A leaked AliExpress page suggests ANBERNIC's RG DDS could sell for $300 to $365, above the sub-$250 many had expected, with pre-sales possibly opening October 16 and shipping from December 10, 2026.
An accelerating sell-off in AI-linked shares hit global markets after US inflation rose to a higher-than-expected 3.7%, raising expectations of further Federal Reserve rate increases. South Korea’s Kospi 200 fell 8.1% and triggered circuit breakers, while Japan, China, Europe and US futures also declined.
Reolink's Home Hub 2, announced at IFA 2026, stores feeds from up to eight security cameras locally and adds AI event search without a subscription. It is on sale now for $199.99.
Sspai has updated its Learnable Shortcuts column with Tp, revising over 30% of the content for iOS 27 and adding three articles on AI, automated bookkeeping, screenshots and notifications.
TypeSafe AI has released Jev 1.14 under the jev-preview alias, adding experimental image input, a Box question type and a 262k-token context option, with pricing unchanged at $0.042 per million input tokens.
TSMC beat third-quarter net income estimates and maintained its 2026 capital expenditure plan of $60 billion to $64 billion. Anthropic said it is now profitable, South Korea's Kospi trading was halted after an 8% drop, and hot US inflation pushed investors to price in more Fed rate hikes.
Researchers from Mount Sinai, NASA and Space Tango have sent miniature human hearts and brains to the International Space Station to study how microgravity and radiation may accelerate aging.
Swedish startup 120ft Factory AB launched with 576,000 euros from 22 angel investors to operate autonomous microfactories inside three shipping containers, where shared humanoid robots assemble, inspect and pack products that brands pay for per finished unit.
The South Korean Army said it held drills at Yangpyeong using drones, robots, a laser anti-drone system and an AI-equipped engineer vehicle, part of a plan to field manned-unmanned teaming units across the service by 2040.
A Reddit user has installed Googlebook OS on an ASUS Chromebook Plus, according to Android Authority, in an early test of the new platform on existing Chromebook hardware. The setup reportedly runs fast, but Wi-Fi, audio and Pixel integration are broken.
South Korea's KOSPI closed down 7.57 percent at 5,554.22 on Oct. 15, its seventh straight decline, as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix led a chip sell-off driven by doubts over AI spending and U.S. rate concerns.
Opera relaunched its Opera Air browser with a minimalist redesign aimed at distraction-free browsing, adding refreshed visuals, focus tools, ad blocking and a free VPN for macOS and Windows.
Baidu World 2026 will be held Nov 12 at the National Convention Center Phase II 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.
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Kunlun Wanwei's Skywork AI released Matrix-Game 4.0, described as the first open-source game world model that runs in real time on a single consumer RTX 5090. It separates game rules and state in a game engine from video generation, delivering 480p 60 FPS gameplay with input latency below 150 ms.
SpaceXAI released Grok Voice 3.0, a hosted speech-to-speech agent model that scores 86.9 and ranks first on Artificial Analysis's Speech-to-Speech Index, though rivals still lead on some subtests.
TSMC reported a record third-quarter net profit of NT$763.1 billion, beating LSEG estimates, as AI chip demand drove revenue to NT$1.49 trillion. Net profit rose 68.7% year over year, a sixth straight quarterly record.
According to ifanr, FAW-Volkswagen's Foshan plant detailed material, welding, battery and final audit checks for the ID.AURA T6, balancing faster development with quality validation and local features for Chinese users.
TechRadar published a recommendation on October 15, 2026, calling the Apple AirTag 2 a must-have for iPhone owners, with a four-pack discounted 22%. The headline did not list the original price or retailer.
Crystal Lake, the first Friday the 13th prequel series, premieres October 15 in the US and Canada. Linda Cardellini plays Pamela Voorhees in the eight-episode show, with Stan and Sky Atlantic releases scheduled later.
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Huawei mass-produces its first logic-folding Kirin 9050 Pro for Mate 90 phones, while ScaleFlux targets AI memory bottlenecks with new controller chips.
An Anthropic internal research roadmap from July 2021, exposed in a copyright lawsuit, shows early plans for a software-engineering assistant, tool use, self-judging, test-time compute, trillion-parameter models and long contexts, QuantumBit reports.