From Tom's Hardware: The U.S. and Taiwan have been engaged in months-long bipartisan trade talks since the Trump administration took over, negotiating largely around the tech both countries hold. According to Bloomberg, the latest progress stemming from these discussions is a potential new high-tech...

From ExtremeTech: Apple's forthcoming M5 chip appears to have popped up on Geekbench. The tested device is labeled "iPad 17,3," almost certainly referring to this year's iPad Pro revision. According to the listing, the chip has nine cores—three for handling high-performance tasks and six focused on...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source SDK and runtime for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows, with full framework support for .NET and Python.

Introduced October 1 and available on GitHub, the Agent Framework...

From Tom's Hardware: Intel is in the early stages of talks with AMD about making the fabless chip designer an Intel Foundry customer, according to a report from Semafor.

The report, citing "people familiar with the matter," doesn't say just how much of AMD's chip manufacturing would move to Intel...

From ComputerWorld: The authoritarian, surveillance-loving UK Labour government remains deeply committed to magical thinking, slamming yet another encryption-busting “Technical Capability Notice” (TCN) on Apple, according to the Financial Times.

The difference is that this time it says it only...

From TechCrunch: OpenAI has sold $6.6 billion in shares held by current and former employees, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The sale pushed OpenAI’s total valuation to $500 billion, the highest ever achieved by a privately held company. Purchasers included SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment...

From PC World: Xbox Game Pass is getting a lot more expensive—up to 50 percent more expensive for the all-you-can-eat Ultimate tier—which is a problem for a service that appeals to players based on its relative affordability. It looks like Brad Chacos isn’t the only one cancelling before the higher...

From TechCrunch: Several current and former OpenAI researchers are speaking out over the company’s first foray into social media: the Sora app, a TikTok-style feed filled with AI-generated videos and a lot of Sam Altman deepfakes. The researchers, airing their grievances on X, seem torn over how the...

From TechCrunch: AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain paid subscribers, the startup has also launched a new “background assistant” to handle...

From The Verge: T-Mobile has expanded its satellite-to-cell service to several popular apps in the US, allowing users to stay connected without cellular coverage. The Starlink-powered “T-Satellite” service now supports WhatsApp, Google Maps, X, AccuWeather, and T-Mobile’s customer service app T-Life...