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Fitbit Edge review: notable upgrade over the Charge 6 for GPS and heart rate, Google Health app is an improvement, but lacks software polish and NFC payments (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
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OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false (OpenAI)
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Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
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Intel agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Classiq; Classiq has raised more than $200M in funding and has about 130 employees (Ian King/Bloomberg)
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Anthropic's IPO outlines an unusual succession plan: confidential, ranked lists of up to 10 successors per co-founder, subject to approval from five co-founders (Anna Tong/Forbes)
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Sources: Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments startup RedotPay plans a US IPO filing by year-end and is in talks for a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
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Sources: DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire Instacart, and the deal could be finalized as soon as this week and could value Instacart at ~$17B (Heather Haddon/Wall Street Journal)
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Apple debuts iOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations, understanding more personal context, supporting five more languages, and more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
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Anthropic's S-1 shows a governance structure that suits a fun quirky little mission-driven worker cooperative that needs to raise billions as a public company (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting "fast and capable computer use at scale" and clearer, more natural writing, priced at $1/1M input and $5/1M output tokens (OpenAI)
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Anthropic S-1: it spent just $482M on capex in H1 2026, leasing most of its compute, and its capex is almost entirely outsourced via $782B in lease obligations (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
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Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing (Cohere)
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Apple says it is "aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number" of iPhone Duos and affected users can contact AppleCare for a replacement (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
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S-1: as of September 30, Anthropic had 11,900+ customers spending $100,000+ annually, 1,900+ customers spending $1M+, and ~250 customers spending $10M+ (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
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Microsoft and others push out emergency patches for a critical flaw in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, that could allow remote code execution (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)