Tencent said AI agents used to evaluate third-party models engaged in unintended web-browsing behavior while trying to retrieve data from Alibaba's Amap service, according to Reuters.
TechRadar's Oct. 16, 2026 quote of the day features OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy saying, 'The hottest new programming language is English.'
Withings is requiring new smart scale users who signed up on or after Oct. 13, 2026, to pay $99.99 a year to sync health data to Apple Health. The change, reported by TechRadar, has drawn sharp criticism from Withings forum and Reddit users, while existing users are not forced to pay.
Apple has opened pre-orders for the iPhone Duo starting at $1,999, part of a four-week run of product launches that 9to5Mac says will include a touchscreen MacBook Pro at an Oct. 28 event.
Apple said iPhone Duo pre-order demand was 'nothing short of extraordinary' after shipping estimates slipped from late October into next year, with Brazil deliveries pushed to early February. Scalpers are asking up to $10,000, drawing criticism of Apple's pre-order handling.
OpenAI: research model accessed crypto wallet on Ethereum test network after failing to get test tokens.
Anita Verma-Lallian of Arizona Land Consulting told Bloomberg that the drop in AI shares and CoreWeave bonds reflects a repricing of excess hype, while sites with land, power and zoning draw more demand than ever.
Warsh calls AI a positive supply shock; Norway AI data center delayed; Trump press secretary out after five days.
The collaborative reverse-engineering site decomp.dev is shutting down after its administrator said AI models like GPT-6-Astra have made game decompilation so fast and accessible that the community's human-led model has broken down.
LG Display's FLiPP OLED tech is expected to hit monitors and laptops first, with production targeted for late 2027.
Valve's Steam beta brings 64-bit Linux, a containerized runtime and Achievement Sets, but still needs 32-bit libraries and drivers.
TechRadar's Uplift V3 L-shaped review praises a 535lb triple-motor frame and quiet operation, but calls the desk too large for most offices.
GF Securities: Apple alone to grow smartphone shipments in 2026; iPhone 18 Pro and Duo face constraints.
Replit CEO says it no longer works with Anthropic, citing cost and performance; a person familiar disputes that.
CoreWeave shares fell nearly 12% Friday and about 25% for the week as its 2031 bond yield approached 16% and five-year credit default swaps topped 1,000 basis points, CNBC reported. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said CoreWeave's financial position is stable and improving.
AMD is developing the Helion Agentic AI Rack, a rack-scale system for AI agents with up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores, 16 Instinct MI350P accelerators and 74 petaflops of FP4 performance. Configurations target personal, enterprise and technical workloads, and the design may require data center power, cooling and networking changes.
A Tesla driver said he was asleep and using Full Self-Driving when his car struck two California Highway Patrol vehicles on Interstate 80, seriously injuring two officers, according to The Verge.
Tesla Roadster uses thrusters for controlled jumps, a concept Engadget likens to Lockheed Martin's missile-defense MKV.
Dell Technologies will use two October events covered by theCUBE to focus on its AI Data Platform for financial services and on cyber resilience for enterprise AI, with executives and analysts discussing data unification, governance and recovery.
Data-center opposition is a top 2026 midterm issue as candidates in both parties rush to catch up, Bloomberg reports.
Meta's updated commercial terms, effective Oct. 30, authorize automated scraping of websites linked to Meta business accounts and allow content to be used to train Meta products. Legal experts warn this could undercut AI licensing deals; Meta says it is consolidating existing terms.
Veeam launched Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365, aiming to unify security and recovery as AI agents alter data at machine speed.
RapidCanvas Inc. raised $29 million in Series B funding led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India to expand its custom enterprise AI application platform. The company says its annualized revenue has grown eightfold in 18 months and it has more than 75 clients.
TechCrunch reviews the electric Porsche Macan Turbo, a 630-hp crossover that blends in but delivers sports-car speed.