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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra introduces Magnetic Connect, a magnetic charging port built on USB-C Power Delivery that can also carry data and peripherals, unlike Apple's proprietary MagSafe.
Bill van Zyll, Nintendo Latin America vice president, says Nintendo has no plans to abandon physical media, citing fan preference, while Sony plans to end physical games by 2028.
OnePlus launched the OnePlus 16 in China, a flagship with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, a 9,000mAh silicon-carbon battery and a 185Hz OLED screen. It will not be sold in the US or Europe, markets the company left this summer.
Leak: OnePlus 16R may get Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, triple 50MP cameras, 165Hz display, and a 7,500mAh+ battery.
On Oct. 12, 2026, reports showed Anta using AI agents in e-commerce, family offices chasing AI despite bubble fears, UK CEOs crediting AI for productivity without full cost visibility, and security experts warning that SaaS and surveillance systems are expanding faster than oversight.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said at a Singapore conference that capital and its cost may constrain AI expansion more than chip, memory or power shortages, even as compute demand outruns supply.
Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab and partners say their Memento 3 agent finished all 25 ARC-AGI-3 public games and 183 levels with a perfect action-efficiency score, using 7,518 moves against the 17,135 humans needed.
Baidu announced Baidu World 2026 will take place on Nov. 12 in Beijing under the theme “The Next Act: Intelligent Organizations,” featuring one main forum, 12 sub-forums, more than 30 AI open classes and a 6,000-square-meter exhibition area.
Leiphone reports Orbbec has cut its lawn-mower robot ODM business after cumulative shipments reached only several thousand units, citing FCC rules, a crowded market and weak downstream customer volume. Its outdoor-robot perception modules continue.
Geely launched the Galaxy Warship 700, its first new-energy hardcore SUV, in Hangzhou on Oct 10, offering three powertrains and six variants at a limited-time launch price from 169,800 yuan.
Step 5 Preview joins Tencent WorkBuddy with two weeks of exclusive free access for research, data analysis and document generation.
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model post-trained on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B that it says beats LLMs and Jev 1.13.0 on latency and accuracy in structured decision tasks, and is being tested across all its business areas.
Most U.S. nuclear reactors have adopted AI tools this year, mainly for paperwork and compliance, not operations.
Fast-food chains and supermarkets are expanding AI pricing and checkout tools, as a federal antitrust lawsuit alleges McDonald's overcharged customers. Experts warn the tools could make dynamic and personalized pricing more common, complicating inflation measurement.
Apple may unveil HomeView display on Oct. 13, plus new HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K, per Bloomberg via Android Authority.
Oct. 13 Korean history: Kim Dae-jung's Nobel, inter-Korean talks, Kakao privacy, Korea-China currency swap and 'Squid Game'.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said AI will drive major breakthroughs in physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science within three years, as ByteDance expands AI research and Chew warns of cybersecurity risks.
Dell's Top Tech Event runs through Oct. 12 with laptop discounts up to $500. TechRadar highlights five picks from $499, including the Dell 15, Dell 16, Dell 14 Plus, Dell 16S, and XPS 13.
Liu Nianqiu founded Feimoyi in 2026 to build open-world Physical Agents, backed by near-$100M IDG-led seed funding.
Let's Encrypt will shorten its default TLS certificate validity from 90 days to 64 days starting Feb. 10, 2027, with a further cut to 45 days planned for 2028 and a shorter domain-validation reuse window.
BotMan AI uses knowledge graphs to map legacy applications and give AI agents context to rebuild systems.
Amazon is reportedly negotiating to acquire AI developer Decart.ai in a deal worth up to $7 billion, with a Wall Street Journal report saying an agreement could come within days. Decart's software moves AI workloads between different processors, and Anthropic previously walked away from a reported $6 billion bid.
Meta's Muse and OpenAI's always-on Dots both keep working after users leave, but they differ on price, permissions and availability.
New Constructs values Anthropic at $150 billion and calls its planned Nasdaq IPO the 'most ridiculous IPO of 2026,' saying the $2 trillion target tests investor gullibility.