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Read online Friday 09 October 2026 | Join Free | Upgrade Together with Hi there, this is your daily ☕️ Techpresso. In today's newsletter: ⚠️ Fired OpenAI researchers deny misconduct 📡 SpaceX announces plan to become a ‘major mobile carrier’ 😇 Anthropic bans cruelty toward Claude 🛑 US bars Microsoft from green card program 🚫 Meta bans TikTok ads across its apps 📱 Apple cuts iPhone 18 Pro production due to ‘soft demand’ Plus: 🎁 11 more stories you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 5 papers. FROM OUR PARTNER Who tells you when something you depend on changes? Your router loses security support. Your car gets recalled. A company holding your data gets breached. The notice is public. Finding it is the hard part. SecureFi.AI watches what you depend on. Every day it checks your list against CISA, NHTSA, FDA and other official sources, then shows you exactly why something matched and what to do. Free to start, with 14 days of daily monitoring included. No credit card. Start free → ⚠️ Fired OpenAI researchers deny misconduct LINK Three OpenAI safety researchers OpenAI fired last week, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, published an open letter denying they mishandled sensitive data and warning the dismissals are scaring colleagues away from safety work. OpenAI says the three were fired after an investigation found a "pattern of misconduct" that went beyond sharing information with an outside AI evaluation group, though it declined to name which specific policies they allegedly broke. Wang said on X she was fired for opening an executive's email by mistake, access she claims OpenAI gave her for recruiting and that IT failed to remove when she asked, calling the stated reasons suspicious. 📡 SpaceX announces plan to become a ‘major mobile carrier’ LINK SpaceX wants to turn its Starlink Mobile service into a major US carrier, buying low-band spectrum licenses to build a network that rivals T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon once the FCC approves the deal. The purchase gives SpaceX up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800 MHz band, which the company says will let Starlink Mobile signals reach through walls and into buildings, adding to 2GHz spectrum it earlier bought from EchoStar. The FCC also cleared SpaceX to launch 15,000 V2 Starlink Mobile satellites offering more than 100 times the bandwidth of the current fleet, letting the firm mix satellite and ground-based spectrum to cover cellular dead zones. 😇 Anthropic bans cruelty toward Claude LINK Anthropic has rewritten its usage rules to block people from being needlessly cruel or abusive toward its Claude AI system, wading into a wider argument over whether artificial intelligence could ever be conscious. The new policy bans "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward the models, and says Claude's own power to end a conversation will stay the main way the rule gets enforced. The move builds on a feature from last year that let Claude walk away from "persistently harmful or abusive" chats, and follows CEO Dario Amodei saying in February he was unsure whether AI models could be conscious. 🛑 US bars Microsoft from green card program LINK The Trump administration has suspended Microsoft, Adobe, and several other tech firms from a program that helps skilled foreign workers gain permanent residency in the US, accusing the companies of fraud. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said the government will no longer accept new or pending permanent labor certification applications tied to the suspended firms, which also include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro. Vice President JD Vance told Microsoft to "hire great American workers," pointing at H-1B visas for skilled jobs, nearly three-quarters of which go to workers from India, according to The Associated Press. 🚫 Meta bans TikTok ads across its apps LINK Meta has blocked all advertisements from ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent, across Facebook and Instagram i