San Francisco startup Volantis announced an $88M Series A on October 1, 2026, led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, to develop optical chip-to-memory interconnects using VCSEL lasers. The technology aims to enable far more memory chips per GPU and boost inference speeds to 10k tokens/sec.
PCMag says the new Kindle Signature Editions have aluminum backs, no bezels and increased storage.
iPhone 18 Pro series sales in China jumped 12% in first 3 days versus prior Pro models. Apple captured ~33% smartphone market share. A20 and A20 Pro chips (TSMC 2nm) feature different GPU tiers (5-core vs. 7-core) but share Neural Engine specs for AI tasks.
Sony announced QSSR—an AI upscaling tech optimized for base PS5 to improve image detail and clarity. First supported in patches for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, with wider developer support planned.
Techmeme links to a Reuters report saying a16z and Accel led the round for the AI cybersecurity agent startup.
OpenAI reportedly separated from three safety researchers for sharing confidential information with an external AI safety group, amid model pauses and legal proceedings.
Apple Pay rolled out in India for Axis Bank credit cards (Visa/Mastercard) on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, accepted at millions of merchants, after years of UPI-market regulatory hurdles. No UPI or RuPay support at launch; Mac support coming.
An October 1 announcement calls them Cloudflare’s first homegrown models and links to a demo and leaderboard.
Teslarati linked to a TeslaAUNZ video alongside its availability update for both countries.
A user says they'll be hosting Hard Fork and shared a YouTube link with the announcement.
Techmeme shares a Colossus profile of Vélez as Nubank enters the US.
The launch announcement says selected technologists will get access to an Atlas Holdings portfolio representing $26 billion in annual revenue.
Windows posted a save-the-date for an Oct. 7 YouTube stream, and the linked page says viewers will get a look at what’s next from Windows, Surface and NVIDIA, including RTX Spark.
Techmeme, citing PhoneArena, reports that prices for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 stayed unchanged.
Flavio Copes’ article says Jev is not a chatbot or coding model. Users send data and typed questions, and the model returns one answer per question with probabilities. Copes also says TypeSafe claims most calls complete in about 100 milliseconds.
A supplied HuggingChat capture shows “ML Intern” alongside text reading “mode on papers · training · spaces · datasets · eval · hub.”
Broadcom agreed to backstop up to $42 billion in convertible notes to finance Anthropic's massive TPU and compute leases, part of a ~$125B five-year infrastructure commitment. The deal could position Anthropic as Broadcom's largest customer by 2027 with potential equity conversion.
Techmeme shares a Financial Times report citing sources that says Binance continued serving EU customers despite failing to secure a license.
PCMag says it tested the latest Ultra-level Mac Studios to compare performance and weigh whether an upgrade suits your workflow.
A post says the proxy records each model call’s exact token IDs and log probabilities while the harnesses run unmodified.
