https://topicalcomic.com/ A short comic about what the tech world is arguing about this week. https://topicalcomic.com/c/amazon-s-new-fire-tv-stick-4k-can-pull-power-directly-from-y-c1f298/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/amazon-s-new-fire-tv-stick-4k-can-pull-power-directly-from-y-c1f298/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:26:48 GMT The new Fire TV Stick 4K will be a little easier to set up than Amazon's previous 4K streaming sticks since it no longer requires a power adapter. You can power the device directly from your TV's USB… https://topicalcomic.com/c/regulating-ai-not-the-right-place-to-start-says-bailey-fbf3a5/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/regulating-ai-not-the-right-place-to-start-says-bailey-fbf3a5/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:03:17 GMT AI needs "rigorous" testing and safeguards to contain risk, Andrew Bailey says. https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-announces-dots-agent-after-scrapping-launch-of-new-ai-270892/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-announces-dots-agent-after-scrapping-launch-of-new-ai-270892/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:39:32 GMT Company’s product comes weeks after Meta introduced its own artificially intelligent agent Muse Less than 24 hours after OpenAI announced it would scrap the launch of an artificial intelligence model… https://topicalcomic.com/c/apple-pay-finally-launches-in-india-after-years-on-the-sidel-6a44d3/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/apple-pay-finally-launches-in-india-after-years-on-the-sidel-6a44d3/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:14:35 GMT Some of India's largest banks are holding off on supporting Apple Pay initially. https://topicalcomic.com/c/three-takeaways-from-trump-s-super-intelligence-summit-5f8fcc/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/three-takeaways-from-trump-s-super-intelligence-summit-5f8fcc/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:51:18 GMT The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI. https://topicalcomic.com/c/sam-altman-says-openai-won-t-go-public-until-its-models-are-e18f95/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/sam-altman-says-openai-won-t-go-public-until-its-models-are-e18f95/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:27:22 GMT For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We inte… https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-unveils-ai-assistant-dots-while-safety-worries-delay-da092b/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-unveils-ai-assistant-dots-while-safety-worries-delay-da092b/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:34:17 GMT Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers. https://topicalcomic.com/c/apple-s-new-ceo-could-change-when-it-launches-phones-and-lap-38c226/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/apple-s-new-ceo-could-change-when-it-launches-phones-and-lap-38c226/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:56:36 GMT John Ternus, Apple's new CEO, wants Apple to launch products more often than its usual splashy moments in the fall and the spring, according to a Bloomberg report detailing some of Ternus's initial pl… https://topicalcomic.com/c/leaked-images-reveal-new-colors-for-amazon-s-next-entry-leve-11a141/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/leaked-images-reveal-new-colors-for-amazon-s-next-entry-leve-11a141/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:24:02 GMT Amazon typically introduces new Kindle models a few months ahead of the holiday shopping season and this year it looks like that will include a bigger update to the entry-level Kindle than what debute… https://topicalcomic.com/c/anthropic-warns-of-existential-ai-risks-to-humanity-in-ipo-d-35c4f1/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/anthropic-warns-of-existential-ai-risks-to-humanity-in-ipo-d-35c4f1/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:01:06 GMT Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation Anthropic is telling investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic o… https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-scraps-release-of-new-model-over-safety-concerns-in-i-221468/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-scraps-release-of-new-model-over-safety-concerns-in-i-221468/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:36:13 GMT GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behaviour and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and nei… https://topicalcomic.com/c/anthropic-s-prospectus-details-losses-growth-and-yes-a-warni-8429ce/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/anthropic-s-prospectus-details-losses-growth-and-yes-a-warni-8429ce/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:12:59 GMT In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity. https://topicalcomic.com/c/nothing-s-new-flagship-headphone-1-pro-put-you-in-the-studio-6efa35/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/nothing-s-new-flagship-headphone-1-pro-put-you-in-the-studio-6efa35/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:48:55 GMT Nothing has been on a bit of an audio tear this year, releasing the solid Headphone A and the surprisingly good Ear 3A earbuds. The Headphone A released at $199, while the earbuds are under $100, leav… https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-scraps-rollout-of-new-model-over-safety-concerns-638ca9/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-scraps-rollout-of-new-model-over-safety-concerns-638ca9/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:25:06 GMT OpenAI also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems. https://topicalcomic.com/c/amd-is-acquiring-ai-company-world-labs-in-a-deal-worth-more-5b2248/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/amd-is-acquiring-ai-company-world-labs-in-a-deal-worth-more-5b2248/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:01:09 