After Trump, will America's friends still want to be our friends?

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/10/trump-nato-allies-biden-china.html?via=rss

The 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge The first array of laptops powered by Nvidia's new RTX Sp...

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https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1007040/nvidias-powerful-rtx-spark-laptops-can-cost-up-to-7000

Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/vesta-raises-30m-as-lenders-adopt-ai-agents/

WIRED has partnered with Neal Agarwal of Neal.fun to create a visualization of Elon Musk’s massive wealth. Here’s how it came together.

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https://www.wired.com/story/how-massive-is-elon-musks-trillion-dollar-fortune-spend-it-yourself/

What year is it, and what dessert name of Android are we up to? | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge A co...

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https://www.theverge.com/tech/1007409/androids-physical-navigation-buttons-are-back-on-googlebooks-but-not-the-way-you-think

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three ...

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https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-america-pac-is-quietly-funding-novembers-most-consequential-elections/

Starlink is still awaiting security clearance before it can seek spectrum and begin commercial services in India.

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/india-rejects-elon-musks-claim-of-discrimination-over-starlink-launch/

Mecka AI collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots. The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/robot-data-startup-mecka-ai-nabs-60m-from-sequoia/

While much of the automotive world sits dumbfounded as China gobbles up all its customers, BMW continues to roll out extremely well-crafted, technolo...

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https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1006837/bmw-ix4-ev-range-price-specs-tesla-china

Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.

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https://www.wired.com/story/tropical-storm-isaias-first-atlantic-hurricane-2026/

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Black...

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/ai-computing-startup-lambda-to-raise-4b-ahead-of-planned-ipo/

The Pixel Buds Pro 2 are getting all of the new features. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google has detailed an update bringing a sl...

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https://www.theverge.com/tech/1006622/google-pixel-buds-pro-2-2a-update-sleep-dynamic-anc-tap-to-mute

Xreal’s long-hyped Aura glasses arrive soon for $1,279. Here’s how they fare against Meta’s recently announced VR Glasses.

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https://www.wired.com/story/weve-tried-meta-and-xreals-xr-glasses-is-there-a-winner/

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be fr...

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/silicon-valleys-ai-wunderkind-launches-underdog-the-most-private-instinct-muse-competitor-yet/

Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/apple-is-reportedly-partnering-with-lg-to-launch-a-smart-lock-thermostat-and-doorbell/

Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google...

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https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/hackers-obtain-counterfeit-tls-certificates-for-google-and-other-large-services/

OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts,...

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https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1005004/openai-math-release-github

Meta is testing a new Facebook UX in India that sends some users directly into full-screen video when they open the app, putting Reels front and center.

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/facebook-tests-going-reels-first-in-india/

VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VM...

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/operational-complexity-a-top-barrier-for-vmware-migrations-survey/

The Amazon Echo Studio is one of the speakers that runs Alexa Plus. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge An unsettling Alexa Plus bug ...

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https://www.theverge.com/tech/1005342/amazon-alexa-plus-keeps-creepily-singing-lalala-for-minutes-on-end