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Googlebooks are here. The archetypal models went on transaction Sunday, October 4th, and we received assessment units of all five Googlebooks concerning 24 hours ago. Since then, we’ve been in a mad dash to put the devices through their paces and get a inspect on what it’s akin to use these Android laptops.

At archetypal glance, Googlebooks awareness extremely Chromebook-ish, and at times a small janky. But Google has several awesome new ideas afoot on how a laptop and phone interact. You can already nexus your phone to a Windows laptop to sync your notifications and mirror your entire iPhone on macOS. But Googlebooks authorize you to obtain actions on your phone from your laptop in a way that feels natural. When it works, of course.

Here are all the things we’re learning, feeling, and thinking concerning so far alongside Googlebooks. The good, the bad, and the weird.

Googlebooks revolve about using an Android phone, and Google’s implementation current is great. Setting up a Googlebook alongside an Android phone is uncomplicated and painless. The out-of-box cognition is beautiful intuitive, prompting you to brace your phone by scanning a QR code, sign into your Google account, and afterward download several of the apps you’ve already installed on your phone. It’s akin to the most latest Chromebooks, but it’s intuitive.

Casting apps from your phone, migrating a project from your phone to your laptop alongside a sole click, accessing your phone records on your laptop, and getting your phone notifications on your laptop all activity well. These are astute ideas that let you keep your concentration on your laptop during you work, but several of them are coarse about the edges — in several cases, literally.

App casting allows you to use your phone apps immediately on a Googlebook, and it feels natural to initiate them direct from an app drawer on a laptop alternatively of mirroring your entire phone screen. But it additionally method your two distinct app drawers on a Googlebook volition have copy apps. And there’s nothing to halt you from operating a desktop type and mobile type at the identical period — equal alongside Chrome. That have to be effortlessly ignorable, but clicking on synced notifications (like Slack) can open a casted app alternatively of a web app or native app on the Googlebook. And casted apps sometimes have pixelated content or oddly proportioned UI. They additionally appearance and awareness fair a contact sluggish in animations and scrolling compared to the native desktop apps.

Google’s Continue On feature, which temporarily pins an app you’re using on your phone to the Googlebook taskbar, is excellent neat. If I open a spreadsheet on my phone, I can effortlessly transfer it complete to the laptop alongside one click. Brilliant! Except, most apps I tried don’t sync complete to the Googlebook alongside that functionality — not equal Google Maps or Calendar. It seems mostly for Google Docs and Sheets for now, and it’s notable for those.

Lastly, pulling records immediately off your phone from your laptop fair works. It’s great!

I affection a fancy ray show. Google’s Glowbars on these laptops recommendation Googlebooks a signature flair, but they don’t do much. It’s on the lid, facing distant from you, and it’s normally illuminated pale during you use the laptop. It alternates colors whenever you conversation to Gemini, and decision the lid temporarily displays a Google-y rainbow before it sleeps.

The most helpful function is that it shows the laptop accusation level. But I was expecting for several chill animated lights to display a trickling accusation during you have the lid closed or something. It fair pulses a few times alongside green, yellow, or red ray to provision an approximate accusation flat whenever you plug in or unplug a power cable. And the Glowbar that really faces you on Lenovo’s optional AI Mouse is fair a glorified RGB band that you choice the colors for — it doesn’t sync up to the lid lights.

These small ray strips are fair begging to be tinkered with. I anticipation Google does much additional here. At smallest commencement by showing a changeless accusation flat that gradually fills up the strip.

I affection that Google is now flagging Play Store apps alongside desktop ratings. Browsing apps on a Googlebook classifies them in five categories: Made for desktop, Optimized for desktop, Compatible alongside desktop, Better on the website, and Built for mobile. We haven’t established many “Made for desktop” apps exterior of center Google ones and a few another examples akin CapCut Pad and BandLab.

