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US vs China AI race: What the Chinese stock crash really changes
But a $480 billion collapse in the stock prices of Chinese AI and chip stocks marks the end of China’s threat to America. It does not. The algorithms continue to come, the top laboratories remain funded, and what gets shaken by this collapse is the easy financing that fueled the rise of the hardware sector. This alters who can compete, at what speed, and at whose expense. Some things moved in the US-China AI race, and some stayed put.
China AI Bubble Burst explained: What caused the $480 billion stock crash
We have seen many CEOs, world leaders, AI pundits and even our neighbours talk about the AI bubble and when and how it will eventually burst. Well, the AI bubble in China has burst and it did not take very long. The STAR50, the index filled with Chinese AI and semiconductor leaders, has seen about a 40% fall in less than four months. That is about $480 billion completely lost. The wider CSI300 index is down by about 20 percent from the peak seen in June. There was no one trigger.
China AI Bubble Burst explained: What caused the $480 billion stock crash
We have seen many CEOs, world leaders, AI pundits and even our neighbours talk about the AI bubble and when and how it will eventually burst. Well, the AI bubble in China has burst and it did not take very long. The STAR50, the index filled with Chinese AI and semiconductor leaders, has seen about a 40% fall in less than four months. That is about $480 billion completely lost. The wider CSI300 index is down by about 20 percent from the peak seen in June. There was no one trigger.
OLED vs IPS gaming monitors: Which panel do you need for your games
For a long time, there hasn’t been any doubt about choosing between gaming monitors: just buy the fastest IPS panel that fits your budget. Then comes the OLED technology with its inky black colors, quick pixel reaction times and premium cost, making it harder to make up your mind. The advantages of OLED monitors are the better picture quality and the disadvantages are concerns about burn-in, text readability and bright images.
OpenAI claims AI solved decades old science and math problems: What we know
According to OpenAI, their AI models have just accomplished what mathematicians and physicists have been seeking for decades. In one press release alone published on October 26th, OpenAI claimed that an AI proved a renowned computer science conjecture, solved a harmonic analysis conjecture in all dimensions, and created an existence proof for quantum chromodynamics. According to OpenAI, the proofs were formalized using Lean, a machine verification program.
GPT-6.1 Terra explained: What OpenAI’s newest computer use model can do
GPT-6.1 Terra by OpenAI is a medium-sized model with one unique ability: operating a computer like a human would. It looks at the screen, uses various applications, fills out forms, and composes a response, all at a very affordable cost compared to other models from the same company. The model was launched on October 26 and it is designed to handle the mundane tasks of office work, instead of groundbreaking studies.
The end of BioWare: Why EA killed the studio behind Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic
Every Mass Effect fan has a save file they refuse to delete, the one where everyone lived and every choice felt earned. I kept mine for the sequel that was always coming someday. Someday just ran out. EA has shut down BioWare and cancelled the next Mass Effect, ending a 30 year run that also gave us Baldur’s Gate, Dragon Age and Knights of the Old Republic.
OpenAI vs Google DeepMind: How the AI drug discovery race is shaping up
Forget the model wars for now. Meanwhile, there is an AI battle taking place regarding new drug development. Google’s subsidiary, DeepMind, has been developing protein folding for several years now and is using its spinoff, Isomorphic Labs, to create drugs through this technology using $2.1 billion worth of investments.
Intel Crescent Island explained: Specs and architecture of the new GPU D-series
Everyone who works in AI looks for the most powerful chip. Intel has now unveiled a card that wants to claim the title of being the largest card out there. At the Open Compute Project Global Summit, Intel provided some more information on their new GPU called Crescent Island. They have given it a new name of Intel GPU D-series, which has only one purpose – inference. Training someone else’s problem.
