Workers at a textile factory in Karur, India, are recording their hand movements with GoPro cameras to help train AI robots, often without being told why, as India becomes a major supplier of the data developers need.
MIT Technology Review reports that DARPA is funding a $73 million program to develop shelf-stable synthetic blood products, aiming for field deployment by 2029 as blood shortages threaten military and civilian trauma care.
AI short dramas top 1,500 daily releases and 50,000-yuan budgets, but a 0.4% hit rate leaves most producers losing money.
Delaware jury finds Arm breached Qualcomm license deal and interfered in Meta deal, but awards Qualcomm only $2. More disputes remain.
SNAP card skimming may have drained $233 million in benefits over two years, and federal funding cuts could weaken state prevention efforts.
Cambridge Audio's new Spira turntable, priced at $499, targets first-time vinyl owners with a built-in phono preamp, Bluetooth and minimal controls.
MarkTechPost ranked nine AI gateways for production teams in 2026, with Bifrost first, Portkey second and LiteLLM third. The ranking weighs performance, coverage, governance, deployment, cost and vendor or supply chain risk.
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with about 2.45B active parameters and 131,072-token context, aimed at on-device agent and tool-use workloads. It leads several agentic benchmarks in company tests but trails larger models on knowledge and coding.
AIsphere opened its Hong Kong office at Cyberport on Oct. 13, 2026, unveiling an AI co-creation plan and signing partnerships with local technology firms, a university and youth groups.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned at IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok that cyber fraud and attacks could erode trust in finance and push people out of the formal system. They launched the Bangkok blueprint.
Qianwen Office released an AI productivity tool for e-commerce merchants on October 14 and opened invite-only testing. The edition adds cross-platform dashboards, trend and selling-point analysis, bulk creative generation, and ROI optimization.
TechRadar says store infrastructure, not AI models, will decide which retailers scale, citing Deloitte's AI execution gap.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei calls Apple's iPhone Duo a waste of money as pre-order scams emerge before Friday's launch.
Tencent's WeCom and WorkBuddy launched a two-way integration on Oct. 14, 2026, while ByteDance's Doubao Work added one-click imports from other AI tools and new conversation controls, deepening competition in AI-assisted office software.
In a review published by Sspai, Austin Mann tests the iPhone 18 Pro in Dunton, Colorado, citing variable aperture, manual focus controls, Focus Tracking, Reference Images and 4K time-lapse as key additions for photographers.
Bank of Korea Gov. Shin Hyun-song said the AI investment boom and Middle East conflict are combining to lift inflation, urging a focus on low-income households as South Korea faces a K-shaped economy.
Google delayed Gemini skills for Workspace users beyond October 13, citing safe enterprise access. No new date set.
Magisk developer John Wu has shown full root access running on-device on Googlebook OS, while Google says it has found the cause of dark-gray blacks on some OLED Googlebooks and is preparing a fix.
QbitAI reported that a Lynk & Co 10 EM-P fell nearly 100 meters off a mountain road in Sichuan on Oct. 9, leaving the driver with only minor injuries. Lynk & Co said the cabin, airbags, battery and emergency rescue system worked as designed, drawing attention to safety as the brand pushes to catch up in intelligent features.
AI-generated variety shows are gaining millions of likes and followers on Douyin. LibTV has partnered with Douyin's Future Director Support Program to offer computing power, creation tools, traffic and promotion, aiming to help creators turn viral videos into sustained series and IPs.
STEPX released STEPX Neo, its first large-model-native agent phone, in Shanghai on Oct. 13, 2026, with Step AOS 1.0, personal agent Amoo and a 3,999 yuan full-stack price.
ASML raised its full-year sales forecast and said demand for its chipmaking machines will outpace supply through 2028, while Nvidia's CEO announced $2 billion in European deals and Saudi Aramco's eastern headquarters was hit by a Houthi missile attack, according to Bloomberg.
An eight-year UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme study has found that common ivy, hogweed and bramble are the most visited flowers by pollinating insects, while hoverfly numbers have fallen by about a third.
FSC: 100,000 personal info leaks presumed at 16 financial institutions after recent hackings; sensitive financial data not leaked.