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1. The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO

   Hacker News · 19 Oct 2026, 17:36 IST

2. Spectrum Instrumentation digitisers get onboard averaging function

   Electronics Weekly · 19 Oct 2026, 22:25 IST

   Spectrum Instrumentation has introduced a new firmware option for its high-resolution 59xx series digitizers to perform onboard summation averaging. The tool is for reducing unwanted signal noise while and improving […] The post...

3. Rivian’s CEO says autonomy will enable ‘dramatically different’ vehicle designs

   TechCrunch · 19 Oct 2026, 23:09 IST

   Rivian’s CEO says autonomy will enable ‘dramatically different’ vehicle designs

4. DHS Bans DeepSeek Across Federal Government Networks

   PYMNTS.com · 19 Oct 2026, 22:59 IST

   The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an order banning federal civilian agencies from acquiring products and services developed by DeepSeek and requiring them to remove the company’s products from their information...

5. FSSAI Crackdown Continues With Fresh Show-Cause Notices Issued To Zepto, Others

   Inc42 Media · 19 Oct 2026, 21:52 IST

   The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued show-cause notices to quick commerce unicorn Zepto as well as several food and nutraceutical brands amid a broader crackdown on food safety violations. The notice...

6. Apple promises to ‘Pro and Tell’ on October 28, and a touchscreen MacBook Pro could finally arrive

   TechRadar · 19 Oct 2026, 22:33 IST

   Jacob Krol is the US Managing Editor for News at TechRadar overseeing the daily rollout of content and coordinating with various section leads. He joined TechRadar in May of 2024 and is based out of New York City. Prior to joining...

7. Europe Doesn’t Want Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Hold Its Phone Networks Hostage

   Gizmodo · 19 Oct 2026, 22:30 IST

   Four major European telecom companies are teaming up to explore direct-to-device mobile services that could compete with Starlink.

8. US Exchanges to Extend Trading Hours, Raising the Stakes for Financial Firms

   PYMNTS.com · 19 Oct 2026, 21:55 IST

   stock exchanges are preparing to extend trading to 23 hours a day, five days a week, creating new opportunities for investors while requiring financial firms to adapt their technology, risk controls and overnight operations. The...

9. Banks Can Slow Stablecoin Growth by Paying Depositors More, BIS Paper Finds

   PYMNTS.com · 19 Oct 2026, 21:50 IST

   Banks campaigning to prevent stablecoins from draining their deposit base may already hold a simple but powerful competitive tool. A new working paper published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) finds that higher bank...

10. “Now they kiss my ass”: Trump says he called Google about the Gulf

    TNW · 19 Oct 2026, 21:45 IST

    Donald Trump described his call to Google to a crowd at Northern Kentucky University on Saturday. See, Google wouldn’t have taken my call in the first. Now they kiss my ass.” Donald Trump, at a rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky He was...

11. Agentic AI Explores Heterogeneous Chip and Interconnect Architectures (Argonne, UIUC)

    Semiconductor Engineering · 19 Oct 2026, 21:32 IST

    Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published a technical paper titled “Agentic AI for Heterogeneous System Design Across Chip, Scale-Up, and Scale-Out Domains.” Abstract Excerpt:...

12. Two Kenyan AI Startups Win KSh 1.3 Million Combined in Meta AI Academy Pitchathon

    Tech In Africa · 19 Oct 2026, 21:26 IST

    Two Kenyan artificial intelligence startups, Neural Labs Africa and Me-Nasoma , have emerged as winners of the inaugural Meta AI Academy Kenya Pitchathon, securing a combined KSh 1.3 million in equity-free funding. Each startup received...

13. Mastercard Extends Risk Capabilities to Stablecoin Payments

    PYMNTS.com · 19 Oct 2026, 21:30 IST

    Mastercard introduced a risk intelligence solution designed to enable more secure stablecoin payments, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 19) press release emailed to PYMNTS. The new Stablecoin Security solution combines payment and...

