Google's Gemini 4 Argon model tops benchmarks but users and critics report issues with performance and reliability, raising questions about its real-world capabilities.
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said inflation running at 3% for more than five years remains too high, signaling more rate hikes despite cooler-than-expected August PCE data. He also discussed AI's role in growth and bond yields.
Apple TV is still inaccessible after a maintenance outage on September 30 affected several Apple services. Other services have since recovered, but Apple TV remains down. Users are unable to access the streaming service.
Paramount Skydance named Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz as co-CEO alongside David Ellison, effective Oct. 5, ahead of its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Kreiz will take over day-to-day operations of the combined company at closing.
Micron Technology reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings, fueled by AI-driven demand for memory chips. The company gave a bullish forecast for the current quarter but warned that rising compensation costs would weigh on profit margins.
Amazon's 20-year, $3 billion deal with Constellation Energy covers 690 megawatts from the Calvert Cliffs plant and helps fund 190 megawatts of new generating capacity.
The European Commission called out 11 games, including Minecraft and Candy Crush, over in-game currency practices, issuing guidelines that exclude cryptocurrencies and target currencies bought with real money inside games.
Ryan Nece of Next Legacy joins Bloomberg to discuss how athletes approach venture investing, including whether to deploy capital into AI and current investment priorities.
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft for its new drone delivery service at its Dash Forward 2026 event. The company outlined its drone strategy, though the system cannot yet fly out of sight.
Ynon Kreiz is appointed co-CEO of the merged Paramount Skydance entity following the completion of the $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Seaport Research Partners analyst David Joyce comments on the move.
Robinhood Chairman and CEO Vlad Tenev discusses the firm’s new AI-driven agent apps unveiled during a Houston summit, outlining a vision of giving individual traders hedge fund-like tools, including 24/7 trading across asset classes.
FedEx placed a $300 million order for 2,000 electric trucks from Harbinger, replacing thousands of diesel vehicles and saving hundreds of millions in fuel costs.
Airbnb introduces AI search, social features, personalized maps, and baby-gear rentals. CEO Brian Chesky discusses making Airbnb agent-friendly and argues AI agents need an AI-native operating system.
BMW built the same car for both gas and electric powertrains, and the EV version comes in $4,400 cheaper, signaling how quickly EVs have caught up on pricing.
JPMorgan's Sitara Sundar says the AI industry is caught in the 'healthy' volatility of two cycles at once and urges investors to diversify across the AI value chain.
Markets rallied after a surprise inflation reading lowered rate-hike odds. Apple's long-awaited smart home push and OpenAI's pursuit of a $1.4 trillion valuation also drove sentiment. Micron faces a key earnings test.
The operator of the biggest US electric grid suspended plans for an auction it had planned to help meet surging electric demand from data centers. The decision comes amid concerns about how to handle the rapid growth of data center power needs.
The Stripe- and Visa-backed Open Standard consortium has launched Open USD, a dollar stablecoin with a distinct 'building money' model. Open USD enters a market dominated by Tether and Circle.
MercadoLibre's push to create an online marketplace for prescription drugs in Brazil faces a setback. The country's health regulator says it is reviewing the e-commerce company's plan.
Meta has reportedly used a tax credit meant for experimentation to build its AI data centers, shifting costs to taxpayers. The practice is drawing scrutiny as AI infrastructure spending expands.
CoreWeave unveiled Forge, a suite of development tools for training and improving AI models, at its first large customer event. CEO Michael Intrator says the company wants to broaden beyond the 'neocloud' label.
The US banned foreign-made consumer routers unless makers prove they aren't a national security threat and submit a US manufacturing plan. Asus is back on shelves but has declined to explain how it complied.
Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman says markets are narrowly focused on big IPOs and calls Anthropic one of the greatest business stories he's seen, without saying whether he would invest.
IONNA, the fast-charging network founded by eight automakers, has doubled to over 180 sites in 2026 and is now the largest 400 kW fast-charging network in the US. The network also launched a driver council and topped a J.D. Power study.
DoorDash now lets customers text orders instead of using the app, and its drone deliveries will first arrive in northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes on board. The service also adds retail returns.
KKR released a report arguing that financing the global AI buildout will require about $8 trillion in capital expenditures, far more than traditional public equity and debt markets can supply alone. The firm's co-head of credit and markets discussed the findings on Bloomberg.
CBRE executives warn AI startups hunting for data centers must find serious partners to guarantee lease payments or face an uphill battle securing new sites. The warning highlights how the AI buildout is increasingly dependent on big-tech balance sheets.
