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Speculation around a deal started circulating last week. | Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in online grocery delivery via Instacart's established grocery marketplace and retailer partnerships. DoorDash, which started as a resta... View Source

For nearly a quarter of a century, Elon Musk and his essential partner at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, viewed the United States government as El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. Like machete-wielding treasure hunters, Musk and Shotwell hacked through a tangled jungle filled with lurking carnivores such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, as well as bean counters and regulators. Over time, against long od... View Source

DoorDash Inc. agreed to buy rival Instacart in a deal that values the company at about $17 billion, the latest sign of consolidation in an increasingly competitive delivery market... View Source

AI leaders aligned themselves with Trump, which may not age well after next week’s midterm elections... View Source

South Korean regulators found that Apple and Google violated the country's Telecommunications Business Act... View Source

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk perform spacewalk to install and deploy an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA). Continue reading... View Source

Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s shares fell about 10% in early trading, setting the stock up for its biggest-ever market value wipeout, after the company reported disappointing search and advertising sales that reinforced investor concerns about AI’s threat to its core business... View Source

The U.S. Air Force is opening up about the SpaceX Starfall cargo capsule it flew on a recent rideshare mission to orbit — and showing off what the capsule carried.The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) completed a point-to-point rocket cargo delivery test using the secretive uncrewed reentry vehicle, confirming on social media its recovery of the package in the Pacific Ocean. "With support from... View Source

A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one building, and then another, and then the ground opens up... View Source

Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me... View Source

Anna Edwards, Tom Mackenzie and Paul Dobson break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google's latest Gemini 4 Carbon AI model boasts top benchmark scores in areas like cybersecurity and coding... View Source

Marvell Technology Inc. is in advanced talks to buy data center optics maker Lumentum Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, putting it on the cusp of a potential megadeal amid the race to scale up in the artificial intelligence sector... View Source

Lying beyond Pluto, 2026 ED138 could be as large as 1,500 kilometers in diameter. Astronomers are still working to confirm whether it meets the criteria for a dwarf planet... View Source

Europe is gaining ground on the US this reporting season, with profit growth forecast within touching distance for the first time in more than three years... View Source

A hacktivist group stole the information of ICE agents and border police from Homeland Security... View Source

It has been a big week for the AI trade — we've seen wobbles in the market, many of them in response to headlines like the Anthropic S-1 and earnings from the hyperscalers (Oracle, Microsoft, etc.). So what does Wall Street make of all the news, and how are they processing an increasing sense that the laws of the economy barely apply to AI? Today, we speak with Alexander 'Alty' Altmann, global hea... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. shares reversed earlier gains to slide as much as 6.6% as the lack of a new shareholder return plan in its earnings disappointed investors... View Source

A global rally in technology shares this week stalled after disappointing earnings from Alphabet and Samsung revived doubts over whether billions of dollars in AI spending will deliver sufficient returns. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Air Liquide SA revenue grew to its highest in nearly four years, propelled by increased demand in its artificial intelligence-exposed unit... View Source

STMicroelectronics NV forecast fourth-quarter revenue growth as a recovery in chip demand continues after a prolonged slump... View Source

A cyberattack on a listed unit of GMO Internet Group Inc. is spilling into Japan’s credit market, widening the company’s bond spread as investors grow more concerned about the potential blow to earnings... View Source

Jio Platforms Ltd. has added almost $36 billion in market value in two trading sessions, extending its blistering run after India’s biggest-ever initial public offering and underscoring investor appetite for direct exposure to the telecom and digital-services giant... View Source

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DoorDash Inc., the food delivery provider in talks to take over Instacart, moved its earnings release date forward by almost a week... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 29 October 2026 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The Horns of Venus Explanation: That’s no moon. But you could... View Source

Mass cybersecurity disruptions will “get a lot worse before they get better,” according to an executive at Anthropic PBC... View Source

June Paik, Founder and CEO of South Korean AI Chip startup FuriosaAI, discusses the firm's $620 million Series D fundraising round, quadrupling the firm's valuation. He also discusses the company's business growth plans. He speaks with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

When Pony Ma called Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s AI endeavor “a leaky ship” this summer, the billionaire founder sent ripples through a company that for years dominated the industry with WeChat. The social media and gaming leader was at the time struggling to catch the likes of DeepSeek in the post-ChatGPT age. One of his key lieutenants, Dowson Tong, came up with a surprising answer: let’s retool to f... View Source

