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🎙️ How I AI: Claude Duet honest review + Why Reddit built its own AI prototyping tool

Why Reddit built its own AI prototyping tool | Blair Metcalf Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: Firecrawl —Give your AI agents web data and beyond Blair Metcalf is the principal UX engineer at Reddit and the creator of Reddit Proto, an internal platform that helps designers and product managers build production-like prototypes without touching GitHub. In this episo…

Production AI and Engineering Team Design: InfoQ’s November Certification Cohorts

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/online-cohorts-nov-certification/en/headerimage/InfoQ-Nov-Cohorts-v3-1793013188536.jpg"/><p>A preview of three November InfoQ online certification cohorts covering production AI systems, retrieval and agent design, engineering team flow, AI roles, and measurement, facilitated by Adi Polak, Lan Chu, and Olimpiu Pop.</p> <i>By Artenisa Chatziou</i>

Nevis raises $70M to expand its AI platform for wealth advisers

New York-based Nevis, which builds AI software for wealth management firms, has raised $70M in a Series B round led by EQT Ventures. The company announced the funding on Monday. Two new backers joined: Charles Schwab, one of the largest US brokers, and QuantumLight, the venture fund set up by Revolut founder Nik Storonsky. Existing investors [&hellip;] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple’s new iPad mini packs big upgrades into an even smaller design — and I’m loving the results

If you’ve been holding out hope for a new iPad mini, you could say Apple has answered the call. Ahead of its Pro and Tell experience on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 — and precisely two years and three days since it last introduced a mini tablet, the iPad mini 8.3-inch (2024) — Apple has just unveiled the eighth-generation iPad mini, starting at $699 / £699 / AU$1,099. While rumors had suggested the…

Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Reveals What’s Under the Hood

Anthropic on Monday filed documents ahead of a blockbuster IPO that offers insight into the company’s financials, risk factors, and views on the future of AI.

Early Black Friday noise-cancelling headphones deals are here: Get Sony headphones for under $90

The best early Black Friday noise-cancelling headphones deals: Best headphones deal Sony WH-CH720N headphones $88 (save $91.99) Get Deal best earbuds deal Soundcore P42i earbuds $59.99 (save $20) Get Deal best Bose deal Bose QuietComfort earbuds $129 (save $50) Get Deal best AirPods deal Apple AirPods 4 (with ANC) $119.97 (save $59.03) Get Deal Whether you're a frequent flyer , a commuter, a remot…

F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend

Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Austin, Texas, and accommodation so Ars could attend the US Grand Prix. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. AUSTIN, Texas—Formula 1 returned to US shores this weekend with its annual visit to the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Once in danger of falling off the calendar due to a lack of interest, it’s now one of the most popular track…

Apple iPhone Duo screen crack: See the phone fail JerryRigEverything’s bend test

How tough is Apple 's first-ever foldable phone? JerryRigEverything , the YouTube channel that made a name for itself by putting phones through a series of very tough stress tests, has now done the same to the iPhone Duo . The tests included scratching the phone's surface with a scalpel, burning it with a lighter, covering it with dirt, and bending it the wrong way to see how much force its hinge…

The U.S. and China AI rivalry is intensifying with the formation of these AI blocs

With the two leading AI powers, the United States and China , forming their own AI blocs, other countries are maneuvering to harness the strengths of both groupings and avoid losing out. As the rivalry intensifies, experts say the window for countries to be able to choose freely between the two AI superpowers may be narrowing, forcing them to at one point pick between the U.S.-led Pax Silica and t…

S-1: Anthropic warns prospective investors that its AI safety and advocacy stances risk disproportionate and selective targeting from the Trump administration (Maria Curi/Axios)

Maria Curi / Axios : S-1: Anthropic warns prospective investors that its AI safety and advocacy stances risk disproportionate and selective targeting from the Trump administration &mdash; Anthropic is warning investors that it may continue to be a target of the Trump administration as it seeks one of the biggest IPOs in history &hellip;

What are the downsides of a foldable electric bike?

The foldable form factor comes with some trade-offs. The foldable form factor comes with some trade-offs.

