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Apple:
Apple debuts a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR tandem OLED display, light-up logo, M5 Pro or M5 Max; the 14" model starts at $2,899, the 16" at $3,399  —  The world's best pro laptop now features an industry-leading tandem OLED display, an intuitive Touch experience …
Steven Levy / Wired:
John Ternus says the Mac is “first and foremost” a device “built around the trackpad and keyboard”, but sometimes “it's comfortable and handy to have touch”  —  An exclusive early look at Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro—the computer Apple said would never happen.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple says the touchscreen MacBook Pro has a “newly designed hinge” for stability and an “enhanced six-speaker” system; the 14" model is 3lb and the 16" is 4lb
Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $127.58B, vs. $128.22B est., Google Cloud revenue up 103% to $30.7B, vs. $28.7B est.; GOOG drops 9%+ after hours  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 28, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026.
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Alphabet reports Q3 negative free cash flow of $9.07B, worse than expected, capex of $51.36B, vs. $55.09B est., and keeps its FY capex forecast at $195B-$205B  —  Alphabet shares slumped more than 10% after the search giant reported a drop in free cash flow during the third quarter …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet reports Q3 YouTube ad revenue up 9% YoY to $11.2B, below estimates, and Google ad revenue up 11% to $82.01B, below $83.6B est.
Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google:
Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its “strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity” capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index  —  Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
Wired:
The personal data of 41,000+ DHS employees and contractors, including CBP and ICE agents, leaks online after hackers claim they breached DHS' Okta login system  —  The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied …
Microsoft:
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $92.28B, vs. $90.69B est., Azure revenue up 48% to $33.17B, vs. $32.32B est., and net income up 32% to $36.63B  —  REDMOND, Wash. — October 28, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 …
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
Samsung reports Q3 revenue up 127% YoY to a record ~$146.3B and a record operating profit up 783% to ~$80.5B, both roughly in line with estimates  —  - Samsung Electronics reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday, with operating profit broadly in line with analysts' estimates
Meredith Shubel / The New Stack:
GitHub says Copilot Fusion, which handles model selection and orchestration, is now generally available, releases the GitHub Copilot app, and more  —  GitHub has debuted GitHub Copilot Fusion, a new system that handles model selection and orchestration for coding tasks so developers don't have to.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google and Xreal launch the Xreal Aura wired XR glasses, with Android XR and a puck with Snapdragon Reality Elite, for $1,099+ through December, then $1,279+  —  At the Android Developer Summit on Wednesday, Google's smart glasses partner Xreal launched its new Xreal Aura wired smart glasses …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia  —  The iPhone maker for years bullied flash-storage makers into steep discounts—until AI hyperscalers bid up prices and gobbled up supply
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Reddit rolls out a dual-feed homepage, with For You and Following feeds, joining TikTok, Instagram, and others in offering a For You feed  —  Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the “For You” feed popularized by TikTok.  The company announced on Wednesday that users will now see two options …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
ServiceNow reports Q3 subscription revenue up 21% YoY to $3.99B, forecasts Q4 current remaining performance obligations below est.; NOW drops 15%+ after hours  —  ServiceNow Inc. shares plunged after the company gave an outlook for quarterly subscription sales that met analysts' estimates …
Elizabeth Rembert / Bloomberg:
National Student Clearinghouse: US computer science enrollment fell 12%+ for undergrads and 10%+ for grad students this fall, as AI reduces coding jobs  —  Computer and information science departments at US colleges saw an exodus of students this fall, with enrollment declining more than 12% …
More: Forbes
Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg:
DoorDash moves its Q3 earnings release from November 4 to before the market opens on October 29, amid reports of an imminent ~$17B deal to acquire Instacart  —  DoorDash Inc., the food delivery provider in talks to take over Instacart, moved its earnings release date forward by almost a week.
More: CNBC

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From Mediagazer

Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico amend their lawsuit against the White House, alleging it has kept all three off press pool duty since Sept. 18 despite an injunction

Reuters:
Sources: Bloomberg, Susquehanna, and Jump Trading signed up for Truth Social's real-time feed of top accounts, including Trump's posts, paying $60K to $100K

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Versant, owner of MS NOW and CNBC, is launching four new FAST channels, including Snapped, Botched, and CNBC Ambition, bringing its portfolio to 13 outlets

More News

Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Oracle pledges to limit new financing to $20B through FY 2030, expects free cash flow to turn positive in H2 FY 2028 and top $30B in FY 2029; ORCL jumps 11%+
Raga Justin / Bloomberg Government:
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bills banning AI chatbots from using “unsafe features” for minors and requiring security features in internet-connected baby monitors
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple adds a 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip, starting at $22,299; the M5 Max model maxes out at 128GB of RAM
Artificial Analysis:
Artificial Analysis unveils the Intelligence Index v5 with new coding and science benchmarks; 60% of the Index is based on private test sets or held-out answers
Calder McHugh / Politico:
OpenAI says it's launching an election “war room” ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset

Earlier Picks

Rocket Drew / The Information:
Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
X adds an intrusive promotional animation of an arm reaching across the screen to direct users to a “promote” post button, targeting verified and Premium users
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Amazon unveils the $500 Echo Show 16, the $200 Echo Time alarm, and the $200+ Alexa Photo Frame, raises smart speaker prices, and previews Alexa Home Map
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Meta quietly launched Waddle World, a Tamagotchi-like, AI pet-rearing game, in the Philippines in September, calling it a “daily journal disguised as a pet”
Anthropic:
Research: professional analysts followed AI agents' randomly assigned “leans” on subjective analytical decisions 86% of the time; 77% used the agents' arguments
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