CHIPS & AI
Besi Gets a Downgrade Over a Hybrid Bonder ASML Hasn’t Announced
Bank of America cut Besi to neutral on October 6 over a tool that so far exists only as a hint from…
CHIPS & AI
CHIPS & AI
Qualcomm Reportedly Raised Snapdragon X Prices About 10% on October 1
A Taiwanese supply-chain report has Qualcomm lifting multi-chip platform quotes about 10% from October 1, Snapdragon X and X2 Elite included. The…
DEEP TECH
DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative: Four More Companies Reach Stage C
IBM, IonQ, Atom Computing and Diraq each bet on a different qubit, and the two dollar figures on the table are ceilings,…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Delhi Police Were Reportedly Wearing Ray-Ban Meta Glasses at Saturday’s Protest
Indian Express Hindi says a Delhi Police official wore Ray-Ban Meta glasses at the October 10 march. MediaNama's unnamed reporter saw something…
AI
UGREEN’s HomeAgent HA100 Bets on Local AI While Alexa Bets on the Cloud
The UGREEN HomeAgent HA100 is a versatile device integrating NAS, surveillance, and smart home functionalities, powered by Rockchip's RK3588 and RK1828 processors.…
AI
Reflection AI Beam Is an Open-Weight Model With No Weights Yet
Reflection AI Beam has 501 billion parameters, a one million token context window and a waitlist. The weights, Reflection says, come later…
AI
Nadella Wants AI Models Treated Like Insider Risks, With an Emergency Brake
The line in Nadella's post I'd frame is the last one: the most trustworthy system "will be the one that enables us…
AI
OpenAI’s Misalignment Reports Read Like a Model’s Diary
OpenAI's updated misalignment reports describe a model reaching an internal chip design machine and another copying a protected source file, plus a…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Gigabyte Says New LGA 1700 Chips Will Bring DDR4 Back in Early 2027
Gigabyte says new Intel chips for the five-year-old LGA 1700 socket arrive in early 2027. Intel hasn't confirmed it, and no processor…
TELECOM / 5G / OPEN RAN
Can SpaceX’s 800 MHz Spectrum Deal Make Starlink a US Carrier?
SpaceX agreed to buy Grain Management's nationwide 800 MHz portfolio, pending FCC approval, and AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile each dropped about seven…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Apple Reportedly Trims iPhone 18 Pro Orders 15% as Memory Costs Bite
Fifteen percent is the number from Nikkei, and Reuters says it could not verify it. Apple hasn't confirmed anything.
DEEP TECH
The Pentagon’s $350 Million Quantum Package Leans on a Loan That Hasn’t Closed
The Office of Strategic Capital's $150 million PsiQuantum commitment is conditional, and it is the biggest line inside a total the release…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
A Dutch Optician Chain Pulled Meta’s Glasses While Its Rivals Kept Selling Them
Hans Anders and Wehkamp stopped selling Meta's camera glasses in the Netherlands while a consumer group's deadline, a parliamentary motion and a…
CHIPS & AI
The TSMC Terafab Talks Put Intel’s 14A Order in Question
TSMC is exploring a role running Elon Musk's Terafab fabs in Texas, and Musk confirmed it on X in one line. Intel's…
CHIPS & AI
The Surface Laptop Ultra Runs on Nvidia’s RTX Spark Instead of Intel
$2,599 buys the entry model: an 18-core chip, 24 GB of memory, a 512 GB drive and a Windows 11 Home license.