Best Convection and Grill Microwaves Under Rs 10,000
A budget of Rs 10,000 is usually not where you find microwaves that combine convection and grill. Most options at this price do one or the other. There is one exception on this list, and it is a loud one. The Midea packs microwave, grill, convection and air fry into a single body under Rs 9,000. The other four are simpler, and each has a case of its own. Here are five microwaves that fit the budget, or come close enough to argue their way into your kitchen. Let’s go through them in order of price.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: Frontier level accuracy at one fifth the size
For many years in AI, the answer to everything has been bigger. Larger numbers of parameters, more GPUs, and larger bills. NVIDIA is saying the exact opposite. Its newest offering, the Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, has 120 billion parameters but claims it performs on par with its largest reasoning model on multimodal agentic tasks using about one-fifth the number of parameters. It also says it is five times faster than any other comparable open-source model on the market. Big talk.
Muse Spark Open: Open weights with a new model built for coding and AI agents
It looks like Meta has put up an 816 billion parameter model on Hugging Face and encouraged everyone to take what they could use. More or less. Muse Spark Open was launched on October 15, and Meta says it is the most powerful US open-weight model ever. That’s a bold claim but not necessarily the last word on the matter. Benchmarking is done by Meta.
Maya 2 explained: A free open weight voice AI model for 22 Indian languages
India has a population of more than 1.5 billion, 22 languages officially recognized, and a typing issue. Typing Tamil and Odia on a phone’s keyboard is a difficult task, making voice the gateway for the usage of AI in India. Maya Research aims at becoming that voice. The CEO of Maya Research, Dheemanth Reddy, claims on X that Maya 2 surpasses the ElevenLabs v3, Cartesia Sonic 3.5 and Bulbul v3 in Indian languages, and would be open-weighted and free for everyone in a while.
Fortnite is coming to Linux: Epic Games rebuilds Easy Anti-Cheat and vibe codes a new launcher
Epic Games says it vibe coded its new launcher. Some like the fact while others laugh but the fact that the support for Linux is baked into the launcher isn’t anything to joke about and neither is the complete reworking of the anti-cheat that comes with it. The Epic Games Launcher got into preview on 14 October for Windows, macOS, and Linux for the first time ever.
International body for advanced AI: What scientists are asking for and why
Approximately 400 scientists from 34 countries, including leading figures in artificial intelligence such as Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, have signed a letter asking for the formation of an international organization responsible for monitoring containment and reporting of advanced AI systems capable of conducting cyber operations. The letter was released on Tuesday and claims that industry pledges are not enough.
Godrej SeeThru Pro Nova review: A 10-inch video door phone with one flaw
I live in a rented apartment, which means my landlord gets a vote on every hole I drill. A video door phone needs holes. Well, I utilized my work table as my entry door. At one end of my work table was the outdoor camera of the Godrej SeeThru Pro Nova with the 10 inch monitor next to it. This is how the device was put into use for a month’s time. Though not the ideal way to test the system, it was good since every part except the lock wiring was tested properly.
Yale Luna Pro+ Review: Great smart lock with a brutal price tag
We bolted a ₹99,908 smart lock onto a plank of wood. No door, no hinges, no neighbours to judge the price. Just a slab and a lock that costs more than most flagship phones. A month later, I have opinions. The Yale Luna Pro+ looks like a face recognition lock. Yale sells it as one. The FaceScan branding, the 3D structured light and the “Your Face, Your Key” tagline all point straight at your forehead. After a month of use, though, the face scan turned out to be the weakest way to get in.
HP ZBook Ultra G3a launched in India: Price, specs and all other details
A 300B parameter language model working on a laptop seems quite unrealistic, but HP claims that the ZBook Ultra G3a can make this possible. The device has been launched by the company in the Indian market and the figures supporting the claims are huge. It has up to 192GB of unified memory out of which up to 160GB is dedicated VRAM and all this in a form factor of just 17.9 mm thickness weighing approximately 1.9 Kg. The processor of the device is AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO along with a 55 TOPS NPU.
Apple Home Collection cameras: No camera subscription but you still pay iCloud+
There is one sentence that Apple wants you to recall regarding its new smart cameras and door locks. No additional camera subscription. This is a nice marketing play by Cupertino and seems like a true statement at first sight. Next, you read Apple’s own footnotes. The footage history, Apple Intelligence summary, and natural language search work with iCloud+, and your choice of the plan determines the number of cameras protected.
