Technology

OpenAI annualized revenue came in at $50B at end-September, $18B below the $68B figure reported last month. The revision dragged the Nasdaq 1.4% lower on Oct 8.

Google free Gemini Flash-Lite: free tier locked to Flash-Lite from Oct 9, 2026, with AI Plus losing Pro and AI Pro gaining Deep Think for parallel reasoning.

OpenAI Apps SDK hits general release at DevDay 2026, turning ChatGPT’s 800M weekly users into a platform for third-party apps, Instant Checkout, and Sora 2.

Mistral Large 4 arrives as a 1T-parameter open-weight AI priced at $1.36 per million tokens, undercutting GPT-6 Astra 7x and shipping weights by month-end.

MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max unveiled Sept 21 as the first chip in the new Dimensity Compute Experiences line, built on TSMC 3nm for Googlebook laptops.

The TSMC Baipu Advanced Packaging Park in Kaohsiung will host validation labs and training centres by Q4 2029, anchoring Taiwan’s AI chip supply chain.

Google Project Suncatcher launches a prototype satellite on Oct 1 carrying four Trillium TPUs to test AI compute in orbit under radiation and heat extremes.

TSMC 2027 wafer pricing is locked at 3-6% headline, but AI and HPC customers could pay triple once surcharges stack. Here is what that means for Apple, Nvidia.

Apple is developing an enterprise Apple M8 Ultra Baltra AI server under the codename Baltra, with a target launch no earlier than 2029, according to reporting from The Information on September 16, 202

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 debuts on TSMC 2nm with the first 5GHz mobile CPU, a 35% NPU lift, and on-device agentic AI for premium Android phones.