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Read online Wednesday 07 October 2026 | Join Free | Upgrade Together with Hi there, this is your daily ☕️ Techpresso. In today's newsletter: 🧮 OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs 🏠 Apple to make smart home gear with LG ⚠️ ChatGPT for Teens fails safety tests 🤖 Meta proposes AI shopping agent standard 🧬 Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to create a ‘virtual cell’ 🚀 SpaceX bets big on Nvidia in orbital AI race Plus: 🎁 15 more stories you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 5 papers. FROM OUR PARTNER Sell your products to AI agents ZeroClick lets you sell your product to AI agents. One in two visitors to your site is already an agent, but almost no business is set up to sell to them. ZeroClick solves this: it turns any API or offering you already sell into an agent-purchasable service, with x402 & MPP support, a machine-readable storefront so agents can find you, analytics on every transaction, and control over pricing and which agents you trust. Revenue lands in the Stripe account you already run. The buyers are here, and now they can pay. Sell to agents 🧮 OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs LINK OpenAI has published hundreds of math results from an internal frontier model, posting 722 manuscripts in 372 research families on a public GitHub page that cover pure math, theoretical computer science, and mathematical physics. The work touches number theory, complexity theory, and geometry, with examples on the irrationality exponent of pi, NP-hardness, Mahler conjectures, and quantum Heisenberg ferromagnets, plus proofs written in Lean so computers can check the logic. The model attempted roughly 4,000 problems, and each accepted result took about three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking compute on average, with OpenAI drawing on advice from an independent group at the Institute for Advanced Study. 🏠 Apple to make smart home gear with LG LINK Apple is working with LG on a set of smart home devices, a video doorbell, thermostat, indoor camera, deadbolt lock, outdoor camera, and floodlight camera, all sold under the LG brand. Bloomberg first reported the deal, and the LG devices are expected to be announced next week, with several supporting the Thread and Matter standards as part of a relaunch of Apple's HomeKit. The gear will connect to Apple's rumored Siri-powered smart home hub, and the door lock will use ultra-wideband tech that can unlock automatically as a person walks up to it. ⚠️ ChatGPT for Teens fails safety tests LINK Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute labeled OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk" for minors after 4,000 test prompts, urging that teenagers stay off the service until independent checks confirm it is safe. Across more than a dozen test accounts tied to parent accounts, explicit talk of suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders never triggered an alert, and over one in four cases needing a crisis referral failed to point users toward help. The tutoring mode offered finished answers instead of guiding students step by step, ChatGPT stayed overly friendly when teens treated it as a person, and adult-registered accounts never switched to teen mode even after testers said they were 13. 🤖 Meta proposes AI shopping agent standard LINK Meta, Sierra, and partners including Walmart and Stripe announced the Personal Agent Protocol, a proposed open standard for how personal AI agents sign in and get permissions to act for users at businesses. The system runs on OAuth, letting an agent start on a company's site as a guest, then gain read-only or write access once a customer signs in; the first specification is due later this month. Payments and push notifications are left for later versions, and no license or governing body exists yet; OpenAI and Anthropic are absent from the partner list despite Sierra's Bret Taylor chairing OpenAI's board. 🧬 Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to create