WhatsApp’s PIN-Locked Parental Controls for Teens Come With a Big Catch
WhatsApp is handing parents a new set of levers over their teens’ accounts — locked behind a parent-set PIN, and designed so it can never…
AI & Generative Tech
Broadcom’s $42B Anthropic Bet: Lending Money to Lease Its Own Chips
Anthropic’s IPO paperwork has a financing twist nobody has tried at this scale. The chipmaker Broadcom has agreed to lend…
Gemini 4 Argon Tops Benchmarks, But Google Staff Aren’t Sold
Google has finally shipped the model it spent months being asked about. On September 30, it unveiled Gemini 4 Argon,…
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Sol at One-Fifth of Astra’s Price
OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 pitch was unusual: near-flagship intelligence at a fifth of the flagship price. The headline launch was GPT-6.1…
Smartphones & Mobile
Galaxy S26 Prices Jump $100 in the US — Blame the AI Memory Crunch
Seven months after launch, the Galaxy S26 just got more expensive. Samsung quietly raised the price of nearly every Galaxy…
Huawei Mate 90 Launches With Homegrown Kirin 9050 Pro Chip
The flagship Washington spent six years trying to stop Huawei took the wraps off its Mate 90 smartphone series in…
OPPO K14 Plus Packs 8,000mAh Battery at ₹29,999
The mid-range battery war has a new combatant. OPPO has launched the K14 Plus in India, and its headline spec…
Your Galaxy S25 Is About to Get Android 17: One UI 9 Stable Rolling Out Now
If you own a Galaxy S25, the biggest software upgrade of its life is now on its way. Samsung has…
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Gadgets & Wearables
Samsung Galaxy Buds On: Clip-On Earbuds With Gemini Live for $220
Samsung has officially entered the open-ear race. On October 1, the company unveiled the Galaxy Buds On — its first…
Apple HomePad Smart Home Hub Reportedly Launches Oct 13
Apple’s long-delayed smart home push finally has a date on the calendar. October 13. According to Reuters, citing Bloomberg’s Mark…
QALO’s $200 SL-1 Smart Band Ditches the Subscription
QALO — the company that put silicone rings on two million hands — just made its biggest move into health…
Apps & Software Tools
WhatsApp’s PIN-Locked Parental Controls for Teens Come With a Big Catch
WhatsApp is handing parents a new set of levers over their teens’ accounts — locked behind a parent-set PIN, and…
What Is OpenAI’s Codex Cloud? The DevDay Upgrade Explained
OpenAI’s coding agent just moved out of your laptop. At DevDay 2026 in San Francisco on September 29, OpenAI gave…
Robotics & Automation
Destro AI Raises $8M to Run Robots and Humans as One Crew
The Robotics Startup That Doesn’t Build Robots Every robotics startup seems to be building a shinier robot. Destro AI just…
Neubility’s ‘Billy’ Robot Ditches Legs for a Faster Rollout
While the rest of the humanoid industry chases the perfect walking demo, a Korean startup just shipped the opposite bet….
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HPE Wins $1.2B AI Order as Networks Become the Prize
HPE turned its annual networking investor day into a $1.2 billion mic drop. According to Reuters, the company announced that…
Apple Pay Launches in India With Axis Bank
Apple Pay has officially arrived in India. The contactless payment service launched September 30 with Axis Bank as its first…
Trump Meets AI’s Biggest CEOs Today — and Everyone in the Room Wants the Opposite
President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are sitting down with the most powerful executives in artificial intelligence at the…