14. South Africa-Founded Healthleap Raises $38 Million to Expand AI Disease Detection in Hospitals

    Tech In Africa · 19 Oct 2026, 21:13 IST

    South Africa-founded healthcare technology startup Healthleap has secured $38 million in seed and Series A funding to expand its artificial intelligence platform designed to help hospitals identify patients at risk of undiagnosed...

15. Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indiana

    The Verge · 19 Oct 2026, 21:14 IST

    It’ll be several years before the facility is complete, but this digital rendering gives us some idea of what it’ll look like. | Image: Amazon Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the...

16. How Five35 Ventures made 3.5 times its investment on Complete Farmer

    TechCabal · 19 Oct 2026, 21:10 IST

    In April 2022, Five35 Ventures, a gender-focused venture capital firm , wrote one of its first cheques to Complete Farmer, a Ghanaian agritech company that connects smallholder farmers to buyers, inputs and financing. In March 2026, it...

17. Skyfire and Forter Team to Strengthen Agentic Commerce Decisioning

    PYMNTS.com · 19 Oct 2026, 21:00 IST

    Skyfire, a financial stack for agentic commerce, has announced a partnership with fraud prevention company Forter. The integration expands on Forter’s fraud management for agentic commerce capabilities, which now uses Skyfire’s know...

18. One-stop Tool Shows Apple Intelligence The Door

    Hackaday · 19 Oct 2026, 21:00 IST

    Don’t want AI features on your Mac? Tough luck, unless one wants to imperfectly do it by hunting down settings in about a dozen different places. Even then, the multi-gigabyte models stay on disk.

19. Elon Musk (Kinda) Promises to Give SpaceX Shares to ‘Every Kid In America’

    Gizmodo · 19 Oct 2026, 21:05 IST

    You should take it about as seriously as the "Trump Dividend."

20. More premium games hit the App Store this year than last, Apple says

    TNW · 19 Oct 2026, 20:46 IST

    Indie games make up many of the new premium games on the App Store, says Carson Oliver, Apple’s head of App Store Worldwide. More console and PC franchises are also coming to mobile, he said. In all, more premium games have come out...

21. A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield

    Ars Technica · 19 Oct 2026, 20:05 IST

    About a month ago, a Chinese rocket took off from a remote spaceport in the Gobi Desert, released 10 satellites into orbit, then reignited its engine and put itself on a trajectory to rain down debris over the American Midwest. The...

22. Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits

    Ars Technica · 19 Oct 2026, 20:15 IST

    This week, Character.AI declared bankruptcy. While some saw the fall of a chatbot platform as a harbinger for the industry , court filings indicate that the decision was actually a key part of a deal that has let Disney hire most of...

23. UK’s FCA Plans Regulatory Framework for Agentic Finance

    PYMNTS.com · 19 Oct 2026, 20:15 IST

    The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority plans to develop a framework for agentic finance that encompasses agent identity, delegated authority, accountability and execution, Jessica Rusu, chief data, information and intelligence...

24. Microchip expands space power portfolio with new radiation-tolerant GaN point-of-load converter

    DQ : Latest Posts · 19 Oct 2026, 03:30 IST

    Microchip Technology announced the POL-05-20S-T, a radiation-tolerant, Point-of-Load (POL) converter, designed to address the demanding power requirements of space processing applications. The new device uses Gallium Nitride (GaN) power...

25. Elon Musk promises to give one SpaceX share to every child in the US

    The Verge · 19 Oct 2026, 19:50 IST

    Elon Musk says he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the US starting next year. With around 72 million children in the US as of July 2025, Musk would be giving away about $10.5 billion worth of shares, according to...

26. Major European mobile carriers are teaming up for a ‘direct’ satellite program without Starlink

    The Verge · 19 Oct 2026, 19:54 IST

    Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX's Starlink. The four telecom...

27. South African AI startup Healthleap secures $38M seed and Series A to scale clinical AI

    Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · 19 Oct 2026, 19:48 IST

    Healthleap , a clinical artificial intelligence startup founded in South Africa in 2022 by siblings Josiah and Jemima Meyer, has secured $38 million in a combined Seed and Series A funding round. Backed by prominent venture capital...

