CORRECTIONS

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version of this brief did not name Waymo or say that it plans to launch autonomous rides in Toronto in 2028; it said only that "the company" would invest in hundreds of roles.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version said the Bee devices alert only the wearer to recording and did not attribute the claim; the devices show an indicator light, and the criticism that their consent safeguards target the wearer comes from former AWS engineer Jeff Williams.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version said Karmine Corp would face the winner of Cloud9 versus FURIA; that winner first plays MVK, and the survivor meets Karmine Corp in the Play-Ins final.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version omitted that the crypto-wallet spend was on a test network and did not attribute the disclosure to OpenAI via Ars Technica.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version omitted that KBRA assigned the BB+ rating and invented a spending/revenue rationale; the Financial Times newly reported the June rating from documents.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version said Tesla announced the RFTX building; the report did not establish a formal Tesla announcement.

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Corrected the model name from “GPT-6 Pro” to “GPT-6 Astra Pro,” matching OpenAI’s edited post (https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2111192259073094035).

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version was a sentence fragment that did not name Nvidia App's new AI Agent Control setting or that it is on by default.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version was an unattributed quote fragment that did not name CiteProof or what the tool does.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version was a sentence fragment that did not name Deutsche Bank or its crypto custody plans.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version said the Xreal 1 Pro+ keeps the One Pro's price. It costs €649, up from the One Pro's current €599.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version attributed the 77% rise in premium mobile game sales to Apple's App Store head. The figure comes from a GamesIndustry.biz report, which Apple did not confirm.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version implied MSCI's rule bars Strategy from its indexes and said shares fell more than 6%. The rule doesn't immediately remove Strategy, and the share move was not in the source.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version was a sentence fragment that did not name the SteelSeries Sensei Pro and Rival Pro mice.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version was a broken quote fragment that did not name John Gruber or the Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2 prices.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version said Chika set an overall Worlds damage-per-minute record. It is the record for a mid laner; Sneaky still holds the overall mark.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version opened mid-sentence and did not name Roman Reigns or the Street Fighter premiere context for the quote about WWE downtime activities.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version described player objections and a studio response without naming RuneScape Reignited or Jagex.

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Correction (Oct 16): An earlier version said CoreWeave's bonds 'spiked.' Bond prices fell during the AI infrastructure sell-off; it was the yields that spiked, to around 15%.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Tesla did not announce a production date while also saying production starts in 2028, and linked the deposit and 2028 claims to Tesla's configuration post. Tesla's configuration thread did not include those figures; the story now separates Tesla-posted specs from reveal announcements and drops the contradictory closing.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version left an incomplete sentence ('The vulnerability carries the vector.') with no CVSS vector. The story now includes the Lenovo CNA CVSS 3.1 vector and clarifies the IPC/same-network path.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Shopline's GMV growth reached 2.5 times the market average. That multiple was not in the DigiTimes article text we could verify; the story now sticks to DigiTimes' confirmed 20% GMV figure.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version called Chery's UK-bound Defender-inspired model an EV. InsideEVs reports the iCaur V27 is sold with gas and electric powertrains and Chery has not said which version the UK will get.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said FERC dropped air-dispersion modeling requirements for 'certain projects.' CleanTechnica reports a proposed LNG blanket-authorization program and a draft policy on methane-gas air modeling under NEPA.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said both companies would gain more flexibility in their component sourcing and described a Bloomberg image credit as part of the reporting. Neither claim was in the reporting; the story now sticks to what DigiTimes and Bloomberg reported.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said 18 titles support Steam achievement sets. Valve’s launch list has 17 games, and the feature is in a Steam client beta.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said a Switch 2 version of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey arrives the same day, without naming the game or date. The December 8, 2026 date reported by Push Square is for the PS5 version; no Switch 2 date was given.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said SharePoint Server Subscription Edition versions through 16.0.20326.20190 were affected. The CVE record lists versions before 16.0.20326.20190; that build is the fix shipped in KB5002927.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version listed Visual Studio and System.Formats.Cbor versions through the fixed builds as affected. The CVE record uses lessThan those builds (17.14.42, 18.10.4, and 10.0.13), which are the fixes.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version opened with “Other tech contributions…” and omitted that Apple and Nvidia each pledged $25 million. Those figures, plus Google’s $22 million and Microsoft’s and Palantir’s $10 million each, are from The Washington Post’s donor list as reported by 9to5Mac.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said the Rosalind Academic Plan targets biology research questions that may take years to reach human health impact. OpenAI’s announcement did not state that timeline; the brief now tracks the company’s wording.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Meta built Muse Spark Open on Apple's MLX framework. Meta optimized the model to run on Apple silicon using MLX; the model was not built on MLX. Evidence: Meta AI Research https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open and https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/2110779756828557356