GMT AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched… https://topicalcomic.com/c/bose-starts-adding-auracast-to-its-headphones-98112a/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/bose-starts-adding-auracast-to-its-headphones-98112a/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:36:59 GMT A new firmware update for the $449 Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Gen 2 adds support for Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast as beta features. The flagship Ultra headphones are the first from Bose to… https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-s-ai-agents-need-to-catch-up-3f32aa/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-s-ai-agents-need-to-catch-up-3f32aa/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:13:05 GMT OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI a… https://topicalcomic.com/c/ai-godfathers-warn-of-runaway-intelligence-explosion-ea5f7b/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/ai-godfathers-warn-of-runaway-intelligence-explosion-ea5f7b/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:48:04 GMT OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’ Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and An… https://topicalcomic.com/c/bose-s-first-wired-earbuds-in-11-years-add-noise-canceling-ceba87/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/bose-s-first-wired-earbuds-in-11-years-add-noise-canceling-ceba87/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:25:10 GMT Everything old is new again as today Bose announced its first pair of wired earbuds since discontinuing the option in 2015. The new tethered earbuds, which are simply called the Bose Noise Cancelling… https://topicalcomic.com/c/apple-ordered-to-pay-5-7bn-after-losing-vibration-tech-paten-0b6dbb/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/apple-ordered-to-pay-5-7bn-after-losing-vibration-tech-paten-0b6dbb/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:55 GMT Audio firm Taction Technology claimed Apple infringed its patents for tech used to power device vibrations. https://topicalcomic.com/c/you-can-now-preorder-the-tiny-boox-picco-ereader-2dc6f3/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/you-can-now-preorder-the-tiny-boox-picco-ereader-2dc6f3/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:12:04 GMT It's so cuuuuuuute! https://topicalcomic.com/c/truecaller-takes-its-scam-intelligence-to-the-open-web-as-it-451057/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/truecaller-takes-its-scam-intelligence-to-the-open-web-as-it-451057/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:48:08 GMT Truecaller finds a new way to reach users as pressure grows on its traditional caller ID business in India, its biggest market. https://topicalcomic.com/c/anthropic-s-ceo-is-about-to-have-dinner-with-president-trump-73f86e/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/anthropic-s-ceo-is-about-to-have-dinner-with-president-trump-73f86e/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:24:53 GMT This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump https://topicalcomic.com/c/out-of-the-park-baseball-lets-me-enjoy-baseball-even-when-th-459aa7/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/out-of-the-park-baseball-lets-me-enjoy-baseball-even-when-th-459aa7/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:01:54 GMT If you were to ask me what game or game series I've sunk the most time into, the answer would be easy: Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP). I have spent roughly 2,300 hours, according to Steam, playing va… https://topicalcomic.com/c/engram-is-a-sampler-that-turns-broken-ai-hallucinations-into-67b770/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/engram-is-a-sampler-that-turns-broken-ai-hallucinations-into-67b770/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:37:35 GMT Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate com… https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-agents-tried-to-bruteforce-a-un-website-c003a9/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/openai-agents-tried-to-bruteforce-a-un-website-c003a9/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:13:19 GMT Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the inciden… https://topicalcomic.com/c/why-olpc-s-100-laptop-never-stood-a-chance-30cd37/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/why-olpc-s-100-laptop-never-stood-a-chance-30cd37/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:49:06 GMT The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix every… https://topicalcomic.com/c/bill-gates-says-unchecked-ai-could-cause-a-billion-deaths-in-5d4b96/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/bill-gates-says-unchecked-ai-could-cause-a-billion-deaths-in-5d4b96/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:24:14 GMT Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on Sunday Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the developme… https://topicalcomic.com/c/the-smart-home-graveyard-is-getting-crowded-8870ed/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/the-smart-home-graveyard-is-getting-crowded-8870ed/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:12 GMT This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile state of your connected devices, follow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. The Stepback a… https://topicalcomic.com/c/big-ai-s-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money-7298e0/ https://topicalcomic.com/c/big-ai-s-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money-7298e0/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:37:15 GMT The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks