Apple debuts its M5 chip, with a 10-core GPU, a Neural Accelerator in each core, offering 4x+ the performance of M4, and a 10-core CPU with six efficiency cores
M5 delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4, featuring a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator …
Apple upgrades its Vision Pro with an M5 chip for rendering 10% more pixels and a Dual Knit Band for a more comfortable fit, available on October 22 for $3,499+
The latest version improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort, while offering innovative features …
Apple refreshes its 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, offering up to 3.5x more AI performance and faster storage, for the same $1,599+, shipping October 22
With up to 3.5x more performance for AI workflows, faster storage, up to a phenomenal 24 hours of battery life, and macOS Tahoe, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even better
ROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and a half-baked UI
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ROG Xbox Ally X review: solid performance, the best grips, silent cooling, and a good 120Hz display, but Windows needs more optimizing and battery life is poor
it's incredible, but something doesn't add up Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada : ROG Xbox Ally X Review: One Step Closer Towards Simplified PC Gaming Handhelds Patrick O'Rourke / Pocket-lint : The ROG...
Apple updates its iPad Pro with an M5 chip, its new C1X modem, and an N1 chip, priced at $999+ for the 11" and $1,299+ for the 13", shipping from October 22
The Pro is becoming a showcase for Apple's new chips — and seems poised to remain the company's best tablet.
Apple says it will sell Vision Pro-compatible PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers for $250 from November 11 and the $130 Logitech Muse digital pen from October 22
Apple Vision Pro is officially being upgraded from the M2 to the new M5, but existing customers don't need an all-new Vision Pro to enhance the experience.
Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam, part of its effort to lessen its dependence on China
Apple Inc. is preparing to expand its manufacturing operations in Vietnam as part of a push into the smart home market …
YouTube starts rolling out a “cleaner and more immersive” video player, with rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, the web, and TVs
The ‘cleaner’ look is rolling out across mobile, web, and TV. … YouTube is updating the look of the video player to be …
Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in 2026, its first international expansion, after human-supervised cars first collect data
It's good timing too. The UK is ready to start piloting fully driverless vehicles. … London's iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo.
China's Industry Ministry says that during a visit, Tim Cook pledged to boost Apple's investment in China, but offers no details, amid the US-China trade war
- Apple seeks to balance US, Chinese interests amid trade war — iPhone shipment in China grew in third quarter
ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the company is “well prepared” for China's curbs on exports of rare earth minerals; source: ASML may face weeks-long shipment delays
ASML Holding NV is “well prepared” for China's curbs on exports of rare earths even as the impact on the wider chips ecosystem …
Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix prevents shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ads, but Spotify's integrated ads will remain
Netflix will show video versions of 16 podcasts on sports, culture, entertainment and true crime.
Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
US cybersecurity company F5 discloses a cyberattack in August by suspected nation-state hackers that stole undisclosed BIG-IP vulnerabilities and source code
U.S. cybersecurity company F5 disclosed that it suffered a cyberattack in early August, where suspected nation-state hackers breached …
ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.52B, v. €7.79B est., and €2.13B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects a “significant” China sales decline in 2026
> [image] Finbarr Bermingham / @fbermingham : ASML sees significant China demand drop, ASML on Wednesday warned that it expected a significant fall in demand from China next year https://www.reuters.c...
The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin held in wallets owned by a man who oversaw a “pig butchering” operation in Cambodia, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture
The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive “pig butchering” …
Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; OpenAI currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumer ChatGPT use
New revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising targeted to cover enormous costs
Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its 10,000+ HR employees, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business
Amazon is preparing to cut as much as 15% of its human resources staff, with additional layoffs likely in other divisions …
Japan says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IP, including anime, manga, and games, calling them “irreplaceable treasures”
“We are a country that has captivated the world with the creative power of anime, games, and music.”
Spotify taps Netflix to distribute select sports, culture, lifestyle, and true crime video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer in the US in early 2026
including shows from Spotify Studios and The Ringer Network — are coming to Netflix! The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Zach Lowe Show, The McShay Show, The Rewatchables, Serial Killers, and The Dave Chan...
Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers
- Apple is increasingly focusing on India expansion — Apple often owns machines used by partners, but not in India
UK-based cloud provider Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal
Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’
An investment consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft says it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal
Buyer consortium also includes Nvidia and Microsoft and plans to expand Aligned Data Centers to meet computing demand
CoreWeave and AI coding startup Poolside plan a 500-acre, natural gas-powered data center on a Texas ranch; sources: Poolside is raising $2B at a $14B valuation
CoreWeave and Poolside announce partnership for a data center built on a sprawling ranch in West Texas
Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CoinDCX CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B
- Coinbase said it is investing in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to scale its presence in India and the Middle East.
