WhatsApp Guest Calls: Join a Call With No Account, No App, No Time Limit
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Wednesday, October 14, was the most bruising day America’s AI labs have faced from regulators — and most people missed…
Anthropic’s $16.8B Quarter Sets Up a $2T IPO
Anthropic had a message for investors this week: the math works now. At a closed-door investor day at its San…
Google Opens Gemini 4 Argon to Everyone at Half Price
Google took the velvet rope down on Tuesday. Gemini 4 Argon, the flagship AI model the company had kept locked…
Smartphones & Mobile
Smartphone Shipments Plunge 20% as Memory Crisis Kills the Budget Phone
The global smartphone market just posted its ugliest quarter in 13 years — and the reason should worry anyone shopping…
The Play Store Now Sells Galaxy Phones Next to Pixels
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OnePlus 16R Leaks Clash: 200MP or Triple 50MP Cameras?
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Googlebook’s Samsung Problem Is Finally Fixed
Google has fixed the most embarrassing gap in its new laptop platform. The company confirmed last week that its Better…
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Sony’s New $5,899 Walkman Is Milled From Gold-Plated Copper and Weighs 1.5 Pounds
Sony still makes Walkmans. And on October 15, it unveiled the most extravagant one yet: the NW-WM1ZM3, a Signature Series…
Alibaba’s $450 AI Glasses Take on Meta — in China Only
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Apple’s $299 HomeView Launch Hides a Bigger Bill
Welcome Home Comes With a Tab Apple’s “Welcome Home” event on Tuesday gave the company its first real smart-home lineup:…
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WhatsApp Guest Calls: Join a Call With No Account, No App, No Time Limit
WhatsApp spent more than a decade on a simple rule: no phone number, no account, no conversation. That rule just…
AI Music Flood: Every Streamer’s Answer, Ranked by Strictness
On the same day this week, the two biggest music-streaming responses to AI-generated songs landed — and they could not…
Robotics & Automation
German Police Seize Robot — the Real Culprit Was the Remote
Cologne police have impounded a humanoid robot — and now face a question no court has cleanly answered: when a…
Agility Robotics Nears Nasdaq Debut Under Ticker AGLT
The SEC Just Cleared the Runway Agility Robotics is one shareholder vote away from the Nasdaq. The company announced Tuesday…
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FBI Arrests OpenAI Engineer for Bugging Office
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