As part of the OpenAI-AMD deal, OpenAI will receive the first GW worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chip in H2 2026, when the new chip is scheduled for deployment (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/amd-
A book excerpt details the "enshittification" of Amazon, and how its "flywheel" technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants (Cory Doctorow/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/…
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller model can run locally on a consumer device with 16GB of RAM (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-just-released-its-first-open-wei…
Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and rolls out a Snapchat-like maps feature (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/719756/instagram-adds-reposts-feed-rips-off-snap-m…
OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-ramps-up-developer-push…
OpenAI is merging its Model Behavior team with its Post Training group to bring the work of the Model Behavior team closer to core model development (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/openai-reorganizes-research-team-be…
Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/googles-ai-coding-agent-jules-is-now…
The EU fines Google €2.95B for abusing its dominance in digital ads, and says its preliminary stance is that Google must divest parts of its ad-tech business (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-fined-3-5-billion-by-eu-over-ad-tech-busi…
OpenAI told investors that it projects its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise to a total of $115B, about $80B higher than it previously expected (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-says-business-will-bur…
Anker paid users of its Eufy security cameras $2 per video of staged or real package and car thefts to train its AI systems from December 2024 to February 2025 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/anke