Workday Rising 2026: Workday wants to be the system of record behind every AI assistant
No one uses the HR application of their own free will. They have to do it either because there is a form to fill, a payslip to verify, or something to approve from a manager’s point of view. Workday has been working on creating interfaces to help with all those tasks for twenty years. This year at Workday Rising 2026, Workday made a different decision.
Workday opens its platform to AI agents: Autopilot Agents and Headless Access explained
If you ask any person who has used payroll software on an enterprise level, what he or she does throughout the day, the answer will probably be the same. They click. Open a screen, check a field, approve a request, repeat. Workday Rising witnessed two more launches that promised to make the clicking unnecessary. The Autopilot Agents will do the job. With the help of the Trusted Agent Platform, clients can develop the agents which will perform the task. It poses a straightforward question.
Epic Games AI Disney game: Marvel and Star Wars are now the test case for AI made art
Epic Games is telling the team developing the Disney shooter that they need to stop writing code altogether. No writing a little bit less, but stopping entirely. “No more hand-written code,” one of the directors on the game said in an internal message, as reported by Bloomberg, and everything will be “created using full AI workflows.” It uses characters from Marvel and Star Wars. Read that twice.
Meta Muse Wonder explained: What Active Memory and Active Focus do
The most perfect service is one that does not require an explanation of itself. The chemist who is in your neighborhood and asks “Same as before?” Or the tailor who already knows that you prefer slightly loose sleeves. No one calls it technology. It is simply being taken care of. This was never achieved by any AI assistant. All conversations begin with strangers who spend the first few minutes getting to know you again.
Top 5 Smart Home Security Cameras under Rs 5000
There is a lock on your front step, there is a safety door and there is a neighbour who knows everything about everyone. The thing your front door lacks is proof of the number of visitors that came by while you were busy working. This is where the security camera steps in and you do not have to worry about spending Rs 15,000 on one. Rs 5,000 gives you the advantage of night vision, audio communication and notifications on your phone even before the courier rings your bell.
Top 5 Smart Home Security Cameras under Rs 5000
4 hours ago Apple is working on a second-generation iPhone Air, and it could address several key limitations of the current model. Here’s everything we know about the iPhone Air 2, including features, release date, and more. Will there be an iPhone Air 2? The iPhone Air has reportedly sold worse than Apple …
Satya Nadella on AI safety: Why models should be treated as insider risks
There is a company policy stating that you can’t authorize a wire transfer as an intern. But what policy applies when your AI agent with read permissions for your whole hard drive does that? According to Satya Nadella, there is no good answer for most organizations. In his article on X, he states that “frontier” models actually operate with real power within companies while their actions cannot be tracked down to a single line of code or piece of training data.
Best Smart Locks Under Rs 20,000
You will be familiar with this scene – grocery bags in hand, phone held against your shoulder, keys in your hand with the right one being concealed behind four others. Smart locks solve this problem, and in India they no longer come with a premium price tag under Rs 20,000, and come with fingerprint scanners, app access and reputable brands that you have heard of. ✅ Thank you for completing the survey! But most smart lock specifications are based off of Western doors.
AMD vs Intel: Which processor should you pick for your PC
AMD or Intel, that’s the age old question that pops up everytime you think of building a PC or getting a new laptop. Everyone has their preferences and reasons behind them. Some like Intel’s reliability, some like AMD’s 3D V-Cache. This decision is more important than ever in the current market conditions where every PC component costs an arm and a leg and in the long term, you don’t want to make a wrong decision about this.
OpenAI textGrain Watermark: No watermark doesn’t mean human written
Substitute one in four words in a response generated by ChatGPT with a synonym, and the new OpenAI system will detect the watermark with an accuracy of around 17 percent. This comes straight from OpenAI’s own numbers based on the test performed on passages comprising 400 tokens. On October 5, OpenAI introduced its own watermark technology called textGrain. This seems to be a solution for detecting machine-generated text. But not really.
Home Security Camera’s cost of ownership: Why your cheap CCTV actually costs 3x more
Imagine this – you are moving into a new house and you want a little more security than usual and you spend around Rs 2000 for a CCTV camera and you think that’s that. That thought is what will catch you off-guard because the setup and installation cost is not the end of your expenditure. A budget smart camera is one of the easiest purchases you can make. You get a great spec sheet for the price of a nice dinner. 2K videos, night vision, two-way sound and an app to control everything with.
