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China-Aligned Hackers Put AI Agents on the Kill Chain — and Got Inside 2,250 Microsoft 365 Tenants
Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used the agentic AI framework ARTEX to automate attacks through compromised ConnectWise app credentials — going from picking a target to privileged cloud access in under three hours.
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The Smartest Money in Tech Just Bet $60M That AI Agents Need Their Own Cloud
Daytona Platforms raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation to build cloud infrastructure for long-running AI agents — and its angel roster reads like a Who's Who of the tech industry.
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Formic Raises $50M to Take Physical AI Past the Loading Dock
Formic rents robots to American factories for a flat monthly fee. Its $50M Series B says the real physical-AI bottleneck isn't smarter robots — it's getting them to work on the factory floor.
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France Just Became Europe's Robotaxi Battleground — Two Big AV Bets Landed in One Day
Wayve, Stellantis, NVIDIA, and the French government are building a full-stack autonomous-driving ecosystem in France — and on the same day, Bolt and Greater Paris announced a robotaxi pilot for 2028. Paris is officially in the race.
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Google's New 1GW Power Plant Is Made of Thermostats, Batteries, and Your Electric Bill
Google and Voltus are expanding their virtual power plant agreement tenfold to 1 gigawatt across the PJM grid — paying homes and businesses to trim peak power so Google's data centers can come online faster.
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HTC Made a $99 Egg-Shaped AI Companion — and It's Selling Personality, Not Utility
HTC's VIVEE is an egg-sized, OLED-faced AI companion with swappable NFC "Suits," a physical mic kill switch, and a $99 pre-order price — a privacy-forward play for the desk, not the living room.
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The iPhone Duo Survived 10,000 Folds — Its "Minimal" Crease Didn't
Tim Pan's 10,000-fold stress test — and Joanna Stern's 32,640-fold run — found the iPhone Duo's titanium hinge barely flinches, while its "minimal" crease visibly deepens with use.
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The iPhone Duo's Real Launch-Day Price Was $10,000 — on eBay, Anyway
iPhone Duos hit eBay for up to $10,000 on launch day as flagship Apple Stores sold out in hours — proof Apple's two-per-customer scalper cap barely slowed the flip economy.
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The iPhone Duo Goes on Sale — and the iPhone Queue Is Back, Storm and All
Dozens queued at Apple's Covent Garden store from before 7am as the $1,999 foldable went on sale — with Apple's iPhone marketing VP flying in and walk-in stock expected to sell out within hours.
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Apple Didn't Engineer Away the iPhone Duo's Crease — It Covered It With a Replaceable Film
A Kingmi Mobile teardown reveals the Duo's "minimal" crease is mostly an optical trick — a peelable nano-textured film over a glossy display — plus a mixed bag inside: swappable cameras and board, fragile ribbon cables, and batteries that take extra work to reach.
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AI's Lobbying Era Is Officially Here — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia Just Set Spending Records in Washington
Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI each spent more lobbying Washington in Q3 than in any prior quarter — a combined $7.5 million as Congress weighs 99 AI bills and the midterms approach.
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SK Hynix Killed Solidigm's $150B IPO — and the Market Loved It
SK Hynix walked away from what would have been the largest semiconductor IPO in U.S. history, citing market conditions — and its shares jumped 4.4% on the news. The AI valuation reckoning is now arriving at the IPO window itself.
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SpaceX Wants to Be Your Phone Company — and It's Shopping for 80,000 Cell Towers
Bloomberg reported that SpaceX is in talks with tower companies for at least 80,000 US cell sites — potentially the makings of a fourth nationwide wireless carrier — and AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile all dropped on the news.
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Apple Boosts iPhone Duo Production 44% on Launch Eve — Now It Has to Build Them
Apple raised its 12-month iPhone Duo target from 9.7M to 14M units on the eve of the Oct 23 launch — but hinge and display constraints mean the orders may outrun the output.
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Apple's iWork Gets an AI Assistant of Its Own — and It's Not Siri
Apple rolled out an "Intelligent Assistant" inside Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for Creator Studio subscribers — a separate AI from Siri that drafts, designs, and does math inside your documents. It's also opening up Keynote files with a new .keyx format.