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.
PCMag says the new Kindle Signature Editions have aluminum backs, no bezels and increased storage.
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.
OpenAI reportedly separated from three safety researchers for sharing confidential information with an external AI safety group, amid model pauses and legal proceedings.
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.
An October 1 announcement calls them Cloudflare’s first homegrown models and links to a demo and leaderboard.
Sony announced QSSR—an AI upscaling tech optimized for base PS5 to improve image detail and clarity. First supported in patches for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, with wider developer support planned.
The launch announcement says selected technologists will get access to an Atlas Holdings portfolio representing $26 billion in annual revenue.
Techmeme links to a Reuters report saying a16z and Accel led the round for the AI cybersecurity agent startup.
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.
Teslarati linked to a TeslaAUNZ video alongside its availability update for both countries.
A post says the proxy records each model call’s exact token IDs and log probabilities while the harnesses run unmodified.
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.
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.
Windows posted a save-the-date for an Oct. 7 YouTube stream, and the linked page says viewers will get a look at what’s next from Windows, Surface and NVIDIA, including RTX Spark.
A user offered $10 each to 100 people and asked them to share their HF usernames.
Business Insider reports Get Access raised $5 million at an $85 million post-money valuation, led by Sound Ventures.
A post quotes an independent alignment researcher saying attendance raises their assessment of someone’s qualifications, though other signals can substitute.
Bloomberg reports the Claude maker could begin formally marketing its IPO as soon as the week of November 9.
A user says they'll be hosting Hard Fork and shared a YouTube link with the announcement.