Morningstar Inc. will relocate its headquarters to Google's new office building in Chicago, boosting a marquee project in a once-neglected part of downtown. The move signals growing demand for premium office space in the city.
Vincent Policard, KKR's co-head of European infrastructure, says Europe needs as much as $800 billion annually in infrastructure investment, nearly double current levels, as governments seek private capital for AI and space.
Bloomberg's Horizons Middle East & Africa program covers the latest business and economic news from the region. This episode includes analysis of market trends and geopolitical developments.
Goldman Sachs chief global equity strategist Peter Oppenheimer says European stocks have 'done rather well' despite inflationary pressures and rising bond yields. He also commented on French bond yields during a Bloomberg Television interview.
Nidec Corp. shares dropped as much as 20% in Tokyo after the Japanese motor maker's auditor declined to give an opinion on its long-awaited full-year results. The move fuels caution over the scandal-hit company following the CEO's resignation.
Legrand CEO Benoit Coquart said the electrical equipment maker will continue with a 'lot of acquisitions', which he believes won't harm the company's financial position. He discussed the strategy in an interview with Bloomberg.
Glencore Plc and Yancoal Australia Ltd. have received approval for a major expansion of their jointly owned coal mines in the Hunter Valley region of eastern Australia, enabling operations to continue until 2045.
A protégé of Michael Burry has warned that South Korea's cheap stocks come with a catch: much of their value is often kept out of reach of minority shareholders. The warning highlights the risks of so-called 'value traps' in the Korean market.
Chinese technology hardware shares are on track for their poorest quarterly performance in years, following a July selloff driven by concerns over AI firms' ability to justify high valuations and spending.
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its first Gemini 4 model, retaking benchmark leads in coding and cybersecurity. However, Wall Street criticized the company for falling behind in personal AI agents, which are seen as the next major growth area.
OpenAI says it identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign designed to extract protected reasoning from its AI models. The activity, going back to early July, surged to 16,000 requests from more than 4,000 users before being shut down by July 28.
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies over potential consumer and product safety risks, according to CNBC.
DoorDash is rolling out an AI agent customers can text to place food orders, gaining an edge over Uber Eats and Grubhub; the capability also works in Apple Messages.
As Alphabet Inc.’s Google prepares for the coming launch of Gemini 4, it’s grappling with internal skepticism over how well the flagship artificial intelligence model performs in key areas, such as coding.
OpenAI's 'Decisions API' is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence. The API could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents.
President Donald Trump hosted AI leaders from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Nvidia, who signed a 'Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities' promising to self-police AI development. Trump called AI safety fears a 'hoax' but now embraces the plan, while critics question enforcement.
Destro AI says one of the biggest reasons it beats robotics companies is that it doesn't define itself as a robotics company, focusing instead on human-robot alignment.
OpenAI launched Dots AI agents to rival Meta's Muse, and early comparisons show both vying to be the user's AI agent of choice. The battle highlights the growing competition in consumer AI agents.
AI has largely failed in dedicated devices, but Meta and OpenAI are betting on physical hardware over the next year. They're testing appetite for AI-powered dedicated devices, according to The Verge.
Bloomberg Technology's Ed Ludlow covers OpenAI's plan to raise at least $30 billion after delaying its IPO, President Trump's support for outside AI safety auditors, and Apple's upcoming smart-home push.
A TechCrunch analysis explores why frontier AI labs have become cautious about consumer AI, citing high costs and uncertain revenue models. The piece argues that the economics of consumer AI are fundamentally difficult despite technological advances.
SpaceXAI, Elon Musk's AI unit, is evaluating changes to its subscription pricing for Grok and X. The overhaul could affect how users pay for the chatbot and social media features.
Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will appear at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to discuss compute, energy, and infrastructure constraints on AI scaling. He will also address what happens if today's AI hardware reaches its limits.
Bridgewater Associates projects AI could dislocate almost one-fifth of the US labor market if unregulated and society fails to prepare. CEO Nir Bar Dea discussed the warning with David Rubenstein.
DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, including a version of TileLang offered as a simpler alternative to Nvidia's CUDA. The move aims to cut reliance on Nvidia in China.
President Trump got Big Tech leaders to sign a voluntary AI safety accord, but experts say the agreement leaves big questions unanswered and does little to actually keep AI safe. The accord also renames AI as 'Super Intelligence'.
At its HOOD Summit, Robinhood unveiled AI agents that trade around the clock, weekend stock trading, 10x perpetual futures, and earnings contracts for active traders.