“Optimized for desktop” and “Compatible alongside desktop” designations appear a small loose. Apple Music is optimized, but it doesn’t react to right-clicks — lone a click-and-hold brings up a environment menu. And Firefox is compatible, which method it “works alongside norm mouse and keyboard controls,” yet it doesn’t react to keyboard shortcuts for creating, deleting, or switching tabs. As expected, Googlebooks are finest used alongside Google’s Chrome.

An app akin Slack, which is acknowledged as “Better on the website,” is finest used as a advancing web app instal — fair as it was on ChromeOS. But the web app couldn’t be installed at archetypal during following the customary procedure I cognize from Chromebooks. After multiple attempts and starting from scratch by loading up slack.com, Chrome eventually prompted me to instal it.

If I never heard of Googlebooks and you dropped me in forefront of one of these laptops I’d fig ChromeOS fair got a nice upgrade. They awareness extremely Chromebook-ish. That’s not really a bad thing, as I’ve enjoyed Chromebooks for their comparatively fuss-free web use. But that additionally method Googlebooks arrive alongside several old trappings of ChromeOS.

Just akin on Chromebooks, Chrome on Googlebooks doesn’t assistance distinct Google accounts. You can have multiple Google accounts signed into the Googlebook, but there’s no partition between their browsing, bookmarks, and settings on Chrome akin on Windows and macOS.

App folders and right-click menus opened on the desktop don’t overlay complete your windows, so they’re frequently partially hidden, and they remain open until you click on the desktop. They act this way on all the Googlebooks we’ve tested, whether using the mouse or using touch. What are we equal doing here, Google?

And this power mostly be a “me” problem, but I can’t remap the Caps Lock key to Ctrl on a Googlebook, equal although that worked fair fine on ChromeOS. In fact, none of the remappings for Ctrl, Caps Lock, Alt, or Action (the Google ‘G’ key) appear to work. They’re lone remapped on external keyboards — notwithstanding the fact that the OS environment for “Modifier keys” is listed under “Physical keyboards.” I confirmed this by plugging in a mechanical keyboard. Android doesn’t appear to document for the keyboards built into these Googlebooks. And frankly, it’s driving me bonkers. (Look, I’ve got extremely particular muscle recollection to maintain.)

I really stayed up delayed trying to activity my way about this by having Antigravity vibe code an Android app for me to remap Caps Lock to Ctrl, and following multiple unsuccessful attempts and a software-bricked HP keyboard I gave up. (It’s fine, it’s fine. The HP Googlebook’s keyboard plant again following I uninstalled the useless app and restarted the laptop.)

Quirks aside, Googlebooks are filled alongside chill ideas concerning how get-shit-done computers can engage alongside the mundane computers that live in our pockets and purses. An ongoing theme playing in my caput whenever using these laptops is: “When this item works, it plant well. When this item plant well, it’s friggin’ sick.” But this OS motionless feels in a bit of a half-baked state. It needs much additional polishing and development, and, ideally, many of buy-in from developers. Google finds itself in yet another vicious application cycle: it needs developers to assistance solidify a improved person experience, but volition developers do that whenever there power not be lots of users lining up to be Google’s first adopters and glorified beta testers?

I affection my AirPods Max, but I have a difficult period recommending them. They audio great, brace seamlessly alongside my another Apple devices, and recommendation outstanding Active Noise Cancellation, so they're my go-to for lengthy flights and journey days. And yet, I can't in fine conscience advise most group to buy them, since of the price. $549 is way too much for any brace of headphones, equal if they are my favorite brace I've always used.

I have fine news, however. For October Prime Day, Amazon has discounted the latest example of the priciest AirPods. The AirPods Max 2 are now $429, downward 22%, or $120, from the $549 catalog price. According to Keepa, that's the finest cost since August. While the headphones are motionless wildly expensive, it's much easier to propose them at this cost item than at their normal MSRP.

