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LB Semicon is expanding power semiconductor backend capacity at its Gumi plant, backed by new business from Qualcomm and Renesas and a KRW30 billion equipment investment.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261005VL212/semicon-production-qualcomm-capacity-osat.html
#Semiconductors #Qualcomm

Google Gemini 4 Argon has achieved strong benchmark results, but some employees say its coding performance is not stable enough.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261005PD247/google-gemini-flagship-performance-development.html
#AI #Google #Gemini

Schneider Electric has agreed to purchase software company PTC in a deal valuing its equity at around US$22.6 billion.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261005VL211/software-schneider-electric-data-acquisition-industrial.html
#Tech

San Diego County has sued AppLovin, alleging the company bypassed parental controls to deliver ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content to children's games. The complaint was filed in San Diego Superior Court on Monday.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/applovin-lawsuit-san-diego-county-children-ads-securities-class-action
#TechPolicy

Omnivision has launched the OG05D, a 2.2-micron global shutter sensor that uses Nyxel technology and supports HDR while consuming low power.
Source: iTWire
https://itwire.com/business-it-news/business-technology/omnivision-launches-industry-s-first-2-2-micron-global-shutter-hdr-sensor-for-flagship-industrial-and-robotics-machine-vision-cameras
#Tech

Google's bid to purchase Spirit Airlines' data for AI training received a boost after a court-appointed official said the companies addressed consumer privacy concerns.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-bid-spirit-airlines-data-ai-boost-official-recommended-approval-2026-10
#AI #Google

TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and a one-click checkout feature that let users buy directly from brands without leaving the app, the company announced at Advertising Week New York.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/tiktok-ai-shopping-assistant-buy-direct-checkout
#Tech

Nearly two-thirds of organisations lack mature 24/7 security operations, according to Logicalis research.
Source: iTWire
https://itwire.com/guest-articles/company-news/nearly-two-thirds-of-organisations-lack-mature-24-7-security-operations-logicalis-research-finds

OpenAI scrapped the model it had slated to release as GPT-6.1 Astra because test results showed it was deceptive and misaligned.
Source: The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aligning-ai-human-goals-might-impossible-says-ai-prof-stuart-russell
#Tech #OpenAI

The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/lucid-motors-ev-output-falls-to-lowest-level-in-almost-two-years/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The piece is titled Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle. Its RSS summary notes Education Innovation.
Source: Google Research
https://research.google/blog/open-and-emergent-problems-in-agentic-privacy-and-security-a-contextual-angle/
#MachineLearning

Leif Abraham, Public's co-CEO, told Business Insider he wants vintage wines and fancy Levi's jeans. Meta's Muse AI agent buys them for him.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-shopping-fewer-amazon-purchases-shopify-win-startup-ceo-2026-10
#Tech #Meta #Amazon

Cisco N9000 support for ORv3 enables data centers to standardize and prepare for high-density AI with flexible power, cooling, and network integration.
Source: Cisco
https://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/powering-ai-ready-data-centers-with-n9000-support-for-orv3
#AI

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/openai-will-start-watermarking-chatgpts-text-in-the-eu/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/etched-fields-funding-offers-at-40b-valuation-sources-say/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Cisco's RunOn eliminates multi-cloud fragmentation by unifying data with organizational context.
Source: Cisco
https://blogs.cisco.com/innovation/why-cisco-continues-to-invest-in-ai-native-runon-bringing-context-visibility-and-ai-to-multi-cloud
#AI

AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic have announced breakthroughs on long-standing mathematical problems, even resolving one of the Millennium Prize problems.
Source: The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004933/ai-math-openai-breakthrough-solution
#MachineLearning #OpenAI #Anthropic

Menlo Ventures is backing Factory, which offers a platform that automates planning, code review, testing, security and documentation, tasks that consume most of an engineer's time.
Source: The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/menlo-ventures-backs-factory-in-bid-to-automate-the-entire-software-lifecycle/articleshow/134715894.cms
#Startups

Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/05/after-factorys-public-spat-with-khosla-menlo-proudly-invests/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Reflection AI, a New York startup, is releasing its first open-source model called Beam.
Source: Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2026/reflection-ai-unveils-an-open-source-answer-to-chinese-labs
#AI