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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.
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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.
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.
Google delayed Gemini skills for Workspace users beyond October 13, citing safe enterprise access. No new date set.
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.
FSC: 100,000 personal info leaks presumed at 16 financial institutions after recent hackings; sensitive financial data not leaked.