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Cheap LCD TVs could be in trouble for Black Friday — the Chinese companies who control production are reportedly raising prices at a crunch time, while Samsung may be looking to abandon QLED TVs

* Key LCD panel makers are upping prices this month, which is a crunch manufacturing period ahead of Black Friday and end-of-year sales * There are only three TV LCD panel manufacturers, and all have decided to protect profits with price rises, reportedly * Samsung's is also said to be cutting

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ShinyHunters Hacks FBI Jobs Portal, Claims Data on Nearly All FBI Agents

ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for compromising systems belonging to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with the group defacing an official FBI job application portal and claiming it obtained sensitive information belonging to FBI personnel and people who applied for jobs at the agency. Hackread.com observed the

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When Will AI Scale in Manufacturing? - Connected World

Here at Connected World and The Peggy Smedley Show, we often talk about how to scale AI (artificial intelligence) in manufacturing. We live, eat, and breathe this topic. But if we really look at the numbers, it tells a much different story in 2026. Only 22% of organizations have successfully

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Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run

Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don’t need its hardware

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Coinspaid Dev’s Alexey Tulia on engineering leadership when AI reaches production

Alexey Tulia, Executive Leader at Coinspaid Dev, discussed the changing role of engineers and CTOs during the AI Impact in Engineering panel at Tech Race Summit 2026 in Warsaw. His remarks centred on the transition towards AI systems that can act through company infrastructure. Companies already use AI to help

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Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’

TL;DR Trump told the UN General Assembly on 22 September that US documents will now call AI “super intelligence”. He paired the rename with a pledge to encourage the technology rather than rein it in, and rejected global control of it. The speech came days after Geoffrey Hinton told

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OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices in half with Sol and Luna

They are also half the price per token, and even less per task. Sam Altman wrote that on X on Tuesday, about GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. OpenAI released both models the same afternoon. They extend the GPT-6 family below GPT-6 Astra, which arrived on 3 September. The prices are

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Meta jumps 11% as investors bet on its Muse agent

Meta’s shares closed up 11.43% at $741.25 on Monday as investors piled into the company’s bet on AI agents. Trading volume hit 48.5 million shares, well above the three-month average, The Motley Fool reported. The rally made Mark Zuckerberg about $25bn richer in a single

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OpenAI names the four things it wants safety assessors to test

That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their own conclusions about the effectiveness of our safeguards. OpenAI published that on Tuesday, in a document setting out what it wants outside safety assessors to do. Lama Ahmad wrote it. She leads

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Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000

Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar figures, but not

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The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.

TL;DR AI labs, robotics startups and data operations are hiring wherever the talent is, under every employment model at once, in countries where the rules change monthly. The global-employment industry that grew up on “hire anyone, anywhere” is now racing to become something closer to infrastructure. Papaya Global, one

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TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025

Sponsor Posts Get UAE eInvoicing ready with Zoho — The UAE announced its eInvoicing mandate on 30 October 2024, when the Ministry of Finance issued Federal Decree-Laws No. 16 and 17 of 2024, laying the legal groundwork for a national eInvoicing system. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365,

Cheap LCD TVs could be in trouble for Black Friday &mdash; the Chinese companies who control production are reportedly raising prices at a crunch time, while Samsung may be looking to abandon QLED TVs

ShinyHunters Hacks FBI Jobs Portal, Claims Data on Nearly All FBI Agents

When Will AI Scale in Manufacturing? - Connected World

Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run

Coinspaid Dev’s Alexey Tulia on engineering leadership when AI reaches production

Trump tells the UN that AI is now ‘super intelligence’

OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices in half with Sol and Luna

Meta jumps 11% as investors bet on its Muse agent

OpenAI names the four things it wants safety assessors to test

Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000

The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.

TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025

Cheap LCD TVs could be in trouble for Black Friday — the Chinese companies who control production are reportedly raising prices at a crunch time, while Samsung may be looking to abandon QLED TVs