> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://tech-24.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Tech 24 - October 5, 2026 - URL: https://tech-24.ghost.io/tech-24-october-5-2026/ - Published: 2026-10-05T11:29:02.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-05T11:29:02.000Z - Description: Google starts selling its own laptops, Trump names his Super Intelligence Force, and Intel raises chip prices again today. - Author: Tech 24 - Tags: Tech News Good morning. Here's what happened in tech over the weekend. FEATURED ![Laptop keyboard](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1517336714731-489689fd1ca8?w=1200&h=440&fit=crop) CONSUMER TECH • TODAY ## Google Is Selling Laptops Now The first Googlebooks went on sale in the US on Saturday. Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia get them today. Prices start at $899. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all building them, and Gemini runs the machine rather than sitting in a tab. Preorders opened on September 21. Google has done hardware partnerships before and mostly let the partners own the branding. Putting its own name on five manufacturers' laptops is a different bet: that people now shop for the assistant, not the silicon. Source: [9to5Google](https://9to5google.com/2026/09/21/googlebook-launch/) ### Latest Stories [See all →](https://tech-24.ghost.io/archive/) AI / MACHINE LEARNING • YESTERDAY #### Trump Named His Super Intelligence Force Trump announced the members in a Truth Social post on Sunday. DNI Jay Clayton leads it, alongside FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon under secretary Emil Michael and OPM director Scott Kupor. The group reports to Trump and chief of staff Susie Wiles. It follows the one-page accord six companies signed at the White House last week, which Trump called morally binding and which no agency enforces. The administration has also told the government to say "Super Intelligence" instead of "AI." Four co-leads, no statute, nothing to enforce. Read it as a measure of attention, not of rules. Source: [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-super-intelligence-force-trump-jay-clayton/) ![Circuit board](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1517077304055-6e89abbf09b0?w=1200&h=320&fit=crop) PRODUCTS / LAUNCHES • TODAY #### Your Next PC Costs More, Starting Today Intel raises PC processor prices about 10% today. It's the third increase this year, and the company points at memory costs. Nvidia got there first. It put the Shield TV Pro up $100 to $299.99 last week for the same reason, then discontinued the cheaper model, so there is nothing else to buy. DDR4 and LPDDR4 have been tight since late 2025\. The AI buildout is eating the memory supply, and the bill has reached consumer shelves. Source: [9to5Google](https://9to5google.com/2026/10/02/nvidia-shield-tv-pro-price-hike/) #### Put $500 into the one chip China can't steal Free stock inside: Act before Trump announcement on Dec. 30 In recent months, [China has launched a full-court press](https://tech-24-links.com/im8szrnz). A covert program — backed by China's military — with personal connections to Xi Jinping himself. It has one mission: Stop American AI at all costs. [China will do anything](https://tech-24-links.com/im8szrnz), legal or illegal, to achieve their goals. I know from experience. I worked as a senior tech executive based in Japan and throughout Asia for nearly two decades… **I even warned the Trump administration** about China's illegal AI activities back in 2019. Now, I'm here to tell you: There's one chip China can't steal. America controls 97% of the production. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls this chip *"a technology miracle."* And it's creating a massive stock market opportunity. 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The top AI companies in the world, like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, SpaceXAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic are expected to spend $2 trillion a year on it. | [**Click here**](https://tech-24-links.com/im8szrnz) | | ---------------------------------------------------- | to get the free stock at the heart of these chips ![Solar power installation](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1509391366360-2e959784a276?w=1200&h=320&fit=crop) ENERGY / CLIMATE TECH • YESTERDAY #### Oracle's 1.3-Gigawatt Campus May Wait Years For Power Analysts at Aterio flagged a meaningful risk that Oracle's Wisconsin data center gets power later than its second-half-2027 target. The utility filed 564 extra documents. The state commission withdrew its completeness finding in August, closed the case in September without ruling, and the utility refiled. A 180-day review yields about 310 megawatts in late 2027\. A 360-day review pushes full capacity into 2029. This is an analyst's read of filings, not an Oracle statement. It is also the clearest illustration yet that the binding constraint on AI is no longer chips. It is paperwork at the grid interconnect. Source: [TechRadar](https://www.techradar.com/pro/a-meaningful-risk-oracles-massive-1-3-gw-wisconsin-ai-campus-faces-severe-power-delays-as-grid-review-restarts-pushing-customer-delivery-past-2027) STARTUPS / BUSINESS • FRIDAY #### Amazon Says It Has Stopped Making Towns Sign NDAs AWS chief Matt Garman said the company no longer uses non-disclosure agreements with governments when it seeks data center approvals. It will hold public open houses instead, and publish energy, water and carbon-free-energy figures each year. A program called Built Together puts more than $1 billion over five years into host communities. More than a hundred data center moratoriums are under consideration across the country. Reading the room is cheaper than losing the sites. Source: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/amazon-responds-to-data-center-backlash-says-it-no-longer-uses-ndas/) DEVELOPER TOOLS • THIS WEEK #### A 9.8 FortiMail Flaw Is Being Exploited With No Patch Attackers are writing arbitrary files to FortiMail systems through a path-traversal bug that needs no authentication at all. It scores 9.8. Fortinet disclosed it on Thursday with no fix available. CISA added it to the known-exploited list and gave federal agencies until Sunday to apply workarounds. Fixes are promised in 8.0.2, 7.6.7 and 7.4.9. Until those ship, the mitigation is blunt. Disable IBE support, and get the management interface off the public internet. Source: [eSecurity Planet](https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-fortimail-zero-day-cve-2026-104286-active-exploitation/) ▶ WATCH THIS [ ![Council chamber](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1529107386315-e1a2ed48a620?w=1200&h=400&fit=crop) ▶ ](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-city-council-artificial-intelligence-hearing/) AI / MACHINE LEARNING • TODAY #### All 51 New York Council Members Sit Down On AI Today New York's City Council holds a Committee of the Whole hearing on AI today. All 51 members attend, which the council almost never calls for. Former researchers from Anthropic, DeepMind and OpenAI are expected to testify, alongside current representatives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta. Watch it if you can. City councils don't regulate frontier models, but they do write procurement rules, and this is the first time a big one has put ex-lab researchers and lab lobbyists in the same room. Source: [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-city-council-artificial-intelligence-hearing/) ### Quick Hits **David Robinson** resigned from OpenAI after three and a half years leading safety reporting, writing in The Atlantic that the company's culture is broken. **Apple** is replacing a small number of iPhone 18 Pro Max units after AT&T customers lost service and got stuck in SOS mode. A software update can't revive them. **Meta** published six math papers written with mathematicians using Muse Spark. Five answer questions that were open. STAT OF THE DAY Council members sitting in on New York's AI hearing today 51 every one of them, which is the unusual part Thanks for reading. See you tomorrow. Same time. Same place. Every day.