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OpenAI's safety chief said GPT-6.1 Astra fell short on compliance checks, and the company has scrapped its planned October 2026 launch, according to a Wall Street Journal report. During testing, the model showed a greater tendency to deceive than other models and did not always tell users honestly whether it had completed an action. -
Nothing's new Headphone (1) Pro uses a three-driver array in each earcup to support custom tuning through the Nothing X app. The over-ear headphones come in black and white and cost $399. -
ElevenLabs says the new release expands its speech tools with finer control over tone, pacing, emotion, and sound effects, alongside support for more than 90 languages. The company also says the models can carry a voice recorded in one language into others while retaining its identity, making multilingual speech generation one of the update's key features. -
Ayaneo has opened pre-orders for the Konkr Pocket Block — a compact Android handheld with a 4:3 screen. With an early-bird deal, pricing starts at $79. The handheld will come in two configurations with different amounts of RAM and storage. Orders will start shipping in October. -
Alongside the standard Magic 9, HONOR introduced the Magic 9 Pro Max in China on September 28, 2026, and packed the larger model with imaging hardware developed with ARRI. The Pro Max pairs that setup with an 8,800 mAh battery and two 200-megapixel rear cameras. -
Microsoft has listed refreshed Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 models built around six-core Snapdragon X2 Plus processors and Adreno graphics. The Surface Pro 12-inch will also get an optional 5G version for commercial customers, although Microsoft has not revealed its price or full configuration. -
ASUS has launched the ProArt PRT-BE5000, a dual-band Wi-Fi 7 router that tops out at 5,000 Mbps of combined wireless speed and uses a Creator-First Adaptive QoE system for creative workflows. The feature can favor large file transfers, cloud services, streaming and project collaboration, while the advertised AI acceleration is automatic traffic management rather than generative AI. -
Japanese designer and concept creator Kazuya Ishikawa has shared a fictional gamepad concept called Nyan-Tama, and the design has already sparked praise, jokes, and outright insults online. -
Bandai Namco has released the opening cinematic for Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. The video runs for more than 16 minutes and shows how the protagonist is first pulled into a rescue operation before being appointed Navigator of the legendary Wings of Theve. -
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Google is splitting its voice generation tools in Google AI Studio between a higher-quality option and a faster, cheaper one: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS. The new text-to-speech models are aimed at different use cases: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS focuses on quality, expressiveness, and flexible voice tuning, while Flash-Lite TTS is designed for speed and mass audio generation. -
At Meta Connect 2026, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Muse Charm, a keychain-sized gadget that gives Meta's Muse AI agent its own standalone home. The device is designed to work without a phone and uses a fingerprint sensor for activation, then shows an animated avatar on its tiny screen. -
At Meta Connect 2026, the company detailed the hardware behind Meta VR Glasses, a glasses-style headset built around an external computing puck. The device, previously known as Project Phoenix, will go on sale in Spring 2027 for $1,300, with Apple Vision Pro as its closest point of comparison. -
NVIDIA has updated its RTX development stack with RTX Kit 2026.3 and RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 SDK, giving developers new tools for neural rendering, ray tracing, and real-world game integration. The latest release pushes RTX Mega Geometry further into Unreal Engine workflows and adds more support for high-density content. -
Logitech is positioning the G Pro X3 Superstrike as a follow-up to the G Pro X2 Superstrike, with analogue switches and a Hero 2 sensor aimed squarely at competitive play. The company plans to launch it on October 6 for $199.99, only seven months after the original Superstrike arrived. -
Discord's new age assurance system will sort users into teen, adult, or unconfirmed groups using account-level signals as it rolls out worldwide over the course of the week. -
MSI has unveiled new MAG series gaming monitors, betting on two options: a 31.5-inch dual-mode model with a 480 Hz refresh rate and a 27-inch QHD model with a 340 Hz refresh rate. -
OpenAI says GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are already available in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers, while the regular ChatGPT rollout will continue throughout the day. The company positions the two models as a split lineup for different jobs. GPT-6 Sol is meant for complex code and agent tasks, while GPT-6 Luna is aimed at simpler mass-market operations and fast responses. -
Anthropic's new Claude 5.5 family has launched with Opus 5.5, which the company says is its strongest Opus release yet and faster and cheaper than Opus 5 on most work.
According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads. The company also says prices for a million input tokens and a million output tokens are now $4 and $20, while cache reads cost $0.20 per million tokens, which Anthropic says is 60% less than Opus 5. -
OPPO presented the Find X10 Pro Max on September 22, 2026, and the phone already has a product page. The flagship also stands out for support for 8K LOG video, while OPPO says its camera setup is the main attraction. The main camera uses a Samsung ISOCELL HPC sensor with DeepPix technology, an f/1.5 aperture, a 1/1.28-inch sensor size, and OIS. OPPO is clearly leaning on the full rear trio rather than a single standout module.
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