Bloomberg Technology's Haslinda Amin interviews industry leaders about the pace of AI infrastructure investment. Despite growing concerns over rogue AI agents and safety incidents, companies continue to pour billions into data centers and AI development.
Code leaks reveal Apple's Home Hub will launch in Silver, Space Gray, Starlight, and Rose Pink. The smart home hub is expected to debut later this month.
Reddit says it will require logins for Old Reddit and end support for RSS feeds as it fights AI-driven scraping and automated traffic. The company is also ending public API access, tightening what was once an open archive of user content.
Reddit will shut down RSS feeds November 13 and cut outside apps' data pipeline by March 2027. The company blames scraping bots while continuing to license its content to AI companies.
Instagram is adding a chatbot to its Edits video editing app for creators. The assistant reads a creator's Instagram data, including Reels metrics, and suggests what to make next.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times that Microsoft has no plans to sell the gaming business, saying 'Xbox is not for sale' and that the company intends to take a long-term view.
Amazon is rolling out AI smart glasses for delivery drivers that will reportedly take photos almost constantly. The expansion is drawing growing privacy concerns about surveillance and data collection.
A leak reveals that Apple's upcoming smart home hub, expected to launch as a new HomePod or similar device, will come in four color options. The device is part of Apple's broader smart home push.
Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized sites, the payments come to less than $10,000 annually.
Parents can now limit how teens use channels, whose Status they can see, who can see their Status updates, and who can add teens to groups on WhatsApp.
Counterpoint Research estimates Apple will sell about 6 million units of its inaugural foldable iPhone Duo this year. The forecast is the first for Apple's entry into the foldable smartphone market.
Apple has started its payments service in India, entering a key growth market with over a billion consumers. The move pits Apple against Google Pay and Paytm in the country's digital payments sector.
ElevenLabs' valuation reached $22 billion after a $300 million employee tender co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price. The voice AI startup's value has doubled.
Neko Health, founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million to build a business around body scanning. It's entering the US preventative healthcare market, competing with other companies like Function Health.
Flow Engineering raised $50 million led by Valor and Atreides, with former Sequoia partner Roelof Botha joining the board. The startup uses AI agents to help companies design and build physical hardware.
Restate, founded by Apache Flink creators, raised a $20M Series A for infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend services running when software fails.
Saronic co-founder and CEO Dino Mavrookas discusses the company's push to rapidly scale production of autonomous ships at its new Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville, Texas.
Bloomberg reports that multiple startups are raising money for offensive cyber-operations as AI expands the cyberwar frontline. Investors are backing new tools that use AI for both attacks and defense.
Charter Space has raised $5 million to provide insurance for space companies, addressing the challenge that regular insurers often don't understand the industry.
PaleBlueDot AI is in talks with lenders including Brookfield Asset Management for $600 million of private credit. The funds would be used to purchase chips for its site in South Korea.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S12 series includes Ultra and Plus models with a thinner design and modest feature updates. The lineup starts at $1,199, representing a price increase over the previous generation.
Samsung's Galaxy SmartTag 3 adds pet activity monitoring, cross-platform support, and iPhone compatibility but does not support Android Find Hub. The AirTag rival also promises longer battery life and an updated design.
Lux Optics updates the Halide pro camera app to version 3.2, adding support for the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture. The update also introduces two new photography looks for iPhone and iPad.
Amazon raised Echo device prices in August, but early Prime Day discounts cut up to 50% off select models. The best early deals are worth considering while others should be skipped.
The Wing Hummingbird 7000W-B weighs under 15 pounds, has 16 propellers, a top speed of 60 mph, and can carry up to 2.7 pounds within a six-mile radius. The FAA has authorized the drone for delivery operations.
Huawei warns that rising memory costs will lead to further smartphone price increases, joining rivals in passing on higher component prices. The AI-driven memory crunch is also threatening production of 230 million budget smartphones annually, according to earlier analysis.
A report reminds travelers that the 'border exemption' to constitutional rights allows US government officials to search phones and other devices without a warrant when entering or leaving the country.
A new report from Amnesty International, based on leaked documents and testimony, alleges that Moroccan authorities have used spyware for years against critics, including activists, journalists, and politicians in France and Spain.
Microsoft says attackers were probing a Zimbra mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE. Earlier attacks on the patched flaw deployed web shells to steal mailbox secrets.
A bug in a file-sharing service exposes sensitive employee data from the Pentagon, allowing attackers to extract names, service records, and Social Security numbers of 2.7 million military personnel over several months.
