• Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer
• Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
• Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras
• With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
• As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry
• PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
• NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift
• Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
• Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths
• Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.
• A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring
• Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails
• Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet
• Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
• RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
• The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers
• Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
• "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
• So what's happening with Russia's new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?
• Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
| • Anthropic urges Australia to consider "conditional approval" for Big Tech to train models on copyrighted works, giving copyright holders a choice to opt out (Josh Butler/The Guardian)
• SoftBank made the final $10B investment in its $30B pledge to OpenAI's last funding round; source: Nvidia also made its final $10B investment in the round (The Information)
• A US judge dismisses Chegg and Penske lawsuits alleging Google violated antitrust law by forcing them to allow content in AI Overviews, reducing web traffic (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
• Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
• Sony launches Quick Spectral Super Resolution, a "new performance tier of AI upscaling" for the standard PS5 developed in collaboration with AMD (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• Gavin Newsom vetoes a CA bill banning secret recording with smart glasses in private places, saying its definition of wearable recording devices was too broad (Sophie Austin/Associated Press)
• OpenAI says it "parted ways" with three researchers for violating its "handling sensitive" info policies; sources: they shared it with an AI safety organization (Wall Street Journal)
• Memo: Ryan Roslansky, who was promoted from LinkedIn CEO to the head of Office and Teams in 2025, is leaving, triggering another Microsoft executive reshuffle (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Sources: Anthropic has taken the unusual step of ending customers' discounts, which typically reach ~15%, once they hit the usage limits, forcing renegotiations (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
• Volantis, which aims to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, like those used by the iPhone's Face ID, to connect AI chips and memory chips, raised $88M (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
• In a Q&A, Trump discusses Dario Amodei's views as differing much from "what is portrayed in the media", meetings with AI leaders, "Super Intelligence", and more (Time)
• Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• Samsung quietly raises US prices for most of its Galaxy S26 lineup by $100 and the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra by $200; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 are unchanged (Adrian Diaconescu/PhoneArena)
• IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via a convertible note that could help finance Anthropic's $125.2B, five-year TPU lease commitment (Reuters)
| • Judge dismisses lawsuits claiming Google's AI Overviews siphon web traffic
• The Steam Autumn Sale has deals on Resident Evil Requiem and 007 First Light
• NYC's click-to-cancel rule is now in effect to save consumers from subscription hell
• Pandora claims 'we haven't made this decision lightly' after raising prices
• Sony brings AI upscaling to the base PS5
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra vs Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra: The difference one year can make
• Audible thinks you want to have an AI-generated conversation with Dracula's beleaguered servant
• Engadget's best of 2026
• Samsung suddenly jacks up the prices of Galaxy S26 phones
• Newsom vetoes smart glasses privacy bill
• Japanese court rules human voices are protected in landmark AI case
• Amazon introduces new Kindle Paperwhite, Colorsoft and entry-level models
• HP's Omnibook 5 features an OLED screen and costs $699
• Neurable launches its newest brain-scanning headphones
• Amazon's latest Kindle accessories bring physical buttons back to its ereaders
• Neon will make a truly open-source SCP movie after A24 controversy
• Google's first Gemini 4 model is 'Argon'
• California's new law bans companies from relying on AI to fire workers
• Apple TV is down
• How to watch NASA's Crew-13 launch
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