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The AirPods Max 2 aren't costly for nothing. They arrive jam-packed alongside features that create them Apple's finest over-the-ear headphones yet. Apple says these AirPods assistance up to 1.5 times additional Active Noise Cancellation than the first AirPods Max, although the benefits additionally broaden to Transparency mode. These are Apple's archetypal AirPods Max to arrive alongside Adaptive Audio, which automatically adjusts the loudness of appears coming in through Transparency mode, as fine as Conversation Awareness, which lowers audio whenever your AirPods detect that you're speaking. (The audio levels increase formerly the headphones note you've stopped speaking for a dimension of time.)

While these headphones audio awesome whenever used wirelessly, they're value using alongside a USB-C cable, too. With it, you can hear to lossless music through a assistance akin Apple Music, which offers additional item than lossy music complete a Bluetooth. Apple says you can anticipate 20 hours of power division existence on one accusation whenever using Active Noise Cancellation, and although the business doesn't specify, you can presumably broaden that use alongside ANC or Transparency manner turned off. You can additionally get 90 minutes of playback on fair five minutes of charging.

Like all AirPods, these headphones activity finest whenever you already have another Apple products. That's personally my favorite item concerning AirPods in general: You can use your AirPods Max alongside your iPhone, afterward perform a video on your Mac, and your AirPods volition automatically toggle to the new audio source. They're additionally uncomplicated to brace alongside an Apple TV, which makes for a awesome way to observe movies and shows without bothering others about you.

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Image editing; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop, rebuilt in clean Rust.
Layers, masks, adaptation layers, tier styles, type, vectors, brushes and genuine PSD files,
in a native app written entirely in Rust. Open source, offline, and yours.

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_{A caption cardstock alongside a autumn shadow, live type, and Vibrance and Curves adaptation layers, alongside the Curves publishing company open.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831}

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Every screenshot current is the genuine app at activity on public-domain art, rendered offscreen through its authority channel.

Levels and Vibrance adaptation layers, alongside the live Histogram panel. Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet, 1872 Adjustment layers keep all edit live. Stack Levels, Curves, Vibrance, Hue/Saturation and a dozen more, disguise them to an area, reorder them, or rotate them off, and your first pixels never change. 16 adaptation layers that additionally use immediately to pixels, including Curves alongside per-channel editing, Levels alongside a live histogram, Black & White, Channel Mixer, Gradient Map, Photo Filter, Selective Color and Color Lookup (.cube, .3dl, .look). Plus Shadows/Highlights, Replace Color, Match Color, HDR Toning, Desaturate and Equalize.	Outer Glow and Stroke on a live category layer, in the Layer Style dialog. Earthrise, William Anders / NASA, 1968 Styles that market the shot Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer and Inner Glow, Bevel & Emboss, Satin, Stroke, and Color, Gradient and Pattern Overlay, live on any layer, including type. Patterns arrive from a archive (built-ins, Edit › Define Pattern, .pat import/export) and PSD Patt blocks. Copy and paste styles between layers, conceal all effects at once, and open styles direct from your PSDs, rendered to equivalent Photoshop.
An elliptical choice becomes the disguise of a Hue/Saturation layer, so lone the visage keeps its color. Girl alongside a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665 Selections that comprehend your image Marquees, lassos and the Magic Wand for precision; Quick Selection, Object Selection and Select Subject whenever you desire the device to do the tracing; Select and Mask to refine hair-fine edges. Feather, expand, contract, smooth, grow, reselect. Turn any choice into a tier mask, a vector way or a shape. Smart choice runs on your machine, alongside no haze and no account.	A header edited in place, alongside a byline and a paragraph of build text. Among the Sierra Nevada, California, Albert Bierstadt, 1868 Type that sets beautifully Point and paragraph text, edited correct on the canvas, alongside complete Character and Paragraph controls: font, weight, size, leading, tracking, alignment and colour. Type layers remain editable, obtain tier styles, and round-trip through PSD.
A sign made of form layers: a gradient-filled lotus, a celebrity and a dotted ring. Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1906 Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Polygon, Line and the Pen tool, alongside resolution-independent form layers, gradient fills, and dashed, aligned strokes. Combine shapes (unite, subtract, intersect, exclude), keep paths in the Paths panel, use them as vector masks, or blow and inhabit them. 116 of 116 form layers in our PSD corpus equivalent Photoshop's pixels.	Twirl previews live on the canvas, lone inner the selection. The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Every display dialog previews live on the canvas, through your selection. Blurs (Gaussian, Box, Motion, Radial, Surface, Smart, Lens, Shape, and the Blur Gallery: Tilt-Shift, Iris, Field, Spin, Path), sharpening, Reduce Noise, distortions (Twirl, Wave, Ripple, Displace, Shear, Zig Zag…), Pixelate, Stylize (Oil Paint, Wind, Extrude…), Render (Clouds, Fibers, Lens Flare, Lighting Effects) and more. Run filters on a astute entity and they remain editable: change, hide, reorder or disguise them at any time. Large-radius blurs use running-sum box passes throughout all cores: a radius-180 Gaussian on 3.6 MP takes under a second.
Free Transform on a rotated print, alongside all stage listed in History. The Tetons and the Snake River, Ansel Adams, 1942 Shape it any way you like Free Transform alongside scale, rotate, skew, distort and perspective; exact 90° and 180° rotations and flips; Transform Again. Layers, type, shapes, masks and selections all change together. Full history, Toggle Last State and the History Brush average all stage can be undone, equal one broom blow at a time.	Export As in the ray theme, alongside a preview and a file-size estimate. The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908 Export As alongside format, quality, transparency and scale, affirmative a preview and an instant file-size estimate. Quick Export to PNG in one click. Choose a dreary Pro theme, the airy Studio themes, or a Classic look.