28. What Happens After the Funding Announcement? Tracking Startup Performance in Africa

    TechTrends Africa · 19 Oct 2026, 19:46 IST

    A funding announcement is often the loudest moment in a startup’s life and the least informative. The post What Happens After the Funding Announcement? Tracking Startup Performance in Africa appeared first on TechTrends Africa .

29. Tesla (TSLA) proxy shows a board getting ready for a SpaceX merger

    Electrek · 19 Oct 2026, 19:37 IST

    Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee,...

30. Gee Whiz Ma, Elon Musk Gave Me One Share In SpaceX, Isn’t He Great!

    CleanTechnica · 19 Oct 2026, 19:19 IST

    SpaceX is in hot water over a decision to throttle back its Starlink and Starshield service in Ukraine last week, a decision for which nobody seems to have made. The post Gee Whiz Ma, Elon Musk Gave Me One Share In SpaceX, Isn’t He...

31. Elon Musk promises to give every child in America a free SpaceX share next year

    TechSpot · 19 Oct 2026, 19:13 IST

    Musk explained the plan on his X platform. He didn't elaborate, so we don't know details such as what ages will qualify for a free share, how he intends to distribute them, and exactly when the giveaway will take place in 2027.

32. Super.money triples revenues; Zetwerk IPO fully subscribed

    Tech-Economic Times · 19 Oct 2026, 19:02 IST

    Flipkart-owned fintech company Super.money is now among the top five UPI apps in India. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.

33. How to stack Newegg gift cards to cut fast 32GB DDR5 RAM deals down to $420

    TechRadar · 19 Oct 2026, 18:38 IST

    Steve is B2B Editor for Creative & Hardware at TechRadar Pro , helping business professionals equip their workspace with the right tools. He tests and reviews the software, hardware, and office furniture that modern workspaces depend...

34. Ukraine’s Starlink cutoff is a blinking red light for Canada

    BetaKit · 19 Oct 2026, 14:30 IST

    Last Wednesday, as Russian missiles pummeled Kyiv, the Ukrainian military’s satellite communications were suddenly cut off. Ukrainian officials say the call to cut access to Starshield, Elon Musk’s military-grade Starlink product, came...

35. Why B2B Checks Still Move $15 Trillion a Year

    PYMNTS.com · 19 Oct 2026, 18:30 IST

    The check was supposed to be dead by now. Instead, it has become a $15 trillion reminder that moving money and settling a business obligation are not always the same thing. According to research briefs from the Federal Reserve Bank of...

36. Musk pledges to give ‘every kid in America’ one of his SpaceX shares

    TechCrunch · 19 Oct 2026, 18:12 IST

    That's more than $10 billion in shares, or around 1% of Musk's current net worth.

37. Auto tech companies raise $1.3 billion in 2026 so far: Tracxn

    Tech-Economic Times · 19 Oct 2026, 17:54 IST

    The funding rounds were led by ride-hailing firm Rapido's $240 million, followed by electric two-wheeler manufacturer Simple Energy's $180 million and River's $102 million.

38. DeepSeek updates V4.1-Flash model to improve performance

    Silicon Republic · 19 Oct 2026, 17:56 IST

    According to DeepSeek, the updated model has 'substantial improvements' across reasoning, coding, agentic tasks and visual benchmarks. Read more: DeepSeek updates V4.1-Flash model to improve performance

39. Musk says he will give a SpaceX share to every child in America next year

    TNW · 19 Oct 2026, 17:48 IST

    Elon Musk’s pledge covers shares from his own stake, and he says it is only the first giveaway. He posted the pledge on X early on Monday, hours after Anthropic set out its own share plan. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares...

40. Chip legend Jim Keller’s Tenstorrent raises $1.5B to expand its open compute ecosystem

    SiliconANGLE · 19 Oct 2026, 17:30 IST

    Artificial intelligence computing hardware startup Tenstorrent Inc. is pushing hard to position itself as an alternative to Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing units after raising a massive $1.5 billion in a late-stage funding round...