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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts its M5 chip, with a 10-core GPU, a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling 4x+ the performance of M4, and a 10-core CPU with six efficiency cores — Apple today announced the M5 chip, its next-generation chip for the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro. — From Apple's press release:| Apple: |
Apple unveils a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, up to 3.5x more performance for AI workflows, and faster storage, for the same $1,599+, shipping October 22 — With up to 3.5x more performance for AI workflows, faster storage, up to a phenomenal 24 hours of battery life, and macOS Tahoe, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even better
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Apple updates the iPad Pro with an M5 chip, its new C1X cellular modem, and N1 chip, for $999+ for the 11-inch and $1,299+ for the 13-inch, shipping October 22 — The Pro is becoming a showcase for Apple's new chips — and seems poised to remain the company's best tablet.
More: Apple, MacRumors, ZDNET, and The Economic Times
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| Apple: |
Apple updates the Vision Pro with an M5 chip, rendering 10% more pixels, and a Dual Knit Band for a more comfortable fit, available on October 22 for $3,499+ — The latest version improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort, while offering innovative features …
More: AppleInsider, CNET, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Verge, and Cord Cutters News
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam, part of its effort to lessen its dependence on China — Apple Inc. is preparing to expand its manufacturing operations in Vietnam as part of a push into the smart home market …
More: The Verge, MacRumors, T3, PhoneArena, Apple Must, Digital Trends, TechNode, Tech in Asia, iClarified, Cult of Mac, and BGR
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| Reuters: |
More: AppleInsider, South China Morning Post, Benzinga, Livemint, RTÉ, Outlook Business, MacRumors, and CHINAdaily
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube starts rolling out its redesigned video player, which features rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, web, and TV globally — The ‘cleaner’ look is rolling out across mobile, web, and TV. … YouTube is updating the look of the video player to be …
More: YouTube Help, Neowin, Cord Cutters News, Android Central, The Hindu, Thurrott, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, Social Media Today, Android Police, Tom's Guide, 9to5Google, Engadget, and Android Authority
| April Roach / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline “significantly” in 2026 — Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML on Wednesday looked to calm concerns over 2026 growth …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; OpenAI currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumer ChatGPT use — New revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising targeted to cover enormous costs| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal — Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a “personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o” and will add “erotica for verified adults” — We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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| New York Times: |
Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain — Netflix will show video versions of 16 podcasts on sports, culture, entertainment and true crime.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026, its first European launch; human-supervised cars will first collect data — It's good timing too. The UK is ready to start piloting fully driverless vehicles. … London's iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo.
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| Mother Jones: |
Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others — Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business — Amazon is preparing to cut as much as 15% of its human resources staff, with additional layoffs likely in other divisions, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.
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| Danny Park / The Block: |
Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money — - Coinbase said it is investing in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to scale its presence in India and the Middle East.| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Nvidia's DGX Spark hands-on: trades performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem is valuable, flow-through design, and more — This relatively affordable AI workstation isn't about going fast; it's about doing everything well enough
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Forums: Hacker News, r/gadgets, r/technews, and r/accelerate
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
US DHS: Chinese criminal organizations made $1B+ in the past three years via scam texts; Proofpoint: last month, a record 330K US toll-scam texts were reported — Messages seeking payment for unpaid tolls or postage fees prompt victims to hand over credit-card information, which gangs use to buy gift cards and luxury goods
More: 9to5Mac and The Independent
| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers — - Apple is increasingly focusing on India expansion — Apple often owns machines used by partners, but not in India
More: Business Today, Financial Express, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and Reuters
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10, which runs on ~40% of Windows PCs, per Statcounter; users can enroll in an Extended Security Updates program — End users can get an extra year of security updates relatively easily. — Today is the official end-of-support date for Microsoft's Windows 10.
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Forums: r/technology, r/technews, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Samsung schedules a “Worlds Wide Open” Galaxy event on October 21 at 10pm ET, where it will provide more details on its “groundbreaking” Project Moohan headset — It's nearly time to learn a lot more about the Project Moohan headset.| Financial Times: |
An investment consortium including BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft plans to acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal — Buyer consortium also includes Nvidia and Microsoft and plans to expand Aligned Data Centers to meet computing demand| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Intel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU designed for AI inference workloads, featuring Intel's Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory — Revealed this week at the 2025 OCP Global Summit, ‘Crescent Island’ marks the beginning of Intel's annual cadence of GPU releases …
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| Verity Townsend / IGN: |
The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them “irreplaceable treasures” — “We are a country that has captivated the world with the creative power of anime, games, and music.”
More: Engadget and Screen Rant
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