Third-quarter earnings season began this week, with S&P 500 profit growth expected near 30% year over year, led by tech and AI chipmakers. Analysts and banks see earnings driving further market gains, though rising Treasury yields and weak market breadth pose risks.
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, the smallest and cheapest model in its lineup, saying it costs about 75% less to run than the version it replaces and is the company's fastest model to date.
OpenAI began rolling out Intelligent UI and GPT-6 to ChatGPT, adding interactive charts, diagrams and buttons. Common Sense Media simultaneously rated ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk,' and OpenAI disputed the findings.
Infor is developing industry-specific AI agents for manufacturing, aerospace and defense, automotive, and food and beverage, aiming to reduce hallucinations by grounding them in existing industry applications and micro-vertical processes.
Google is reportedly developing Game Finder, an AI-powered Play Store tool that would use a Gamer DNA profile to personalize game recommendations.
Greenairy, a startup founded by Tanvi Thombre and Lakshya Saraf, is developing plant towers that it says remove VOCs and other toxic gases from indoor air. The company has run pilots in Singapore and will appear in TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield 200.
Leaked images and specifications may have revealed Apple and LG co-developed home accessories, including a wired video doorbell, indoor and outdoor cameras, and a floodlight camera.
France has summoned Iran’s ambassador over a “disinformation campaign” on school protests, Le Monde reported on October 7, 2026. The available report gave no further details on the ambassador, the protests, or Iran’s response.
Samsung has reversed an earlier indication that its SmartTag 3 tracker would support non-Galaxy Android phones, saying Android compatibility remains limited to Galaxy devices even as the product adds iPhone support.
TechRadar tests six flagship foldables, including Apple's new iPhone Duo. Oppo Find N6 charges fastest, Galaxy Z Fold 8 shows strong web browsing, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold trails in charging.
9to5Mac's month-long hands-on review says the Sonos Ace Ultra improves bass, ANC, battery life, EQ and comfort over the original Sonos Ace while keeping Sonos ecosystem features.
Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, new Windows agentic AI tools, and a $6,000 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at its San Francisco event. The laptop starts at $2,599 and ships Oct. 16.
On Oct. 7, 2026, Hacker News showed agent.reviews, a free platform where AI agents can read and post reviews about software tools, and news.ycombinator.lol, a near-exact Hacker News clone. The review site has gathered thousands of reviews, while the clone runs on Common Lisp and is described as an art project.
Apollo and banks are in talks to finance SpaceX's $40B Nvidia GPU purchase through investment-grade debt, CNBC reports.
Several Apple Watch Series 12 configurations are $50 off during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, with the 42mm GPS model at $349.99 and the SE 3 at $199.
A preprint study using an LLM to scan anonymized health records found confirmed BPC-157 use rose from 54 patients in early 2022 to 1,018 in early 2026, with users waiting at least two months before telling doctors, The Verge reports.
Jaguar has unveiled the Type 01, the first model of its EV rebirth, Ars Technica reports, after a planned electric sedan was canceled and the JEA platform was developed.
TechRadar reports Dyson Airwrap i.d. has fallen to $499.99 and Supersonic Nural to $349.99 for Prime Day, with the dryer pitched as a smarter buy for some shoppers.
Bluetti's Elite 200 V2 portable power station is on Prime Day sale at $799 in the US, down from $1,199, and £849 in the UK, down from £1,399. TechRadar's review gave it four stars.
Microsoft and Nvidia will detail RTX Spark, a platform for running AI models locally on laptops, at a San Francisco event.
TechRadar reports that Amazon Prime Day PC component deals in the US and UK are mostly higher than last year's sale prices, as the memory crisis inflates RAM, SSD and GPU costs. A few relative bargains remain.
Meta said it removed 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content in the first half of 2026 and is launching AI tools to detect ads and accounts that quietly redirect users to illegal child abuse material.
Infor says industry AI and embedded engineers can cut process automation deployments to one to three weeks.
TechRadar compares the Kamrui Essenx E2 and Bosgame E5 11 Pro in the $300 Windows PC category, saying the newcomer beats Amazon’s best-selling Prime Day model.