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Archives for October 2026

Your secrets aren’t secure with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked

Eiliko and its manufacturer, Energize Lab, are seemingly not to be trusted.

Sean Hollister
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit.

The chip manufacturer reported a net income of NT$763 billion (about $24 billion) for the quarter, up 69 percent compared to last year, and it’s predicting it’ll do even better in Q4. It’s a good time to make computer chips.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
OpenAI agrees not to use trade secrets it allegedly took from Apple.

Shortly after US District Judge Edward Davila said he was “highly likely” to grant Apple’s injunction, OpenAI voluntarily conceded instead. It agreed not to use Apple’s proprietary information for product development while the rest of the lawsuit plays out, and will hand over forensic images of the drives of 14 employees who defected from Apple.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Bank of America CEO wants a human in the loop.

BofA CEO Brian Moynihan doesn’t want people turning to the banks when an agent screws up a transaction. He says the bank is working with the AI industry to argue for human payment authorization, at least until the risk of error is mitigated by “further development of the capabilities” of agents.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Epic’s “vibe coded” new launcher has some rough edges.

As spotted by Kotaku, some people are posting videos showing strange visual issues with the updated launcher that agents wrote code for. Right now, the launcher is in preview.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
The OpenAI engineer accused of planting a bug allegedly had a one-way ticket booked to Saudi Arabia.

Yesterday, the DOJ and OpenAI revealed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and former Facebook employee working for OpenAI, has been arrested and charged with installing a recording device behind a TV in an executive conference room.

Now Bloomberg points out court documents showing that the day before he was arrested, prosecutors asked to seal the information, arguing that “the defendant has the means—and will have an incentive—to flee the United States sooner if he learns about this case before he is arrested.”

The United States, by and through its counsel, Assistant United States Attorney Nicholas Parker, moves this Court for an order sealing the government’s application for a sealing order, the sealing order, the criminal complaint, the arrest warrant, and all attachments in the above-referenced case. Disclosure of the specified documents might jeopardize the defendant’s arrest. Indeed, the defendant, his wife, and a third family member have booked one-way tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia (via Istanbul) for Monday, October 12, 2026, and the defendant has the means-and will have an incentive-to flee the United States sooner if he learns about this case before he is arrested.
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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple Intelligence is reportedly launching in China with iOS 27.3.

The launch will include some of Apple’s earlier Apple Intelligence features, but not the just-launched Siri AI, according to Bloomberg. The update is set to release in December.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Starlink uses Grok’s voice model to handle customer service calls.

Here’s a tidbit in SpaceXSI’s announcement post for Grok Voice 3.0 today:

Starlink call centers use Grok Voice to answer 20,000 customer calls every day across multiple languages. Roughly 70% are resolved with no human in the loop, and one in four sales calls ends in a purchase before the caller hangs up. A single agent built on Grok Voice 3.0 verifies customers, troubleshoots hardware, issues credits, and ships replacement equipment.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Neocloud CoreWeave’s bonds are distressed, and so am I.

The company’s unsecured debt due in 2032 is now trading below 80 cents on the dollar, Bloomberg reports. “Yikes” is right, Elon — if CoreWeave crumbles, other debt-laden neoclouds might be in trouble, too.

CoreWeave is in many ways the poster child of the current AI buildout, which may have disastrous consequences if things don’t go as planned.

David Pierce
David Pierce
Today’s Vergecast: The $8 million AI music scam.

A man named Mike Smith was recently sentenced to 18 months in prison, and a fine in excess of $8 million, for creating an AI system that faked billions of streams and earned him millions in royalties. Wired’s Kate Knibbs explains how Smith pulled it off, how he got caught, and what this case means for the internet’s growing slop problems.

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Robert Hart
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The judge might be on Apple’s side in its trade secrets battle against OpenAI.

US District Judge Edward Davila said during a hearing on Wednesday that he’s “highly likely” to grant Apple an injunction preventing OpenAI from using proprietary information allegedly shared by the iPhonemaker’s former employees, according to a report from Bloomberg.

At the same time, OpenAI is accusing an ex-employee of taking confidential product plans and presenting them to Apple execs.