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Modern Warfare 4 launches October 16. October 16 is the start of campaign early access; the game launches October 23.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said a leak indicated the GTA 6 launch trailer had arrived. Rockstar released the trailer officially; the brief has been replaced by our earlier coverage.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Apple and Meta announced a partnership to bring Meta's Muse AI to Macs. Meta released its Muse Spark Open model optimized for the Mac Studio using Apple's MLX framework; neither company announced a formal partnership.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said the dome issue forced a production pause and called Neutron's first stage the largest pressurized carbon structure Rocket Lab has built. Rocket Lab did not announce a production pause, and CEO Peter Beck called it the largest pressurized carbon composite structure ever made.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Apple's display choice for the next iPad mini remains undecided. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said only that he has not learned which option Apple chose.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Modern Warfare 4 arrives without requiring the full Call of Duty package. That detail was not in Xbox's announcement and has been removed.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said the remaster's install size grew from 3.85GB to 45GB. The 3.85GB figure could not be verified and has been removed. We also clarified that the original 2011 version is being reinstated, not already restored, and that the artist's "very lazy" comment comes from an unverified fan-shared email.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version stated as fact that $86 million was drained and said Ledger's own hardware was untouched. The $86 million is an estimate from onchain investigator Specter, and the tampered devices were Ledger hardware. Ledger says its own systems were not compromised.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Ripple launched 24/7 perpetual futures trading for Wall Street institutions. Ripple Prime launched real-world asset perpetual swaps for institutional clients, which reference perpetual futures listed by Trade.xyz on Hyperliquid.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version suggested Modern Warfare 4 is the new sub-franchise direction. Activision's CMO said MW4 addresses some player feedback and that a future Call of Duty title will launch a new sub-franchise.

Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Wall Street opened lower Thursday with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq down more than 1% and CoreWeave down more than 15%. Those moves happened in Wednesday's session; on Thursday morning, futures and chip stocks were lower in premarket trading.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said the Grand Theft Auto VI launch trailer runs 1:01. It runs about 90 seconds.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said 250,000 passengers have used United's Starlink Wi-Fi to date. More than 250,000 customers fly Starlink-equipped United planes each day; 37.7 million passengers have flown on them to date.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said the 10-year Treasury yield fell 2.5%. It fell about 15 basis points, to 5.04%.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Bloomberg announced it is doubling down on conversational AI. That was reported by The Wall Street Journal; Bloomberg did not announce it.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said a new private-equity firm announced its AI focus. That was reported by The Wall Street Journal, not announced by the firm.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said the FTC announced a probe of Anthropic and OpenAI. The FTC sent the companies civil investigative demands, as reported by Axios citing a person familiar; the agency did not announce it.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said the Monster Hunter Wilds Switch 2 demo includes local multiplayer. The Prologue demo is offline-only.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version implied more than 400 Switch emulator repositories were just removed from GitHub. That takedown happened on Aug. 17; the news is that the Lemon emulator launched on Android.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Cohere is acquiring AISLE. Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire AISLE; the deal has not closed.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said Tesla announced it leads sales of EVs priced above $100,000. The New York Times reported that Tesla is leading a rush by automakers to sell EVs that cost more than $100,000.

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Correction (Oct 15): An earlier version said hundreds of millions of merchants can now accept stablecoin payments through Mastercard's new platform. Global Money Platform lets banks, fintechs and enterprises offer stablecoin accounts and cards whose balances can be spent across Mastercard's network of hundreds of millions of merchant locations.

Correction (Oct 14): An earlier version described a reported $21 billion deal for two New York fabs. GlobalFoundries announced the up-to-$21 billion U.S.-Japan initiative itself; the first fab (about $10 billion, online in 2029) is set, and the second is still subject to approval.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier version said Musk claimed the U.S. military sets Starlink's limits in Ukraine. He said limits on Starshield, the government-owned military version, are decided by the U.S. military and ultimately the president; Starlink itself is SpaceX's commercial service.

Correction (Oct 14): An earlier version said Adobe patched 11 high-severity flaws in Substance 3D Stager. APSB26-170 fixes 16 vulnerabilities total: 14 rated 7.8 (High) and two medium-severity issues.

Correction (Oct 14): An earlier version said VulDB rated CVE-2026-110536 9.3 under CVSS 4.0. The CVE record lists 10.0 under both CVSS 3.1 and CVSS 4.0.

