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Chinese AI lab StepFun has released the weights for Step 5 Preview, its flagship model for agent work, on Hugging Face and ModelScope in FP8 and BF16 formats.
Google has started offering Gemini 4 Argon outside the small set of cyber defenders who tried it first.
Google started rolling out Android 17 QPR2 Beta 7.1 to Pixel devices on October 16, 2026, according to 9to5Google.
Apple updated its App Review Guidelines on October 16, 2026 and used the note to be explicit about nonconsensual intimate imagery.
Canada's Centre for Cyber Security issued an alert on October 16, 2026 about a critical bug in BeyondTrust Remote Support, a tool many IT teams use to take over and fix employees' computers.
OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT extension for Google Chrome so the assistant can use your open tabs, 9to5Google reported on October 16, 2026.
China's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology have published a draft that would add 23 AI-related technologies to the country's list of technologies that are banned or restricted from export.
Databricks has introduced Private Network Gateway, a managed service that gives its serverless compute one private route into a customer's own network.
On October 12, 2026 GitLab shipped versions 19.4.2, 19.3.5, and 19.2.8 for Community Edition and Enterprise Edition.
GitLab Secrets Manager is generally available with GitLab 19.5, released October 15, 2026.
GitLab 19.5, released October 15, 2026, makes the GitLab MCP server generally available.
Apple opened preorders for the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, on the morning of October 16, 2026, and stock ran out almost at once.
Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA said on October 16, 2026 that they will extend their partnership to build the next generation of driver assistance and automated driving systems together.
Meta put two new models in front of developers on October 12, 2026.
NVIDIA published Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on October 15, 2026 and described it as an open model with 120 billion parameters, aimed at specialized agents that stay running.
NVIDIA said on October 16, 2026 that the first laptops built on its RTX Spark chip are now on sale from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, with prices starting at $2,599.
OMRON and OnLogic said on October 13, 2026 that they have a definitive agreement for OMRON to acquire all of OnLogic.
Pluto Security came out of stealth on October 13, 2026 with 42 million dollars in funding, TechCrunch reported.
Austin-based RapidCanvas announced a $29 million Series B round on October 16, 2026.
Stryker and CMR Surgical announced a strategic alliance on October 12, 2026.