Dowson Tong, CEO of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industries Group in an exclusive conversation with BTV's Stephen Engle talks about the company's investment shifts from being AI consumer agents to enterprise, why it is prioritizing compute for internal model training and products and the competition on chatbot space. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Former NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman joins Caltech and NASA JPL as Caltech associate vice president and JPL deputy director on Nov. 30.Photo Credit: NASA Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman has been named Caltech associate vice president and deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Sou... View Source

The Close brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are DWS Americas CEO Hepsen Uzcan, Stony Brook University Public Policy & Economics Professor Stephanie Kelton, VF Corp CEO Bracken Darrell, Jersey Mike’s CEO Charlie Morrison, DoubleLine Capital Portfolio Manager Ken Shinoda, DA Davidso... View Source

Tesla robotaxi has passed Waymo in driverless miles in Austin. Elon’s reaction was that it was never a real contest. Here are the numbers. Robotaxi Tracker has Tesla at about 438,000 driverless miles a week in Austin, against about 406,000 for Waymo (LIVE). Waymo’s figure is its Q2 2026 weekly average, because Waymo reports about ... Read more... View Source

On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a "long-term goal" of pushing the computer industry to create "a fully domestic supply chain." Even a single Made-in-USA laptop would be a surprise, because no major US computer company builds its laptops her... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. hiked its spending plans after relentless demand for AI infrastructure drove memory prices higher, though its chip division’s profit missed lofty investor expectations... View Source

Samsung reported net for the third quarter that missed the average analyst estimate. Bloomberg's Haidi Stroud-Watts breaks down the numbers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI quadrupled its valuation to $2.9 billion in a fresh funding round, bolstering its bid to challenge the likes of Nvidia Corp... View Source

Sheryl Sandberg says the 32-year-old executive reminds her of Mark Zuckerberg. Josh Payne must now take his startup public at a tumultuous moment for the AI industry. ... View Source

Equinix Inc., one of the world’s biggest data-center companies, said mounting barriers to bringing new projects online will make existing capacity more valuable and potentially strengthen its grip on the market — including pricing... View Source

Along with speaker and Echo Show upgrades, Amazon unveiled a smart alarm clock and photo frame... View Source

Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over Argon, which Google... View Source

Alphabet posted disappointing sales from most of its core businesses in the third quarter, escalating investors’ concerns about the hundreds of billions of dollars that the company is spending on artificial intelligence. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The agency will vote next month on relaxing its long-standing opposition to jammers... View Source

On Oct. 28, 1971, the United Kingdom launched its first satellite. The satellite was named Prospero, but it was also known as the X-3. This wasn't Britain's first satellite, but it was the first and only one the British space program launched with one of its own rockets. The first six British satellites all launched from the United States on NASA rockets. Prospero launched on a carrier rocket call... View Source

Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a lot of people really don't like AI, and it's not just young people and creatives. Appearing on the Colin and Samir podcast to talk about the launch of widescreen and long-form video for Instagram, Mosseri said he thinks there's a trend of "more... View Source

Artificial intelligence is making financial scams more convincing and harder to detect, raising new risks for investors and financial advisors. Cayla Culver, Head of Risk and Controls for Schwab Advisor Services, says fraudsters are using AI to scale traditional scams and even spoof the voices of family members. She joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss how advisors can protect clients and... View Source

You can tell Amazon's Alexa Photo Frame which images you want to see... View Source

With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it's no surprise that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is more expensive than the MBP announced earlier this year. But upgrading the base models that start at $2,899 for the 14-inch, and $3,399 for the 16-inch, with every premium hardware option that Apple offers pushes those prices to an eye-watering $14,249 and $14,549, respectively. Bo... View Source

A deterioration in global credit markets is showing up in Japan, where corporate credit risk has worsened by the most since September 2022, adding pressure to a bond market already absorbing record issuance... View Source

The new wearable is the first of its kind to run on the Android XR platform... View Source

Credit: NASA The Socialist Republic of Vietnam became the 78th nation to sign the Artemis Accords, joining a growing coalition of like-minded nations committed to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space.   “Vietnam is joining at an important point in the development of its own space program,” said NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson in recorded remarks for the ceremony... View Source

Stihl saws are back in a big way in our latest testing... View Source

The MPC Sample Key looks like the MPC Sample just with keys instead of pads. | Image: Akai The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of hackers and custom firmware developers by giving them early access to the device, which will have open-source firmwa... View Source

