South Korean health tech company Witchbox is extending AI posture analysis into gym operations management, using its iPosture Pro platform to integrate body assessments, workout programs, and member tracking as competition in the category intensifies. The company has already built a Pilates education partnership base in Taiwan and now wants to work with local channels and hospitals to expand brand visibility and use cases.

Meta has teamed up with Walmart, Stripe, and AI startup Sierra to develop the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard designed to let AI agents interact with corporate websites and services with authorization. The move aims to address a growing challenge as AI agents spread rapidly: companies increasingly struggle to tell whether a website visitor is the user or an AI agent acting on the user's behalf, CNBC reported.

Elon Musk has moved to quell uncertainty over Intel's position in the Terafab chip project, stressing that his companies will build and operate the planned semiconductor complex themselves while limiting any potential TSMC involvement to subleasing part of the site.

Senior executives from US artificial intelligence (AI) companies OpenAI and Anthropic flew to Sydney to attend a hearing and answer questions from Australian officials, as both firms continued to press Canberra to change copyright rules. The companies also agreed to report model jailbreak incidents as quickly as possible if they happen.

The Federal Reserve raised rates by 1 quarter point in September, and with the standoff between the US and Iran still unresolved and US inflation remaining elevated, markets expect the Fed could keep tightening before year-end. The move comes as US mortgage rates have already climbed above 7%, while pressure on consumers would intensify if inflation fails to return to the 2% target.

Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip for Windows PCs moved from stage demos to order books on October 7, as pre-orders opened for Windows laptops built to rival Apple's unified-memory Macs at running large AI models locally. Reuters said cracking the Windows PC market could help Nvidia go after one of the last major markets dominated by Intel and AMD.

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio has warned that technology giants are borrowing heavily to invest in AI, and that further increases in interest rates could become the trigger for an AI bubble to burst.

Microsoft is betting that the next reason to buy a premium Windows PC is the ability to run AI agents and large models on the machine itself, pairing its most powerful Surface laptop yet with a Windows strategy designed to move part of the AI workload off the cloud.

Samsung Electronics has become the first South Korean company to clear KRW100 trillion in operating profit in a single quarter, a milestone that shows how heavily the company now leans on a memory market where, by analysts' reckoning, suppliers hold pricing power. The open questions are whether high-bandwidth memory (HBM) contracts can extend that run into 2027, and how long the company's consumer-device arm can absorb the rising component costs that the same boom creates.

AMD is broadening its Korean partnerships from memory procurement to AI infrastructure and research, as chief executive Lisa Su seeks the supply and technology cooperation needed for the company's planned 2027 expansion in chip shipments.

Broadcom is increasingly arranging the money its customers need to buy its chips. Fresh off launching a US$60 billion debt package to fund Anthropic's AI build-out, the company has held early discussions to arrange financing that would help OpenAI buy the custom AI chip the two are developing together, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.