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First published October 08, 2026
Margaret Hamilton, who led development of onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program, died at 90 on September 30 in a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to her daughter.
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The FBI seized scanning and phishing tools used by hackers allegedly linked to China's government, and officials said the tools, which targeted critical infrastructure including the power industry, had been rendered inoperable.
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An AP-NORC poll found that 64% of Americans think AI is developing too fast, while about eight in ten say the government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.
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Yandex said a fire caused by a drone attack halted operations at its data center in Russia's Ryazan region, with no impact on major consumer services and restoration of affected services underway.
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Bloomberg reported that Broadcom is holding early talks on financing OpenAI's purchases of jointly developed AI chips, potentially involving about $30 billion in debt, but formal procedures have not begun and plans could change.
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OpenAI announced an Intelligent UI that incorporates graphics, buttons, forms and charts into ChatGPT answers, launching it alongside GPT-6 for paid plans on October 7 and scheduling availability for Free and Go on October 8.
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Microsoft announced a Windows update with tools combining AI agents and cloud and on-device AI capabilities, and unveiled the new Surface Laptop Ultra.
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Former US Treasury Secretary Rubin warned that while the AI investment boom could deliver substantial productivity gains, overlapping financial commitments among AI companies, suppliers and investors carry financial and social risks that markets have not fully priced in.
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The US government, Meta and Google joined Biohub's effort to build training data for AI used in biological research, bringing total pledges to $1.8 billion.
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Florida asked a court for interim measures during litigation requiring Meta to remove users under 14 in the state, limit teens' use to two hours a day and disable autoplay and infinite scrolling.
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Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries about mirror-image molecules, with their research enabling reactions that produce desired molecular forms and being used in drug development.
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The US government, Meta and Alphabet are joining Biohub's effort to build public datasets for biological AI research, with total investment reaching $1.8 billion and Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs jointly investing $300 million.
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