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More from AI & SoftwareAnthropic is targeting a November IPO at a reported $2 trillion valuation, betting on a revenue run rate that hit $65 billion in July. Not everyone thinks the math holds up.
Google shipped two new Gemini text-to-speech models with over 2,000 voices and a tool that builds custom ones from a description. The pricing that makes them cheap expires December 31.
At Amazon Accelerate, the company opened Seller Central’s APIs to outside AI agents, letting sellers manage inventory, pricing and listings through Claude or its own Quick assistant with no dashboard required. Amazon built a genuinely open agent surface for the seller side of the business, then drew a hard line at the one place agents still can’t go: the storefront a shopper actually sees.
Meta’s Muse agent rolled out nationwide this month with access to email, calendars, payments and smart home devices, and Zuckerberg just doubled down on it at Connect 2026 with a holiday hardware launch. The catch is convincing people to hand that much control to a company with an $18 billion privacy settlement still fresh on the books.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 can run a 30-billion-parameter AI model entirely on-device, no cloud needed, but it launches as memory costs push flagship Android prices past $1,000.
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Minecraft Dungeons II launched September 29 at $29.99 with a 76 on Metacritic and an 85 on OpenCritic. Critics like the deeper builds and bigger world, but a short endgame and launch-day PC login errors are dragging the mood down.
Two trailers wearing Nvidia and PlusAI logos were taken from a Newark, California warehouse. The thieves opened the doors half a mile later and found 20 tons of test ballast. The trailers were back the same day.
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The iPhone 18 Pro Max weighs 249 grams, 16 more than last year’s model at identical dimensions. Buyers are noticing, and once a case and a screen protector go on, some are reporting a phone that pushes 300 grams.
The Coros Pace 4 Pro brings a titanium bezel, sapphire glass and 60 hours of high-accuracy GPS tracking for $449, undercutting Garmin’s Forerunner 970 by $300.