Banks are delaying plans to offload part of a $15 billion loan to fund a data center tied to Anthropic PBC in Texas, after the state put a hold on new projects while assessing risks to its power grid... View Source

This is according to the threat research arm of NordVPN... View Source

Florida and the artifact of low sampling of robotaxi rides. Instead of 38 Tesla robotaxi in Florida it is likely 75 to 140. There are 1080 registered Tesla robotaxi in Texas. I estimate 1155 to 1220 Tesla robotaxi in Texas and Florida. If the robotaxitracker data was accepted then 5626 of paid robotaxi rides was ... Read more... View Source

We researched the best pint-size torches that are portable and durable for everyday use... View Source

A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and office locations of more than 41,000 employees, including those in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to TechCrunch and Wired. The data also linked the agencies to sp... View Source

Alphabet quarterly sales and profit missed estimates, with investors focused on whether the company can protect its search business as AI changes how people find information. Scott Devitt, managing director and senior research analyst at Rosenblatt Securities, breaks down Alphabet's earnings report on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We're looking for freelance journalists who know their way around a tech blog... View Source

These 24-inch dishwashers look nearly identical on paper. We break down which one belongs in your kitchen... View Source

Living underwater was surprisingly peaceful. It was in many ways exactly what I imagine living on Mars would be like one day. There were no humans around us, except for my three SEA STAR crewmembers and me. Apart from the human noises we made, we couldn't hear anything other than the life support systems keeping us alive submerged 22 feet (7 meters) below the surface. We were living in these extre... View Source

For the last several years, Readwise has been building tools for power readers. There's the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes your Kindle highlights to help you remember what you've read. There's Readwise Reader, an app for reading newsletters, PDFs, and web articles you've saved for later. And now there's Readwise Books, a full-fledged platform for buying, reading, and tal... View Source

Unpacking the company’s 300-plus page prospectus... View Source

With all the fuss about Apple finally releasing a touchscreen MacBook Pro, you may have forgotten about the OLED part... View Source

The brand has been making blades for nearly a century. It’s proof that a good-quality knife doesn’t have to cost a fortune... View Source

Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 32 percent. It's a new financial year for Microsoft, so the company is changing up how it reports its finances by splitting its businesses into two segments for the first... View Source

The success of Apple’s new folding iPhone Duo hinged on its, well, hinge. But sadly for the multi trillion dollar company, some of the larger, inner screens on its $2,000-plus devices are already cracking, and early postmortems point to their faulty hinge design. In light of that fiasco, now feels like a good time to bring up how the hinge was designed: with the help of AI. Here’s what Johny Srouj... View Source

ServiceNow Inc. shares plunged after the company gave an outlook for quarterly subscription sales that met analysts’ estimates, but failed to quell Wall Street’s anxieties that artificial intelligence will disrupt the software maker... View Source

Between Sony's plan to end PlayStation disc production and discontinuing its Blu-ray players, the future looks grim for physical media... View Source

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The next International Space Station (ISS) spacewalk will have more maple-leaf flavor than usual, as a Canadian astronaut will become the first to go outside the orbiting complex in seven years.Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, who's also a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force, will help the ISS boost its power supply during his first-ever spacewalk on Thursday (Oct. 29). Kut... View Source

Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today. "Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries," CEO Sundar Pichai says in a statement. "In fact, our year-over-year query growth rate is the highest it's been in the last five years." Alphabet's conso... View Source

Bloomberg's Emily Nicolle joins Scarlet Fu and Isabelle Lee on "Bloomberg Crypto." While Bitcoin appears to have fallen into an autumnal slumber, another corner of the speculative trading arena is thriving. Prediction-market volumes are soaring to new heights, and even with token prices rangebound, crypto’s playing its own role in the bounce. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company says it won't make "policy changes" until it consults with publishers... View Source

A gavel prior to an open commission meeting at the FCC. | Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first consumer gadgets that are facing de facto import bans because of the US government’s xenophobic stance — and they might not be the last. Originally, the US... View Source

In the troubling view of machine learning researcher Nate Soares, AI is more likely than not to wipe out humanity within the next decade. At least, that’s what Soares said during a recent episode of the Atlantic’s podcast “The Most Interesting Thing in AI.” During the taping, the AI researcher and president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute even said that he’s so confident in the comi... View Source