PhotoCraft's PSD assistance is a standalone crate written from Adobe's community specification and tested against a corpus of real-world files.

• Faithful circular trips: beginning and re-saving a document renders the identical for 307 of the 309 records in the psd-tools test set and 169 of 170 in our blended ag-psd/psd-tools set (crates/io/tests/corpus.rs; fetch the psd-tools set alongside cargo xtask corpus --psd-tools), and item we don't example yet (raw blocks, descriptors, extras) is carried complete alternatively of being dropped. A re-saved document is not byte-identical to its source: PhotoCraft rewrites depiction resources, tier records and the composite. Only the standalone photocraft-psd crate, parsing and penning a document without the document model, reproduces all parseable corpus document byte for byte (crates/psd/tests/corpus.rs).
• Pixels that match: a composite oracle compares our render alongside Photoshop's own merged image, covering gradient interpolation (Classic, Perceptual and Linear), tier effects, form strokes, clipping and inhabit opacity.
• Large documents: PSB, 16 and 32-bit files, and CMYK and Lab documents open natively.

Every list item, tool and dialog runs a command from one register of 500+ commands. The UI, the CLI, the JSON authority conduit and the MCP server all call the identical commands, so item you can click, a manuscript or an AI delegate can do too.

# Headless: open, edit, save photocraft-cli run wave.psd \ --cmd filter.sharpen.smartSharpen --params '{"amount":80}' \ --cmd layer.newAdjustmentLayer.curves --params '{"points":[[0,0],[64,48],[192,212],[255,255]]}' \ --out wave-final.png # Apply one act catalog to a directory of images photocraft-cli lot --actions grade.json --in ./raw --out ./graded # Let an delegate run it complete MCP (headless, or bridged to the operating app) photocraft-cli mcp

The desktop app additionally offers an authenticated, loopback-only authority conduit (photocraft --control) for inspecting UI state, driving tools alongside pointer events, and taking offscreen screenshots. Every depiction in this README was rendered that way. See docs/control-protocol.md.

