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Surface Laptop Ultra goes on sale with Nvidia's RTX Spark chip and up to 128 GB of memory

Microsoft's most powerful Surface Laptop goes on sale on 16 October, starting at $2,599. Its Nvidia RTX Spark chip pairs a Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 cores and a Grace CPU with up to 20 cores, sharing up to 128 GB of unified memory. Microsoft says it can run AI models of more than 120 billion parameters locally, with up to 1 petaflop of AI performance (a sparse FP4 figure). It has a 15-inch 120 Hz touchscreen that peaks at 2,000 nits in HDR, is under 18 mm thin and 4.5 lb, and comes in Platinum and Nightfall.

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Apple's first foldable, iPhone Duo, opens for pre-orders at $1,999
Pre-orders opened on 16 October in more than 70 countries and regions, including Vietnam, and the first deliveries start on 23 October. The phone has a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer one, runs on the A20 Pro and comes in star white and night sky, with 256 GB to 2 TB of storage. Apple says it is the thinnest iPhone yet when opened, and lasts up to 24 hours on a charge with both screens used equally.
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Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B multimodal model for agents
Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a mixture-of-experts model with 120 billion parameters, of which 12 billion are active for each token. It works with text, images, documents and video, and is aimed at AI agents. Nvidia published base, post-trained and NVFP4-quantized checkpoints on Hugging Face and ModelScope, along with training recipes, data and reinforcement-learning environments. The model is also available through OpenRouter and as an NVIDIA NIM. Nvidia says it delivers up to five times the throughput of other open models its size on agentic tasks on a single GPU; that figure comes from its own tests.
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Amazon launches two Bee devices that turn conversations into to-dos
Amazon has launched two new Bee devices. Bee Frontier ($74.99) is worn on the wrist or clipped to clothing and lasts up to seven days on a charge; it is on sale now. Bee Eclipse (from $99.99) is a card-sized device that attaches magnetically to the back of a phone and lasts more than 21 days; Amazon says it is coming soon. Both turn conversations into summaries, reminders and to-dos in the Bee app. Amazon says audio is processed and then deleted, not stored. Shopping suggestions, Alexa+ and other app integrations need Bee Pro at $11.99 a month.
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TSMC's third-quarter revenue jumps 41% to $46.7 billion
TSMC reported revenue of US$46.72 billion for the third quarter of 2026, up 41.2% from a year earlier and 16.2% from the second quarter. Net income rose 68.7% to NT$763.06 billion, and gross margin was 66.4%. Chips made on the 3-nanometer process brought in 33% of wafer revenue, and the new 2-nanometer process reached 8%. For the fourth quarter, TSMC expects revenue between US$52.3 billion and US$54.3 billion, with gross margin of 65% to 67%.
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Xbox Nano Controller packs all 18 standard inputs into 3.5 ounces for $49.99
Xbox's smallest controller is a little over 5 inches long and keeps all 18 standard inputs, plus a programmable Action Button for screenshots and gameplay capture. It has a built-in rechargeable battery and connects over Xbox Wireless or Bluetooth. Pre-orders opened on 14 October, and it goes on sale in November in 36 markets, with more to follow.
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Apple's HomeView is a $299 smart home hub with a 7-inch screen and Siri AI
HomeView recognizes up to six people by face and gives each their own Home Screen. It controls cameras, thermostats, lights, locks and blinds by touch or by voice, shows up to nine camera feeds at once, and works with Matter accessories and Apple's new Home Collection cameras, thermostats and lock. The tabletop model comes in four colors and the wall-mounted one in two, both at $299. Deliveries start on 13 November in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore and South Africa; it isn't sold in the EU.
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MI5 launches a centre to assess AI threats to UK national security
MI5 has set up an AI Threat Assessment Centre (AITAC), Director General Sir Ken McCallum said in his annual threat update on 13 October. The centre is based in MI5 and brings in expertise from the AI Security Institute, the National Crime Agency and the National Cyber Security Centre. It produces all-source assessments of AI-related national security threats for government departments. In the same speech, McCallum said AI is already intensifying the contest between cyber attackers and defenders, and that terrorists have tried to use it to improve their reconnaissance and attack methods. The misuse he would weigh most heavily, though it has not happened yet, is AI changing the stakes for existing or new bioweapons.
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