The private space tourism era looked so very promising five years ago. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic had begun flying customers—real people with zero space experience—on suborbital missions. And at about the same time, private citizens were going to orbit for days at a time aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon. But that was then. Consider the state of play today: It has been 10 months since Blue Origin's... View Source

Kara Calvert, vice president of US policy at Coinbase, joins Scarlet Fu and Isabelle Lee on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss the failure of the Clarity Act and the potential of new crypto bill after the upcoming US midterm elections. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The feature works with both iMessage and RCS messaging... View Source

The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is lifted from the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026.NASA/Sean Cannon The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is lifted from the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. NASA/Sean Cannon The SLS (Sp... View Source

Virgin Galactic has officially unveiled the first space plane in its next-gen "Delta" line, and announced the results of the worldwide vote to choose its name.Spaceship Apeiron will be the first Delta-class vehicle, Virgin Galactic revealed on Wednesday (Oct. 28). Apeiron (pronounced "A'-per-on," according to the announcement) takes its name from the ancient Greek word meaning "boundless," and was... View Source

Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger OLED display this week, and we've just gotten to try it out at Apple's "Pro and tell" event. It's an iPad for sure, but the new OLED on the Mini looks exceptional, and the optional nano-texture matte finish is awesome. The "Pro and tell" event venue has soft lighting that's not the most conducive to blinding glare on displays, but the matte finish pret... View Source

Oracle Corp. gave a long-term outlook for free cash flow that was better than analysts’ estimates, easing investor nerves about the potential payoff from its artificial intelligence spending... View Source

The company is also releasing matching PS5 console covers... View Source

The unusually grooved stone has multiple experts sure of its usage in the ancient world, even before former studies can confirm their hunch... View Source

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and Carr has noted they've been permitted for use at some federal facilities already. Carr claims in a statement that jammers are needed because "For... View Source

A months-old cybersecurity startup that was founded by former members of Elon Musk’s disbanded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claims it has hacked the internal systems of frontier AI lab Anthropic. As the Washington Post reports, the startup called Cathedral says its AI agents exploited vulnerabilities in business software to access meeting transcripts, details about salaries, job offe... View Source

Former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida says the Fed is weighing whether AI-driven growth represents a demand shock, which could call for higher rates, or whether productivity gains will eventually boost supply and ease inflation. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance: The Fed Decides." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The touch sensor isn't a separate layer of the screen... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Four co-founders of AG3 Labs –from left Matt Atkinson, Gavin Gardner, Ryan Atkinson, and Gryson Gardner – show off the military training drones their company builds at a U.S. Army event at Camp Grayling in Michigan. As a student, Gavin was on a Michigan State team twice selected for participation in NASA’s University St... View Source

Our expert-recommended models offer clutter-free setup—and safe viewing... View Source

In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura, the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and multiple virtual screens that just went on sale today. Xreal and Google have just announced the headset costs $1,099 through the end of the year, down from the $1,279 that Xreal was charging for e... View Source

Anthropic is weighing a retail offering of 15% to 20% of the shares available in the IPO, according to people familiar with the matter. Those sources say the company behind Claude has tapped JPMorgan Chase to lead the US retail offering. Bloomberg’s Ryan Gould discusses the plans with Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's thinner, lighter and has a better screen - but it's still a MacBook Pro... View Source

Reach out and touch screen. Touchscreen laptops are nothing new in the Windows world, but Apple has only just announced its first MacBook with a touchscreen. Apple isn't rushing to change a bunch of things in macOS to optimize for touch, though; most of the touch action will be in the apps themselves, it seems. As far as major macOS changes go, iOS's Dynamic Island will be debuting on the new MacB... View Source

A family is suing OpenAI over the death of a 31-year-old user in Seattle who died of a seizure after ChatGPT coached her on how to decrease the dose of her epilepsy medication. The lawsuit adds to a stack of litigation against OpenAI regarding alleged harm to consumers and concerns over the safety of relying on general-use chatbots for guidance about sensitive topics like personal health. Accordin... View Source

Apple Inc., after two decades of spurning the idea, unveiled an overhauled MacBook Pro that includes a touch screen, giving its flagship laptop a feature that has become a must-have in the personal computer industry... View Source

It could use a more distinctive name, though... View Source

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Apple closed out its week of product announcements with a "Pro and Tell" event on Wednesday, where it took the wraps off its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Though Apple may have saved its biggest and most exciting update for last, it revealed a few other device upgrades and updates in the days leading up to its big reveal. We've rounded them all up here. A MacBook Pro with a touchscreen App... View Source

