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Startups & Business
Nvidia says its DSX Pod AI Factory, which combines seven Vera Rubin racks in a shipping container, could cut the time to start serving AI tokens to 14 days. NVIDIA is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, founded in 1993.
Robotics
Meet the Agile ONE SN On October 21, 2026, Agile Robots SE unveiled the Agile ONE SN. It also gets dexterous five-fingered hands and integrated cameras.
AI
SFT took reasoning-language accuracy from 22% to 100%, and GRPO added measurable gains where headroom existed.
AI
Google is beginning to roll out Personal Intelligence for Gemini on Android Auto and Android Automotive (cars with Google built-in).
AI
AI
AI
Musk confirmed the review on October 20, 2026, during SpaceX’s quarterly earnings call. The proposal itself pitches the merged entity as worth over $3 trillion.
AI
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs (a chip built for many calculations at once, used for graphics and AI). NVIDIA is a semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, founded in 1993, and its products and services include graphics processing units.
AI
OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna), GPT-6 (Astra, Sol, and Luna), and GPT-6.1 Sol are available from the Canada (Central) and Canada West (Calgary) Regions.
Technology
Technology
Google has been working on introducing a useful new security feature in Android 17: the ability to prevent Quick Settings tiles from being toggled without unlocking the phone.
Technology
Technology
Kaplan, a long-time adviser to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg with strong Republican ties, joined Meta in 2011 to run its US policy team.
Technology
According to the regulator, "Apple's fees and rules are blocking UK fintechs and other businesses from innovating and growing."
Technology
Google Cloud power event knocks out UK banks, courts and couriers, according to Computer Weekly. Google is an Internet and software company based in Mountain View, founded in 1998.
Technology
20, 2026 Amazon Web Services is expected to take delivery of approximately $5 billion worth of Nvidia GB300 racks, according to internal AWS planning documents. GB300 NVL72 instances, sold as P6e-GB300 UltraServers, became generally available on AWS as of December 2025.
Technology
Washington is debating export controls on advanced AI chips, how to implement the CHIPS and Science Act, and what an AI regulatory framework should look like. The disclosures were filed around October 16 to 20, 2026.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Deka’s launch brings crypto trading to participating savings banks, with a €0.99 order fee plus a spread and restricted transfers.
Bitcoin & Crypto
The state’s restrictions on foreign ownership of digital asset mining operations remain blocked. Act 174 took effect in May 2024.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Nectar Group, the developer of bitcoin income platform HoneyB, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Decrypt News Business UK Banks Hit With 10,000 Complaints Over Blocked Crypto Transfers in 90 Days: Report Lloyds drew the most complaints despite having no published policy restricting crypto transfers, according to a Stand With Crypto report.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Ethereum accounted for $121.5 million of trading, while the protocol's locked value rose only modestly during the day.
Bitcoin & Crypto
IBIT's dominance in Bitcoin ETF (a fund traded on a stock exchange like a share) inflows highlights institutional confidence, pressuring competitors to innovate for market share retention.
Cybersecurity
CISA has added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
Cybersecurity
Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate, according to TechCrunch and TechCrunch AI.
Cybersecurity
Oracle has released its October 2026 Critical Patch Update, which contains 1,295 new security patches across its enterprise portfolio.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
The investigation began in late September 2026 with open directories on 45.227.254[.]43. Recorded spending on one OpenRouter account reached $23,920.
Cybersecurity
Plex confirms widespread attacks against internet-facing servers, with the flaws allowing remote code execution (running programs on a machine from somewhere else) without authentication.
Cybersecurity
News Social Media Employees warned TikTok about child exploitation, court documents show The company is facing hundreds of lawsuits over its record on safety. According to statements made by company employees, TikTok executives were notified that teens were regularly appearing in live streams in the app, which raised concerns about potential grooming and exploitation.
Cybersecurity
Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight compromised intermediate certificates after researchers found their private keys were so weak that anyone could recover them almost instantly and use them to forge trusted certificates for legitimate websites.
