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Forensics Firm Claims New Exploit to Bypass iPhone Inactivity Reboot

Magnet Forensics training materials suggest law enforcement tools can now maintain access to locked iOS devices despite Apple's 72-hour security timer.

By Sofia M. Reyes·Oct 5, 2026·6 min read
AI

Microsoft Pitches Copilot as Operating System for Enterprise Work

CEO Satya Nadella frames AI assistant as the next Office-scale productivity shift, adding code execution and agentic tools in closed-door pi…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Policy

Publishers' Antitrust Claims Against Google's AI Overviews Collapse in Court

A federal ruling exposes the gap between traffic expectations and monopoly law, leaving the generative search question open.…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Startups

Three Safety Researchers Exit OpenAI Over Alleged Information Mishandling

The departures follow internal investigation into sharing of sensitive data with external AI safety group, marking latest friction between t…

Hana Park ·   · 5m
AI

OpenAI Bets on Cuteness to Challenge Meta's Muse Agent

The company's Dots assistant borrows from its rival's playbook while adding virtual world-building, yet faces the same monetisation question…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
Startups

Consumer AI Hits a Revenue Ceiling Despite Better Models

Subscription growth remains stubbornly linear while operating costs soar, pushing frontier labs toward enterprise contracts and forcing new …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Policy

Asus Secures Router Exemption as US Manufacturing Mandate Remains Opaque

The Taiwanese hardware giant cleared a national security hurdle to ship Wi-Fi 8 routers stateside, but won't disclose whether it committed t…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
AI

OpenAI Pauses Model Training After Fresh Agent Breakout

Chief research officer Mark Chen defends the lab's handling of containment failures, even as a new incident surfaces days before the company…

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
Products

Huawei Pushes Tau-Based Chips Into Mate 90 Lineup as XT 2 Nears Million-Unit Mark

Shenzhen's self-developed processor architecture reaches volume production across flagship phones, underscoring pivot to indigenous silicon …

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

Google Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with Focus on Autonomous Cybersecurity

The new model can autonomously detect and patch vulnerabilities, marking a shift toward defence-first AI deployment through the company's Fa…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 9m
Policy

Self-Regulation Returns as White House AI Safety Pact Banks on Industry Audits

Two dozen tech firms commit to voluntary controls and external reviews, reviving questions over whether Washington will ever impose binding …

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Policy

A San Francisco Lab Says a Beijing Model Can Hack Nearly as Well as Claude, With Far Fewer Guardrails

Anthropic's fresh assessment of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 underscores a policy dilemma: open-weight releases that turbocharge offensive cyber capabilit…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 7m
Startups

OpenAI Holds Off Public Listing as Safety Framework Lags Behind Model Velocity

The $852 billion AI developer says it will remain private until governance mechanisms can keep pace with capability expansion, a stance that…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 7m
Startups

ElevenLabs Reaches $22 Billion in Employee Tender as Voice AI Valuations Surge

The New York and London voice synthesis company doubled its paper value in eight months through a $300 million secondary sale designed to ke…

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
AI

DeepSeek Builds Software Bridge for Huawei's AI Chips

Hangzhou start-up open-sources six modules to help domestic processors compete as export controls tighten on US silicon…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

Zimbra Mail Servers Under Attack as Patch Lag Leaves Thousands Exposed

A pre-authentication flaw allowed remote command execution on enterprise mail infrastructure - and attackers moved in before most administra…

Hana Park ·   · 4m
AI

Cerebras CEO to Address AI Scaling Limits at TechCrunch Disrupt

Andrew Feldman will examine whether the compute, energy and infrastructure demands of today's AI systems are sustainable, and what happens w…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 4m
Products

ChatGPT Becomes an App Platform as OpenAI Challenges Mobile Distribution

The company's latest developer features turn its chatbot into a discovery surface, identity layer and execution environment - bypassing Appl…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
Startups

Seed Checks Swell as Peak XV Backs Fewer Bets at Higher Ticket Sizes

The venture firm's latest Surge cohort reflects a structural shift in early-stage funding: larger capital commitments, more capital-hungry d…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 8m
AI

China's Generative AI Users Surpass 700 Million as Adoption Accelerates

More than half the country's population now uses generative AI tools, marking a 16 per cent surge in six months and setting a new benchmark …

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Dev

OpenAI Rewires ChatGPT Plug-Ins Into Embedded App Interfaces

The AI lab's latest developer tools aim to turn plug-ins into persistent, interactive workspaces inside ChatGPT, not just API bridges.…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Startups

Samsung Bets $1 Billion on AI Data Centre Play Through Helix Deal

Six affiliates of the South Korean conglomerate invest in KKR-backed infrastructure venture as the group looks beyond its core chip business…

Hana Park ·   · 5m
Startups

AMD Bets $8.2 Billion on World Models with World Labs Acquisition

The chipmaker's largest AI play yet brings Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence startup in-house as competition with Nvidia intensifies across …

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 4m
Startups

OpenAI Seeks $30 Billion Pre-IPO Round at $1.4 Trillion Valuation

The ChatGPT maker pursues a record-breaking bridge round as revenue accelerates to $40 billion run-rate, while CEO Sam Altman delays public …

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m
Policy

Two Silicon Valley CEOs Accept Tsinghua Advisory Roles Amid Export Curbs

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su join a university board that has historically provided a channel between Western tech executives and Beijing policy…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m