• Engine first: a pure-data document example and a command engine, alongside a lean egui UI on top. Layering is enforced at build period throughout 24 crates.
• Two compositors: a CPU compositor serves as the citation oracle, and a wgpu compositor puts the canvas on the GPU. They are tested against all other.
• Copy-on-write tiles: 256² sparse tiles create undo cheap and huge canvases light, and consequence maps are cached per tier state.
• Runs in the browser: the entire motor and UI compile to WebAssembly.
• Clean-room: implemented from community specs and observed behavior only. No proprietary code, shaders or assets.
• Tested: additional than 1,700 tests, including PSD circular trips, synthetic generators, compositor oracles and multi-depth checks.

git copy https://github.com/storytold/photocraft cd photocraft cargo run --release -p photocraft -- image.psd # the desktop app cargo test --workspace # the test suite

New contributors and AI agents: commencement alongside AGENTS.md, afterward docs/.

Installers for macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and the web are attached to all GitHub release. On Linux you can choice an AppImage, a .deb, an .rpm, a tarball or a Flatpak bundle. The bundle needs the freedesktop runtime from Flathub, which flatpak offers to instal alongside alongside it:

flatpak instal --user photocraft-<version>-linux-x86_64.flatpak # or -linux-aarch64 flatpak run ai.storyteller.photocraft

On macOS, the command-line tool comes as photocraft-cli-<version>-macos-universal.zip. The binary is signed alongside the identical Developer ID as the app and notarized by Apple. A naked binary can't transport a stapled notarization ticket the way the DMG does, so the archetypal period you run it macOS checks the notarization online. You can verify it yourself:

ditto -x -k photocraft-cli-<version>-macos-universal.zip . spctl --assess --type instal -vv photocraft-cli-<version>-macos-universal/photocraft-cli # ... accepted, source=Notarized Developer ID

On FreeBSD 14 (x86_64), the publish has a tarball laid out akin /usr/local. Install the runtime libraries, afterward unpack it there:

pkg instal libxkbcommon wayland libX11 libXcursor libXrandr libXi libxcb mesa-libs vulkan-loader gtk3 fontconfig freetype2 alsa-lib tar -xzf photocraft-<version>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /usr/local photocraft

Maintainers: docs/releasing.md explains how releases are built, signed and published.

Developer, architecture, automation, format, and safety records is maintained in the PhotoCraft records book.

Security architecture, danger modeling, parser hardening, fuzzing, and exposure reporting are covered in the security documentation and the repository security policy.

PhotoCraft is tested against genuine files: our own Photoshop-authored oracle PSDs in photocraft-corpus affirmative the psd-tools, ag-psd and PngSuite sets, pinned and sha256-verified. Fetch them alongside cargo xtask corpus --all and run the tests with cargo xtask test-corpus (details in docs/development.md).

PhotoCraft is among the Crafting Apps: free, open-source imaginative tools from the ArtCraft team, all written from scratch in Rust and all capable to stand on its own.

And ArtCraft itself, our AI depiction and video studio for artists who desire genuine control.

The Crafting Apps portion the identical conventions: clean-room and clean Rust, native on macOS, Windows and Linux, in the browser via WebAssembly, and completely drivable by agents.

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PhotoCraft is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option. Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the PhotoCraft contributors. Required notices are in NOTICE.

Bundled fonts, icons, images and another resources keep their own open licenses; all one is listed with its author, origin and licence in ATTRIBUTION.md.

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The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks of the ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used lone unmodified, and lone as part of this repository and PhotoCraft, under docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt. Forks and modified versions must eliminate them.

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The six-episode wit really premiered on the BBC before this year, but it’s going to be streaming on Apple TV on October 7th. It’s a smart, silly, sweet, and occasionally stressful show, and additionally one tinged alongside fair a bit of the supernatural. Sort of akin British wit meets magical realism. The display centers on Michael Sleep (Pearce Quigley), who has been living akin item of a hermit since his partner Clea disappeared without a trace seven years ago. He’s basically put his existence on clasp waiting for her to return: He plant a job he hates at a hardware store, helps obtain attention of his aged begetter (Michael Palin), and lives in a home motionless stuffed alongside old boxes complete of Clea’s things.

