The latest Products stories across our sources, prepared from the publishers’ own reporting.
Amazon announced three new Alexa Tablets, its first tablets with Google Play access and Alexa+ woven into the interface, starting at $230 and shipping October 14. Two new Kids Tablets were also announced, though their warranty drops from two years to one.
AWS's September 2026 recap covers new Bedrock model availability including OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5, plus general availability of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and xAI's Grok 4.6 and 4.7.
Engineer Bo Lau built a website that lets visitors explore over 1,000 real emails, texts, slides, and documents from the Elizabeth Holmes criminal trial inside a simulated 2016 Theranos desk setup. The project doubles as promotion for Extend and a watch party for a Nathan Fielder documentary.
Microsoft will replace the 1TB-per-member OneDrive storage in its Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, Premium, and Pro plans with smaller shared storage pools, rolling out starting October 8, 2026 for new subscriptions and at first renewal on or after May 2, 2027 for existing ones. Family and Premium plans will get a total of 2TB shared instead of 6TB.
Google announced at a Google Cloud event on Thursday a unified agentic Gemini that can plan and execute tasks across business apps, initially for businesses. The agent has its own Workspace identity, email address, and audit trail, and by default picks the best model for each task, including Anthropic's Claude.
Natura's Interface, a $99 smart ring, lets users summon AI agents with a finger press while tracking health metrics. Pre-orders open next month, with shipping planned for December or January and a $9 monthly subscription after a free period.
Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, a free experimental macOS note-taking app that transcribes meetings and audio files entirely offline using its on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model.
Google announced a universal Gemini AI agent that works across apps and devices, available in the Gemini Enterprise app. Users can assign it tasks from one interface and interact via mobile, desktop, web, Slack, and Microsoft 365.
Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, a Mac meeting note-taker that runs entirely offline using on-device models. It transcribes meetings, generates notes in a split-screen layout, and answers questions from a personal knowledge base.
Gears of War: E-Day is now streaming on GeForce NOW after its Oct. 6 release, with Ultimate members getting GeForce RTX 5080-class cloud performance. Ten games join the library this week, including seven new releases, and Fire TV users will soon be able to buy memberships through Amazon.
Google Maps now supports conversational food ordering through Square and Uber Eats, expanding beyond its earlier Toast-only partnership, and has published its first fan-favorite dining list drawing on trends from 10 global cities.
Pollo AI is using OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-Image-2.5, to turn creative ideas into detailed images and cinematic video advertisements.
A 16-year-old used Anthropic's Claude to plan a hiking route on Crown Mountain near Vancouver and ended up stranded on a cliff that requires climbing gear, prompting a helicopter rescue by North Shore Rescue. He says he takes responsibility and won't use AI for route planning again.
Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, launching October 18 with a starting price of $2,599 and configurations reaching $6,000. It runs Nvidia's new RTX Spark processor with Windows on ARM and up to 128GB of unified memory.
Microsoft unveiled its first Nvidia RTX Spark SoC devices: the $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping October 16, and the $5,999 RTX Spark Dev Box with 128GB unified memory and one petaflop of AI compute. Windows 11 also gets local-AI features, including a three-tab Copilot and Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), available to developers now.
Databricks published guidance on setting budgets and alerts to control cloud data warehouse costs, aimed at analytics teams facing surprise month-end invoices. The material is described as a response to a common scenario in which a single SQL query drives up spending.
NVIDIA and Microsoft announced RTX Spark hardware that brings the full NVIDIA AI stack to Windows laptops and compact desktops, with laptop preorders open and availability on October 16. Microsoft also announced general availability of Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) for running AI agents securely in Windows.
Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk," saying its design still encourages engagement during mental health crises and rarely redirects teens toward adults when the concern is their relationship with the chatbot itself. OpenAI disputes the findings, calling the methodology inaccurate.
At a Windows and Surface event, Microsoft announced Copilot can now reach local PC files and take actions across Windows, part of a concept it calls Hybrid Intelligence.
Meta announced it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026, with over 97% found by its systems before users reported it. It is also rolling out new AI tools, including a large language model system to detect ad "signposting" that may direct users to illegal content elsewhere.