Mariella Moon / Engadget: SpaceXSI launches a unified X Subscription bundling Grok, Cursor, and X Premium, with tiers at $8, $30, $100, and $200 per month; the $30 tier includes Grok Bot  —  One membership will give you access to SpaceXSI's products.  —  SpaceXSI has announced a unified membership scheme across its products called the X Subscription.

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. The report’s core concern is that the…

Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.

Financial Times: Sources: Chinese tech companies bought 1M+ Nvidia gaming and workstation chips, mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro, for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage  —  The country's tech giants are snapping up products never designed for advanced AI to satisfy soaring computing demands

Oxford physicists have recreated a bizarre quantum effect in which a particle responds to a magnetic field without ever traveling through it. Using a hybrid quantum computer, they demonstrated how introducing a simulated magnetic flux could completely halt a particle's movement through quantum interference. The experiment brings a decades-old prediction into a new setting where matter and quantum fields influence one another.

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Bloomberg: CXMT says it plans to launch a 4F² design DRAM chip for data center servers before the end of 2026, achieving a breakthrough that rivals have pursued for years  —  CXMT Corp. declared it achieved a breakthrough in chip technology that rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. had pursued for years …

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount (likely around…

WIRED examined contracts from over two dozen cities and towns that shed light on how Flock’s pricing and business model functions, and how it stacks up against its peers.

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Reuters: IDC: China's Q3 smartphone shipments fell 15.4% YoY to 57.9M units, the sixth straight quarter of decline; Huawei led with a 21% share and Apple had 17.8%  —  China's third-quarter smartphone shipments fell 15.4% from a year earlier to 57.9 million units, research firm IDC said on Tuesday.

Airline software company Accelya on October 13, 2026 announced FLX Recover, an agentic AI-powered solution designed to help airlines assist disrupted passengers faster, more intelligently and at scale. It is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, powered by Accelya's FLX AIViator intelligence layer, and was engineered with RapidScale, a provider of enterprise managed and professional services. A Three-Party Engineering Effort Accelya provides the airline intelligence…

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A robot hire needs a safety case and an insurer long before it needs a badge. Six questions turn a vendor demo into a decision you can defend.

UK researchers regain access to advanced AI models for safety testing as ministers consider stronger incident reporting and expand government cyber defenses. The post UK Regains Early Access to AI Models After Reported White House Reversal appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Semiconductor startupUbitium has raised $14 million in new seed funding to develop its universalprocessor for autonomous machines and other physical AI applications. The roundwas led by Ibex Investors...

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The International Monetary Fund released its October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report on October 13, 2026, warning that weaker or less durable investment and profitability in artificial intelligence could trigger a correction in AI-linked equities and credit, one of three salient risks it says could abruptly tighten financial conditions worldwide. The report, titled Resilience, Risk, and Transformation, finds that financial markets have remained resilient on solid economic growth and…