Recent arrests are catching the attention of others in the cybersecurity industry... View Source

A separate law aims to shore up security on connected baby monitors... View Source

Explore This Section Science Citizen Science NASA Selects 19 New Citizen… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   So far, 2026 has seen a flood of successes for volunteers who do NASA science, exemplifying NASA’s commitment to gold-standard science—transparent, reproducible and intrinsically collaborative. The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announc... View Source

The MacBook Pro has looked mostly the same for several years now. And it’s never had a proper touchscreen. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple has already had a busy week. On Monday, it announced a new iPad Mini with an upgraded OLED display, and on Tuesday, we got M6 chip upgrades for the MacBook Pro and iMac. The Macs are the definition of iterative updates - they're quiet refre... View Source

It’s no secret that living near a data center can be hell on Earth. The widely-loathed facilities are known to emit constant screeching noises that could drive anybody crazy, while causing electricity prices to surge, and spiking greenhouse gas emissions. As the backlash to the massive buildout of AI data centers continues to grow into a major bipartisan issue affecting the imminent midterm electi... View Source

Brian Stewart, global co-head of corporate credit at Fortress, says the credit market could face a more serious absorption problem from AI data-center borrowing. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Stewart says that U.S. investment-grade issuance recently reached a record, while the AI funding cycle has so far been driven mainly by venture capital, growth equity and investment-grade bonds. (Sou... View Source

The app will have a "following" tab to surface content from subreddits you've joined... View Source

Think it’s impossible to find a fake tree that looks like the real deal? Think again. Here are the models we recommend... View Source

Meta says it may push the implementation of its new business terms past November 20th as it faces backlash from publishers over concerns about AI training. In a post on X, Meta communications head Andy Stone said the company does "not plan to make policy changes without a full consultation with industry groups and leaders." The new business terms, which were supposed to take effect on October 30th... View Source

Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. shares have gone separate ways since the companies’ last earnings reports as Wall Street increasingly digs in on the way heavy artificial intelligence spending is weighing on corporate bottom lines. With the two technology giants and major AI players poised to post their results after the bell Wednesday, recent stock market trading indicates that investors give Mi... View Source

This expands the lineup beyond XLR and USB-connected models... View Source

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, E. Sabbi, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç In this Webb image released on Oct. 22, 2026, we see a turbulent cauldron of star formation filled with dense clumps of gas. This region is named N159 and is located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. This region has a lower meta... View Source

A photograph of China's reusable Shenlong space plane docked to another spacecraft, taken by Vantor's WorldView 3 satellite from a distance of 56 miles (90 kilometers). (Image credit: Satellite image ©2026 Vantor)A U.S. military intelligence agency has released an incredible new photograph of China's secretive space plane, showing it docked to another spacecraft in orbit.The photograph was taken i... View Source

Govee’s Christmas String Lights 2 are on sale in all four sizes. | Image: Govee Halloween isn’t even here yet, but it’s never too early to start thinking about holiday decorations, especially when there are already deals on smart, programmable lights. If you want your house, tree, fireplace, or whatever else to stand out this year, Govee’s Christmas String Lights 2 are on sale starting at $74.99 (... View Source

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing object lurking beyond Pluto — and it might be a new planetary neighbor. On Tuesday, astronomers at the Vera C. Rubin observatory in Chile announced that they’ve found evidence of an undiscovered dwarf planet that’s 4.3 billion miles from the Sun, or about 46 times as far from the Sun as the Earth.  The candidate world has been provisionally dubbed 2026 ED138... View Source

Columbia University has opened the window for individuals impacted by the school’s data breach last year to claim part of a $16.1 million settlement... View Source

Amazon has added a camera to its Echo Studio speaker as part of its big Echo refresh... View Source

Dune: Part Three's marketing campaign has been a long and generous one, but Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures knew an extra push was needed in order to compete with Avengers: Doomsday, as both sci-fi blockbusters will be releasing next to each other at Christmas. In its final trailer, Denis Villeneuve's threequel goes all out.This isn't the first time a Dune: Part Three trailer has left us with... View Source

