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• Oratomic's valuation hit $5.5B, up from $1.5B, three months after its Series A
• SpaceX buys 800 MHz spectrum to take on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile
• Amazon drops Fire tablets for Android Alexa Tablets priced $229.99 to $549.99
• Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra: $2,599, Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, ships Oct. 16
• Alibaba chairman tells Europe open source is the "only way" to AI independence

Oratomic's valuation hit $5.5B, up from $1.5B, three months after its Series A

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Oratomic, a California quantum-computing startup founded in 2025, raised $475 million in a Series B, lifting its valuation to $5.5 billion from $1.5 billion, SiliconANGLE reports.

SpaceX buys 800 MHz spectrum to take on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile

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SpaceX said on Oct. 8 it has acquired low-band spectrum licenses that include up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800 MHz band.

Amazon drops Fire tablets for Android Alexa Tablets priced $229.99 to $549.99

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Amazon's new Alexa Tablet 8 costs $229.99 and the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro starts at $499.99.

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra: $2,599, Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, ships Oct. 16

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Microsoft priced the Surface Laptop Ultra at $2,599 on Wednesday, opened pre-orders the same day and set an Oct.

Alibaba chairman tells Europe open source is the "only way" to AI independence

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Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai told a Turin audience on Wednesday that Europe's route to AI independence is open-weight models that companies run on their own hardware and train on

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