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Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200 (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Apple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, "a first for Apple silicon", with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s+ and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU (Steve Dent/Engadget)
Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides "the world's fastest single-threaded performance" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, with up to 4x faster AI performance and up to 2x faster graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro (Apple)
Apple updates the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, with up to 4.3x faster AI performance, faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+ (Apple)
Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)
OpenAI bans a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to evade restrictions and run an influence operation, including creating social media comments (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
Accelerated Understanding launches an enterprise-focused physics AI model that uses neural operators and handled 5T pieces of data in a single prompt in tests (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
Xiaomi unveils the Xring O100, a 6nm AI accelerator to boost its MiMo models when paired with its O3 mobile chip, and the 3nm Xring D100 for autonomous driving (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a feature to reduce motion sickness by showing visual cues on the screen, to Android 17, starting with select Pixel devices (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
A profile of French software maker ChapsVision, which won a contract to replace Palantir at France's domestic intel agency in June and targets an IPO by 2030 (Adrienne Klasa/Financial Times)

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