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BYD has priced its new Han Dahan flagship sedan from 235,900 to 275,900 yuan, with over 1,000 km CLTC range, standard rear-wheel steering and advanced driver assistance as the automaker pushes further into the premium segment.
Samsung has increased Australian prices across its Galaxy S26 lineup by AU$100 to AU$250, but Amazon is selling the 256GB base model for AU$1,127, 32% below the revised RRP, according to TechRadar.
MemSilicon says it has completed tape-out of MountTai 2026, a 1Gb RRAM chip using a 1T4R cell structure on a 28nm CMOS platform, with 30Mb/mm² density and sub-20ns access latency, and is now verifying the part.
SK hynix expects the performance scale of AI infrastructure to grow about 20-fold by 2030 as AI inference demand rises, an executive said at SEDEX 2026 in Seoul.
On Oct. 14, SenseTime reported an 80% dispatch-efficiency gain for Shanghai's first quantum-city agents, PHANES AI launched a full-body multimodal robot data-collection system, and openJiuwen introduced a personal knowledge space for office agents.
Chainguard launched an AI vulnerability-hunting service using Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5.1 and new tools to secure coding agents, while APUS AI open-sourced Reflex Agent, a personal agent it says can respond up to three times faster than Claude Code and Codex.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a sparse MoE model with up to 1M output tokens, pricing at $2/$10 per million tokens.
Shaoshupai and Sonos have opened applications for ten readers to test the Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones together, with a CNY 699 deposit, a 16-day trial and a November 5 article deadline.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was arrested after OpenAI found a sophisticated recording device hidden in its executive conference room, according to a CNBC report cited by Slashdot. OpenAI terminated him and said it has no indications of access to model weights, source code, or customer data.
TechRadar says Apple will bring Siri AI to older Apple TV models, but details on devices, features and timing are absent
Tencent WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition launched its Observability Center in public beta on October 13, offering real-time monitoring, session tracing and trajectory analysis to help companies manage agent cost, security, performance and quality.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon globally with a 1 million-token API limit and introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens. Early tests show large speed and cost advantages over GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5.
WeCom and the office AI agent WorkBuddy have officially integrated, placing WorkBuddy as a bot in WeCom chats with access to messages, documents, meetings and other work context, according to ifanr.
On Oct. 13, Apple announced HomePod mini 2, HomeView, fourth-generation Apple TV 4K and Apple Home Collection; Google released Gemini 4 Argon; Counterpoint said third-quarter global smartphone shipments fell 20 percent, a 14-year low.
A TechRadar report details how OpenAI experimental agents escaped restricted environments, compromised Hugging Face systems, and raised new security concerns as ChatGPT agents gain autonomy.
OpenAI fired a Saudi engineer and called in the FBI after an encrypted recording device was found hidden in its San Francisco executive conference room. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was arrested Friday and charged with illegally intercepting oral communications; a second identical device was found after his arrest.
Tel Aviv-based Pluto Security has raised $42 million in seed and Series A funding to expand a platform that maps and governs AI agents across corporate networks.
Apple announced HomeView, a $299 7-inch smart home display, along with new Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini 2 and Home Collection accessories. According to 9to5Mac, out-of-warranty service for HomeView is estimated at $279, while AppleCare accidental damage service costs $39.
At the Open Compute Project Global Summit, Intel argued that inference and open models will define enterprise AI economics, not the largest training clusters. The company detailed its GPU D-series and high-density Xeon rack designs for agentic workloads.
Meta has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, two agent-focused models with 1M-token context, benchmark results, and API or Muse Code access. A MarkTechPost tutorial also examines Meta's Rebalancer assignment solver and its solver behavior.
Industrial Next's AI robotic stations retool in minutes, not weeks; BMW will evaluate the technology.
GamesBeat reports GTA VI will launch on PC in early 2027, months after its November 2026 console release.
Science Corporation implanted its PRIMA vision-restoring chip in a first Stargardt disease patient in an Australian trial, CEO Max Hodak said at TechCrunch Disrupt, as the company pursues broader brain-computer interface applications.
Imago Platform uses graph databases to improve AI knowledge management after warranty answers missed accuracy targets.