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Apple's AirPods 5, Apple Watch Series 12, and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are now available for pre-order on Amazon ahead of their September 18 release, with some models already discounted. The AirPods 5 base model is listed at $125 instead of $129, while a version with a wireless charging case runs $149; new Apple Watch bands are also up for $99 each.
Amazon confirmed its Prime Big Deal Days sale will run for two days starting at 3:01am ET on October 6, spanning more than 35 product categories including electronics, kitchenware, fashion and beauty. Brands like Shark, Anker, Sony and Lego are expected to participate, alongside discounts on Amazon's own Kindle and Echo devices, plus a dedicated Halloween deals section.
Apple has released iOS 27 for iPhone models back to the iPhone 11, and users are advised to create a local, computer-based archive before installing it. This is because iCloud backups only retain the most recent version, so restoring to a prior iOS release becomes impossible once a device has been backed up under iOS 27.
JustWatch, best known as a guide for finding where to stream content, announced at the Toronto International Film Festival that it will launch its own platform called JustWatch TV in October. The service will offer three tiers: a free ad-supported option, rental/purchase titles, and a paid ad-free subscription, with initial content from Fremantle, Paramount and Bleecker Street. It will launch across the US, UK, Canada, and several European and Oceania markets, with plans to expand further.
A developer released scipgo, an open-source Go library that wraps the SCIP solver for mixed integer and nonlinear programming problems. It mirrors the API design of russcip, an existing Rust crate for SCIP, making it straightforward for developers familiar with either language to switch between them.
Amazon is offering a 25% discount on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic's 46mm LTE model, lowering the cost of Samsung's premium smartwatch. The deal brings the flagship wearable down to a more accessible price point for shoppers considering a cellular-enabled smartwatch.
OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the company has spent weeks in discussions with Anthropic and Google DeepMind about managing catastrophic risks from advanced AI. The disclosure follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's public essay urging industry-wide cooperation to slow frontier AI development, which drew support from Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis. Lehane said the firms don't need a government waiver to coordinate, despite antitrust concerns raised by some executives.
Antfly, a startup building a document, full-text, vector and graph indexing database, has released version 0.2 of its engine rewritten entirely in Zig with no external dependencies controlling core logic. The original v0.1 engine was built in Go, chosen for its concurrency support and mature Raft implementation, but the team decided to rewrite the system early rather than iterate on it.
A newly launched interactive analysis built on BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey data from 2000-2024 finds that the bottom 50% of U.S. households by income spend more than they earn once essential costs are covered. The tool reproduces official quintile-level averages for income, taxes and spending exactly, while offering adjustable what-if scenarios for finer breakdowns like deciles, childcare costs, and wealth taxes that aren't directly reported by BLS. It also flags several data inconsistencies, such as a 2013 methodology shift in tax estimation and missing 2024 after-tax figures, and includes inflation-adjusted projections for 2025-2026 since BLS hasn't yet published that data.
Amazon has released Pizza Bot, an open-source tool under Apache 2.0 that organizes long-running AI agent tasks into an inbox-style interface. Completed tasks land in an 'Unread' queue while tasks needing human approval land in an 'Action' queue, letting users start work and check back later rather than watching agents run in real time.
At the All-in Summit in Los Angeles, Elon Musk suggested that leading AI developers—including his own xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and several major Chinese firms—allow competitors to run safety evaluations, or a 'test harness,' on each other's models before public release. The idea follows a weekend of warnings from AI executives including Anthropic's Dario Amodei about the risks of unchecked model development, with Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman backing calls for a slowdown.
Anthony Katz built a makeshift knee sleeve from wetsuit scraps in 2009 to manage basketball-related pain, fitting it with an ice pack instead of relying on plastic bags. After Kobe Bryant's assistant noticed the device and asked for one, the product eventually evolved into Hyperice, a recovery-tech company now backed by top athletes and partnered with Nike.