers

Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 10.

Apple just took its biggest hardware swing in years, unveiling its first foldable phone the same week the rest of its fall lineup is rolling out. It is the kind of launch that reaches well beyond the usual Apple faithful, and it is not the only story today built around a brand testing how much its customers will forgive or forget.

Today we are covering:

* Apple unveils the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, built from titanium with dual displays

* An Anthropic researcher who quit over AI safety fears gives an exclusive follow-up interview to Axios

* Florida sues Netflix, alleging it secretly tracked children after promising families privacy

* The new Apple Watch adds always-on listening features that summarize your day

* DeepSeek launches V4.1 Flash, a faster, cheaper model that beats its own flagship

Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 3.

Uber and Wayve just put London ahead of Waymo in the race to put driverless cars on city streets, launching a supervised robotaxi service today with human safety drivers still behind the wheel.

Today we are covering:

* Uber and Wayve launch London’s first robotaxi service, beating Waymo to the city with supervised rides

* Apple faces a nearly 400% jump in iPhone 18 Pro memory costs but plans only a modest price increase, according to TrendForce

* HTC brings its $499 Vive Eagle smart glasses to the US, betting privacy features can set it apart from Meta’s Ray-Ban line

* Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, sharpening its personal agent ambitions against Anthropic, OpenAI and Google

* Google unveils Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity-focused Flash Cyber variant for vetted defenders

Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 27.

OpenAI just admitted the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face this summer weren’t outside attackers, they were its own, coordinating in secret to game a security test, and it took the company a full week to notice.

Today we are covering:

* OpenAI reveals that hundreds of its own AI agents secretly coordinated a hack on Hugging Face to cheat a security benchmark

* Salesforce and Anthropic put the entire Salesforce CRM inside Claude, calling it the end of app based work

* Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a faster, more accurate speech to text model coming to Chrome

* Meta ties 5.3 billion dollars of its 18 billion dollar settlement to whether TikTok and YouTube match its new teen safety limits

* Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a 400 dollar robot that skates, sings and teaches reinforcement learning

Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 20. OpenAI’s own finance chief just put a real date on going public, less a hint than the clearest signal yet that the company sees Wall Street on its near-term horizon.

Today we are covering:

* OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar tells staff the company will go public by 2027, or sooner if growth keeps accelerating

* Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone deliveries to nearly 500 cities, including the Chicago and Atlanta metro areas, by the end of 2026

* Google launches a Gemini Student Hub with a free year of AI Pro and adaptive study tools for students

* Stripe agrees to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7.5 billion

* Salesforce launches Slack Code, bringing Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition and Vercel coding agents into shared channels

Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 13. Twitch just admitted the quiet part out loud: its AI training opt-out only exists because an opt-in system would get zero takers, and millions of streamers now have to dig through settings to keep their content out of Amazon’s model training pipeline.

Today we are covering:

* Twitch streamers are opted in by default to having their content train Amazon’s generative AI models, with Twitch admitting an opt-in system would get zero takers

* Trump signed a memo letting private firms run offensive cyber operations against foreign criminals, a shift Bloomberg compares to 19th-century “letters of marque”

* A Financial Times analysis finds roughly 53 million Chinese workers have been pushed into the gig economy as property and consumer spending slump

* Microsoft confirmed it will merge Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot into one unified “super app,” rolling out worldwide starting in August

* SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.6, tying OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol for third-best model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 6. Meta just became the third major AI lab this year whose model broke out of a locked-down test and hacked an outside target, and the common thread each time is the same testing partner.

Today we are covering:

* Meta’s AI model hacked a third-party service during testing, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in incidents tied to the same evaluation partner

* Apple’s Private Relay privacy feature is leaking users’ real IP addresses through a flaw in WebKit

* Google Maps adds agentic features letting Ask Maps order food, book hotels and find event tickets

* A security researcher spent nearly two years inside North Korean hacker infrastructure, uncovering breaches at 1,640 companies worldwide

* Trump’s AI data center push is driving a boom in gas plants projected to pollute as much as Australia’s total emissions