PCMag says the new Kindle Signature Editions have aluminum backs, no bezels and increased storage.
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.
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.
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.
Techmeme links to a Reuters report saying a16z and Accel led the round for the AI cybersecurity agent startup.
Teslarati linked to a TeslaAUNZ video alongside its availability update for both countries.
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.
A post says the proxy records each model call’s exact token IDs and log probabilities while the harnesses run unmodified.
Quentin Gallouédec wrote that 1 million trainings a week is the next goal and framed post-training as a step toward a less centralized AI ecosystem. Hugging Face later reposted the post.
A user offered $10 each to 100 people and asked them to share their HF usernames.
Windows says viewers can tune in on YouTube at 10 a.m. PT to see “what’s next.”
A post quotes an independent alignment researcher saying attendance raises their assessment of someone’s qualifications, though other signals can substitute.
Business Insider reports Get Access raised $5 million at an $85 million post-money valuation, led by Sound Ventures.
A user says ML Intern trained it on an NVIDIA A100 in 16 minutes and fixed its own bugs.
An Ultra 2 upgrader says their Ultra 4 had 15% battery left around 8 AM on day three.
Hugging Face reposted a post saying users will soon be able to send any community-made policy to their Microduck.
Hugging Face says users can use MCPs to bring their data to HuggingChat, its AI chat service.
AMD said in an Oct. 1 X post that “another AMD Helios system enters the wild” and that Vamsi Boppana and Uday Ruddarraju visited for a lab tour last week. The post tagged OpenAI, but it did not establish that OpenAI is operating the system.
A user asked why a man had “500k of funding from lightcone infrastructure,” linking to a photo.
Ashlee Vance says he spoke with Tomorrow Bio head Emil Kendziorra about how bodies are preserved and the technology’s implications.