8BitDo’s Ultimate 3E has a refined design, but it shows wear easily. | Image: The Verge It's hard to make an Xbox controller that stands out these days, especially one that's expensive, due to a wealth of great semi-affordable options. Still, 8BitDo's $150 Ultimate 3E is a bold controller that holds its own against other feature-packed options. It's made for Xbox and PC gamers who want a deeper le... View Source

Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market. On this episode of Stock Movers: - Robinhood (HOOD) is declining after the brokerage reported third-quarter earnings per share that missed consensus estimates. - Etsy (ETSY) shares are gaining after the online retail company reported third-quarter results that beat expectations on key metrics. It also announced that its CFO Lanny Baker will d... View Source

Amazon just unveiled a new Echo Dot with some useful new smart home features... View Source

The MacBook Neo now starts at $649 on Apple's Education Store, up $150 from its initial $499 education starting price. As reported earlier by MacRumors, the student discount for the Neo received a $50 price bump in recent days, following a $100 price bump back in June. Apple's budget MacBook is now just $50 off its regular $699 starting price for students, rather than the usual $100 discount. The... View Source

Earlier this year, the US Federal Communications Commission approved the construction and launch of a prototype mirror satellite designed to reflect the Sun’s rays onto patches Earth during nighttime, despite widespread protests by the astronomy community. The “sunlight-as-a-serivce” concept being developed by space startup Reflect Orbital has proven highly controversial, with astronomers pointing... View Source

Is that Flávio Bolsonaro instead of Leonardo DiCaprio on the poster for Catch Me If You Can? In the wild world of Brazilian political memes, yes... View Source

Amazon's updates to the Paperwhite Signature Edition make it feel even more premium, but the regular version remains a great choice for less money... View Source

Iceberg A-81 escaping the Weddell Sea and drifting near the edge of South Georgia's underwater shelf. The image was captured on Oct. 20, 2026. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison)An iceberg has quickly escaped from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, on its way to an icy new destination. What is it?As captured by a satellite in orbit, the Antarctic iceberg A-81 has quite quickly (for... View Source

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship is here, dubbed "Apeiron" by popular vote from a public poll. Apeiron is the first of the company's new Delta-class spacecraft, but it isn't slated to launch for nearly another year. Earlier this week, Virgin Galactic announced another delay in its launch timeline: The lead Spaceship's first commercial spaceflight is now expected in early Q2 2027, and the second Spa... View Source

The UK plans to increase tax on physical gambling slot machines to help fund an effort to revive high street businesses like shops and bars... View Source

$320 is a lot to pay for a well-balanced device in an aluminum case with pogo pins... View Source

Operation Ivy Bells had a 20-foot listening device hooked up to a remote Soviet underwater cable for a decade before an ex-NSA agent found himself in debt... View Source

TikTok is launching an in-app restaurant guide in a challenge to other platforms like Yelp and even Google Maps. The company on Wednesday announced the launch of Must Eat, a new section of the TikTok app built on 40 million posts, reviews, and comments about dining on the platform. The new feature uses videos and discussions of buzzy local businesses to create restaurant recommendation guides. Use... View Source

You ever wonder if all the particles teeming in the air you breathe are doing anything to your brain? Scientists sure have and — a self-conscious gasp — they have bad news. A series of recent studies highlighted in the Washington Post suggest that all kinds of microscopic debris is bypassing our blood-brain barrier and infiltrating our precious gray matter. And we can only begin to fathom the role... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its first pair of cuff-style earbuds, adding to a growing category that includes products from Sony Group Corp., Bose Corp. and several Chinese brands... View Source

Amazon Leo's $11.5 billion acquisition of mobile-satellite operator Globalstar has been approved by the FCC... View Source

The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback played with a “superficial” blood clot that turned into something much more serious. Where did things go wrong?... View Source

The powerful Vera Rubin Observatory has spotted what seems to be a dwarf planet circling the sun in the frigid depths beyond Neptune.The icy object, known as 2026 ED138, is likely between 600 and 1500 kilometers (373 to 972 miles) wide, scientists say. It's therefore probably big enough to be sculpted into a sphere by its own gravity — a key characteristic that separates dwarf planets from asteroi... View Source

After Elon Musk warned that "advertisers who post ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims about their product will be barred from advertising" on X earlier this month, the platform now appears to be using a jarring animated arm that reaches across the screen to draw attention to the "promote" button while users are composing a post. Many X users have seen and shared images of the u... View Source

