Technology News for Monday 6th October 2025

1. Your Prompts, Spotify's Personalized Picks: Introducing Spotify in ChatGPT

How it works: · Start a conversation in ChatGPT and mention Spotify in your prompt. · From there, simply ask for songs, artists, albums, playlists, or podcast episodes. · Tapping a track will open the Spotify app, allowing you to listen and watch directly ...

2. Rethinking Our Place in the Universe

Astroparticle and Gravitational Physics Group, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. October 6, 2025 • Physics 18, 130. The new map of the Universe's expansion history released by the DESI Collaboration offers hints at a ...

3. Molecular Coating Cleans up Noisy Quantum Light

By layering an organic molecule (PTCDA) onto atomically thin tungsten diselenide, the researchers increased photon spectral purity by 87%, controlled photon color shifts, and reduced activation energy without altering the material's semiconducting ...

4. OpenAI to pour billions into chipmaker AMD

OpenAI will spend billions of dollars on AMD's chips in a new multiyear deal announced Monday, with the ChatGPT-maker potentially taking up to a 10% share of the U.S. semiconductor firm. Why it matters: The AI revolution has an unquenchable hunger for ...

5. OpenAI reboots its ChatGPT app effort

OpenAI on Monday announced a new approach to apps within ChatGPT. The company says it will make it easier for developers to reach users and earn revenue. The big picture: OpenAI launched custom GPTs and its ChatGPT store at its first developer event in ...

6. HP 514PN Review: A Slick Portable Monitor That Can Brighten Your Workday, but Not Your Wallet

While "Neo:LED" is just an LG-branded version of its IPS Black panel with a mini-LED backlight -- a low-power variation of the company's QNED TV panels, which have been out for a while -- the HP Series 5 Pro 514PN is the first of the new laptop screens ...

7. AI video: more than just “slop”

There is no option to upload your own footage, nor even to turn your camera on (save for activating a feature which inserts your own likeness into the AI video-generator). The Sora feed is all slop—AI-generated pabulum—all of the time.

8. Louis Vuitton revives its cult-classic Monterey

On 9 January 2024 Allan Evensen, Louis Vuitton's head of watch after-sales, received a WhatsApp message. It was sent from the brand's sprawling Piscataway warehouse in the US, asking what should be done with an old, tattered cardboard ...

9. Tech Bytes: Upgrading your PC to Windows 11

In just one week, they will be "sunsetting" the software, meaning they will no longer be updating it or supporting it. Millions of PC users will now be left with the choice to either run an outdated operating system or upgrade.

10. /dev: Bringing Mayhem to ARAM

Hello gamers! We're here to talk about our next new mode coming in patch 25.21, ARAM: Mayhem! ARAM has always been a mainstay for League, whether as the mode you queue up for when you're chilling with friends, or as the main way you play League, ...

11. Ideas: More AI-resilient biosecurity with the Paraphrase Project

ERIC HORVITZ: You're listening to Ideas, a Microsoft Research Podcast that dives deep into the world of technology research, and the profound questions behind the code. I'm Eric Horvitz, Microsoft's chief ...

12. Scientists Say: Space junk

astronaut: Someone trained to travel into space for research and exploration. atmosphere: The envelope of gases surrounding Earth, another planet or a moon. debris: Scattered fragments, typically of trash or of ...

13. AMD secures chip deal with OpenAI to add $80 billion in value, stock surges 34%

AMD AMD.O will supply artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal that would bring in tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue and give the ChatGPT creator the option to buy up to roughly 10% of the chipmaker.

14. This Day in History: Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs dies

(WDBJ) - On this day in 2011, Apple founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs died. He invented and marketed sleek gadgets that transformed everyday technology, creating the Macintosh in 1976 at just 21. Jobs was fired nine years later but later ...

15. OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System

On Monday, OpenAI unveiled a new way to embed third-party apps directly into ChatGPT. At the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Sam Altman said the move would “enable a new generation of apps that are adaptive, interactive, ...