•Rune’s AI software helps the U.S. military predict supply needs and manage field logistics; integration would extend Salesforce’s Missionforce into battlefield operations.
•Missionforce has grown 80% year over year since launching last year, Salesforce said, partly driven by a new 10-year, $5.6 billion U.S. Army contract.
•Rune has raised $30 million and was valued at $127 million in its last funding round. The acquisition has not been confirmed by Salesforce.
•The deal is available in all three colors at Amazon, Best Buy and The Home Depot through Oct. 30; it matches the year’s best price and is $10 above its all-time low.
•The thermostat includes a remote temperature sensor and works with more HVAC systems than the previous model.
•Other deals: Casio’s WS-B1000 watch is $23.88, and a four-pack of second-gen AirTags is $69.99, both at their lowest prices cited in the article.
•SwitchBot’s 12-inch smart ceiling light is $36.99 with a coupon or code HWHW26.
•OpenAI has released hundreds of mathematical results this month; Altman said the company has many more discoveries.
•Altman said OpenAI spent hundreds of millions of dollars on math, including about $10 million or more on its Navier-Stokes solution.
•Researchers criticize the releases as poorly explained and verified. OpenAI has not publicly detailed its claimed Yang-Mills result, citing expert advice.
•Altman acknowledged the company needs to improve how it communicates findings, but said public access to scientific knowledge outweighs disruption.
•Administrator David Durman is the first Humanist to secure such an accommodation, the American Humanist Association said.
•The university said he can perform his job’s essential duties without AI; it reviews accommodations individually and may reassess them as roles change.
•Durman sought the accommodation after colleagues encouraged AI use, in case it later became mandatory.
•Intelligence agencies monitored Alice Huang for about a year amid concerns she might gather information from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
•Nvidia denied the allegation, saying Jensen Huang’s meetings with Alice Huang were routine and involved no sensitive trade secrets or national-security information.
•Megaspeed was investigated in 2025 over concerns it resold restricted Nvidia chips to Chinese companies; Alice Huang was a top executive at the time.
•The animation appears while some users compose posts, but not everyone sees it.
•It seems limited to verified users or X Premium subscribers; X has not confirmed the restriction.
•Promoting a post can show it to people beyond an account’s followers, targeted by location, interests or demographics. User reactions have been negative.
•Labor accepted an amendment requiring platforms to ban chatbot content that simulates emotional intimacy and fosters a child’s dependence instead of human relationships.
•The bill also sets online safety standards for social media, games, apps and chatbots, and requires social platforms to offer an algorithm opt-out.
•The Senate will debate the bill in coming weeks; the government aims to pass it by the end of 2026. The Coalition opposes it, while the Greens support it and seek stronger measures.
•Labor rejected a proposal to let the telecommunications ombudsman handle complaints about big tech; the Greens plan to push for that change in the Senate.
•Amazon’s $6.2 billion in outstanding convertible notes was valued at $97.9 billion in its filings as of June 30, 2026.
•The notes could convert into up to 1.84 billion shares, subject to a cap of 12% of Anthropic’s partially diluted share count.
•Amazon has invested about $18 billion in Anthropic and is committed to receive at least $110 billion in AWS spending over 10 years.
•Google may also benefit: an analyst estimates its Anthropic stake at about 5.6%, and the company has at least $114 billion in cloud commitments through 2033.