France, the UK and the EU are advancing social media bans for minors, but early evidence from Australia shows most under-16s still get onto barred platforms. MIT Technology Review argues enforcement alone could push children to riskier spaces and weaken privacy.
Liquid AI released d1-ultra, a multimodal decision model that returns probabilities for typed text and image questions with no output tokens at $0.042 per million input tokens.
Sylvester Stallone returns as Dwight Manfredi in Tulsa King season 4, which began streaming on Paramount+ on October 16 and will run for ten weekly episodes through a December 18 finale.
Apple took down its online store on October 16, 2026, ahead of iPhone Duo preorders. The report points to tight supply and high demand, with buyers advised to order at 5 a.m. Eastern Time for launch-day availability on October 23.
Microsoft has detailed deeper Android phone integration in Windows 11, covering Start menu, Quick Settings and chat windows.
A near-270 km/h crash in China GT Shanghai trapped Ollie Millroy in a burning Ferrari; a rival pulled him out in 59 seconds, while official medical help arrived minutes later. The incident and a Guangdong crash highlight racing's layered safety system.
Seoul’s KOSPI closed up 2.05% at 5,668.05 on Oct. 16, snapping a seven-day losing streak, as chip shares recovered and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s comments on the U.S. economy and AI boosted risk appetite. The won rose to 1,331.4 per dollar.
Capital on Tap research reported by TechRadar shows about one in eight UK SMEs now pay for AI tools, with adoption rising to 12.8% in 2026. Anthropic’s Claude leads spending, while more than a quarter of buyers use two or more providers.
Tesla unveils a Roadster with SpaceX-built thrusters that can jump and drive inverted; preorders open, production set for 2028.
Shaoshupai has listed an upgraded 0.17mm Maijinta tempered glass film and paired it with Jizhi's new e-ink phone case for the iPhone 18 series. In a review based on more than ten days of use, the article describes the film's 3D hot-bent edges, 96% average transmittance, and the case's 400×400 e-ink rear panel that can change images in about 20 seconds.
Amazon Australia is selling the 2026 11-inch M4 iPad Air at a 21% discount, with the 128GB model at AU$987, as iPhone Duo pre-orders approach.
Chinese drone-display company Damoda is moving from light shows into equipment sales, overseas markets and low-altitude swarm embodied intelligence, and expects to file for an IPO in 2027, Leiphone reports.
Qwen Office CEO Chen Yusheng said e-commerce merchants account for more than 20% of paying users two months after launch. Its new e-commerce edition uses AI agents to automate multichannel operations, pricing, reporting and creative production, Leiphone reported.
President Donald Trump’s AI task force agreed at its first meeting to address cybersecurity, biosecurity and model control risks, and will commission a report on those and other concerns.
Kling AI released Kling 4.0 on Oct 15, adding 30-second native clips, 10-bit HDR, and up to 15 combined reference assets per task as it targets production-grade video.
Sifted counts 94 European AI fintech startups rebuilding finance's back office, asks whether open-weight AI models are safe enough, scrutinises defence tech revenue, and profiles voice AI founder Thomas Kluiters.
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight MoE with 42B active parameters, 1M context, multimodal input, and deployment on two Mac Studios.
Tesla unveiled a redesigned Roadster concept with cold-gas thrusters, midair flips and a claimed 0.81-second 0-60 mph run.
TechRadar on Oct. 16, 2026 published a 43%-off manual espresso machine deal and a review of the Mova V70 Ultra Complete robovac.
An independent developer has released Booko, an app that imports and resurfaces reading highlights from WeRead, Kindle, Apple Books, Dedao and other platforms, now running on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
BMW's new-generation iX3 will use a China-specific cockpit AI jointly developed with Alibaba, built on the Qwen model and integrated by Banma.
Meituan released its fourth North Star Medical Aesthetics List in Hangzhou, covering 181 institutions and 269 doctors, while promoting AI tools for clinics.
A 2021 internal Anthropic document, exposed through a copyright lawsuit, shows the company planned coding agents, tool use, long context and agent safety more than a year before ChatGPT appeared, according to Leifeng.com.
SK hynix showcased next-generation AI memory technologies at OCP Global Summit 2026, including MARS, High Bandwidth Flash progress and a second-generation 256GB CXL 3.2 product.