Mistral's Le Chonk is now a top open model for coding, ranking alongside Codex GPT-6.1 Terra    ZDNET

AI Pricing and Demand Prediction by SKU    Fusemachines

In a press release dated October 31, 2026 on its China newsroom, Apple announced that the first wave of Apple Intelligence features is coming to users in China. The features open for testing with the latest iOS developer beta on November 4, 2026, and will launch publicly with the official release of iOS 27.3 in December 2026. Apple said support for other platforms will follow after the necessary approvals are obtained. Datelined Cupertino, California, the release describes Apple Intelligence as…

Character.AI moves ahead with asset sale over states' objections    Reuters

Powerlattice Technologies Inc has sold $86,009,965 of a $111,010,000 equity offering, according to a Form D notice of exempt offering the Vancouver, Washington-based startup filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30, 2026. The company, which is developing a power delivery chiplet for AI processors, reported a date of first sale of October 15, 2026. Offering Terms and Investors The notice reports a total offering amount of $111,010,000, with $86,009,965 already sold…

Baseten Set for $30 Billion Valuation With New Funding    Bloomberg

This week on Uncanny Valley, we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.

Databricks announced on October 30, 2026 that it is expanding its partnership with SAP, bringing the Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway, and Lakebase capabilities to SAP Databricks within SAP Business Data Cloud and introducing a new SAP Application Data Foundation for accessing SAP application data. Databricks framed the expansion around business context, saying today's AI models still lack the context to understand how a company actually runs and that for most enterprises it lives in SAP systems…

ZDNET’s Inaugural Gift of the Year Awards Showcase Our Favorite Tech Devices for 2026    ZDNET