Wrong: said the Nano has programmable Action Buttons (plural) and that no broader rollout date was specified. Right: Xbox Wire lists one programmable Action Button, and availability beginning in November in the U.S., U.K., and dozens of other markets. Primary: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/10/14/xbox-nano-controller/ ; https://x.com/XBOX/status/2110400314931388482 ; https://x.com/XBOXWire/status/2110400789500027379

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said Adobe patched three CVEs in its Content Credentials tools. Adobe's APSB26-163 bulletin fixes more than 30, the worst rated 8.6 by Adobe.

Correction (Oct 14): An earlier version said Adobe's Content Credentials update covered six CVEs, five of them certificate-validation flaws. Adobe's APSB26-163 bulletin fixes more than 30 vulnerabilities, the worst rated 8.6 by Adobe, and four of the six CVEs we listed are certificate-validation flaws.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said Google links a phone number entered for one account to the device's other accounts. Android's on-by-default setting automatically verifies the phone's own number and attaches it to every Google account signed in on the device.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said pre-launch GTA 6 reviews would break from Rockstar's usual embargo pattern. Reviews of GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 also went live before release, a day early.

Correction (Oct 14): An earlier version said WhatsApp's link invites work for calls of any size. 9to5Google reports they work for calls of up to 32 people.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said Lam Research had reached 30x faster chipmaking simulation with NVIDIA NanoVDB. Lam expects up to 30x faster select wafer-etch modeling once the capability ships, targeted for the end of this year.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said 135 zinc and 69 cysteine protease designs successfully targeted proteins tied to neurological disease. Those were the numbers of designs the team tried; the researchers then showed zinc proteases that cut disease-linked proteins.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said VulnCheck and the CVE's numbering authority gave CVE-2026-110233 different scores. VulnCheck is the numbering authority and rates the Rovr flaw 7.8 under CVSS 3.1 and 8.4 under CVSS 4.0.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said fuel prices rose 9.1% year-on-year and that Bitcoin fell to $81,926. The BLS gasoline index rose 9.1% in September alone, and Cointelegraph reported Bitcoin fell below $82,000.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief presented $86 million in suspected drains as the reason for Ledger's reseller pause. That figure comes from onchain investigator Specter, and Ledger says it has not verified it.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said Microsoft's tool raised a weather model's accuracy to 98 percent. The study found it improved accuracy for 98 percent of precipitation targets and 92 percent of temperature targets.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief described Linux support for Epic's new launcher as planned. The preview already runs on Linux; Fortnite on Linux is what comes later.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said HomeView runs the same audio and video apps supported on CarPlay. Apple says HomeView supports third-party audio and video apps and will show iPhone widgets built for CarPlay.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said REPLACED was drawing interest ahead of its full release. The game launched in April 2026 on PC and Xbox Series X|S; its developer and publisher said it has passed 900,000 players and is coming to Android on December 8.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said the new Starlink limits in Ukraine followed earlier curbs on terminal use near the front lines, which the reporting did not say. Ukraine's presidential adviser said SpaceX imposed a 100 mph speed limit on moving terminals on the StarShield military package.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said VulnCheck and the CVE's numbering authority gave CVE-2026-110112 different scores, and that version 1.0.50 is affected. VulnCheck is the numbering authority and rates the flaw 8.1 under CVSS 3.1 and 9.2 under CVSS 4.0; versions before 1.0.50 are affected.

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Correction (Oct 14): An earlier brief said GTA 6's scope was scaled back after Red Dead Redemption 2 expanded in ambition. Bloomberg reported that RDR2's growth pushed the project back several years; the map was separately scaled down from parts of North and South America to Miami and its surroundings.

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Correction (Oct 13): An earlier brief said the Falcon 9 launch seen over western North Carolina happened overnight. It launched at 6:33 a.m. EDT Tuesday on the CRS-35 resupply mission, WLOS reported.

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Correction (Oct 13): An earlier brief listed the new Game Boy Advance titles as Monster Rancher, Metal Slug and Kururin. The games are Monster Rancher Advance, Metal Slug Advance and Kururin Paradise, which is available in Japan only.

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Correction (Oct 13): An earlier brief did not say that Getty Images is going private through a prearranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and described the up to $533 million as money Getty would receive. The Getty family and Koch Equity Development are investing it to own the company together, GeekWire reported.

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Correction (Oct 13): An earlier brief said Chrome 155 brought this change to Chromebooks. 9to5Google reported it for Chrome on Googlebooks, the Android version of Chrome with desktop-level features.

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Correction (Oct 13): An earlier brief called the BNY and Citadel Securities deal the first blockchain-based tokenized US Treasury transaction. BNY describes it as the first use of tokenized assets on a major triparty repo platform; tokenized Treasuries already existed.

