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AI
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first release in its Gemini 4 generation, but is withholding general access and rolling it out only to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program.
Football
Cristiano Ronaldo left Portugal's Nations League training camp in Copenhagen on Wednesday night, hours after coach Jorge Jesus said the 41-year-old would not start Thursday's Group A4 match against Denmark.
Sources Hindustan TimesYahoo Sports
AI
OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated campaign to pull protected reasoning out of its models, which it calls adversarial distillation. Low-level activity began on 1 July, then reached 16,000 extraction-pattern requests from more than 4,000 users on 24 and 25 July, and a related cluster of more than 15,000 users was fully disrupted by 28 July.
Sources OpenAICyberScoop
Economy / Markets
The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee said the likelihood that interconnected vulnerabilities in the financial system crystallise has risen, citing the re-escalation of conflict in the Middle East, higher energy prices and government bond yields at their highest since 2008 in some markets.
Sources Bank of EnglandThe Guardian
Economy / Markets
The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge came in below forecasts for August. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported the PCE price index rose 0.3% on the month and 3.4% from a year earlier, while core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.2% and 3.0%.
AI
Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic have been called to appear before a Greens-led Australian Senate inquiry into AI and data centres, which holds public hearings in Canberra on Thursday.
Sources The GuardianThe Guardian
Economy / Markets
US stocks ended September mixed: the Nasdaq Composite added 0.2%, the S&P 500 slipped 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.9%, or more than 400 points.
Sources Yahoo FinanceCenter for Economic and Policy Research
Technology
Microsoft has released the Windows 11 2026 Update, version 26H2, to eligible devices running versions 24H2 or 25H2. Because the three releases share one servicing branch, 26H2 arrives as a lightweight enablement package that switches on features already delivered through monthly updates, needing a short download and a single restart.
Technology
DeepSeek released open-source software built with Huawei to program the company's Ascend AI accelerators, led by an Ascend version of TileLang, the programming language it has used for about a year.
AI
Nvidia is in early talks with insurers about cover that would protect lenders if smaller neocloud operators default on GPU-backed loans and the chips pledged as collateral cannot be resold for enough to clear the debt, the Financial Times reported.
Sources Yahoo Finance (Financial Times)
Technology
Apple Pay launched in India on 30 September, more than a decade after the service went live in the United States, with support for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch and Mac support to follow.
Sources AppleTechCrunch
AI
Core provisions of Connecticut's Artificial Intelligence Responsibility and Transparency Act take effect on 1 October, three months after Governor Ned Lamont signed SB 5.
Sources Connecticut General AssemblyHinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Football
Portugal travel to Parken Stadium in Copenhagen on Thursday evening defending top spot in Nations League Group A4, having beaten Wales 1-0 and won 2-1 in Norway.
Sources Al JazeeraBBC Sport
Technology
DoorDash used its Dash Forward event to open a US iPhone waitlist for a beta that puts an ordering assistant inside Apple's Messages app, letting customers describe a meal, build a cart and check out without opening DoorDash.
Sources DoorDashParticle News
Football
Germany host Serbia at the Allianz Arena on Thursday still looking for a first win under Jurgen Klopp, who has one point from two Nations League matches after a 1-1 draw with the Netherlands in Amsterdam and a 1-0 home defeat by Greece.
Sources BundesligaBBC Sport