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ChatGPT grows buttons, TSMC and Samsung post AI-fueled records, and Microsoft prices a Surface at $2,599.
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ChatGPT's new Intelligent UI fills answers with charts, buttons and mini apps for all users, so the chatbot now does a good deal more than just type back.
Why it matters Interactive outputs move ChatGPT from a text box toward an app platform, which changes how people use it and how rivals build their own interfaces.
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TSMC's September revenue reached 511.86 billion New Taiwan dollars, and quarterly revenue rose about 50% from a year earlier as AI demand held up.
Why it matters TSMC's results are a close read on whether spending on AI hardware is continuing at its recent pace.
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra launches October 16 with an Nvidia RTX Spark chip, an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM and a starting price of $2,599.
Why it matters Microsoft and Nvidia are putting a premium Windows laptop built around an Nvidia AI chip on the market, testing whether buyers will pay for it.
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Samsung expects record profit for the third quarter, with operating profit forecast to top 100 trillion won for the first time on the AI chip boom.
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CH Robinson is buying RXO in a $5.8 billion freight deal, with AI cited as the reason behind the big move.(paywalled)
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Manus has raised $500 million in its first funding round since Meta's roughly $2 billion acquisition was unwound, leaving the AI agent developer with fresh capital and independence.
Why it matters The round shows investors will still back an AI agent startup after a large acquisition by a major tech company was reversed.
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Taiwan has indicted 10 company heads over Texas Instruments and Analog Devices chips allegedly resold to China, with some parts routed to missile and radar programs.
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Arturo Béjar left Meta after his daughter told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe, and his whistleblower testimony has since cost the company billions.
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Yandex paused operations at one of its data centers after a drone attack, as Ukraine continues to strike Russian infrastructure.
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Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives as its fastest and most affordable model yet, with price cuts that show the AI pricing race is far from over.
Why it matters Cheaper, faster models lower the cost of building AI products and put pressure on rival providers to cut their own prices.
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