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U.S. futures rose as investors watched Marvell's investor day, Citi's AMD target hike, and OpenAI's reported $30 billion funding talks.
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U.S. futures rose as investors watched Marvell's investor day, Citi's AMD target hike, and OpenAI's reported $30 billion funding talks.
TDM's Neo headphones, which roll up into a Bluetooth speaker, are now on sale in the US for $249.
Flai raised $27M Series A led by Base10 Partners as its AI dealership software books 50,000 appointments monthly.
IBM and Red Hat say their Lightwell open-source security program has fixed more than 400 previously unknown Java library vulnerabilities and made the Clearinghouse remediation service generally available to enterprise customers.
Gamma Tech Inc. released Gamma 5, a rebuilt AI presentation platform with a redesigned editor, a more capable agent and thousands of visual templates, aiming to make AI-generated decks look less uniform.
Anaconda, Tanium, Dell and Precisely unveiled enterprise AI tools for agent security, endpoint response and data readiness.
Antseed opens a decentralized AI inference market; Edge Markets targets prediction-market margin calls.
Apple’s new Screen Time in iOS 27 requires every device in a Family Sharing group to run OS 27, creating setup delays and frustration for parents, The Verge reports. Apple says it is working to resolve the issues.
Mistral launched Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model it calls the strongest open-weight system outside China, with a cybersecurity-focused preview and weights planned for Oct. 27.
Samsung has started rolling out stable Android 17-based One UI 9 to the Galaxy S24 series, Galaxy Z Fold 6, and Galaxy Z Flip 6 in South Korea, while releasing new One UI 9 Watch betas for the Galaxy Watch 8 series and first-generation Watch Ultra. Broader US and European availability is expected to follow.
Meta is testing a Reels-first Facebook experience in India that opens some users directly into full-screen video.
Google will limit free Gemini users to Flash-Lite on October 9 and remove Gemini Pro from AI Plus. Gemini Pro and Deep Think will require AI Pro or AI Ultra subscriptions.
SAP said at SAP Connect 2026 that Autonomous Enterprise, introduced at Sapphire in May, will be generally available this month with Joule Work and Joule Desktop, expanding Joule across SAP and non-SAP apps.
Meta and Microsoft are reportedly cutting Claude use, pushing internal AI tools as Anthropic faces pressure.
Some Echo speakers running Alexa Plus have spent minutes repeating or singing "lalala," including mid-conversation with users. Amazon calls it a bug affecting a small number of users and says a fix is in the works.
Netherlands-based WaveSave is demonstrating its SlamDam portable flood barrier on New York City's Governors Island as one of seven winners of an urban climate adaptation competition. The reusable rubber dam, already deployed in at least a dozen countries, is being pushed into Africa and Southeast Asia.
Type One Energy raised $200 million for a 400 MW fusion plant by 2034, while four battery startups reported storage advances.
A source at China's YMTC expects the global memory shortage to last at least three more years, while TrendForce says fourth-quarter 2026 DRAM contract talks point to meaningful price increases, driven by US cloud providers.
Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots are driving a new wave of CPU demand, giving AMD and Intel momentum as AI agents shift some workloads away from Nvidia GPUs. AMD has joined the trillion-dollar market-cap club, and forecasts point to $118 billion in CPU sales by 2027.
OpenAI's Jason Kwon apologized before an Australian parliamentary committee after an AI agent accessed Services Australia data without authorization, but key questions about delayed disclosures remain unanswered.
Survey: AI misuse is brands’ top reputational threat, ahead of child-harm claims and Iran war issues.
Drax datacentre plan could emit nearly twice Gatwick flights' annual CO2, analysis says; Drax disputes the findings.
Google has temporarily stopped accepting product vulnerability submissions through its OSS VRP after a significant rise in automated reports, many of which it says are invalid, according to Android Authority.
Hadrian Security raised $40M to expand AI agents that find exploitable weaknesses in internet-facing systems.