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.
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 user offered $10 each to 100 people and asked them to share their HF usernames.
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.
An Ultra 2 upgrader says their Ultra 4 had 15% battery left around 8 AM on day three.
A post quotes an independent alignment researcher saying attendance raises their assessment of someone’s qualifications, though other signals can substitute.
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 says ML Intern trained it on an NVIDIA A100 in 16 minutes and fixed its own bugs.
A user asked why a man had “500k of funding from lightcone infrastructure,” linking to a photo.
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.
Ashlee Vance says he spoke with Tomorrow Bio head Emil Kendziorra about how bodies are preserved and the technology’s implications.
A user recommends Flavio Copes’s write-up about Jev, calling it a great explainer.
9to5Toys describes the new Airfly Drive as a wireless adapter for CarPlay and Android Auto.
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.
