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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant’s newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
194 Blog Posts To Learn About Games
Let’s learn about Games via these 194 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Gamers don’t get addicted, they level up! 1. Every Game of the Year Winner in Chronological Order Elden Ring, It Takes … Read more
Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
Bluesky’s Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make “small” social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said … Read more
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users’ needs instead of waiting for commands.
Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps
If you’re a new user of Withings’ fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it’s now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings’ support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, … Read more
Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the network
The executives argued that advertising isn’t the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
Nobody Owns “New Media.” a16z, Draymond Green, OpenAI, and Even The White House All Claim It
Andreessen Horowitz, Draymond Green, the White House and OpenAI now share a label. Each calls its own channel “new media.” a16z built a New Media team. Green named his production company The New Media. The White House created a “new media seat” in the briefing room. OpenAI bought TBPN, the show that maps who counts … Read more
How I Discovered That Most of My Backtesting Decisions Were Coin Flips
This is a story about how I found out that most of the decisions in one of my research logs were coin flips, and about what I changed so that it wouldn’t happen again. In September 2026, I ran the same research model eleven times. The code, the data and the settings were identical each … Read more
Forgepoint Raises $9.8M From Primary and a16z Speedrun to Give Factories an AI Sales Team
America spent money on new factories at an annual rate of $171 billion in August 2026, according to US Census Bureau data, more than double the pace of 2021, yet many of the manufacturers meant to benefit from that boom can still make a part faster than they can send a quote for it. Forgepoint, … Read more
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Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs
The new Muse Spark Open AI model can work on M5 Ultra Mac Studios. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it’s the “most capable US open-weight model to date.” But the company also says that it’s the “the first model in its … Read more
Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends October 16
Savings of up to $200 end October 16 for TechCrunch Founder Summit. These savings for Founder and Investor Passes vanish after Friday. Join 1,000 founders and investors on November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station. Bring your toughest questions and make the day count for your business.
Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 player
This render with a transparent background is the closest we’ll ever come to touching one of these things. | Image: Sony Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched … Read more
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Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia
Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia that will extend beyond its battery electric vehicles.
Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving
Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia’s latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia’s autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Volvo says the new point-to-point system will be Level 2++, meaning it can … Read more
Alienware’s latest 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is $50 off
Alienware’s 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor. The Alienware AW3426DW is discounted to $742.22 at Amazon, just over $50 off its usual price of $799.99. It’s not quite the lowest price we’ve seen on this well-equipped gaming monitor, but still a decent discount. The 34-inch screen just came out a couple months ago, and is equipped with … Read more
Google is making inline links more prominent in AI responses
Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear “higher up in responses more frequently,” according to a blog post. The company’s search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns that the format reduces … Read more
FINQ’s AI-Managed ETFs Return Up to 41.56%, Outperforming the S&P 500’s 10.96%
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to analyze markets, generate investment signals, and support portfolio decisions. FINQ is pursuing a more ambitious application: placing AI at the center of the investment process itself, with algorithms responsible for ranking stocks, selecting holdings, and determining portfolio weights. The asset management company reported that its two AI-managed exchange-traded … Read more
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SK Hynix bargains for chip equipment exports to its China facility in return for building a factory in US
SK Hynix’s Solidigm is reportedly seeking US approval to send more chipmaking equipment to China as it weighs building a new NAND chip factory in America.
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
There’s a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of “AI personal assistants” like Meta’s Muse, you’re being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also … Read more
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E Ink upgraded the screen found in most color e-readers
E Ink announced the next generation of its Kaleido color e-paper screen technology today, delivering several welcome improvements. The company’s existing Kaleido 3 displays can be found in e-readers and tablets from companies like Kobo, PocketBook, and Boox, while Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft uses a customized version to improve performance. The new Kaleido 4 technology addresses … Read more
The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm
An Nvidia RTX Spark chip aboard an Asus laptop motherboard. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Fourteen years ago this month, Microsoft released an Nvidia-powered Windows PC that would become one of the greatest tech flops in modern history. The original Microsoft Surface, which ran a stripped-down version of Windows on an Nvidia … Read more