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Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5 Across Major Cloud Platforms
The lightweight model brings lower operating costs alongside benchmark upgrades in visual reasoning and agentic coding.
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October 2026
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Tech Business
Samsung Pours $1 Billion Into KKR and Nvidia Data Venture Helix
Samsung and five corporate affiliates have committed $1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure, joining Nvidia and KKR to supply construction, power backup, cooling gear, and memory for artificial intelligence campuses.
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Breaking
Smart Home
Ring Smart Lock: Crank It to Unlock, $249, Early 2027
Ring’s first smart lock solves dead-battery anxiety with kinetic charging. It unlocks via fingerprint, keypad, app, or Alexa — and ships in early 2027 for $249 in the US.
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Apps & Software
Google Messages in-chat games: Chess, Cup Pong, Basketball
Google Messages is adding built-in games — including Chess, Cup Pong, Basketball, and Word Scramble — as part of an internal project codenamed Midnight, according to strings found in the app’s latest open beta build.
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Breaking
Deals
Apple AirPods Pro 3 are $179 on Amazon
Apple AirPods Pro 3 are $179 on Amazon — down from $250 — as part of Prime Day deals. GSMArena confirms the $70 discount is live now, with no end date cited.
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Breaking
Laptops & PCs
Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark: $2,599, ₹2,29,999, October 16 launch
Microsoft has priced the Surface Laptop Ultra—the first Windows laptop built on Nvidia’s Arm-based RTX Spark platform—at $2,599 in the US and ₹2,29,999 in India. Pre-orders opened Monday; shipping begins October 16.
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Breaking
Laptops & PCs
Nvidia RTX Spark laptop: Surface Laptop Ultra price, specs, release date
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 in the US and ₹2,39,999 in India — shipping October 16. It’s the first laptop to ship with NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform, built on Arm architecture and designed for local AI workloads.
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Laptops & PCs
Microsoft Details Surface Laptop Ultra Breakaway USB-C and Nvidia RTX Spark Silicon
Microsoft has revealed full specs and pricing for the Surface Laptop Ultra, pairing Nvidia RTX Spark silicon with a novel magnetic breakaway USB-C port.
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Deals
Amazon Prime Day Deals Discount Ninja DoubleStack XL and Creami
Amazon Prime Day deals offer markdowns across Ninja countertop appliances, including $40 off the DoubleStack XL air fryer and price cuts on the Creami ice cream maker and GreenPan cookware.
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Deals
Apple Watch Ultra 4 Drops Nearly 100 Dollars on Amazon
Amazon discounted the Apple Watch Ultra 4 with Translucent Gray Ocean Band by nearly $100 on Wednesday, returning the high-end smartwatch configuration to an all-time low alongside broader fall sales.
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AI
Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With Deep Price Cuts
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, pitching a 75 percent operating cost reduction over Haiku 4.5 alongside cheaper cache reads for Sonnet 5.5.
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AI
OpenAI Adds Interactive Visuals to ChatGPT With Free Rollout Starting Tomorrow
OpenAI is rolling out Intelligent UI for ChatGPT, replacing walls of text with custom sliders, diagrams, and interactive tools powered by GPT-6 for paid and free tiers.
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Deals
Lego Sets Drop Across Star Wars Flowers and City Lines on Amazon
Amazon marked down dozens of Lego sets for its October Prime event, cutting prices on Star Wars Smart Play models, Lego Flowers Botanicals, and small Lego City kits to record lows.
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Gadgets
Amazon Refreshes Kindle Lineup With Paperwhite and Colorsoft for 2026
Amazon has updated its e-reader roster with the Kindle 2026, Paperwhite 2026, and Colorsoft 2026, introducing slimmer frames, higher contrast screens, and prices starting at $149.
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Deals
Google Pixel 11 Pro Drops 250 Dollars on Amazon Prime
Amazon US discounted the Google Pixel 11 Pro by $250, cutting its launch price to $850 during Prime Big Deal Days, alongside markdowns on the Pixel 11 and Pro XL.
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Laptops & PCs
Microsoft Pairs Nvidia RTX Spark With Copilot Local Agents in Windows 11
Microsoft and Nvidia showed off RTX Spark systems alongside deep Windows 11 agent updates, running hybrid AI models locally with unified memory to challenge Apple's high-end laptops.
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Breaking
Deals
Anker charger deal: Prime 25W Foldable MagSafe charger at $94
Anker Prime 25W Foldable MagSafe Charger drops to $94 on Amazon US for Prime Day — down $55 from $149. The deal is live now and exclusive to Amazon Prime members.
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Breaking
Deals
iPhone 16 at ₹71,999: Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2026 is live
Amazon’s Great Indian Festival Sale 2026 launched at midnight on 8 October with verified discounts on the iPhone 16 (₹71,999), Galaxy S25 Ultra (₹84,999), Xiaomi 17 (₹59,999), Galaxy Z Fold7 (₹1,29,999), and more — all live on Amazon.in with bank offers, exchange bonuses, and no-cost EMI.
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Breaking
Laptops & PCs
Surface Laptop Ultra preorders live: $2,599, RTX Spark, ships October 16
Microsoft has opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra at $2,599 — and it ships October 16. That’s the hard number, the hard date, and the first real availability window for a device Microsoft calls “Not Standard Issue.”
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Cameras
Ricoh GR IV Restock: Where to Buy Now (US)
Ricoh GR IV is back in stock at B&H Photo and Adorama — for now. The compact street shooter, long sold out across US retailers, has reappeared in all three variants: standard, Monochrome, and HDF.
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Smartphones
Sony Xperia 10 VIII Debuts With Headphone Jack at £549
Sony has released the Xperia 10 VIII in the UK for £549, retaining the 3.5mm headphone jack, a microSD card slot, and a 120Hz OLED screen.
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Smart Home
Ring Camera Catalog Expands With Five New 4K and Pan Tilt Models
Ring has introduced five new security cameras, bringing 4K video recording to indoor spaces for $100 alongside a $70 motorized pan-tilt device and updated outdoor spotlight and floodlight hardware.
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Deals
Amazon Discounts Apple Watch Series 12 to 350 Dollars During Prime Sale
Amazon cut the Apple Watch Series 12 to $349.99 and the SE 3 to $199 during its Prime Big Deal Days promotion, alongside discounts across AirPods and M5 Macs.
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Smartphones
Google looks ready to kill contact-level RCS toggles in Messages
A recent Google Messages beta teardown reveals code removing the per-contact RCS toggle, leaving Android phone owners with an all-or-nothing switch if message delivery runs into trouble on their devices.
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