Correction (Oct 13): An earlier version said the four Microsoft 365 Apps CVEs carry maximum severity scores. They are rated 9.8 (critical) under CVSS 3.1 by Microsoft; the maximum is 10. The story also now lists affected products, including Windows versions for CVE-2026-70096.

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Correction (Oct 13): An earlier brief said Shell's sale to Vaaris Energy covers upstream and midstream gas assets. Shell is selling Shell Nigeria Gas, its domestic gas distribution business, and keeps its deepwater and integrated gas positions in Nigeria.

Correction (Oct 13): An earlier tweet framed a $100B annual run rate without a hedge. CNBC sources project revenue could top $100 billion by year-end; the tweet now says could top.

Correction (Oct 13): An earlier draft of the TL;DR dated the ID@Xbox Showcase June 12, 2026. IGN schedules it for Tuesday, October 20 at 10am PT. The story and tweet now use October 20.

Correction (Oct 13): An earlier version described the CVSS pairs as scores from VulnCheck versus a separate CNA. VulnCheck filed both CVE records as the numbering authority; the pairs are CVSS 3.1 vs CVSS 4.0 (8.1/9.2 and 7.4/9.1). NVD has not published its own scores.

Correction (Oct 13): An earlier version omitted Riot's 76,000+ rank-manipulation bans and used 'eliminated'/'kicked' for some categories. The official 13.08 patch notes list all six banned counts, including rank manipulation.

Correction (Oct 13): An earlier version said the flaws affect the SIMATIC Drive Controller CPU 1504D TF, that the CNA scored them 9.4 separately from Siemens, and that NVD rated them critical. The CVE records list dozens of SIMATIC products, including the S7-1500 CPU family. Siemens, which filed the records as the CVE numbering authority, rates each 9.6 under CVSS 3.1 and 9.4 under CVSS 4.0, and NVD has not published its own scores.

Correction (Oct 12): An earlier version said Decart was founded by CEO Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev. Decart was founded by three engineers: Dean Leitersdorf, Orian Leitersdorf, and Moshe Shalev.

Correction (Oct 12): An earlier version stated as settled fact that Apple has set the Los Angeles creator showcase and will announce the listed products, and said HomeView, the HomePod mini 2 and the Apple TV 4K are "due" October 13. These are reports from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, not Apple announcements. Apple is expected to unveil those three devices on October 13; Gurman has reported that HomeView is expected to ship around mid-November.

Correction (Oct 12): An earlier version said Flash Charging takes the Atto 8 from 10% to 80% in five minutes. BYD's stated figure is 10% to 70% in five minutes, and 10% to 97% in nine minutes. Also: An earlier version said the Atto 8 has over 400 miles of range without qualification. That figure applies only to the rear-wheel-drive Atto 8 Design, rated at up to 653 km (about 405 miles) WLTP; the all-wheel-drive Atto 8 Excellence is rated at 602 km (about 374 miles) WLTP. Both use a 115 kWh battery.

Correction (Oct 12): An earlier version said BYD provided no additional specifications. BYD did announce specifications, including a WLTP range of up to 405 miles for the rear-wheel-drive model and 374 miles for the all-wheel-drive model, and said European sales begin in the first quarter of 2027. Pricing has not been announced.

Correction (Oct 12): An earlier version ended "China has not confirmed it." The unconfirmed party is Moonshot AI; DigiTimes and Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, reported the settlement talks. It also said the IPO was "valued at US$5 billion." US$5 billion is the potential offering size DigiTimes reported, not a valuation. We added Reuters' details on the claimant, Recurrent.ai, and changed "could delay" to "could complicate," matching the reporting.

Correction (Oct 11): An earlier version stated $93.4M in losses as fact and implied the European device was confirmed tampered. The ~$92.9M figure is an on-chain estimate by Bitquery tied to devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis; Ledger has not confirmed the total or that the implant caused the losses. The European device is unconfirmed by Ledger, and its owner says no funds were taken.

Wrong: said NVD rates CVE-2026-16823 9.1 and called the flaw critical without attribution. Right: 9.1 (critical) is IBM's score; NVD rates it 7.5 (high). We also added IBM's fixed releases, 10.0.9.3 and 11.0.3.1.

Wrong: told organizations to apply fixes and said administrators faced immediate patching requirements. Right: Microsoft says it has already fully mitigated this cloud-service flaw and there is no action for customers to take.

