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US stock futures fell Thursday as Meta and Tesla slid post-earnings and chip stocks weakened amid rising oil.
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US stock futures fell Thursday as Meta and Tesla slid post-earnings and chip stocks weakened amid rising oil.
Apple launched a 'Made for iPhone Duo' App Store badge and marked early preorders as shipped, as a supply-chain report said first-year shipment targets rose to 14 million units.
Birdbuddy launched the $99 Nook and $219 Home smart feeders; Coolfly and Birdfy also cut camera-feeder prices.
1Password launched 1Password for Agents, letting approved AI agents sign in while passwords and one-time codes stay outside the model.
CCF's 22nd HPC conference opened in Shenzhen with WEC2026, drawing over 5,400 participants and 65 exhibitors.
AI shopping agents face blocks and inconsistent access at Amazon, Target, JPMorgan and some travel providers, The Verge reported, testing agentic commerce without merchant consent.
Audeze and Audiokinetic add native Maxwell 2 ANC head-tracking support in Wwise for game spatial audio.
A startup says an AI-designed virus therapy has treated its first patient, targeting drug-resistant E. coli. The claim has not been peer-reviewed, and independent clinical data are still lacking.
Amex adds over 1 million Airbnb listings to Amex Travel, with rewards on prepaid stays and new credits for Luxe bookings.
Nirva raised $33 million for an AI pendant that listens only to its wearer, while Leiphone reported new funding for Geometry Logic and CubiFab and product plans from Flowtica.
Alibaba’s Accio is helping merchants cut Double 11 preparation and cross-platform optimization, while Douyin’s Qianchuan Chengfang playbook focuses on full-chain marketing costs and conversion tools, Leiphone reported.
Energize Lab will hire a security firm and disable features after The Verge found Eiliko robots exposed user data.
OpenAI urged UK regulation as AI agents raise data-leak and prompt-injection risks, TechRadar reports.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says neocloud demand is 'off the charts' but working capital is scarce.
Celonis's Devavrat Shah says enterprise AI needs operational context to move from pilots to trusted decisions.
Qwen launched N1 Pro AI glasses from 2,218 yuan and AI earbuds from 1,099 yuan, positioning wearables as senses for its Personal Agent.
UK politicians test AI-generated focus groups as firms struggle to control AI costs and prove returns.
Ant Digital Technologies released LingDT-Decision-1.0 in 4B and 27B versions, claiming faster, cheaper structured decisions and top accuracy against Microsoft and Jev models on 23 benchmarks.
Tesla aims to sell Cybercabs by the end of 2026, starting with fleet buyers, while most units will remain Tesla-owned and unsupervised self-driving is targeted for 2027, Engadget reported.
Tesla's quarterly operating profit fell 56% despite higher gross profit, as Musk outlined spending plans for FSD, Robotaxi, Optimus and chips while after-hours shares dropped.
QbitAI reports Maxinsights has emerged as a supplier of egocentric training data to OpenAI and leading Physical AI developers, with ARR near $100 million.
Apple sets an Oct. 28 Los Angeles media event; reports point to a touchscreen OLED MacBook, new iPad mini and M6 Macs.
TECNO has released a film introducing '100 Portraits of Becoming,' a two-year global portrait project with Angélica Dass that began in Kenya and is planned across five countries.
IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, a 2B-parameter open speech model for six languages, and a Granite time-series ensemble; China Telecom's AI lab open-sourced Xing4.0-29B-Intent for structured intent parsing.