Meta’s $25 Billion New Mexico Penalty Is Just the Start – the Meter Now Runs at $10 Million a Day
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion, among the largest US corporate penalties. But the number in the headline is not…
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OpenAI’s GPT Models Just Landed on Google Cloud — the AI Rivalry’s Newest Plot Twist
Google is now selling its biggest rival’s AI models. On October 21, Google Cloud announced that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1…
Claude Code Is Turning Smart TVs ‘Dumb’ — and Owners Are Loving It
It started with a sponsored ad on a parent’s TV. A developer got tired of watching an ad play before…
OpenAI Is Racing to Close a $30B Round Before Anthropic’s IPO Sets the Price
Thirty Billion, on Fast-Forward OpenAI is in a hurry, and Anthropic’s IPO is the reason. According to Reuters, the ChatGPT…
Smartphones & Mobile
iPhone Duo Goes on Sale Friday — but Apple Just Told Walk-In Buyers Not to Bother
Apple’s first foldable iPhone goes on sale Friday, October 23, and if your plan is to stroll into an Apple…
OnePlus Is Putting a Real Fan Inside the Ace 7 — and It’s About More Than Gaming
OnePlus is about to put a spinning fan inside a mainstream phone, and it’s not hiding the engineering. OnePlus China…
iPhone Duo Delivery Dates Are Moving Up — the Sellout Panic Is Already Easing
From December to Launch Day Four days ago, the iPhone Duo was backordered into 2027. Now some buyers are getting…
iPhone Duo Sold Out in 3 Minutes — Here’s Why Apple Can’t Make Enough
Gone in Three Minutes: The Timeline Apple’s first foldable sold out faster than almost any iPhone in recent memory. Pre-orders…
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A $2,399 Projector Just Raised $10 Million in 2 Hours — and the Discount Is the Real Story
A projector just pulled off one of the fastest crowdfunding runs ever — and the price tag, not the projector,…
Google and Synaptics’ New Wearable AI Chip Sips Just 6 Milliwatts — But There’s a Catch
Your next smartwatch could run AI without ever talking to the cloud — and sip less power than a dim…
Touchscreen MacBook Pro: What Apple’s Oct 28 ‘Pro and Tell’ Event Will Reveal
Apple said on Monday it will host a “Pro and tell” event in Los Angeles on October 28 — and…
Apps & Software Tools
Walmart Is Letting AI Agents Shop for You — With a Spending Leash Attached
Walmart will now let an AI agent do your shopping and check out for you, under a set of house…
ChatGPT Locked Chats: What the New PIN Lock Really Protects — and What It Doesn’t
OpenAI has given ChatGPT users a way to hide individual conversations behind a lock. Announced on Tuesday, October 20, the…
Robotics & Automation
Tesla’s Optimus Is Finally Rolling Off a Real Production Line — Just as Profits Fell 43%
Tesla’s humanoid robot has graduated from stage demos to a real production line, in factory space that used to build…
Eka Robotics Just Raised $150M to Give Robots a Sense of Touch
Robots still aren’t very good at picking things up. Despite billions of dollars of investment and endless hours of video…
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Meta’s $25 Billion New Mexico Penalty Is Just the Start – the Meter Now Runs at $10 Million a Day
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion, among the largest US corporate penalties. But the number…
OpenAI’s Orchestra Bio Deal Shows the Real AI Race Is in Pharma’s Back Office
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AI Agents Are the New Insider Threat, Says Microsoft: ‘Frontier Models Cannot Be Trusted’
Microsoft wants you to trust its AI security products. It does not want you to trust the AI models themselves…