• October 18, 2026
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Qualcomm Disputes Korean Test Results That Its New Snapdragon Runs Hot

The report reached Seoul’s technology press on Oct. 17: under sustained load, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 ran hot enough to raise questions about whether Samsung would use…

  • October 18, 2026
  • 40 views
Samsung Adds $22.8 Million for Texas Workers and Schools

The road into Taylor, Texas, runs past a school district, a row of grain silos and, since 2022, a construction site large enough to see from the county highway. On…

  • October 18, 2026
  • 55 views
OpenAI Dismisses an Engineer Accused of Bugging an Executive Meeting Room

OpenAI confirmed on October 18 that it had dismissed an employee accused of placing a recording device in an executive meeting room at its San Francisco office, a case that…

  • October 18, 2026
  • 56 views
Replit Makes OpenAI Its Default Model, Ending Its Anthropic Arrangement

Amjad Masad was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 17 when the question of which models sit behind Replit’s coding agent came up, and his answer reversed what the…

  • October 18, 2026
  • 75 views
The AI Credit Market Puts a Price on Doubt

The bond pays 9.75 percent and matures in 2031, and this week it was quoted at a yield to maturity of 15.78 percent, a level that in most of the…

  • October 18, 2026
  • 32 views
Meta Deletes a Clause About Web Scraping and Leaves the Rest of the Terms Standing

For a few hours this week, the contract that governs how millions of businesses use Meta’s advertising and commerce tools contained a sentence that the lawyers who read it found…

  • October 18, 2026
  • 32 views
Microsoft Exits a UK Data Center Deal as the Grid Sets the Timetable

The site is in Loughton, in Essex, a short drive northeast of London, on land that has been cleared for a data hall and prepared for equipment that has not…

  • October 17, 2026
  • 38 views
Toyota Plans to Put Its Software Platform in Every Car by 2030

At an investor technology briefing in Japan earlier this month, Toyota Motor put a number on a slide that its engineers had been circling for five years. By 2030, roughly…

  • October 17, 2026
  • 28 views
Replit Says It Ended Its Anthropic Deal. People Close to Anthropic Say It Didn’t.

Amjad Masad had been onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt for most of an hour on Friday when he was asked about the models inside his company’s product. Replit, the coding platform…

  • October 17, 2026
  • 70 views
AWS Says Its AI Servers Pay for Themselves in Under Three Years

John Felton, the chief financial officer of Amazon Web Services, gave an interview to Axios this week that read as an answer to a question investors have been asking for…