NVIDIA and IIT Madras' AI4Bharat plan to release Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, about 2.8 trillion tokens across 22 Indian languages, with an open GPU-accelerated pipeline for generating the data.
Cologne police seized a robot and are investigating two teens after it allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl on camera.
Lego's 2026 Advent calendars include six new sets, and some are already selling out in places, TechRadar reports.
Grey's Anatomy season 23 premiered on ABC on Oct. 15 and streams from Oct. 16 on Hulu in the U.S., Crave in Canada, and Disney+ in the U.K. and Australia. Ellen Pompeo returns as Meredith Grey, and James Wolk joins as Dr. Seth Norton.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the China beta of Apple Intelligence will launch later this month without Siri AI, while Sspai also reported new AI, security, gaming and keyboard-PC products from SpaceXAI, Microsoft, HP and Step.
Tesla unveiled its long-delayed Roadster in Texas, showing thruster jumps, upside-down driving and hovering. Production: 2028.
KDE's Plasma 6.8 celebrates its 30th anniversary and ends native X11 sessions, with legacy apps still running via XWayland.
Data center hardware startup Mueon has raised $65 million in a Series A round led by Maverick Silicon to develop Cubelet, a three-dimensional server architecture that stacks computing and memory components.
Perplexity AI has released SPACE, an open-source sandbox that runs autonomous AI agents inside isolated virtual machines, as CoreWeave, Akamai and Crusoe begin deploying it.
At its Elevate event in Chicago, LogicMonitor outlined AI-governed automation for enterprise observability, citing a 98% cut in alert noise at GlobalFoundries and efficiency gains among managed service providers.
Apple’s French site lists an unreleased iPad mini Smart Folio, model A3632, before a rumored OLED iPad mini launch.
BYD has launched the Han, a flagship electric sedan in China, priced at 235,900 yuan and offering almost 630 miles of CLTC range, nine-minute fast charging, and luxury features aimed at premium rivals.
Apple has won approval to bring its first Apple Intelligence features to users in China in a beta later this month, Tim Cook said in Shanghai, with Alibaba's Qwen model set to power the experience. DeepSeek, TSMC, Anthropic and Ramp also reported major developments.
Samsung Electronics said Friday that three products—the Galaxy S26 Ultra smartphone, the Bespoke AI Family Hub refrigerator and the Odyssey G8 G80HS gaming monitor—were named in TIME magazine's Best Inventions of 2026 list.
Intero Biosystems won TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026, with Apate runner-up after 20 startups competed.
Shield AI expects its first full-scale X-BAT VTOL combat drone by the end of October 2026 and flight tests later this year, after the U.S. Navy added $150 million to bring external funding to $200 million.
A survey by recruitment platform Incruit shows SK hynix was the most-followed company among South Korean job seekers over the past year, ahead of Hyundai Motor, Incheon International Airport, Kakao and Samsung Electronics.
Cal AI founder Zach Yadegari says paid influencers drove viral growth and over $30 million in two-year revenue before MyFitness acquired the app in March.
TechRadar released daily hints and answers for Quordle #1726, NYT Connections #1223 and NYT Strands #957 on October 15, 2026, covering solutions and themed groups for Friday's puzzles.
Withings now requires accounts created after October 13 to join its $100-a-year Withings+ plan to automatically sync data with Apple Health and other third-party apps, drawing criticism from customers on its support forum.
Valve is adding achievement sets to Steam, letting developers split a base game's achievements and its DLC's into separate groups with their own progress bars and completion trophies.
Ramp said it raised $1.85 billion in a Dragoneer-led Series G round at a $60 billion valuation, months after a $750 million raise, as it expands beyond finance software.
OpenAI has upgraded the ChatGPT extension for Google Chrome so it can view and use open browser tabs when users tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, according to The Verge. The update also brings ChatGPT's full conversation history to the sidebar and lets ChatGPT Work control tabs for tasks such as filling out forms and sending messages.
Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint agreed to acquire Varonis Systems for about $6.3 billion in cash, combining data security and email protection in a deal expected to close in the first half of 2027.