A Singapore man faces up to 10 years in jail for creating an AI-generated deepfake of a crocodile, as the country takes a hard line on AI-generated misinformation. The case highlights Singapore's strict approach to AI slop.
Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission received its first notification of an AI-related data breach after a food company accidentally disclosed customers' email addresses to other recipients of a bulk email. The incident highlights new risks associated with AI use.
New research suggests the Chicxulub impact crater, formed by the dinosaur-killing asteroid, may have hosted a thriving ecosystem. Hot, nutrient-rich water could have sustained life for over 5 million years after the impact.
Researchers demonstrate a method for sending electrical signals through human tissues, creating a local network of implants that uses the body itself as the wiring. This could enable new types of medical devices and communication.
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn't even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events. The book explores bioweapons development concerns that predate AI.
Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues that editing the genes of human embryos is risky and controversial but a 'moral imperative' to address hereditary diseases. The practice remains the subject of intense scientific and ethical debate.
The US measles resurgence is forcing hospitals to adopt new protocols for a disease they thought was in the past. CDC has acknowledged that half of known measles fatalities were missed amid the worst outbreak in decades.
The CEO of AI coding startup Factory is publicly feuding with Cognition AI's top executive over allegations that a Factory adviser was involved in 'unethical conduct' allegedly connected to Cognition.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich. Critics note that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the technology being considered.
HPE raised its fiscal 2027 networking revenue growth forecast to high teens to low-20s percent and lifted its Juniper cost-savings target to $800 million. The update follows the company's $1.2 billion order to supply AMD-based server racks and networking gear to Vultr.
Neon will produce a Creative Commons-licensed SCP Foundation movie, positioning it as a truly open-source approach after the A24 controversy. The move highlights how studios can work with the SCP community.
Micron delivered fourth-quarter results that exceeded elevated expectations, with guidance for the first quarter also coming in ahead of estimates. Redpoint Ventures managing director Erica Brescia commented on the explosive growth in the sector.
Lauren Hochfelder, Head of Global Real Assets at Morgan Stanley, says commercial real estate may be at an appealing turning point after a prolonged correction. She notes the sector is now more than four years into what she describes as the longest correction in over 30 years, with prices still down more than 20% and trading below replacement cost for the first time since the global financial crisis. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Emily Graffeo on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Hendi Susanto, a research analyst and portfolio manager at Gabelli, reacts to Micron Technology giving a sales forecast for the current quarter that shattered estimates after the AI building frenzy fueled unprecedented demand. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo purchased a roughly seven-acre estate on the south shore of Long Island for $9.6 million, according to a spokesperson and property records.
Kalshi Inc. is finalizing a new financing round that would value the prediction market platform at around $40 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal is expected to be the startup’s last round before an initial public offering, which is anticipated as soon as next year, the people said.
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Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of memory chips, gave a sales forecast for the current quarter that exceeded estimates after the AI build-out fueled unprecedented demand.
'We're furries at home, and we're airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,' says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant. The furry pilot community is pushing back against the criticism.
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Google DeepMind extended its SynthID watermarking to synthetic biology with SynthID Bio. The tool hides a signature in amino acid sequences, and watermarked proteins continue to function in lab tests.
The Verge launches Optimizer, a weekly newsletter by senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects gizmos and potions claiming to change your life, with a humorous tone including a promise to 'explode your butthole with this poopmaxxer pesto'.
A year after the game's original release, Nintendo is offering a physical Pokémon Legends: Z-A edition for Switch 2 that bundles the Mega Dimension DLC on one card.
Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow is live in LA for Bloomberg Screentime 2026, speaking with tech leaders and media entrepreneurs, including Suno CEO Mikey Shulman, Promise CEO George Strompolos, and Luma AI COO Caroline Ingeborn.
A joint investigation by Wired reveals the system of checkpoints that has divided the West Bank and measures the cost to Palestinians in lost time, jobs, and lives.
PS5 emulation is making big strides on PC, with KyTyPS5 running Marvel's Wolverine at playable framerates and other titles like Astro Bot and Demon's Souls running ably without a console.
Crimson Desert's first expansion, Charting the Unknown, has been delayed by two weeks from its original October 15 release date to October 29. The expansion was announced at the State of Play in September.
Billionaire Ken Griffin is giving $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, with most of it funding a new campus in Miami, marking the largest single gift ever committed to a US university.
From outrage over Nolan Wells' death to analysis of HBO Max's Lanterns, Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem, according to Wired.
Wired tested six top kids' mattresses from Saatva, Birch, Helix, and more. Learn what to look for when buying a kids' mattress, according to a 2-year-old.