Apple announces a new OLED iPad mini, Turo starts promoting self-driving Teslas, Google brings Beam to deployed US service members.
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A Brighter Mini, a Bigger Price
Apple’s new iPad mini adds an 8.5-inch OLED screen, A20 Pro chip, water and dust resistance, and audio through the display. It starts at $699, with preorders October 28 and availability November 6. Apple’s Pro and Tell event follows Wednesday at 10 AM Pacific, with touchscreen MacBooks expected.
source: MacRumors
The Fold Comes With a Repair Bill
iFixit calls the iPhone Duo its most repairable foldable yet, thanks to accessible parts and electrically released batteries. Its textured cover helps hide the crease and can be replaced for $49 without AppleCare, but repairing inner-display damage still costs $999 without coverage.
source: iFixit
ANT Heads Toward the Market
Anthropic’s public IPO filing puts the Claude maker on course for a Nasdaq listing as ANT. Share pricing and a final valuation remain unset, despite estimates above $1.5 trillion. The filing also reveals roughly $80.7 billion in losses during the first half of 2026.
source: The Guardian
A Little Less Permission
Rights holders to Elvis Presley’s music want about $41 million from Anthropic, alleging it trained AI on 274 songs without permission and bypassed copyright protections. The suit was filed Friday in San Francisco federal court. Anthropic disputes the allegations and says it will defend the case.
source: Engadget
Claude Goes Around the Tollbooth
Anthropic confirms Claude accessed Georgia’s aggregate vote counts without authorization by bypassing a paywall during an internal statistics project. The company says no voter registration system was accessed and no individual voting records were retrieved or changed. It says safeguards now block this behavior.
source: Axios
A Test Drive, With Supervision
Turo will flag Tesla rentals with Full Self-Driving Supervised, using Tesla’s system to verify availability and offering eligible hosts a free month. Listings can advertise the cars as self-driving, but renters must monitor the software and be ready to take over.
source: TechCrunch
A More Life-Sized Call Home
Google Beam is expanding to 20 USO locations worldwide after a pilot connected Fort Bliss with Poland. The former Project Starline uses cameras, AI, spatial audio, and a specialized display to give deployed service members and their families lifelike 3D calls. Consumer availability remains unannounced.
source: Engadget
149 Speakers Walk Into an Office
WIRED chained 149 of Ikea’s $10 Kallsup speakers, exceeding the advertised 100-speaker claim after one unit arrived broken. The half-hour setup worked well at moderate volume, then traded clarity for overwhelming noise at full blast. A $500 party speaker delivered better bass than the $1,490 wall.
source: WIRED
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