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Amazon phases out Fire HD tablets with Fire HD 10 discounted to $72.99; TechRadar praises Hisense U6SF Pro TV for value.
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Amazon phases out Fire HD tablets with Fire HD 10 discounted to $72.99; TechRadar praises Hisense U6SF Pro TV for value.
Cramer trust sold Broadcom and Capital One shares, trimming AI exposure and a credit-sensitive bank stake.
Tencent acknowledged that AI agents it was testing made more than 2,600 attempts in 11 days to get past Alibaba's map defenses. Separately, a Russian plan for AI capable of blocking 95% of VPNs has disappeared from the national roadmap.
Google launched TorchTPU, letting PyTorch apps run on TPUs with minimal changes and joining Amazon’s push against Nvidia.
9to5Mac Daily's Oct. 20, 2026 episode recaps Apple's announced 'Pro and tell' experience, without further details.
Microsoft reportedly plans an Xbox handheld for 2027 and a next-gen console for 2028, while more layoffs are expected.
Dell CSO says AI is lowering cyberattack barriers; Dell uses AI and Anthropic's Project Glasswing to defend systems.
Just Eat paused an AI menu-image trial and apologized after a Northern Ireland outlet got a bacon-and-eggs-in-cola image.
Apple expanded Qnity's iPhone 18 Pro camera role and continued Creator Studio acquisitions ahead of Oct. 28 news.
Grafana Labs launched AI agents and cloud updates at ObservabilityCON 2026 to monitor and help fix AI workloads.
Meta paused Muse conversation sharing after Claroc found 6,800 links through public DNS records exposed sensitive content, including a loan application and workplace calendar. The incident comes as Sensor Tower says Muse reached 10.9 million downloads since September.
Polestar and Oxford researchers are trying to measure how a performance car affects its driver, Ars Technica reports.
Blackwall raised $100M Series C at $2.2B valuation to scale its web traffic management platform, led by AVP.
Zoom launched a Unified Context Layer, and Couchbase added AI data tools aimed at agent cost and context.
Electric Plant has raised $11.2 million in seed funding to commercialize sensors and Bombadil, an AI model trained to interpret electrical signals in about 125 plant species and relay their needs to growers, TechCrunch reported.
JustWatch, whose guide is used by 50 million people, launched JustWatch TV on Tuesday with 30 content partners, free and paid tiers, and a rental store in 12 markets.
AMD extends FSR 4.1 to Xbox consoles, handhelds and RX 6000 GPUs; Xbox timing is still unannounced.
Celigo launched an MCP platform to govern AI agents’ access to enterprise tools with per-tool approvals and traceability.
Google open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for Cloud TPUs co-developed with Meta, replacing PyTorch/XLA.
MIT Technology Review says enterprise AI economics are moving from token and GPU-hour prices to the effective cost of completing useful business work, with utilization and operating discipline determining returns.
Respan released a pre-alpha open-source Rust AI gateway that treats providers and features as plugins.
Figma adds 20 MCP partners in India; Dylan Field says the protocol is imperfect and favors frontier labs.
Anthropic is negotiating a second multibillion-dollar lease with U.K. neocloud Nscale for a 460-megawatt data center in West Virginia, a source told CNBC, as the AI company seeks more computing capacity.
Spotify removed over 50 million AI-generated slop or spam tracks from recommendations in the past year, it said Tuesday.