Satlyt Inc., founded in 2024 by former SpaceX Starlink product manager Rama Afullo, has raised $8 million led by Non Sibi Ventures for AI software that processes satellite data in orbit.
TechRadar reported that at Intel Connection 2026 in China, Gunnir showed a compact dual-GPU workstation with two Intel Arc Pro B70 cards and 64GB of ECC memory, while Maxsun demonstrated an MCIO-based Mini-ITX system that relocates the graphics card from the motherboard. Neither company announced pricing or launch dates.
Anthropic reportedly targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO at over $2 trillion valuation despite losses and AI-risk warnings.
Hyundai unveils All-New Tucson in New York, plans 100-plus new or refreshed models by 2030, 58 in North America.
Public documents show British police used Oxygen Forensics software to break into suspects' phones in live investigations, while US prosecutors allege the Virginia-based company concealed Russian ownership to avoid sanctions.
The New York Times published Connections game No. 1209 and Strands game No. 943 for Friday, October 2, 2026, while Quordle released its 1,712th daily puzzle. TechRadar posted hints and full answers for all three.
TechRadar has published a review of the Focal Mu-so Hekla, described in its headline as a potent, super-immersive wireless speaker in a sleek soundbar's clothing. The review is credited to freelance technology journalist Simon Lucas.
Study: Venus's lower haze is cosmic dust from meteorites that interacts with sulfuric acid and helps seed clouds.
OpenAI has dismissed three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material with an outside AI safety group, the company confirmed. The firings follow earlier safety departures and a string of incidents involving OpenAI models.
Volantis raised $88M for photonic AI inference systems and plans to ship an A-1 data center appliance next year.
Apple reportedly developing a smart home camera that records no video, using AI for text descriptions, per Mark Gurman.
WiCi is preparing the WiCi One, a wireless external GPU with an RTX 5060 Ti that connects over Wi-Fi 7 but also contains a processor, storage and cooling. Early signups cost $1,999, and Wi-Fi 7 throughput remains the central question.
Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, open-weight decision models for structured tasks, images, video and 64K contexts, claiming benchmark gains over TypeSafe's Jev.
9to5Mac Daily covers iPhone Duo production reports, an iFixit AirPods 5 teardown, and DoorDash ordering via Apple Messages.
Apple's first foldable iPhone, the Duo, opens preorders Oct. 16 and launches Oct. 23. Jim Cramer calls it a major catalyst, while Morgan Stanley cuts its Apple price target; Apple also begins a 'Shot on iPhone Duo' camera campaign.
9to5Mac podcast says Apple's 'HomePad' may launch Oct. 13, with leaked photos pointing to imminent iPad mini and HomePod mini updates.
NetApp CMO Gabie Boko says AI is drawing chief data officers and other new buyers to data infrastructure, as the company promotes its Intelligent Data Infrastructure strategy and its newly announced NetApp Novus architecture for AI factories.
IBM has introduced a self-hosted deployment option for its Bob agentic software development platform, enabling enterprises to run AI-assisted application development and modernization in on-premises, private-cloud, sovereign-cloud and air-gapped environments.
T-Mobile is reportedly preparing three new T-Mix plans called Standard, More and Loaded. Standard may start at $65 for one line, while the carrier has not confirmed the plans or a rumored pick-your-perk system.
Micron says RAM and storage shortages will worsen through 2028, with most 2027 capacity already sold, while forecasting record revenue and an 86.25% gross margin.
Audible is testing three AI features—Character Guide, Interactive Story and Visual Explorer—as limited U.S. and U.K. betas.
Apple Arcade added five games on October 1, among them Terraria+ and Pusheen's Place, with three titles arriving as ad-free, purchase-free versions of existing App Store releases.
The Pentagon is notifying more than 2 million current and former military members that a monthslong breach of a Defense Department network exposed sensitive personnel records. The incident follows a claimed ransomware hack of FBI systems.
A workshop in Sweden brought researchers and industry figures together to consider how robotaxi design could discourage sexual activity, after reports of riders having sex in driverless cars and incidents involving Tesla, Cruise and Waymo.