Tech & AI News Roundup — September 29, 2026, 7:01 PM UTC

Quick links to what's actually happening in AI, tech, and IT right now — curated from real reporting, not rewritten, so you can go read the full story wherever it's genuinely worth your time.

More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope

Disrupt doesn’t end when you leave Moscone West. 👀 Founder dinners, investor meetups, happy hours, workshops, roundtables and more are taking over San Francisco during Disrupt Week. See what’s happening, find your people, and start building your calendar. — TechCrunch

Apple Pay set to launch in India with Axis Bank today, sources say

Some of India's largest banks are holding off on supporting Apple Pay initially. — TechCrunch

Away’s New Series 3 Luggage Plays It Safe—That’s the Point

Away’s third generation of its iconic luggage retains the familiar design while introducing invisible tech, such as a new wheel system and an improved telescoping handle. — Wired

Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?

“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert. — Wired

Is ChatGPT your new Google Workspace alternative? Meet Space, Pages, and slides

OpenAI now lets teams create documents, build presentations, and work with AI agents inside ChatGPT — ZDNet

French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks

An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France's national cybersecurity agency saw the data leave. The attack was not sophisticated, the agency, ANSSI, says in a report (in French) published on Tuesday: it worked because of weak — The Hacker News

AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’

"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it's a nonprofit studying AIs' capabilities and motivations, collected and launched the in — The Verge

Get Kindle Unlimited free for 3 months with this early Prime Day deal

Amazon’s free Kindle Unlimited deal only comes around a couple times a year – and I highly recommend it. — ZDNet