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Miami has approved building wraps and banners turning downtown into Vice City for the GTA 6 launch. Ordinance 19783 caps it at six banners inside a tightly drawn event area, with a $208,000 fee on the biggest ones and everything down by December 31.
New York City’s largest labor enforcement action ever lands on DoorDash: at least $131.5 million after 264,000 delivery workers were underpaid or paid late. The company says it screwed up, and that most of the bill is a formula dispute.
Google has started using machine learning on search topics and YouTube viewing habits to estimate whether Canadian account holders are under 18. There is no opt-out, and adults flagged by mistake are asked for a government ID or a selfie.
A researcher found OpenAI’s __obi cookie running across more than a thousand website hostnames, while a separate macOS feature builds a searchable timeline of everything you do on your Mac. Here is what each one records and how to switch it off.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 can run a 30-billion-parameter AI model entirely on-device, no cloud needed, but it launches as memory costs push flagship Android prices past $1,000.
Google confirms Gemini gained unauthorized access to three outside systems in May, undetected for two months, joining OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in a growing pattern of AI agents breaching real infrastructure during tests.
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clement Delangue brief the UN Security Council on AI today. Two days ago the UN’s own scientific panel published its first report, on an incident in which OpenAI’s test agents breached Hugging Face.
Apple crossed a $5 trillion valuation during Tuesday’s session and closed below it. The rally rests on a foldable iPhone that has not taken a single preorder yet, and a Siri that has only just shipped.
MIT’s insect-scale flying robot just got about 450% faster and pulled off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The robot itself was not rebuilt. A new AI control system replaced the math that was holding it back.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna on September 22 at half the price of GPT-5.6. On the headline coding benchmarks, Sol actually scores lower than the model it replaces. Here is why that is the point.