ASML reports Q3 net bookings of €5.4B, vs. €4.9B est., as the AI boom boosts demand for its most sophisticated EUV machines to make the most advanced AI chips
Microsoft ends support for Windows 10, which runs on ~40% of Windows PCs, per Statcounter; users can enroll in its Extended Security Updates program for a year
it pushes up to 400 million functional PCs toward early obsolescence. We're calling on Microsoft to extend support [image] @sankew06 : remember, this was Microsoft's goal with Windows 10 in 2015 A uni...
US DHS: Chinese criminals made $1B+ in the past three years via scam texts; Proofpoint: Americans reported a record 330K toll-scam texts in one day in September
Messages seeking payment for unpaid tolls or postage fees prompt victims to hand over credit-card information, which gangs use to buy gift cards and luxury goods
Meta adds group chats to Threads, allowing users to add up to 50 people who follow their Threads account, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia
Users can add up to 50 people into a single conversation. … Threads users can create a group chat by starting …
US AG Pam Bondi says that Meta complied with the DOJ's request to take down a Facebook Page that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago
and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.” Secretary Kristi Noem / @sec_noem : Anti-ICE radicals are using social media apps to dox, threaten, and terrorize the brave men and ...
Nvidia DGX Spark hands-on: trades performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, the ecosystem is a big selling point, the design is standard, and more
What It Means for NVDA Stock and AI Crypto Sentiment Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : Early reviews suggest Nvidia may have found another way to sell its chips with the DGX Spark Robert Brown / Im...
AppLovin shut down Array last quarter, calling it “a test product” that wasn't “economically viable”, after allegations it led to unwanted Android app installs
AppLovin Corp. said it has shut down a product linked to user and short-seller allegations that apps …
A survey of 28K+ adults in 25 countries on AI: 81% have heard a lot or a little, 34% are more concerned than excited, and 42% are equally concerned and excited
More are concerned than excited about its use, and more trust their own country and the EU to regulate it than trust the U.S. or China
OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online. Bluesky: @justinhendrix See also Mediagaze...
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says he is optimistic about AI's progress, but that the industry must do a better job of listening to people's concerns about it
Jack Clark / Import AI :
Intel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU “power- and cost-optimized” for AI inference, featuring its Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory
Dylan Martin / CRN :
Samsung schedules a “Worlds Wide Open” Galaxy event on October 21 at 10pm ET, where it will share more details on its “groundbreaking” Project Moohan XR headset
A New Era of Multimodal AI Janhoi McGregor / Forbes : Samsung Teases Imminent New Galaxy Headset With $100 Free Offer Jon Mundy / Tech Advisor : Samsung's next Galaxy Event is confirmed - here's what ...
DirecTV partners with AI startup Glance to roll out shoppable TV screensaver ads featuring AI likenesses of users, coming to DirecTV Gemini devices in 2026
Emma Roth / The Verge :
MIT spinoff Vertical Semiconductor, which aims to make vertical gallium nitride transistors for AI data centers, raised an $11M seed led by Playground Global
Vertical Semiconductor Inc. is hoping to crack the power delivery bottleneck in artificial intelligence data centers after closing on an $11 million seed funding round today.
Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information :
Crypto investor Roger Ver, aka “Bitcoin Jesus”, reaches a deferred prosecution agreement with the US DOJ, paying nearly $50M to resolve a tax evasion indictment
Ben Weiss / Fortune :
How AI is replacing workers in India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M; conversational AI startup LimeChat says it automated 5,000 jobs
US SEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's stock, down from 10.1% in September 2024, after selling 100M+ shares over the past year
Names of Reporting Persons Jeffrey P. Bezos 2 Check the appropriate box … Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap : Jeff Bezos' Amazon Ownership Falls Below 10%
The Dutch seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing it made a mistake allowing its sale and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war
Financial Times :
Stripe's stablecoin arm Bridge applies to the OCC for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight
Vince Dioquino / Decrypt :
SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the “physical AI” era
Chris Bryant / Bloomberg : X: @business X: @business : ABB's robotics sale is the latest sign of this continent losing its grip on a vital technology, writes @chrismbryant (via @opinion) https://www....
NYC-based Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate paralegals' administrative tasks, raised a $20M Series A, a source says at a $100M valuation
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes :
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