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Tech news of October 27, 2026
38 stories, synthesized from 157 sources in total.
Briefing of the day
- OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra at half the cost of Sol The new model provides high performance at a lower price point for developers and Plus users. 9 sources
- Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 staff members The plan aims to cut operating costs to fund massive investments in AI infrastructure. 6 sources
- Mirendil launches Fern 0.1 with 10 million token window The massive context window enables AI agents to audit huge codebases and training logs. 8 sources
- Fiber optic record: 3.2 petabits per second in real time This Chinese breakthrough promises a massive leap in data transmission speeds. 8 sources
All stories of the day (38)
- NASA races back to the Moon with astronauts by 2028, Apollo-style Space
- China's markets lose trillions as the AI race with the US takes its toll AI
- More than a third say dating an AI chatbot isn't cheating Tech
- Lenovo's ThinkBook 14 Gen 9 goes on sale with a swappable battery Hardware
- Upgrading to macOS 27 no longer removes Rosetta Apple
- The base M6 MacBook Pro misses the memory bandwidth boost Apple
- MSI brings the AI workstation with NVIDIA GB300 superchip to Italy Hardware
- LLM prices fall up to 80%: why OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting AI
- Nvidia brings a 74-billion-parameter model to 24 GB of memory AI
- Baidu opens Unlimited OCR 2, a model that reads hundred-page documents AI
- Rome-built Lara 3 AI beats GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 at translation AI
- Steam Next Fest top 50: incremental and co-op games lead, few use AI Gaming
- Intel buys Classiq to bring quantum software to its chips Hardware
- Hacker Gets $50,000 From Sony for AI-Found PS5 Exploit Gaming
- Acer brings its Predator handheld to the US for the first time at $1,299 Hardware
- Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 staff, over a quarter of its workforce AI
- TSMC plans packaging price rises of up to 20% Hardware
- Italy opens its first space weather monitoring room Science
- Google adds 30-second retroactive recording to Sidekick Hardware
- Apple raises iPad and Mac trade-in values by up to $365 Tech
- New Outlook to get template auto-replies and rules by December Hardware
- Xbox now charges for cloud gaming hours, eroding its cheap-play pitch Tech
- Anthropic heads for IPO as Meta seeks up to $95bn for AI AI
- OpenAI says its AI solved a 35-year-old wave problem AI
- AI researcher warns cyberattacks could hit power, banks and water soon Tech
- Aiven cuts AI token spending 80% by shifting to open-weight models Software
- GPT-6.1 Terra costs half of Sol and matches Astra in OpenAI's tests AI
- Claude Code finds a hidden camera in a hotel room in 90 seconds Hardware
- iPhone AI Images and Edits Now Carry a Hidden Watermark Apple
- A worm hid its payload too big to scan in 42 GitHub repos Security
- Former GitHub CEO launches Entire, replacing pull requests with Trails Software
- Mirendil launches Fern 0.1 with a 10-million-token context window AI
- Ollama brings local speech generation to Macs with Phonon Software
- Samsung launches Galaxy Buds On, its first clip-on earbuds, in Korea Hardware
- TSMC's A14 node shrinks SRAM memory cells for the first time in eight years Hardware
- iOS 27.2 brings Dual Capture to Group FaceTime calls Apple
- A 24-core optical fiber carries 3.2 petabits per second in real time Hardware
- Open-source project runs old 16-bit Windows programs on 64-bit systems Software