Wrong: said the flaw affects confidentiality, integrity and availability, and told Azure customers to check the advisory for patches or configuration changes. Right: the CVSS vector lists a high integrity impact only, with no confidentiality or availability impact, and Microsoft says it has already fully mitigated the flaw, so customers need to take no action.

Wrong: said four high-severity flaws involve protocol parsers and three more affect version 12.2 only, and listed CVE-2026-82344 as affecting version 12.2. Right: three flaws involve protocol parsers and four more affect version 12.2 only; CVE-2026-82344 affects versions 12.0 and 12.1, per IBM's CVE records.

Wrong: described the touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro as having launched. Right: it has not launched; it is expected later this month, and Apple has not announced it.

Wrong: said the tablets go on sale October 14. Right: Amazon opened orders on October 8, and the tablets ship October 14 in the US, Canada and Mexico.

Wrong: said a Drunken Goddess Reflux demo is playable on Steam now. Right: the game's demo arrives on Steam on October 19, ahead of its December 8 release. We also clarified that Isle Goblin and Living Hell opened playtests, not demos.

Wrong: Claude Opus 5.5's 87.6% and GPT-6 Astra's 87.3% Terminal-Bench 2.1 scores read as Microsoft's own figures. Right: those scores come from Vals AI's Terminal-Bench 2.1 leaderboard, which uses a different test setup; Microsoft reported only its own model's scores (62.9% cloud, 66.3% local).

Wrong: headline and story said Mistral released Large 4 ("le Chonk") as an open model, said the preview was limited to developers, cybersecurity leaders and state authorities, and said it was trained on 4,000 GPUs. Right: Mistral launched a public API preview on October 6 and says the open weights are due by the end of October; cybersecurity leaders, vetted partners and state authorities are red-teaming it with expanded access; Mistral says it was trained on 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs.

Wrong: said Microsoft recommends more than 120 GB of video memory to run the local MAI-Code-1.1-Flash. That figure came from Frandroid, not Microsoft. Right: Microsoft says the local model's memory use peaks at 75.5 GB at its full 256K context, so it effectively needs a 128 GB RTX Spark machine.

Wrong: stated The Information's report on Meta and Microsoft cutting internal Claude use as confirmed fact, said Microsoft steered staff to "OpenAI frameworks," and listed the story under Microsoft's October 7 event. Right: the figures come from The Information's October 5 report, which neither company has publicly confirmed; staff were steered to tools such as GitHub Copilot and OpenAI's models; the story is not part of the event coverage.

Wrong: headline and summary said NVIDIA and Microsoft unveiled RTX Spark at the October 7 event, and the social post gave the Grace CPU a fixed 20 cores. Right: Microsoft and NVIDIA first introduced RTX Spark in June; on October 7 they opened RTX Spark preorders. The Grace CPU has up to 20 cores.

Wrong: said MAI Code 1.1 Flash has 130 billion parameters and hedged Microsoft's own model details as "reportedly." Right: Microsoft says MAI Code 1.1 Flash has 137 billion total parameters (6.8 billion active); the model figures come from Microsoft's Windows blog.

Wrong: said MAI-Code-1.1-Flash activates 5 billion parameters per step and was "confirmed in development" for GitHub Copilot, and gave only the cloud model's 62.9% Terminal-Bench 2.1 score. Right: Microsoft says the model has 137 billion total and 6.8 billion active parameters; the local version comes to GitHub Copilot in experimental preview by the end of October; on Terminal-Bench 2.1 the cloud model scored 62.9% and the local version 66.3%.

Oct. 7, 2026: We originally reported, based on The Verge, that Xbox had secured exclusive GTA VI cloud streaming rights with PC streaming. Xbox has denied this, and The Verge corrected its report. Headline, summary and body updated.

Wrong: said Paramount Skydance's Warner Bros. Discovery deal was still expected to close later in the day, and that the Nasdaq hit intraday and closing records as markets opened Tuesday. Right: Skydance announced the deal closed on Tuesday morning, October 6, before this story ran; the Nasdaq's intraday and closing records came in Monday's session, with futures higher Tuesday morning.

Wrong: said MacRumors independently verified the October 13 event, stated the OLED iPad mini will debut this month as fact, implied the M5 Ultra Mac Studio was a final-week reveal, and ended with "Bloomberg has not confirmed it" even though Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported the October 13 event. Right: MacRumors reported a second, later launch window from its own sources; the iPad mini is expected, not announced; Apple separately announced the M5 Ultra Mac Studio configuration for late October; Apple has not announced either launch.

Wrong: the summary called Palmer Luckey Anduril's CEO. Right: Luckey is Anduril's co-founder (CNBC corrected the same title error in its own report). The contract, shipyard and Project Meridian details are unchanged.