Anthropic PBC is cautioning investors that its outspoken advocacy for artificial intelligence safety could make the company the target of government retaliation, highlighting the unusual degree of government-related risk to its future business after a year of skirmishes with the Trump administration... View Source

Reports indicate that a "MacBook Ultra" with a touch-sensitive display is likely on the agenda today... View Source

In trying to get to the bottom of a bizarre neutrino’s origin story, scientists have found themselves looking across dimensions... View Source

With its latest devices, including a smart bedside alarm clock, Amazon looks to cement Alexa’s presence in every room of the home... View Source

Amazon's Alexa Home Map will show you a visual representation of your smart home... View Source

These ecological pillars, which form the foundation of our planet’s habitability for all life, including humans, have never been in rougher shape... View Source

Space tourists and citizen astronauts rejoice! A new suborbital spacecraft is about to be introduced that will fly ticketholders on brief, suborbital journeys just above Earth.Virgin Galactic plans to unveil its first Delta-class spaceship on Wednesday (Oct. 28), before transporting the spacecraft from Mesa, Arizona, to Spaceport America in New Mexico. Alongside that reveal, the company will also... View Source

Amazon used to blast out dozens of products onstage at annual hardware events. If this October is any indication, the company has wisely changed its strategy to put more focus on each new product with its own launch. The latest round of launches focuses on Echo products, including speakers, smart displays, as well as a smart photo frame. All products, save for the new Echo Show 16 (which might be... View Source

Lisa Shalett, CIO at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, expects the narrative for growth in tech earnings “to continue to stick and hold.” She does, however, see bottlenecks shifting in artificial intelligence capex spending into areas that can cause real questions for investors. She speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Echo Show 16 is a ground-up rebuild of Amazon’s storied smart display line. | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge Amazon's latest Echo Show smart display is big, gorgeous, and eye-wateringly expensive. Announced today, the Echo Show 16 costs $499.99 (wall mount included) and is available to preorder now. There's a Nanomatte display option for $569.99, plus a $100 preorder discount ahead of its relea... View Source

The first-generation foldable has succumbed to a first-generation sort of defect... View Source

Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the "16-bit pet care game" is not really a game, but "a daily journal disguised as a pet." Users should talk, not type, with their pets, the description says, as well as play "cozy games" lik... View Source

Economists are forced to make an array of assumptions to understand AI’s effect on the economy... View Source

Adyen NV scrapped its medium-term profit margin target, overshadowing better-than-expected third-quarter revenue growth at the Dutch payments company... View Source

Scientists have long known that when two black holes collide, they merge to create a more massive black hole. These events are so violent that they set the very fabric of space ringing with ripples called gravitational waves.Now, new research suggests that the opposite may happen, too: single black holes may be able to split in two. But this can only happen if that progenitor black hole is spinnin... View Source

ASM International CEO Hichem M'Saad joins Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie, Guy Johnson, and Anna Edwards on "The Opening Trade" following the company's third quarter results. The equipment maker lifted its 2027 revenue target by around 24% as the AI build out continues to fuel a surge in sales. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. shares have gone separate ways since the companies’ last earnings reports as Wall Street increasingly digs in on the way heavy artificial intelligence spending is weighing on corporate bottom lines... View Source

Meta describes Waddle World as a 'daily journal disguised as a pet.'... View Source

Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously... View Source

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The common view is that stranded AI chips are a write-off, money spent too early. The chips are fine. What’s missing is power. And one company has solved power faster than anyone else. The dark GPU problem Elon Musk has said there could be up to 15 GW of stranded compute sitting in partially completed ... Read more... View Source

Deutsche Bank CFO Raja Akram discusses earnings, the AI boom and the outlook for markets. He talks with Bloomberg's Oliver Crook after the lender's revenue from fixed-income trading declined in the third quarter, meeting analyst estimates. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms surged as much as 23% in its trading debut after raising a record $3.1 billion in India’s biggest IPO, putting it on track to become the country’s second-most valuable listed company. Sanjay P R explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bitcoin investors cheered as their favorite coin rebounded over the summer. With the turn of the season, they’ve been left with a nagging question: why did the rally fizzle out?... View Source

Vivo and Oppo are launching similar phones with different priorities... View Source

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Gen Z is dating more, according to a new survey, but the under-30s are still wary of artificial intelligence-infused apps — which may not bode well for companies that have been adapting their products to cater to younger generation... View Source

You don't have to guess who's loudly eating chips in your PlayStation 5 party anymore - now you can see who's speaking in real-time... View Source