EU accepts Temu’s plan to curb illegal products after €200M fine

The European Commission has accepted Temu’s plan to improve its compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), five months after fining the online marketplace €200 million over its failure to properly assess the risk of illegal products on its platform. The Commission announced the decision today, as Temu’s plan sets out five areas of work, including [&hellip;] This story continues at The Next We…

Remarkable’s refurbished Paper Pro Move bundle is over $100 off

The Remarkable Paper Pro Move is essentially a digital notepad, with a skinny 7.3-inch E Ink screen that’s easy to hold one-handed to jot down notes or ideas. At $449 new, it’s not exactly cheap, but buying refurbished is a way to save, as always. Remarkable itself offers the refurbished Paper Pro Move for that same price with a polymer Book Folio case and a Marker Plus that has a built-in eraser…

5 Interesting Learnings from Anthropic’s S-1 at $16.3 Billion in Half-Year Revenue: 900% NRR, $6.6M in Revenue Per Employee, and a 10% Adjusted Operating Margin

Anthropic filed its S-1 this morning. It plans to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “ANT,” and the share count and price range haven’t been set yet. Revenue was $41 million in 2023, $386 million in 2024 and $4,585 million in 2025. In the first half of 2026 alone it was $16,286 million, roughly fourteen times the $1,163 million from the first half of…

Revolut CEO slams ‘dangerous’ VCs, says he removed them from board

Anthropic officially files for its public debut

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

Java News Roundup: JDK 28 Schedule, Oracle CPUs, eMudhra Certs, Apache POI, WildFly, Azul, BellSoft

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/java-news-roundup-oct19-2026/en/headerimage/java-news-roundup-image-1793025199136.jpg"/><p>This week's Java roundup for October 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: the proposed release schedule for JDK 28; the eMudhra Intermediate CA certificates breach; the October 2026 Critical Patch Update; Azul and BellSoft CPUs; GA releases of WildFly 42 and Ap…

McDonalds has relaunched the McRib this week — where to find yours

Four years after embarking on an official Farewell Tour that fooled absolutely no one, McDonald&rsquo;s is resurrecting its most polarizing creation well ahead of schedule. Yes, you guessed it: From Oct. 27, the McRib will begin rolling out to select McDonald&rsquo;s restaurants across the U.S. Love it or hate it, the McRib isn't going anywhere. First introduced in 1981, the sandwich features a se…

Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race

Elon Musk’s “flying” Roadster jumped and flipped through the air this month in a stunt that went viral around the world. But his bigger bet is on changing the way Tesla makes money—and the wider car industry is scrambling to catch up. Five days after the spectacle, made possible by compressed-gas thrusters developed by Musk’s SpaceX, he revealed the companies were exploring a merger that could acc…

Apple just announced a new iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display — how to preorder

PEORODER ON OCT. 28: The new Apple iPad mini will be available for preorder starting at 10:10 a.m. PT on Oct. 28. Prices start at $699, and Apple has the launch date set for Nov. 6. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple Apple iPad mini $699 at Apple preorders go live on Oct. 28 at 10:10 a.m. PT Learn More at Apple Apple has a slew of new products to keep us happy as we head into the finale of 2026.…

Apple unveils new iPad mini with OLED display and faster A20 Pro chip

The new iPad mini features a thinner and lighter design than its predecessor.

OpenAI’s discounts win Anthropic customers, The Information reports

Replit moved most of its AI spending from Anthropic to OpenAI in recent months after OpenAI offered a discount of more than 30%, The Information reported on Saturday. The contract is worth over $100M a year, a person familiar with the deal told The Information, in a story by Laura Bratton and Stephanie Palazzolo. Replit [&hellip;] This story continues at The Next Web

The Simplest, Highest-ROI Place to Put an AI Agent Is Your Contact Me Form: 614 Meetings, $2M+ Closed, and 71% of a Month’s Deals

If you’re trying to figure out where to deploy your first real AI agent in go-to-market, start with the most boring page on your website. The Contact Me form. No one should wait days to hear back from a 21-year-old human whose job is to qualify them. And yet that’s still how most B2B companies run inbound in 2026, including a surprising number of AI startups we meet. They’ve raised on an agent sto…

Apples new iPad Mini has a bigger display, a newer chip, and a higher price

Apple's newest iPad Mini debuted on Monday. The company started the week with a press release announcing the new eighth-generation iPad Mini. The device features several noteworthy upgrades over the previous model , released in 2024, including a larger display, a relocated front camera, a more powerful chip, and more. SEE ALSO: The 7 best tablets of 2026: Comparing iPad, Samsung, and Lenovo iPad M…

A Record 8,625 Startups Raised Their First Venture Round This Year. Smaller VCs Now Have to Find Founders Before They Found Anything.

Through Q3 2026, an estimated 8,625 US startups closed their first-ever venture financing per Pitchbook . That already beats 2021’s full-year record of 8,507, with a quarter still to go. 2025 also came close to the 2021 record, so this is two near-record years in a row. At the current pace, 2026 lands around 11,500 first-time financings by our estimate. The dollars are a record too: $34.3 billion…

The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

Matiks raises $10M to expand its math and puzzle gaming platform

Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.