Chips & Hardware
The first planned transceivers will integrate 16 full-duplex lanes into an OSFP-sized footprint, supporting both switches and SuperNICs.
Chips & Hardware
Chips & Hardware
Bethesda's beloved role-playing game "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" has reached multiple generations of consoles since its 2011 debut, but it never officially came to the Mac.
Chips & Hardware
AMD and Microsoft have confirmed that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is coming to the Xbox Series X and Series S. The news came in an AMD video presentation led by Jack Huynh, joined by Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet and ASUS.
Chips & Hardware
The company announced HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 on October 20.
Chips & Hardware
Google introduced Enhanced Protection in Chrome over half a decade ago. Google Chrome's scam protection is getting better — and more intrusive.
Chips & Hardware
Dynamic PAMT is a new feature for reducing memory overhead on Intel TDX servers where there may not be many concurrent virtual machines occupying a majority of the system. Intel is a semiconductor and electrical company based in Santa Clara, founded in 1968.
Chips & Hardware
Nvidia, Google, Intel and Anthropic lobbied against AI chip export restrictions in Q3, according to Crypto Briefing. The lobbying efforts highlight the tension between national security concerns and the tech industry's global market ambitions, impacting future AI innovation.
Robotics
The Robot Report is seeking nominations for its 2026 TRR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. Each year, The Robot Report selects the most interesting and important robotics innovations from around the world.
Robotics
Robotics
High Lander Announces it Has Reached a Total of $30 Million in Funding, according to sUAS News.
Robotics
eVTOL pioneer Skyfly lands $10 million to bring personal vertical flight to market, according to sUAS News.
Robotics
In a social media post, company CRO Martin Karkour announced that the experimental Apex Recordhunter reached a speed of 419.5 knots (482.8 mph, 777 km/h).
Startups & Business
The company has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps drugmakers coordinate development work. Even promising discoveries can face delays when development teams struggle to keep complex projects on track.
Startups & Business
20, 2026 Pigment, a Paris-based AI software startup, has raised $250 million to take on two of the most entrenched programs in corporate life: Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Startups & Business
Elon Musk, CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, hinted at a potential merger between the two companies, although he noted that no definitive terms have been agreed upon yet.
Startups & Business
The market’s reaction to this news has been notable, with implications for the perceived likelihood of a merger being officially announced. SpaceX is a space company based in Hawthorne. Tesla is an automotive and solar company based in Palo Alto.
Startups & Business
Both figures come from a draft S-1 registration statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Startups & Business
20, 2026 The figures come from the company’s draft IPO (the sale of a company’s shares to the public on a stock exchange) prospectus, released on October 20, 2026.
Space & Science
On October 11, its odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), surpassing the previous record of 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) held by NASA's Opportunity rover (a vehicle that drives across another world’s surface), which explored Mars from 2004 to 2018.
Space & Science
Here are the key things investors need to know to start the trading day. Tesla is an automotive and solar company based in Palo Alto, founded in 2003.
Space & Science
SpaceX is set to launch a batch of 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Tuesday afternoon.
Space & Science
Space & Science
Using eyedrops in space—wearable patch offers a new approach, according to Phys.org. Applying eyedrops is difficult in space, where there is almost no gravity.
Space & Science
Nine rockets are set to launch this week from California, Florida, New Zealand, Japan, and China. SpaceX is a space company based in Hawthorne, and its products and services include Falcon.
Space & Science
Large language models are set to go lunar. A computer capable of running AI software is one of the payloads aboard Astrolab’s FLIP lunar rover, which is slated to head to Earth’s celestial companion as early as November 2026.
Space & Science
The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the NOAA-21 satellite captured this image of the extratropical cyclone brushing past Iceland on the afternoon of October 14. Damaging winds extended into northern parts of the country, where residents also braced for sleet and snow.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Bitcoin just earned a spot in one of Wall Street’s most closely watched return forecasts, and it landed at the top of the table. Morgan Asset Management projected a 10% compound annual return for Bitcoin over the next 10 to 15 years in its 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions, released Monday.
Robotics
It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
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