👀In Case You Missed It
Apple turns to Google Gemini — Siri’s “World Knowledge Answers” will quietly get Google’s LLM brain in iOS 26.4.
Switzerland’s open-source gamble — Apertus, a multilingual ChatGPT rival, lands on Hugging Face with full transparency.
Google dodges the axe — Chrome and Android survive antitrust court but exclusivity deals are banned.
Waymo takes flight (almost) — Cleared for robotaxi rides at San Jose Airport, its first California airport service.
Alibaba flexes chips — new AI inference processor emerges amid rising U.S.–China trade friction.
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🧠 Cloud & Infrastructure Watch
OpenAI folds “Model Behavior” into Post-Training; new OAI Labs team to rethink human–AI collaboration beyond chat.
Read MoreOpenAI forecasting ~$115B cash burn by 2029 for data centers, custom chips, and talent; pushing retrieval/fact-checking and uncertainty-admission in models.
Read MorePerplexity rolls out free, zero-data “Gov” access and an enterprise gov tier to accelerate agency adoption.
Read MoreMicrosoft Azure latency spike after multiple subsea cables cut in the Red Sea.
Read MoreSpotify adds smart filters; Amazon Music launches weekly AI-playlist “Weekly Vibe.”
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💻 Hardware & Semiconductor Moves
Microsoft teases light-powered computing to run AI far faster and more efficiently.
Read MoreQuantinuum valued at $10B after $600M raise; partnering with Nvidia on accelerated quantum research.
Read MoreGoogle Photos upgrades image-to-video with Veo 3; Adobe Premiere coming to iPhone (Sept 30).
Read MoreSpaceX to buy EchoStar spectrum (~$17B cash/stock) to boost Starlink direct-to-phone.
Read MoreAlibaba’s Qwen3-Max-Preview (1T-param) lands—model stack advance with infra implications.
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