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October 28, 2026, 1:50 PM

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Apple:
Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED XDR display, a light-up Apple logo, M5 Pro and M5 Max, for $2,899+ and $3,399+  —  The world's best pro laptop now features an industry-leading tandem OLED display, an intuitive Touch experience, blazing-fast M5 Pro …
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Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google:
Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its “strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity” capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index  —  Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
Meredith Shubel / The New Stack:
GitHub says Copilot Fusion, which handles model selection and orchestration, is now generally available, releases the GitHub Copilot app, and more  —  GitHub has debuted GitHub Copilot Fusion, a new system that handles model selection and orchestration for coding tasks so developers don't have to.
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Amazon unveils the $500 Echo Show 16, the $200 Echo Time alarm, and the $200+ Alexa Photo Frame, raises smart speaker prices, and previews Alexa Home Map  —  With its latest devices, including a smart bedside alarm clock, Amazon looks to cement Alexa's presence in every room of the home
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 328% YoY to ~$78.8B, above ~$74.07B est., and operating profit up 632% to ~$62.76B, above ~$57.78B est. and a company record  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
@artificialanlys:
Artificial Analysis launches the Intelligence Index v5, with new coding and science benchmarks, built on private datasets; Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58  —  Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, featuring 2 new benchmarks and 3 upgrades. For the first time, the majority of the Index is built on private datasets The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is our composite measure of model capabilities across tasks reflecting real-world u...
Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:
Lawsuit: the parents of a 31-year-old say OpenAI's GPT-4o guided her through an aggressive tapering plan off epilepsy meds, leading to her death in February  —  The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors.  — 1.3k
Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic's S-1 implies a $40T+ annual TAM based on knowledge work's economic value in 2025, topping SpaceX's $28.5T estimate, without explicitly naming TAM  —  The company's estimated market opportunity, tied to the economic value of work produced by knowledge workers, tops SpaceX's enormous figure from earlier this year
Anthropic:
Research: professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned “leans” on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time; 77% used the agents' arguments  —  Amaç Herdağdelen, Hailey Joren, Alex Tamkin  —  When experts hand their work to an AI agent …
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The CFTC files a legal challenge to block Utah's attempt to restrict prediction market betting, asserting it is the sole US regulator of prediction markets  —  The U.S. agency that oversees derivatives has filed a federal legal challenge to halt Utah's attempt to stop prediction market betting in its state …
Felix Rieseberg:
An Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them and tells junior engineers that “hunger beats tenure”  —  This month, I laid the traditional coding interview to rest.  As a hiring manager at Anthropic, I stopped asking candidates to do them.
Rocket Drew / The Information:
Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike  —  Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch …
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Discord says it will let public-channel messages from servers listed in Server Discovery appear in web search from mid-December; admins and members can opt out  —  Discord announced on Tuesday it will make some conversations in its public servers searchable and easier to find on the internet.
Dawn Kopecki / Reuters:
Email: a hacker attack forced the FEC to temporarily take its filing system offline around 10pm ET on Monday, blocking groups from submitting reports  —  The US Federal Election Commission's website was targeted by a hacker or hackers, according to an email seen by Reuters …
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6  —  Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its first pair of cuff-style earbuds, adding to a growing category that includes products from Sony Group Corp. …
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk:
Google unveils Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), a digital-asset custody and security service in private preview, set for commercial availability in early 2027  —  Google to showcase a new security system designed to help banks and other financial institutions safeguard and move cryptocurrencies …

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