Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.
Big Tech gave millions to Trump's White House ballroom, documents show
Anthropic is opening its doors to independent AI safety evaluators from METR, the first time a frontier AI company has done so.
Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area. A day after the media event, I was invited to a quieter Nvidia event to hear
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia's autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised).
Google's intelligent AI shopping cart is finally here, and just in time to tempt users into Black Friday and seasonal holiday spending. The Universal Cart tool Google previewed at its I/O event in May is now rolling out in the US across the Gemini app and Google Search, with the aim of making it easier
There's still no camera here, so they won't be confused for pervert specs.
TSMC reported its third-quarter earnings on Thursday.
FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.
United Airlines released a tool that tracks how many of its airplanes are equipped with Starlink. You can type in your flight number to check.
In this episode of Power On, Mark Gurman is joined by Bloomberg’s Chris Welch and Vlad Savov to break down Apple’s long-awaited smart home launch.
Nvidia’s new models join a wave of open-weight releases from US labs on the heels of the Hugging Face hack.
Sony Group Corp. introduced a trio of premium digital music players priced from $1,900 to $5,900, marking the first new hardware in several years carrying the storied Walkman name.
Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.
YouTube is already talking to publishers about offering audiobooks on its platform, The Wall Street Journal says.
A celebration of the ROG brand, the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 is a cool collector's item, with a great new OLED screen and an eye-catching design. However, with performance that's about the same as last year's Xbox Ally X, it's a hard sell at $1,299.
Earlier this year Microsoft laid out a plan to fix Windows 11, with a focus on performance, reliability, and the overall OS experience. After months of fixes, Microsoft now says the "result is a Windows experience that's up to 20 percent more responsive."
Ramp has surged to $2 billion in annualized revenue, the fintech company plans to announce Thursday — a milestone that’s helped attract fresh investor capital.
Anthropic should pause its initial public offering until it has fully addressed risks around artificial intelligence, according to New York City’s comptroller. A letter from Mark Levine addressed to Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei on Wednesday suggested the Claude developer should instead focus on addressing the unprecedented risks of the technology.
The partnership gives developers a new way to run sophisticated AI without renting computing power from the cloud.
An Israeli ad tech firm worked with spyware companies to infect devices, including at Al Jazeera, by simply showing users an online ad, according to a joint investigation by security researchers at Citizen Lab and Confiant. It's the first time researchers have found technical evidence of a zero-click attack - a form of hacking that
The drugmaker will pay AI therapeutics company Insitro $40 million upfront and up to $1.46 billion subject to meeting targets.
Portland-based startup Mueon raised $65 million to develop a new way to arrange AI server rack components. The company says its design could fit up to ten times more computing capacity into the same amount of power as existing data center setups.
Automated call screening app Equal AI is seeking fresh fundraising that could propel it into the league of unicorns, according to its founder, as the startup aims to take on Truecaller.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that manages the country's Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached its IT systems in April 2025 stole records dating back to 1978.
Opera is relaunching its Opera Air browser today with a redesign that is both conceptual and practical for a more focused browsing experience. Here’s what that means. more
MSCI Inc. adopted new rules that could ultimately push Strategy Inc. out of its global equity benchmarks, potentially triggering billions of dollars in stock sales and adding fresh pressure to the financing model behind Michael Saylor’s vast Bitcoin holdings.
Tie-up would add cybersecurity to the entity Cohere is creating through its merger with Germany’s Aleph Alpha
If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th,
The company’s “AI sandbox," is now an open source project, allowing outside developers to use the tool, which it says can keep AI agents contained.
Bela Bajaria, who has overseen Netflix's movies and shows, is leaving. Peter Rice, a former Fox and Disney executive, will take Bajaria's place.
Adobe has 'rearchitected' Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D to work faster on computers powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark AI superchip.
The deal pairs the email security giant's massive threat intelligence with Varonis' visibility into corporate data, as both companies race to secure the AI agents now roaming enterprise networks.
"Why have we gotten to the point where we have permitted militaries of various states to use civilian commercial data centers for their military purposes?"
Alienware rolls Tandem RGB Stripe OLED tech into a stylish 32-inch gaming monitor for a low price. The AW3226Q delivers 4K resolution, 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 True Black, Dolby Vision, and wide-gamut color.
Taiwan has blocked the websites of Coinbase Global Inc. and Kalshi Inc. over suspected election betting, weeks before local polls that will test support for President Lai Ching-te’s government.
Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf says contracts are won 'on the merits' amid ethics questions over co-founder Palmer Luckey's Pentagon role
E Ink announced the next generation of its Kaleido color e-paper screen technology today, delivering several welcome improvements. The company's existing Kaleido 3 displays can be found in e-readers and tablets from companies like Kobo, PocketBook, and Boox, while Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft uses a customized version to improve performance.
Apple CEO John Ternus has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine's "Best Inventions of 2026" edition , available October 26. Ternus, who joined Apple in 2001 and was formerly its senior vice president of hardware engineering, succeeded Tim Cook as the company's CEO on September 1.
Dial in the next gaming session this GFN Thursday. New NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 controls give GeForce NOW members more choice over how supported games look and perform in the cloud, even without the latest hardware.
Big Walk's co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun - and now the game's creators have explained why. Developer House House said in a blog post that it decided not to release Big Walk on Xbox consoles in accordance with the Palestinian-led
Anthropic detailed the system in a recent engineering post, reporting that it averaged about 2,500 merged code changes a day in May. By September, that figure exceeded 30,000.
In December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News. On Thursday, the company announced that the program has added new partnerships, bringing the total number of publications in the pilot to more than 400 worldwide.
