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Kingsbarn Realty Capital is negotiating with the National Park Service to exchange about 700 feet of Yosemite land for a road to its 83-acre Hazel Green Ranch property. The Department of Interior says no final decisions have been made.

3C Coding School, an Egypt-based edtech startup, raised $3 million in a seed round led by MRG Economic Group. The funding will expand operations into Saudi Arabia and develop its AI-powered learning platform. Founded in 2015, the company has served over 120,000 students.

Xiaomi may develop a flip-style Pocket Guitar accessory for its flagship phones' rear screens. Developer Kacper Skrzypek found code and renders showing buttons and touch grooves for guitar simulation. The accessory likely works with karaoke app Changba and targets China. Xiaomi has not confirmed it.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier AI model for computer use, professional work, science, coding, and cybersecurity. The model can browse the web, build websites, and handle complex tasks with less human intervention, while presenting significant cybersecurity capabilities and risks.

jQuery, created by John Resig and released in 2006, simplified HTML manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax with a cross-browser API. Its use declined with modern frameworks, yet it still runs on a significant portion of websites today.

Berlin-based Ecosia launched a Linux version of its Chromium-based browser, available via Ubuntu's App Center and Snap store. The move follows EU Linux desktop share doubling from 2.5% to 5.7% between 2024 and 2025, as Windows fell from 80.2% to 74.2%.

An Australian property developer's collapse is rippling into private credit markets. The failure exposes lender exposure within the sector, prompting assessments of broader financial stability and potential contagion risks across similar funds and investors.

Transport & Environment urges the EU to make renewable electricity at least half of the 2040 RES-T target. The group proposes cutting transport fossil oil import dependency from 93% in 2025 to under 75% in 2040, prioritizing direct electrification over biofuels for energy sovereignty.

Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face hosts over 3 million AI models and serves more than 18 million developers and 200,000 companies. Nvidia says the platform will remain open.

Nvidia will officially expand DLSS 5 support to older RTX 40-series GPUs after optimizing RTX 50 performance, a spokesperson confirmed. Gamers get only an on-off toggle, not the granular artistic controls modders unlocked. Nvidia declined to reconfirm previously announced DLSS 5 titles.

Crusoe raised $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation in a round co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, with Mubadala Capital participating. The AI infrastructure provider recently signed a $13 billion, five-year cloud contract with Jane Street.

PlusAI will go public via a merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp. at an $800 million pre-money valuation, its third listing attempt in five years. The autonomous trucking firm's HyperFoundry platform booked $25 million this year, with SuperDrive trucks hauling freight in Texas.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most intelligent model, initially to Trusted Access Program members, with Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers gaining access in coming days. It excels at computer-use, browsing, software engineering, and cybersecurity, scoring 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3 and a perfect ExploitBench score.

Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job communicating the technology's benefits, leaving developers exposed to backlash. Local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in one quarter. Denmark's Energinet paused grid connections, holding 60GW of queued projects against 7GW peak demand.

Gemini Spark can now control Google Photos, handling complex workflows like searching, editing, creating albums, sharing, scheduling automations, and extracting text. Edits create image copies, new albums are private by default, and sharing requires permission. The rollout reaches Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US over coming weeks.

A study of 16,893 coding agent runs found Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor pick the same tool only 42% of the time. Claude Code builds in-house nearly twice as often as rivals, while Codex uses web search in 94% of sessions.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most intelligent model, excelling in cybersecurity and software engineering. Anthropic updated Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3, and Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber, all focusing on agentic workflows.

Cloudflare announced early access to Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, part of Cloudflare Managed Defense. The invitation-only service uses OpenAI Daybreak models, including GPT-5.6 Cyber, through the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network to detect, prioritize, and propose fixes for code vulnerabilities, with no changes taking effect without human approval.

GPT-6 Astra scores 67 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, equaling Fable 5 at less than half the cost. Pricing is 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol's, at $10/$50 per million tokens, with hallucination rates dropping from 92% to 51%.

Nvidia Corp. agreed to acquire Hugging Face Inc. for just over $12.93 billion. The platform hosts more than 500,000 datasets and four times as many models. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Hugging Face will continue supporting AI projects across multiple chips and clouds.

Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth Muse Spark release in five months, targeting long-horizon agentic and coding work. It ships in Muse Code and the Meta Model API, but weights remain closed and max reasoning is safety-gated.

Gran Turismo 7's free Spec IV update arrives in two parts this October and December. The expansion adds 12 cars, Sportsland SUGO, and the long-awaited return of Autumn Ring. Shuffle Racing returns alongside online drifting, Family Mode, and a new car-ordering Concierge.