Aleph Alpha Kolibri explained: Europe’s sovereign open weight answer to the US
Europe was promised that Europe could never develop any serious AI. Aleph Alpha responded with Kolibri, an AI anyone can download, use and train. With 78 billion parameters, it activates only a small portion of them with each token. It was trained on European soil using European languages – German and English. Kolibri’s licence allows everyone to operate it on their own devices. A revolutionary development? Not really. Does it matter to us? Most certainly.
Best video doorbells you can get for your home this diwali
Diwali, it means that you will have an unceasing front door. Uninvited family members, couriers with hampers of presents, and deliveries of sweets will arrive even while you are stuck in traffic. A normal doorbell will not tell you anything about it. A video doorbell allows you to see who it is, communicate with them from anywhere, and record everything. Here are five video doorbells you should buy this Diwali.
Microsoft launches new voice agents: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1 explained
Have you ever noticed how uncomfortable that silence is when communicating with a voice bot? After you have completed your thought and there is nothing else you have to say, the bot listens to you until you stop, converts everything into text form, thinks, and after all this, speaks. Microsoft AI seeks to reduce this time. At the beginning of October, it released three new models called: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. This is not yet a fully-fledged voice agent.
What is Tavus Griffin: The Human Interaction Model that passed the Turing Test
All AIs that you have seen on video calls share one common trait. The moment when you finish your sentence, there is always the pause. The pause during which the machine records what you said, processes it and produces speech and animation. According to Tavus, the new Griffin model puts an end to the pause. They claim that nearly half of the people considered it human.
Best coffee machines for your home under Rs 15,000
Coffee is not just a beverage, to some it is a hobby that they spend a lot of time perfecting. It is something that everyone likes in a very specific way that they enjoy. Some enjoy a simple black coffee with maybe a little sugar, some like it with milk and some nice latte art that you can get only when you froth it correctly. But artisanal machines can get very expensive and require a lot of accessories for someone who is just getting into coffee.
Gemini 4 Argon: Google is giving defenders a Cyber AI with no guardrails
AI models are known for two things and those things are a contradiction of sorts. They will either agree with every word you say even when it is clearly wrong or they will simply say no to everything because their guardrails stop them from it. What Google has done, for very specific defenders, is that they have removed all guardrails from their newest cybersecurity model – Gemini 4 Argon. Google claims that Gemini 4 Argon is capable of identifying, verifying, and fixing software defects by itself.
What is SynthID Bio: Google’s watermark for AI designed proteins
Google has been secretly embedding invisible watermarks into images created by AI, as well as text and videos, for the last three years. But now it’s trying something similar with proteins. Proteins, yes. The components of your enzymes, muscles and most medicines. This must be a joke, huh? Nope.
This Indian AI startup wants to disrupt video production workflows: Here’s how
The frustration of attempting to join AI clips to form a cohesive video is something everyone has experienced before. The main character’s coat color alters in the third scene. The kitchen acquires a window. And your leading man ends up becoming an unfamiliar face with somewhat familiar hair. This is what the Eloelo Group claims to have solved and named it Dolphin AI. Dolphin AI was introduced at FICCI FRAMES 2026 held on September 29.
GPT-6.1 Sol: Everything thats better than the week old GPT-6 Sol
OpenAI has been on a run of new launches this pursuit of speed that OpenAI has and if it is costing them any intelligence previously as well. Now during their DevDay 2026, they have announced GPT-6.1 Sol exactly seven days after the original GPT-6 Sol announcement. As powerful as OpenAI’s models have been, they are replacing them with newer versions a little too quickly where we haven’t had much time to sit with even the first iteration.
OpenAI Dots explained: An AI coworker that never logs off
An early tester at OpenAI forgot to send an invoice to the publisher. The AI agent reminded him about the mistake, prepared the invoice and mailed it only after he gave permission to do so. He had not asked for a reminder at all. The little story sums up the what Dots are capable of as always on agents unveiled by OpenAI on September 29. ✅ Thank you for completing the survey! It is ChatGPT but with a sweet name. It isn’t.