Readyon Builds Four Layer Tenant Isolation for Multi Tenant Amazon EKS

<img src="https://www.infoq.com/styles/static/images/logo/logo_bigger.jpg"/><p>ReadyOn has detailed a four-layer tenant isolation architecture for its Harmony platform on Amazon EKS. The design combines Kubernetes namespaces, dedicated Karpenter node pools, VPC security groups, and per-tenant Aurora databases, with controls evaluated against a 10-stage multi-tenant threat model focused on cross-te…

Sources: Anthropic is aiming to go public the week of November 16 and could raise ~$100B at a $1.5T to $2T valuation, after initially preparing for October (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Anthropic is aiming to go public the week of November 16 and could raise ~$100B at a $1.5T to $2T valuation, after initially preparing for October &mdash; Anthropic didn't reveal the valuation it is targeting or the number of shares it plans to sell &mdash; Anthropic filed its IPO paperwork &hellip;

Apollo’s Slok says US companies now treat AI spending as a cost, not growth

Artificial intelligence has delivered “zero financial payoff” to corporate America outside the tech sector. That is the finding of Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, in a note on Saturday. Slok compared the Magnificent Seven, the biggest US tech companies, with the other 493 companies in the S&P 500. Revenue per worker and [&hellip;] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic's S-1 lists 94 pages of risk factors and warns that the "scale of harm" from a "catastrophic" AI incident might mean it is unable to obtain insurance (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Anthropic's S-1 lists 94 pages of risk factors and warns that the &ldquo;scale of harm&rdquo; from a &ldquo;catastrophic&rdquo; AI incident might mean it is unable to obtain insurance &mdash; 94 pages &mdash; Nearly a quarter of Anthropic's S1, or 94 pages, was dedicated to risk factors &hellip;

Experts reveal another major PHP2Shell bug — and it's not getting an emergency patch this time

PHP disclosed a new RCE vulnerability, but exploitation requires a rare and specific configuration setup Unlike php2shell, the flaw will be fixed in the next regular release rather than an emergency patch Researchers say php2shell attacks remain limited so far, though widespread patching is still urgently needed The PHP Security Team has discovered yet another remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabi…

How to watch Galatasaray vs Fenerbahce: Live streams

Galatasaray vs Fenerbahce: Today (Mon, Oct. 26) — 6.30pm GMT / 2.30pm ET Stream: beIN SPORTS (Aus - includes 7-day free trial) / Digiturk Play (UK) Away from home? Use NordVPN to unblock your live stream Watch Galatasaray vs Fenerbahce live streams as two eternal rivals do battle in the first Intercontinental Derby of the Turkish Super Lig season. Okan Buruk's men secured the bragging rights with…

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Even Realities launches a brown version of its G2 smart glasses

It also released a couple of new accessories, including a wearable chain. It also released a couple of new accessories, including a wearable chain.

Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren’t you?

Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles , which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork , but he and friend of the show Casey Newton just left the Times to start the all-new tech podcast Machine Gods , which launched last week . Kevi…

Anthropic S-1: post-IPO governance will retain Public Benefit Corporation status, giving its seven co-founders 50.1% voting control via a single Class F share (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)

Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters : Anthropic S-1: post-IPO governance will retain Public Benefit Corporation status, giving its seven co-founders 50.1% voting control via a single Class F share &mdash; Anthropic unveiled its US initial public offering paperwork on Monday, setting up for a blockbuster market debut &hellip;

Amazon's early Black Friday deals include up to 60% off Blink, Ring, Fire TV, and more — I've picked the 16 best offers

Black Friday is on the horizon, but Amazon isn't waiting until next month to kick off this year's deals season. Several strong offers are already available across its range of own-brand smart home devices, so I've gathered the top 16 offers here if you're in the mood for some early shopping. • Browse all of today's best deals at Amazon Some of the best deals are found on smart home tech from Ring…

SpaceX agrees to a ~$40B equipment finance lease with Apollo to fund purchases of Nvidia GPUs for its AI initiatives, set to close before the end of 2026 (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg : SpaceX agrees to a ~$40B equipment finance lease with Apollo to fund purchases of Nvidia GPUs for its AI initiatives, set to close before the end of 2026 &mdash; SpaceX signed a roughly $40 billion equipment-finance lease with Apollo Global Management Inc. to pay for the chips needed to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions.

How to declutter your phone's address book and remove unnecessary contacts

Clean up your contacts list to prioritize the people you actually want to talk to. Clean up your contacts list to prioritize the people you actually want to talk to.