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.
PCMag says the new e-readers have no bezels and come in fresh colors, and shared an unboxing video.
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.
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 post quotes an independent alignment researcher saying attendance raises their assessment of someone’s qualifications, though other signals can substitute.
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.
A user asked why a man had “500k of funding from lightcone infrastructure,” linking to a photo.
AMD tagged OpenAI and said two people joined its team for a lab tour in late September 2026.
Axios says Joann Muller hosts discussions with NVTAuthority CEO Monica Backmon, SafeRoadsNow president Cathy Chase and Nuro’s Dave Ferguson.
In an Oct. 1 X post, Engadget recommended tweaking a few default router settings and said the changes can help block common attacks, lock down access and strengthen home network security.
9to5Toys describes the new Airfly Drive as a wireless adapter for CarPlay and Android Auto.
Teslarati linked to a TeslaAUNZ video alongside its availability update for both countries.
A user recommends Flavio Copes’s write-up about Jev, calling it a great explainer.
Techmeme links to The Verge’s report that the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Colorsoft got new colors and up to 32GB of storage.
Techmeme shares a Colossus profile of Vélez as Nubank enters the US.
Techmeme links to a Reuters report saying a16z and Accel led the round for the AI cybersecurity agent startup.
Techmeme, citing PhoneArena, reports that prices for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 stayed unchanged.
9to5toys shared the Best Buy offer, with the advertised savings measured against list prices.