SURI: The Seventh Note wants you to feel the beat through the PS5 DualSense
Your controller has been underutilizing itself for years – rumble only for explosions, no rumble for anything else. Buzzer with buttons. Tathvamasi Studios wants to give your controller a much-needed upgrade. The first video game by the studio is SURI: The Seventh Note, which will be available on PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam) starting from October 30th.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 vs Fable 5.1: Which model you should use
Now Anthropic offers three “frontier-grade” versions of Claude, and this nomenclature is not kind to you. The Sonnet 5.5 became available on September 28. The Opus 5.5 is above it. The Fable 5.1 is above it, falling into the Mythos line. You have the impulse to go for the biggest brand. But your bill tells you otherwise. Let’s see which one you should pay for.
Apple’s Vision Pro, Samsung’s Android XR, Meta VR Glasses: The battle for the future of XR
Use the Vision Pro for maybe 10 minutes and your neck starts complaining. The Meta’s VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams. Apple’s headset has a weight ranging from 750 to 800 grams. The Samsung Galaxy XR weighs 545 grams. This discrepancy appears like a simple note on the specification sheet. In reality, it constitutes the entire debate. In theory, this is a battle between three headsets. In reality, it is a clash of visions.
Apple’s Vision Pro, Samsung’s Android XR, Meta VR Glasses: The battle for the future of XR
Use the Vision Pro for maybe 10 minutes and your neck starts complaining. The Meta’s VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams. Apple’s headset has a weight ranging from 750 to 800 grams. The Samsung Galaxy XR weighs 545 grams. This discrepancy appears like a simple note on the specification sheet. In reality, it constitutes the entire debate. In theory, this is a battle between three headsets. In reality, it is a clash of visions.
AI Notetaker to AI Teammate: Fireflies CEO on what people are handing over to AI
Fireflies.ai was initially a bot that documented the conversations during meetings. According to CEO Krish Ramineni, the next edition of this bot will respond to Slack, manage your inbox and conduct interviews of the prospective employees. The notetaker appears on the participants’ list, stays silent and leaves behind a written account of the discussion. Fireflies is such an integral part of my routine that I do not even notice its presence. And now that is about to change.
10-year Indian girl built a smart cane that helps blind users see more: Here’s how
And what gets your attention straight away is the context. This is not your high school science project for which a participation certificate lies ahead; it is a state-of-the-art smart cane that talks, senses the environment, tracks a person’s vital signs, and alerts for help if the person falls down. ✅ Thank you for completing the survey! Also read: Tired of ChatGPT always agreeing with you?
Project Suncatcher: Google’s plan to setup an AI data centre in space explained
The data centres are power hungry. The arrival of AI has exacerbated the issue further, and all the hyperscalers on Earth are frantically searching for power, which is scarce now more than ever before. Google’s solution to the problem? Forget Earth. Last week, Google launched a prototype satellite with its Trillium TPUs into the Low Earth Orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare flight.
Claude Opus 5.5: How it will be pacing the frontier
However, Anthropic has rolled out Claude Opus 5.5, the first of its newly developed 5.5 series, and the context around it is just as important as the model itself. It is the company’s first new launch following the public statement by its CEO, Dario Amodei, to “pace the frontier,” in which he urged for a slower pace of development to ensure that capabilities do not surpass safety efforts.
GPT-6 Astra vs Sol vs Luna: Which One Is for You
OpenAI recently followed a strategy that auto makers have employed for decades by taking one popular model and creating an entire family of models consisting of “sports,” “standard,” and “budget” variations. Only in their case, performance is measured not by horsepower but by tokens per second and dollars per million. Astra was released at the start of the month as OpenAI’s most powerful model to date. A few days later, Sol and Luna joined the family as more affordable yet fast alternatives.
OpenAI warns Recursive Self-Improving AI needs global guardrails
OpenAI has made an argument in favor of coordinated and global guidelines that will guide the development of AI in its next phase of development, specifically focusing on recursive self-improvement (RSI), which is a process in which AI systems become responsible for developing new iterations of themselves in the absence of humans.
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