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Apple announced HomeView, a 7-inch smart-home display centered on Siri AI, and 9to5Mac reported website clues that full-size HomePods may also gain Siri AI.
CMF launched its first portable speakers, the $59 Speaker S and $109 Speaker M, shaped like colorful milk cartons and available now.
Forgepoint Inc. raised $9.8 million in seed funding to expand Frank, an AI agent that automates request-for-quotation workflows for manufacturers. The round was co-led by Primary Venture Partners and a16z Speedrun.
Octopus Energy launched a £500 add-on that turns its Cosy heat pump into air conditioning. UK trials are underway.
MIT Technology Review reports a $73 million DARPA effort to create shelf-stable plasma, platelets and red blood cells for battlefield use by 2029, alongside WeLion's semi-solid-state battery work and drugmakers' claims that GLP-1 drugs may slow biological aging.
The Verge reports that Halo and Destiny co-creator Jason Jones wrote an oral history of an AI uprising, and with Margaret Stohl he has formed Stone Kite, a studio releasing the story first as comics.
9to5Mac says Apple's HomeView launch video points to one clear use case: a shared hub for busy families with teens.
Tesla is set to debut its long-delayed next-generation Roadster in Waco, Texas, nearly a decade after Elon Musk announced it, as the EV market slows.
Fairphone's Fairbuds 2 repairable earbuds are on sale in the UK and Europe for £99/€119, with a US launch at $119 set for November 2nd. The second-generation model nearly doubles battery life while keeping tool-free repairs.
Anthropic built Scion, a centralized source-control system, after Claude-generated code overwhelmed its Git-based infrastructure. Internal merges rose from about 2,500 a day in May 2026 to over 30,000 in September.
NordLayer has introduced AI Scout, a standalone tool that identifies authorized and unsanctioned AI services, estimates token use and applies pre-submission data-loss controls as shadow AI raises breach costs.
Delta Air Lines is expanding its Porsche tarmac transfer fleet from 40 to 70 vehicles and refreshing its Delta One business-class cabin with new menus, Missoni mini pillows, crockery and updated suites. Many changes begin on Los Angeles flights this month, with new Airbus A350-1000 suites due early next year.
Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have rolled out new AI-focused devices ahead of the holiday season, betting that on-device assistants and faster chips can draw consumers despite inflation and component shortages.
Cisco says copper inside AI racks is nearing its limit and will shift to optics, while Salience Labs raises $125 million for all-optical switching, Vast Data targets data sovereignty, and ScaleFlux pitches smarter SSDs.
Ant Group’s Ant Lingbo has signed strategic deals with Longsheng Weirui, Dema Technology and De'er Xiangwang to deploy its embodied AI brain in industrial and logistics scenarios, while showcasing multiple applications at the 26th China International Industry Fair.
A US Senate report says nearly 1.5 million scammer or bad-actor accounts on Tinder and Hinge matched with users through Q3 2025, while one victim told The Guardian she lost almost $100,000. Match Group disputes parts of the report and cites new safety measures.
SolarWinds unveiled Avior, an auditable agentic AI system for enterprise IT, while Harmonic Security, Uvi, Evos and CodeWall announced funding for AI agent governance, context, operations and offensive security.
Nvidia gives $250m in computing power to UK AI safety research; UK AI Security Institute can review advanced models.
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.
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.