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Google unveils Fitbit Edge, a screen tracker between the Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch 5

The Fitbit Edge has a 46% larger display than the Charge 6, a replaceable battery and a price of $179.99. Google unveiled it on Monday, 12 October 2026, as a middle option between the screenless Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5.

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AI & Tech·1h ago
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Meta unveils Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its new frontier AI models

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday, 12 October, two models it says score nearly as well as Anthropic's most advanced systems. The launch is an attempt to catch up with rivals after setbacks in the company's AI division.

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AI & Tech·1h ago
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Apple to unveil HomeView smart display at Welcome Home event on 13 October

Apple's Welcome Home event in New York on Tuesday, 13 October is expected to introduce HomeView, a 6-inch smart display built around Siri AI, alongside a HomePod mini and an updated Apple TV 4K.

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AI & Tech·5h ago
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Microsoft's Brad Smith says milk and washing machines face tougher rules than AI

Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a BBC interview published on Monday, 12 October, that AI is less regulated than food and household appliances. He called for emergency brakes, incident reporting and independent evaluators, and said the UK is best placed to lead.

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AI & Tech·4h ago
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UK AI Security Institute gets access to latest AI models as minister warns of cyber breach

Britain's AI Security Institute is now evaluating the latest advanced AI models, including Gemini 4 Argon, AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said on Monday, 12 October. He also warned that an AI-driven cyber-attack on UK government defences is likely.

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AI & Tech·from Oct 8·upd. 3d ago
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Margaret Hamilton, whose Apollo 11 software helped land the first crew on the Moon, dies at 90

Hamilton led the team that wrote the onboard software for NASA's Apollo missions, including Apollo 11's 1969 Moon landing. She died on 30 September in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 90.

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AI & Tech·from Oct 7·upd. 3d ago
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OpenAI publishes 377 solutions to open math problems, and mathematicians are alarmed

OpenAI released AI-generated answers to 377 open mathematical questions, including results on conjectures that stumped researchers for decades. Several mathematicians told The Atlantic that some papers appear not to prove what they claim, and OpenAI has withdrawn three of them.

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AI & Tech·from Oct 7·upd. 4d ago
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Microsoft and Nvidia unveil Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark chip and $2,599 starting price

Announced in San Francisco, the device runs AI models locally with up to 128 GB of unified memory, with United States deliveries scheduled to begin on 16 October.

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AI & Tech·from Oct 6·upd. 4d ago
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Mistral says it is months from catching US AI leaders as Ecosia drops its models

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the French AI company is a few months from matching US rivals, days after releasing its Large 4 model. German search engine Ecosia said it will end its use of Mistral's models over quality concerns.

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AI & Tech·from Oct 8·upd. 3d ago
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OpenAI fires three researchers over sensitive information, who say they were let go for raising safety concerns

OpenAI says an investigation found Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni breached policies on handling sensitive information. The three say they were dismissed for raising AI safety concerns, and the company denies it.

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AI & Tech·from Oct 8·upd. 3d ago
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Chinese AI pentesting tool ARTEX goes closed-source after South Korean bank hacks

The developer of ARTEX, a Chinese open-source AI pentesting tool, has closed its code after security firms linked it to attacks on South Korean banks.

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AI & Tech·from Oct 5·upd. Oct 6
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Giorgia Meloni applies to trademark her voice at EUIPO to combat AI deepfakes

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second recording to the European Union Intellectual Property Office to establish legal protections against artificial intelligence voice cloning.

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