Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple is planning an Oct. 13 push into smart-home hardware, including a hub device, refreshed HomePod mini colors and a new Apple TV with Siri AI support.
Samsung launched two new flagship tablets, the Galaxy Tab S12 Plus and Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra, and there is no base Tab S12 in this lineup.
Amazon has launched a new $59.99 Fire TV Stick 4K that can draw power directly from a TV’s USB port. The company is also replacing its earlier 4K Select and Plus sticks and selling a redesigned Fire TV Remote separately for $14.99 starting in late October.
DoorDash has unveiled an AI ordering agent that works inside Apple Messages, letting US waitlist users place food orders by text and check out with saved payment methods.
Samsung has announced the Galaxy SmartTag 3, a third-generation Bluetooth tracker with a smaller design and improved battery life.
The release post describes TaskSmith as a specialized orchestrator, rather than a general coding agent with a long prompt.
The New York Times reports Meta sought billions in research tax credits for A.I. data center expansion, classifying multibillion-dollar facilities as “pilot models” while warning in filings that the savings could be overturned by the IRS.
OpenAI delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over security concerns voiced by its researchers.
TechCrunch reports Tinder is rolling out Group Hangouts, a feature that lets groups of friends discover other groups around shared activities and connect in a shared chat to make plans together.
A new Galaxy S27 leak reported by Android Authority points to Samsung raising prices across models and storage options, with Korea seeing increases of about $74 to $96 and other markets potentially varying.
Nuvacore has introduced WarpCore, a planned clean-sheet CPU architecture for data centers and AI built around a “Core First” design that delays ISA selection to pursue performance, efficiency and scalability.
Amazon says Alexa+ upgrades for Fire TV devices will begin rolling out in the US in November, adding a dedicated hub, stronger reasoning, and new mobile app features later this year for text, voice, article-sharing, and photo-based discovery.
SiliconANGLE reports Taiwan-based neocloud GMI Cloud closed a $223 million Series B led by ARCHIV and secured a $440 million credit facility from ChinaTrust Commercial Bank for AI infrastructure expansion.
Relay raised $36 million in new funding, bringing total capital raised to more than $90 million.
Oura has delayed a planned $2 billion IPO. Axios reports the wearable maker struggled to get its target price amid bond-yield and oil-price volatility, a possible sign the hot U.S. listings market is cooling.
Wccftech reports that a free Nexus Mods tweak for The Witcher 3 Remastered can improve path-tracing performance by up to 30% indoors, with smaller gains outdoors and in ray tracing, while introducing modest visual tradeoffs.
The U.K. is expanding military space capabilities, with Air Chief Marshal Harv Smyth outlining orbital warfare development, a new RAF Space Effects Squadron and efforts to counter threats to satellites.
RTX 5070 Ti owners are reportedly pushing some Samsung GDDR7 memory from 28 Gbps to 39 Gbps using mVolt+ Extreme, though the reported gaming and benchmark gains remain relatively small.
Borderless Gaming has added support for an unofficial DLSS 5 Neural Rendering effect that loads through its BGFX scaling system, avoiding game-file edits. VideoCardz reports users still have to install the shader separately from GitHub.
TeamViewer urged customers to update to version 15.82 after warning of five high-severity vulnerabilities in its client and host software, including a flaw that could let remote attackers trigger remote code execution.