Then one day his dad has an idea: He tells Michael a secret, alchemical formula that volition let him develop small magical beings that can answer any question. And since Michael is desperate to cognize the answer to one particular inquiry — volition he always see Clea again? — he decides to try it, notwithstanding not really believing it volition work.

What follows is chaotically comical. Michael ends up partnering alongside his inquisitive coworker Kacey (Lauren Patel) to develop the creatures, called homunculi, but at the identical period his earlier uncomplicated existence becomes much additional complex. Michael’s begetter keeps getting into difficulty at his nursing home, his neighbors keep threatening to call the assembly since of his messy yard, and Clea’s bankrupt brother Roy (Paul Kaye) is trying to assertion the home so he can market it and get out of debt. All the while, the homunculi are expanding in the two size and power.

The finest term to depict Small Prophets is charming. Much of this comes downward to Michael himself. While he seems akin an secluded shut-in on the surface, alongside his big facial tress and aloof personality, he’s really incredibly comic and equal lovable… at smallest to the group he likes. He’s continually cracking jokes and assisting out his small collection of family and friends. To everyone alternatively he’s a bit of an asshole, but in a weirdly comic way, akin how he continually shushes his chief so he can obtain individual calls at work. At one item he impersonates Santa Claus to get out of a mugging. And there’s a poignant note to his always-on humor, as Michael does all of this during holding onto the improbable possible that Clea is motionless out there.

It’s a low-key show, but one that is additionally extremely powerful in basically all regard, alongside an outstanding supporting cast, fair the correct amount of mystery, and the ideal mix of saccharine and silly tones. The goofy and heartwarming nature of Small Prophets additionally makes it a particularly fine fit for Apple TV, since there’s nothing alternatively fairly akin it on the service. It slots nicely between Ted Lasso, which is comforting in a much additional overbearing way, and Widow’s Bay, which likewise mixes wit alongside the supernatural, but alongside an end goal of horror. Small Prophets, on the another hand, is much additional whimsical; equal the homunculi themselves appearance additional akin stop-motion puppets than item scary.

For a lengthy period the important grievance concerning Apple TV was that it merely didn’t have adequate shows. Once you were done alongside the big names, akin Severance or Slow Horses, there wasn’t a entire lot alternatively to watch. But gradually and steadily that has changed, and 2026 has marked item of a turning item for the streaming service. Part of this comes downward to a ample figure of returning shows, from Sugar to Dark Matter, that have additional built out the library. But a lot of it has to do alongside new shows akin Small Prophets that are capable to inhabit in those gaps during additionally broadening the range of what’s accessible on Apple TV.

The fine news is that this trend looks to continue, at smallest for the foreseeable future. The next few months of Apple TV contain a serial killer thriller (Nocturne), a heist perform (12 12 12), and among the service’s most aspiring sci-fi shows to date (Neuromancer). And as for Small Prophets? It ends alongside a promising “to be continued.”

Google released Nano Banana 2.1 today, and it is already operating inside AI Mode in Google Search. Nano Banana 2.1 is Google's latest depiction generation and editing model.

Google said Nano Banana 2.1 "outperforms our former models throughout the board, alongside notable leaps in ocular design, mask-based editing, and topic consistency to assistance you create additional natural-looking images."

Robby Stein, Google's VP of Product in Search, added that Nano Banana 2.1 is already in AI Mode. He wrote on X, "Nano Banana 2.1 is rolling out in AI Mode in Search!" To use it, he said, fair "open the Google app & tap the 🍌 icon under the Search box to get started creating."

Here is a screenshot of that clasp in the Google App:

Here is a screenshot of what happens whenever you tap the 🍌 icon:

Google archetypal brought Nano Banana to Google Lens a twelvemonth ago afterward expanded admission to AI Mode final December and in July brought it to AI Overviews. I don't think AI Overviews use type 2.1 of Nano Banana yet but AI Mode does.

Nano Banana 2.1 is rolling out in AI Mode in Search!

