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Carlie Beams and Drew Jones

The Onion

Here is Panther Lake, Intel’s 2026 laptop chip with next-gen graphics

The Verge - All Posts

The best October Prime Day deals you can still shop

The Verge - All Posts

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise, designed to help employees automate tasks and generate content across departments, priced at $30 per user per month (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Reflection AI, which is developing an open-source AI model to compete with DeepSeek, raised $2B led by Nvidia, valuing it at $8B, up from $545M in March (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

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The Browser Company says AI browser Dia is "now open to everyone on macOS" without an invite, Dia's first time being widely available since its June launch (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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Skip the third Omen movie — the prequel movie is a much better possession story

Polygon - All

Don’t get too excited about AI’s downfall

Vox - All

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

The Verge - All Posts

Sources: Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; CAA says OpenAI is exposing artists to "significant risk" with Sora (Mrinmay Dey/Reuters)

Techmeme

How everything became left or right “coded”

Vox - All

Toronto-based Spellbook, whose AI helps with legal contracts, raised $50M led by Khosla Ventures at a $350M valuation and says it has ~4,000 customers (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

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Ghost of Yōtei nails the art of open-world exploration

Polygon - All

Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the thin-enough foldable

The Verge - All Posts

An analysis of nearly 50 Amazon purchases over six months in 2025: during the October 7-8 Prime Day sales, average savings were only 0.6% and some items went up (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

Techmeme

OneDrive is getting a new Windows app and an AI photo agent

The Verge - All Posts

Apple plans to update its Declared Age Range API and launch new APIs "later this year" to verify the ages of Apple Account users in Texas from January 1, 2026 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Techmeme

The Comey prosecution is revealing Trump’s weakness

Vox - All

SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

A profile of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, who has 19M followers on the platform, many of them young people, and drew nearly 50M viewers to a monthlong stream (Emmanuel Morgan/New York Times)

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