Chrome reaches record 73.81% desktop market share in September, gaining 3.5 points while Edge, Safari, and Firefox all decline. Historic milestone for Google’s browser.
AMD in talks with Intel for chip manufacturing partnership in potential historic deal. AMD currently uses TSMC for production. Details emerging.
OpenAI hits $500B valuation, becoming world’s most valuable startup after employees sell $6.6B in shares to investors. Up from $300B in April.
Perplexity releases Comet browser for all users. Free version includes AI assistant & tools. Comet Plus at $5/mo competes with Apple News.
Elon Musk becomes first person to reach $500 billion net worth through Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI holdings. Historic wealth milestone achieved.
AI infrastructure spending hits $400B in 2025 vs. $12B consumer spending, raising sustainability concerns and economic disruption risks.
Claude Opus 4.1 beats GPT-5 with 47.6% accuracy in real work tasks including customer service and pricing audits, according to OpenAI study.
OpenAI releases Sora 2 with realistic dialogue, sound effects, and physics simulations. iOS app launches invite-only in US and Canada.
OpenAI launches Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, enabling direct purchases from Etsy and Shopify. Available now for US users with multiple payment options.
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 achieves 82% on SWE-bench, outperforming GPT-5 and Gemini. Now available globally for coding tasks.
EA acquired for $55B by Silver Lake, Saudi PIF, and Affinity Partners. Shareholders get $210/share. Deal closes 2027. CEO Andrew Wilson stays.
Developer builds CraftGPT, a 5-million parameter AI chatbot inside Minecraft using redstone. Takes 2 hours per response. Open-source on GitHub.
Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, the first reasoning AI for robots that generates instructions and transfers skills across machines.
UK to require digital ID for employment by 2029. Stored on smartphones, it aims to reduce illegal work and simplify access to essential services.
iPhone 17’s A19 chip tops PassMark single-core benchmarks with 5,149 points using only 4W power—11x more efficient than desktop rivals.
Amazon Fire TV ditching Android for Linux-based Vega OS in 2024. New devices only—existing Fire TVs won’t get the update. Learn what’s changing.
IBGE reports 163% surge in AI adoption among Brazilian companies. Cloud computing leads at 77%, followed by IoT and AI technologies in 2024 survey.
Postgres 18 launches with async I/O for 2-3x speed boost, OAuth security, better Kubernetes support, and optimized query performance.
Ruby Central expels RubyGems maintainers from GitHub without warning, allegedly meeting Shopify demands amid financial struggles and supply chain concerns.
Laravel MCP beta launched: Build AI apps with Model Context Protocol servers. Integrates with Passport, Sanctum. Requires Laravel 10+ and PHP 8.1+.