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AI labs are buying code and workplace archives from defunct or shutting-down startups, according to MIT Technology Review, as brokers turn failed companies’ digital remains into training data and legal questions mount.
Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre is partnering with Ultrahuman to bring its algorithms to the nationwide Sahatna app, adding biological age estimates without requiring Ultrahuman smart rings.
OPPO has detailed ColorOS 17, its Android 17-based software that debuts on the Find X10 series. OnePlus and realme will begin rolling it out on Oct. 29, 2026, with flagships first and the schedule extending into early 2027.
RUNTO data shows China’s handheld smart camera online sales reached 345,000 units and RMB 1.01 billion during the 2026 Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday weeks, with DJI taking 78.7% unit share and its Pocket series 90% of gimbal cameras.
Huawei's Hubble Investment joined an angel round for Shenzhen electronic-skin maker Vistra Robotics, DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round in Winverse AI, and HINA invested in AI music hardware company SUAVE, according to media reports.
Z.ai has released GLM-Legal, a legal AI model built on GLM-5.3-Flash. It scores 19.17% on Harvey LAB, ranking No. 7 of 79, but API access is application-only with no published price or weights.
Mozilla has launched Firefox Enterprise, giving organizations control over data storage and governance, with France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland first in line.
No Man's Sky will launch on iPhone and iPad on October 28 for $19.99 with a free trial. It will run on iPhone 11 and third-generation iPad Air, but multiplayer is unsupported and some settlement features require iPhone 15 Pro or later.
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying the agent-focused models rival leading systems on some benchmarks, while early users report mixed coding and 3D results.
SpaceXSI has launched the X Subscription, a single monthly membership bundling Grok, Cursor and X Premium across four personal tiers priced from $8 to $200 a month, plus team and custom enterprise plans.
Sifted reports on Luxembourg scaleups in Fit 4 Scale, including Financial Navigator, Partao, Kidola and ClimateCamp.
Chery recalled affected OMODA 5 vehicles in Malaysia after another rear-axle fracture and began same-batch checks in China and other markets, while DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng approached embodied-AI founders and Tencent, Aito, ChangXin and robotics investors made new moves.
Bambu Lab announced its first 3D scanner, the S1, to go on sale in November, extending its personal manufacturing business into 3D scanning.
A cyberattack struck hundreds of French supermarkets, causing refrigerators and freezers to overheat, food to spoil and fires to break out, according to CNBC, which cited Reuters. Coopérative U's CEO condemned the attack, and a European commissioner warned about food security.
XGRIDS has completed an air-ground integrated 3D Gaussian model of Minning Town covering 23.5 square kilometers, built from 6.2 billion Gaussians, 15 billion radar point-cloud points and 186,000 images. The model was used in China Media Group's documentary Minning Avenue, Leiphone reported.
Broadcom introduced VMware HyperArmor at VMware Explore in Frankfurt, adding virtual patching, script controls and multifactor authentication for the ESX hypervisor that underpins VMware Cloud Foundation.
ByteDance Seed has set up a standalone Model-Alignment & Preparedness department led by Yan Lin, moving its Responsible AI team and some Chat team members into a unit focused on agent safety, CBRN risks and alignment.
Kakao unveiled Kanana Space, an AI assistant for KakaoTalk, at a developer event. A closed beta is set for December.
On Oct. 13, 1688 opened Accio, an AI e-commerce workspace, to over 100M buyers and 1M suppliers before Double 11.
Sifted reports that Bain Capital Ventures is watching departures from European research labs, San Francisco's ecosystem is helping European founders move to the US, and physical AI in Europe hinges on industrial adoption.
A Shaoshupai retrospective says Apple Watch Edition served as Apple’s high-end smartwatch experiment from 2014 to 2021, shifting from 18K gold to precision ceramic and titanium before disappearing. Apple never disclosed sales for the gold model, and leftover inventory was later cleared at low prices.
Red Bull Racing is using an Oracle-built AI strategy agent that helps engineers interpret Formula 1 rules and recommend race-day actions, according to CNBC.
Asian technology and semiconductor shares fell Tuesday, tracking a U.S. chip sell-off, as SK Hynix, Samsung and SoftBank slumped amid concerns over AI financing and competition.
Samsung Electronics unveiled next-generation memory and storage strategies at OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Francisco, targeting AI infrastructure performance. The company outlined high-performance memory, CXL-based expansion and next-generation SSD storage, and plans a joint CXL demonstration with AMD.