Wrong: said Disney acquired a 9% Epic stake and that Fortnite expansions include Avengers Doomsday content scheduled for December. Right: Disney’s official disclosure is a $1.5 billion equity stake (the 9% figure was secondary reporting, not company-confirmed); Walden confirmed more partnership launches over the next two years but did not name Avengers Doomsday or a December Fortnite tie-in.

Wrong: said the standalone Lego Astro Bot set was Coming Soon / temporarily unavailable with pre-orders expected October 4. Right: PS Direct was already selling it on October 1 for $24.99 / £17.99 (per Video Games Chronicle and other reports). The October 4 timing belonged to the larger Lego PlayStation set's general pre-order window, not the Astro Bot standalone listing.

Removed claims that are not on OpenAI’s Dots page: a $100/month Pro plan, an iMessage/RCS waitlist, and a Grubhub dinner demo. Rollout is to Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise; the first dot is included; ChatGPT, Slack, and Teams, with texting coming soon; Custom Rules and auto-review.

Corrected to past tense. The keynote was not still live. Aeon was a September 28 Verge rumor; OpenAI announced Dots and did not announce a product named Aeon. The keynote time stays 10:00 a.m. PT.

Changed “matches” to “nearly matches”: GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches GPT-6 Astra at one-fifth of Astra’s standard token prices. The $200-plan limit cut was already in the story and was not part of this correction.

Updated September 29: Tesla moved the next-gen Roadster reveal from October 1 to October 15, citing severe weather for an outdoor-only event. No new start time was announced.

Updated Bitget breach figure from initial ~$351M to Bitget’s revised ~$387.5M ($388M headline) after Zcash/TRON transfers were counted; pointed source_url to Bitget’s Sep 25 incident update.

Ops restore: briefly overwritten by a mis-targeted Bitget amount patch during the 2026-09-25 fact-check; Digital Bros Armed Fantasia copy restored from pre-patch snapshot. No Armed Fantasia facts were intended to change.

Rewrote pre-event present/future copy (“is hosting today”, “will see”, “plans to detail”) to past tense after the Sep 24 Semi Rollout completed; kept 1.8M sq ft figure.

Wrong: summary, TL;DR and body gave the Sparks Semi factory as 1.7 million square feet, a figure from pre-event secondhand reporting (NotaTeslaApp). Right: Tesla said during the Sept. 24 rollout broadcast that the plant covers 1.8 million square feet (@tesla_semi, 2026-09-24); figure now attributed to Tesla.

Wrong: title, summary and body gave the Sparks Semi plant as 1.7 million square feet, a figure from earlier secondhand reporting (NotaTeslaApp). Right: Tesla said during the Sept. 24 rollout broadcast that the plant covers 1.8 million square feet (@tesla_semi, 2026-09-24); figure now attributed to Tesla.

Wrong: title claimed FDA-cleared Hearing Enhancement while body/tweet only mentioned vague Conversation Focus 'updates' with no FDA/pricing/product facts. Right: body+tweet now state FDA-cleared Hearing Enhancement for mild–moderate hearing loss, later-2026 timing, Meta One/$149.99, Ray-Ban not at launch (Engadget 2026-09-23).

Wrong (tweet/summary): treated $25B+ annualized card volume as already settling onchain / fully shifted. Right: SoFi began migration; $25B+ is expected annualized volume after migration (CoinTelegraph/CryptoSlate).

Hedged headline and social copy: audits are production-prep diligence, not a confirmed acceleration of Optimus mass production.

Wrong (tweet leftover after Sep 21 body fix): Acer 2.5 lb / Dell 2.2 lb and omitted Dell LCD. Right: Acer 2.7 lb, Dell XPS 2.5 lb with LCD callout — matching corrected body (THE-121 incomplete sweep).

Wrong: attributed active exploitation confirmation to Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and NCSC Netherlands without primary sources. Right: attributed to CISA KEV listing and F5’s advisory that the vulnerability has been exploited; forensic-triage line now cites CISA BOD 26-04 only.

Softened petition “hundreds of thousands” scale in body + tweet_text — not in Bungie primary (Xavier nod 2026-09-21).

Wrong (garbled AI copy): “The device follows Apple's earlier reporting on the announcement of the new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips and more.” Right: “Apple announced the refreshed Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro options last month.”

Wrong: “spend $1.5 billion on film production in Hollywood over the next five years” and “may also sell a stake in Miramax if production targets are missed.” Right (CA AG Rob Bonta press release, Sep 21, 2026): an additional $1.5 billion over 2025 U.S. spending levels across five years; failure to meet the film-output requirement requires Miramax Studios divestiture plus $30 million per missed film.