CarbonAI has raised $12M led by Cowboy Ventures for AI agents that handle underwriting, due diligence and post-close monitoring on commercial real estate loans. The EU AI Act treats consumer credit decisions as high-risk but not corporate lending, a line that blurs when a sponsor gives a personal guarantee.
Today marks a milestone for MacPaw, as the company is releasing Eney, a proactive AI assistant that works across your apps, files, and system to help you get things done, following a development process that began back in 2019. Here are the details. more
Accelerating the search for novel antimicrobial peptides using Google Antigravity for Science.
Swedish robotics startup 120ft Factory AB launched today with 576,000 euros ($644,000) in new funding from 22 angel investors to build autonomous microfactories run by humanoid robots. 120ft builds and operates small factories that fit inside three 40-foot shipping containers, and the combined length of those containers gives the company its name.
In an interview with TIME 's Andrew R. Chow , Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak said Apple Intelligence is meant for "everyday people" as opposed to the "lunatic fringe."
Apple will also update the iPad mini and iMac, Bloomberg says.
The October 15th update combines IBM's Granite models with task-specific adapters and a speech recognizer, aiming to run several workloads from one model deployment.
Google is delivering an update to Android’s earthquake alerts system that will show more information while also expanding support to over 200 regions across the globe. more
On the latest episode of his Power On podcast , Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman said he heard that Apple has tested both 60Hz and 120Hz ProMotion displays for the next iPad mini. However, he has not yet learned which option Apple has chosen.
Telecom stocks have long been considered a relatively safe bet for investors, offering predictable growth, limited downside and healthy dividends. But a combination of competition from SpaceX and rising Treasury yields is threatening to upend that equation.
Trump’s newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.”
The European Union (EU) is negotiating with China to lift sanctions on Sindlhauser Materials GmbH, a small German business that is part of ASML's supply chain, according to people familiar with the matter. In exchange, the EU would remove trade restrictions on a Chinese company previously accused of assisting Russia's war against Ukraine.
Arrival of 4,400+ qubit Advantage2 system advances Q-Alliance’s efforts to expand quantum computing access, accelerate Italian workforce development and support commercial and academic applications PALO ALTO, Calif. and COMO, Italy, Oct. 15, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced at Digital Innovation Forum 2026 that its Advantage2 annealing quantum computer has arrived in Lombardy, Italy,
Opsin, an AI security and governance startup, raised $21 million to complement the boom in AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
Opening marks the next phase of the university’s largest corporate research partnership, with a research portfolio spanning quantum computing, networking, sensing, and security COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 15, 2026 — IonQ and the University of Cambridge have announced the opening of the first-ever university-based IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre.
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that was causing black screens, desktop loading issues, and Explorer crashes after installing Windows 11 updates released since August.
Micro Center has reclassified Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards as 'Not Carried,' and almost all units are out of stock at its stores.
A Chinese start-up has unveiled a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light-source machine – a component often described as the “heart” of advanced lithography systems – marking an early but critical step in Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in chipmaking equipment. At the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, Langdao Silex displayed its self-developed EUV light-source system.
Google is continuing its work to make links more prominent in AI Mode and AI Overviews. more
The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four different infection chains that make use of macro-enabled documents, PS2EXE downloaders, GitHub-hosted PowerShell, and crafted WinRAR archives
Anthropic has moved Code Review, its automated pull-request reviewer for Claude Code, out of research preview for Team and Enterprise customers, with up to $50,000 in free credits for eligible enterprises. Organisations running GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, the configuration European firms adopt to keep code in the EU, are excluded from the offer.
Quantum computer was installed and operational within 24 hours, and is already powering two projects
Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.
Construction is hard for robots, but this construction bot finishes drywall 3X faster than humans.
Much of today’s scientific progress begins with computation. But turning accelerated computing’s potential into scientific progress — modeling climate systems, designing molecules, simulating materials and more — depends on more than breakthrough technology.
The company uses robotics and AI to help pollinate blueberries and avocados, reporting average yield increases of about 20% among growers using its systems. The Series A round brings its total funding to $20 million and will support expansion into the U.S. and additional Latin American markets.
Boost Mobile has signed controversial boxing legend Mike Tyson for its new 'What's Your Plan?' campaign. #pressrelease
Work starts on 64MW facility after securing lease with hyperscaler
Founder Per Osterstrom is bringing his experience building Swedish fintech Sambla to a subscription bank that says it will return interchange and FX fees to customers.
Apple updated its Apple Sports app today with improvements to Live Activities and support for five additional soccer leagues. Here are the details. more
GTA 6 just dropped its launch trailer, which may be its final one before release. It's a huge action showcase, in more ways than one.
The Fairbuds 2 have 7 user-replaceable components.
Running AI models directly on your Windows PC just got significantly easier, and you won't even need admin rights to set it up.
According to a new rumor from a usually reliable source of information about HMD, the company is currently planning on withdrawing from "select markets". It will also allegedly "scale down production for its global device portfolio".
Google is sending out 30% discount codes for the Pixel 11 series, and you can club them with trade-in offers!
PARIS, Oct. 14, 2026 — As Europe accelerates investments in AI infrastructure, Bull is extending its NVIDIA rack-scale portfolio with NVIDIA Vera Rubin Ultra NVL72, a liquid-cooled platform designed to meet the growing needs of cloud service providers, NeoClouds and AI factories to help them train and serve increasingly large reasoning and agentic AI models.
The Signature 27 sounds like Motorola's software comeback until you read the fine print.
The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026.
Google is working on an effortless way to copy multiple links at once in Chrome.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein on October 15, 2026, a 5.6B-parameter open-weights model for text-to-image generation, image editing, and multi-reference generation with support for up to 10 reference images.