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China is well placed to lead the world by 2030 in the large language models at the core of artificial intelligence, and will be at least competitive in every other strategically important technology, according to a new Bloomberg Intelligence report... View Source

The Slate Truck is known for offering hundreds of customization options, but one common truck option isn't available (yet.)... View Source

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Zhang Yaqin, Chair Professor and Founding Dean of AI Industry Research, and former President of Chinese tech firm, Baidu, discusses his outlook for AI innovation coming from university labs in China. He speaks with David Ingles on the sidelines of the One Earth Summit in Hong Kong on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You can probably still read on it, and, with some finessing, you can turn it into a useful display... View Source

European construction firms’ exposure to a booming data center market has not been enough to offset persistent weakness in residential and industrial construction... View Source

iOS 27.2 comes with some changes for Apple CarPlay, too... View Source

Anduril Industries Inc. founder Palmer Luckey said he expects US defense spending to remain broadly stable even if Democrats win control of Congress in next week’s midterm elections... View Source

With the iPhone Duo now in people's hands, how does it compare to Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold?... View Source

NXP Semiconductors NV, a maker of chips for auto and industrial customers, slid in late trading after delivering a weaker revenue forecast than anticipated, sparking fears that a recovery in demand is slowing... View Source

Final Cut clips can finally be unlocked from the primary timeline - hallelujah... View Source

Zankore, an Indonesian artificial intelligence infrastructure platform backed by Nvidia Corp., is syndicating a $3.1 billion loan to the broader market, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a flurry of financing for Asia’s AI buildout... View Source

These themed routers are surprisingly (inexplicably) capable, but they are under threat by the FCC... View Source

OpenAI intends to buy artificial intelligence computing chips from Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to a person familiar with the matter, part of broader efforts by the ChatGPT maker to build out its AI infrastructure... View Source

Its journey ends in March 2027... View Source

Chinese technology hardware firms face a challenge to impress investors with their upcoming earnings reports after a brutal selloff in sector stocks... View Source

Apple's smallest desktop delivers better performance and value for those willing to leave the laptop behind... View Source

ASMPT Ltd. posted its fastest revenue growth of the year on surging AI hardware demand, though a slight miss in its semiconductor division underscored the high bar analysts have set for the chip-gear manufacturer... View Source

The GOAT of dumb phones gets a new lease on life... View Source

Wealthsimple Financial Corp. was valued at C$13.8 billion ($9.8 billion) after the Toronto-based fintech agreed to raise as much as C$425 million in an equity round, it said in a Tuesday statement... View Source

You can use the AI assistant to update calendar events and search your inbox, among other things... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. posted a stronger-than-expected seven-fold surge in quarterly profit and unveiled an additional shareholder return program for 2026 worth 100 trillion won ($75 billion), underscoring relentless demand for AI hardware... View Source

Tailor your tech to fit your daily drive seamlessly... View Source

There are now 1051 Tesla Texas registered unsupervised robotaxi and at least 38 unsupervised robotaxi in Florida. This is 1089 unsupervised Tesla robotaxi in Texas and Florida... View Source

Palo Alto Networks Inc. Chief Executive Officer Nikesh Arora, who has consistently ranked among the top-paid corporate leaders in the US, saw his compensation package shrink last year following persistent opposition from investors... View Source

The platform's Discoverable Servers are about to get a lot more discoverable... View Source

E.W. Scripps Co. eliminated 431 positions across the company, according to a memo sent Tuesday by Chief Executive Officer Adam Symson... View Source

While it can be jarring to discover that your companion is using AI glasses, there are some steps you can take to recognize them ASAP... View Source

Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would appear in the middle of the screen above the hinge, with lines appearing on the right side of the display. On Monday, Apple acknowledged an "issue" and said i... View Source

Apple Inc., after successfully betting this month that consumers are willing to pay $2,000 or more for a foldable iPhone, is preparing to test their appetite for another pricey new product: touch-screen laptops... View Source

It's not an honest mistake; it's the start of an attack on your wallet... View Source

Former Fed governor and University of Chicago Booth School of Business Economics Professor Randy Kroszner said the Fed is widely expected to leave rates unchanged, though he anticipates some dissenters may favor acting sooner because inflation has not eased as hoped. He expects most policymakers to see no urgency to move, while remaining alert to renewed inflation and inflation expectations. He sp... View Source