Wrong: Acer Googlebook 14 weight listed as 2.5 lb; Dell XPS Googlebook as 2.2 lb; Lenovo Googlebook 15 as 2.84 lb; and a blanket “OLED displays” claim for all five models. Right: Acer 2.7 lb, Dell 2.5 lb, Lenovo 2.68 lb per Ars Technica’s launch specs table (Sep 21, 2026); Dell’s XPS Googlebook uses a 2.5K LCD touchscreen, not OLED. HP rounded to 2.7 lb.

Pre-publish harden (THE-128): stripped draft claims not in the TechCrunch Sep 15 piece — including Dec 2025 6.9 Bcf/d baseline, 54 Bcf/d power-sector total, 21 Bcf/d LNG delta, July 2026 20%/194 GW electricity share, 7.5/60 GW construction pipeline, Texas 80.6 GW, and named BNEF analyst attribution. Kept ~18 Bcf/d, nearly-double-in-nine-months, onsite 2.9–3.4, grid +15, 5× other sectors, price/climate hedges, and IEA 60g / 1 Mt/day / ~12% figures as reported.

Pre-publish harden (THE-128): grounded to microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-of-conduct and microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct. Removed unverified “37-page” count (secondary reportage only). Kept six-week consultation, 2027 training guidance, not-trained-today caveat, Chain of Command, Absolute Constraints, and hedge language for aspirational draft status.

Pre-publish harden (THE-128): removed claims not in Google’s Sep 15, 2026 primary — token limits 131072/65536, ultra-low/fixed latency profile wording, March 2026 3.1 Flash Live migration aside, and incorrect Workspace tier mapping (Docs: AI Pro/Ultra; Gmail/Keep: all Google AI subscribers).

Updated after Fortnite’s Sept 15 official trailer: Riku, Kairi and Roxas are confirmed skins alongside Sora (not merely text teasers). Title now names all four; source_url pointed to @Fortnite trailer post. Wrong: “Epic text teasers also point to Riku, Kairi and Roxas” / “Additional written hints… point to…”. Right: official trailer confirms Sora, Riku, Kairi and Roxas for Override this week.

Softened title so October 23 reads as the iPhone Duo ship date, not as a hard ship date for iOS 27.1 itself. Was: “iOS 27.1 to Ship With iPhone Duo on October 23”. Now: “iPhone Duo to Ship October 23; iOS 27.1 Expected Around Launch”. Body already hedged that Duo ships with 27.1 and that 27.1 timing is expected around / by that launch window.

Aligned Siri AI model language to Apple Newsroom primary wording: Apple Foundation Models “custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models,” while retaining Federighi nuance that this is not the Gemini app or Google Assistant (still under Apple Intelligence). Prefer primary Apple disclosure over rumor framing.

Corrected overclaim that Epic had fully confirmed Riku, Kairi and Roxas skins (Sora is confirmed; the others are suggested by Epic teasers) and fixed misattribution of the Sora confirmation line to a leaker instead of official Fortnite channels.

Corrected Steam Machine lottery reference: the randomized reservation system was used for the 2026 Steam Machine launch (June), not a 2015 launch.

Updated day-of: future-tense "Arrives Monday" framing corrected to shipped/present. Added Apple Newsroom facts on Siri AI English beta, daily usage limits, and China/EU unavailability. Source URL pointed at MacRumors day-of page.

Title/lede overclaimed “Gemini-Powered Siri” from The Verifier framing. Corrected to Siri AI / Apple Intelligence branding; kept Google collaboration with Federighi nuance (not Gemini app / not Google Assistant). Also aligned TL;DR, tweet, and body.

Removed leftover “up to 50% faster uploads” from the TLDR; matched Apple’s “meaningfully faster” wording already used in the body (Sep 10 body fix had missed the TLDR).

Fixed report count: Anthropic’s Sep 2026 misuse/threat report follows March, August, and November 2025 (not “third since March”). Pointed source_url to Anthropic’s primary report instead of a Google News CNN redirect.

Corrected PIF gaming stakes framing: Activision Blizzard is no longer a live public minority stake (Microsoft took ATVI private in 2023); wording now treats that holding as historical.

Updated platforms: 1001 Threads of Mizan is also coming to Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC (not PS5-only), per Variety/GamesBeat.

Corrected AES deal framing: acquisition is by a GIP- and EQT-led consortium (with CalPERS and QIA), not GIP alone; equity value about $10.7 billion.

