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JAECOO and Momenta said a JAECOO 7 test car running the Momenta R7 world model covered an 11.38 km Paris route, including the Arc de Triomphe roundabout, without driver takeover during the Paris Motor Show.
A regulatory leak suggests Suunto is working on a screenless heart rate monitor codenamed HR264, with certification photos showing a rechargeable optical band. Key details remain unknown and launch may be months away.
XPeng's MONA L05 opened presales on Oct. 15 with battery-electric and super extended-range versions, priced from 169,800 yuan. It will launch on Oct. 29 and targets young buyers with a large five-seat cabin, up to 1,500 TOPS of smart-driving compute, and direct competition with XPeng's G6 and G7.
Apple Intelligence is expected to launch in China in December with Baidu and Alibaba as partners. Changxin Technology's market value fell by 1 trillion yuan in two months, and ByteDance is in talks with MediaTek for AI chips.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad told TechCrunch Disrupt that AI agents will power a 'self-driving company,' handling routine work while humans focus on judgment and taste.
Apple opened iPhone Duo preorders on October 16 at $1,999, with launch on October 23, as delivery estimates slipped into 2027.
The first Windows laptops powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark platform are on sale, with Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra and Asus ProArt models drawing reviews that praise hardware and local AI capability while noting software bugs, battery trade-offs and uneven CPU performance.
Google AI Pro trials omit Argon, Claude 5.5 in Antigravity and other paid perks, Android Authority reports.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in London that Nvidia will invest $1.16 billion in five U.K. startups and other unnamed British companies.
Rockstar Games has grown from 2,441 employees in 2018 to 4,711 across 12 offices as of August 2026, figures cited by Bloomberg Businessweek show, in an eight-year effort to build GTA VI's Leonida and Vice City.
Sony says the Xperia 10 VI will not receive Android 17, one of three major OS updates promised at launch, because of storage limitations. Security updates are expected to continue through June 2028.
E Ink has announced Kaleido 4, a color ePaper display it says offers twice the color gamut and 50 percent better contrast than the previous version. Hanvon Technology's M10C II is the first tablet to carry the panel.
OpenAI has updated its ChatGPT extension for Chrome so the assistant can inspect open tabs, compare what is on them and, in ChatGPT Work, send messages, fill out forms and organize tabs.
Ars Technica's review says Googlebooks, Google's new Android-powered laptops, offer premium hardware and native Android apps but still feel like Chromebooks or giant phones rather than premium laptops.
E Ink has announced Kaleido 4, a color e-reader display it says is brighter and clearer than Kaleido 3 and can produce twice as many colors. It is initially available only on Hanvon's M10 C II in China.
Zhongkong Technology announced on Oct. 16 that it has integrated Qianwen Office, deploying agents across its marketing chain and planning deeper use in procurement, supply chain, finance, HR and R&D as it seeks to become an AI Native benchmark in the process industry.
Xgimi launched the Horizon 30 Pro, Max and Ultra Max, three 4K 120Hz triple-laser projectors, with pre-orders from $1,899.
Apple unveiled HomeView, a voice-and-screen home hub, on Oct. 13, echoing Xiaodu's earlier push into screen-based family AI.
SpaceX AI policy leader Gabriela Castillo Madrid is scheduled to testify Friday before the New York City Council's tech committee as part of an AI safety investigation.
Biotech firms are testing pet longevity drugs and selling cloning and cryonics services to grieving owners.
Gmail Live conversational inbox search launched for AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers, plus Docs Live and Keep Live.
Tesla has unveiled a long-delayed new Roadster, claiming SpaceX-developed cold-gas thrusters, a suction fan system and a 2028 production plan. A Texas demonstration included a midair barrel roll and a vertical wall climb, according to TechRadar.
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.
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.