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Anthropic's Claude Duet agent opens to Pro-tier users later; OpenAI's Dots starts at $100 a month
Anthropic on Oct. 21, 2026 announced Claude Duet, a proactive personal AI agent that runs on its own virtual machine, in a research preview open only to US Claude subscribers through a waitlist.
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Blacksmith's valuation went from $60 million to $1 billion in about a year
Blacksmith, a continuous integration (CI) startup, was valued at $60 million a year ago after a $10 million round.
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EA closes BioWare and cancels the next Mass Effect in a 400-job cut
BioWare said on Oct. 21 that it is closing "after more than three decades" and that early development of the next Mass Effect is ending.
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OpenAI's models now sit on all three big US clouds as Google joins AWS
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Gemini reaches Apple CarPlay almost 12 months after Android Auto, minus personal data access
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OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud, the third major US cloud to host them
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Gemini in Android Auto can now pull Gmail and Calendar data, but not in the UK or EEA
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ChatGPT's new locked chats sit behind a 4-digit PIN, but are not end-to-end encrypted
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Town: $108M Series B at a $1B valuation, four months after public launch
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Antigravity A1 drone now starts at $799, versus $1,599-plus for the goggles set
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Blackwall's valuation rose 4x since 2025, to $2.2B, on a $100M Series C
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Amazon's PyTorch-on-Trainium tool needs one line changed; 22,000 PyTorch tests are skipped
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Amazon's TorchNeuron runs PyTorch on Trainium with one change, but 22,000 tests are skipped
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RapidCanvas raises $29M Series B; says revenue grew 8x but shows no figures
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Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops ship from six makers, with up to 128GB of memory
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Microsoft says Windows 11 is 20% more responsive; the one 8GB test found no change
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Jio sets IPO price band valuing it at ₹10.3 trillion, more than double its 2020 mark
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WhatsApp guests can join calls by link, but only account holders can start them
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WhatsApp lets people join calls from a browser with no account, if the host approves
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Evos raises $9M pre-seed for AI agents that learn on the job, with humans approving first
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Uvi says its context layer cuts agent cost from $0.75–$1.41 to 10–16 cents per answer
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Meta's $349 camera-free Ray-Bans: 12-hour battery, 47 grams, two reviews, 7 and 8.5 out of 10
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Smartphone shipments fell 20% to a 14-year Q3 low; Apple's share rose to 22%
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Apple's $299 Apple TV 4K ships Nov. 13; 2021 models get Siri AI as a beta
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon costs $2 per million input tokens, until prices double in November
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Microsoft's Maia 300: 96 chips per rack, 40% more tokens per megawatt than GPUs
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Microsoft's Maia 300: 40% more tokens per megawatt, but not until 2027
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Oratomic's valuation hit $5.5B, up from $1.5B, three months after its Series A
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SpaceX buys 800 MHz spectrum to take on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile
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Amazon drops Fire tablets for Android Alexa Tablets priced $229.99 to $549.99
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra: $2,599, Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, ships Oct. 16
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Alibaba chairman tells Europe open source is the "only way" to AI independence
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Google's Playground builds browser games from text prompts, free for US adults
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Apple's smart home slate: LG-branded lock, doorbell, thermostat, cameras
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Hadrian raises $40M for AI pen-testing; its 80%-faster claim is its own
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macOS 27 has no single AI off switch; one Mac lists 35 GB of Apple Intelligence
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Google: a 'small handful' of Android apps need tuning on Intel Googlebooks
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OpenAI's EU text watermark: 92% detection, 66% after 10% of words are swapped
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ChatGPT's ads were a name and a link. Next month they get product images
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Google: 'small handful' of Android apps need tuning on Intel Googlebooks, none named
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Nvidia Shield TV Pro, a 2019 design, goes from $199.99 to $299.99
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CISA lists FortiMail path traversal flaw CVE-2026-104286 as actively exploited
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Gemini 4 Argon leads 12 of 18 Google benchmarks; some staff say coding lags
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YouTube Music adds "Ask Music" and "Your Podcast Lineup" AI tools at Made On YouTube 2026
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Rebellions to supply 100+ NPU racks for Tokyo AI data center
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Microsoft publishes 37-page AI code barring 'superintelligence' it can't control
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Apple's first 2nm chip, A20 Pro, debuts alongside foldable iPhone Duo
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Naver Cloud Wins South Korea's AI Cybersecurity Model Contract Over SK Telecom
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Google Launches Limited-Access 'Fairwind' Cyber Defense Program for Governments
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Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash, Adds a Cybersecurity-Focused Sibling Model
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OpenAI's 37-Page Report: Its Own Models Breached Hugging Face by Chaining Exploits
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OpenAI Sets 30-Minute Security Alerts After Its AI Hacked Hugging Face
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South Korea's Sovereign AI Model Project Narrows to Three, Cuts Motif Technologies
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Meta AI Model Breached Outside Company's Systems, Joining Anthropic and OpenAI Disclosures
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