Reframed the customer: Riot’s filing named only an unnamed frontier AI lab; Anthropic identification attributed to Bloomberg/CNBC reporting and noted as unconfirmed by Riot and Anthropic.

Finished Ultra→Duo correction on TLDR left from an earlier partial fix; official name iPhone Duo starts at $1,999.

Updated foldable product name from rumor-era “iPhone Ultra” to official iPhone Duo.

Updated foldable product name from rumor-era “iPhone Ultra” to official iPhone Duo (starts at $1,999).

Updated foldable product name from rumor-era “iPhone Ultra” to official iPhone Duo.

Updated foldable product name from pre-event rumor “iPhone Ultra” to official iPhone Duo (starts at $1,999).

Clarified that the Commission’s July 10, 2026 DSA action is a preliminary finding of breach, not a final determination that Meta violated the law.

Clarified that Meta disabled Muse Image’s Instagram @-mention/public-account referencing feature, not the Muse Image model itself, which remains available in Meta AI.

Corrected filing day from Thursday to Friday (July 10, 2026) and clarified Chang Liu and Tang Yew Tan as former Apple employees, not both executives.

Corrected source_url search parameter from unrelated Oracle CVE-2026-46817 to the article’s KNX CVE-2023-4346.

Corrected garbled Bloomberg claim that misstated OnePlus as extending an exit “beyond China”; clarified reported 2027 pullbacks concern markets outside China (e.g., India), with China remaining.

Clarified Apple sued OpenAI plus two former employees (Tang Tan and Chang Liu); Yu-Ting “Alyssa” Peng is alleged as a conduit in the complaint but is not a named defendant.

Corrected Q2 USD revenue equivalent from $39.45B (CNBC conversion) to TSMC’s official $40.20B; corrected CapEx year from 2024 to 2026.

Corrected CXMT’s 7.67% share wording from “worldwide memory chip sector” to “global DRAM market,” matching the IPO prospectus and CNBC coverage.

Corrected takeover premium from 26% to 24% for base consideration plus final dividend versus the undisturbed closing price, matching DCC Energy’s recommended-offer announcement.

Clarified that the reported 2,013% CapEx surge to $15.8B refers to AI-segment spending, not company-wide CapEx (about $18.4B in Q2 per SpaceX filings).

Corrected source_url KEV search from CVE-2026-58644 (SharePoint) to CVE-2026-39808 (FortiSandbox), matching the article subject.

Corrected SigNoz fix PR reference from #11844 to the merged #12172 (NVD later replaced the superseded PR link).

Corrected headline/why framing from ‘Adds New Game Plus’ to ‘Confirms New Game Plus,’ reflecting that the mode is in development, not yet shipping.

Corrected Galaxy Watch 9 / Ultra 2 retail availability from August 9 to August 7, matching Samsung’s U.S. newsroom.

Clarified DeltaX's Georgia plan is a BESS assembly hub, not a battery cell factory; kept LG Energy Solution Michigan cell production accurate.

Corrected product name from Lego Cities Skylines to official LEGO Skylines.

Corrected studio name from MCB Game Studio to MBC Game Studio and creative director from Lars Blonde to Lars Bonde.

Corrected Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Q1 sell-in from 7.96 million to Nintendo’s reported 7.94 million.

Clarified Stripe–OpenRouter as a finalized agreement still pending close, not a completed closing.

Corrected announcement weekday from Thursday to Wednesday (Aug 5, 2026).

Corrected minigame name from Queens Blood to Queen's Blood.

Corrected New Mexico Meta case: March jury $375M plus August $567M abatement (not both phases in March); clarified federal trial began Aug. 18 rather than suit filing that day.

Corrected Roman Space Telescope cruise to L2 from approximately one month to approximately three months (~100 days), matching NASA.

Moved ceramic case colors (pearl white / night blue) from Ultra 4 to Series 12; clarified Ultra 4 remains titanium-only with up to 50-hour battery.

Corrected branding to AppleCare One Family and replaced “price not disclosed” with official $49.99/month coverage for up to six Family Sharing members.

Corrected foldable product name from iPhone Ultra to iPhone Duo.

Corrected foldable name from iPhone Ultra to iPhone Duo and price from “exceeding $2,000” to official $1,999 starting price.

Fixed Dubai Loop timing (Feb 2026 implementation, not “last year”) and Nashville loop length (nearly 25 miles, not 20).

Replaced unsupported “up to 50% faster uploads” claim with Apple’s “meaningfully faster” wording.

Removed invented polishing-cloth and ceramic Series 12 lines; attributed price hike to The Verge, not tipsters.

Corrected foldable name from iPhone Ultra to iPhone Duo; fixed AppleCare One Family branding.