Open the Google app &amp; tap the 🍌 icon under the Search box to get started creating.

— Robby Stein (@rmstein) October 6, 2026

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October Prime Day 2026 deals are live, and 65-inch TVs are anywhere the cuts have landed hardest, alongside sets from Samsung, Hisense, Sony, LG, TCL, Roku, Toshiba, and Amazon all marked downward and multiple sitting at their lowest prices on record, according to price trackers. The range runs from prosperity QLEDs under $500 to OLED panels and art-display TVs built to appearance akin framed artwork whenever they're off-duty. For additional on the October Prime Day sale, you can browse additional deals and transaction announcements on our Prime Day Deals page.

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Samsung has three 65-inch sets discounted correct now—the S90H, at $1,497.99 downward from $1,897.99, is the one to attain for if image norm and gaming the two matter to you, since its OLED panel handles dreary scenes without the gray cleanse you get from backlit sets, the glare decrease keeps it watchable in a area alongside midday sun, and changeable refresh rates up to 165Hz shield item a current console or PC can throw at it.

The S85H is the additional affordable OLED choice at $1,297.99 (down from $1,597.99) and its lowest cost yet, giving up several brightness and handling compared alongside the S90H during keeping the per-pixel lighting that makes an OLED value it in the archetypal place. The Frame Pro is the outlier current at $1,597.99, downward from $1,797.99, and since it's additional than either OLED on this list, choosing it on image norm solitary doesn't clasp up—a item PCMag's review makes as well. What you're paying for is the matte complete and art-mode design, which acquire their keep if what you desire is a display that can continue for a framed part of art.

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Hisense covers the budget-to-midrange dispersed here, alongside the 65-inch U6 Pro at $647.99 (was $1,099.99)—a steep cut on the entry-level mini-LED, which combines powerful contrast, a matte anti-reflective covering to keep glare down, and a 144Hz refresh charge for gaming. PCMag’s review has additional on how this TV performs. At the another end is the 65S7SG Canvas TV, Hisense's obtain on the art-display TV, alongside an anti-glare matte display and art manner during landing under nearly $850 under The Frame Pro.

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TCL has two 65-inch mini-LED TVs on sale, alongside a $78 difference between them. The 2025 QM6K is $647.99 (down from $799.99)—and PCMag gave it an “excellent” ranking for its powerful contrast, exact colors, and low input lag, although the assessment established its brightness small impressive. Still, its local dimming helps create deeper blacks than you’d typically get from a norm LED TV. The 65QM64L sits a stage below at $649.99, downward from $699.99, selling distant several of the QM6K's dimming zones in toggle for being the cheapest way into mini-LED on this list.

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Sony’s 65-inch Bravia 6 OLED is $1,298, downward from $1,999. The brand’s handling is motionless among the finest in the endeavor at cleaning up older or lower-quality sources, which counts for a lot if your viewing skews toward cable, catalogue films, or item that wasn't mastered yesterday. Amazon’s 65-inch Ember QLED is $709.99, downward from $849.99—with Fire TV and Alexa built in, it’s an uncomplicated fit for a residence that already uses Echo speakers and sound commands to authority another devices.

Finally, Roku's 65-inch Plus Series TV is downward to $429.99 from $649.99, making it the cheapest way on this roundup to get a ample display alongside Roku’s streaming interface built in. It additionally has a QLED panel and full-array local dimming, although its 60Hz refresh charge makes it improved suited to streaming and informal gaming than to getting the most out of a newer console.

October Prime Day FAQs

When is Prime Day in October?

October Prime Day is a two-day event that starts Oct. 6 and ends on Oct. 7.

What happens on Amazon Prime Day?

On Oct. 6 and Oct. 7, Amazon volition have a big online transaction for Prime Members alongside many products going for their lowest cost of the year.

What goes on transaction on Prime Day?

Since Prime Big Deal Days happens in the fall, you're apt to see additional deals on gaming and indoor gym equipment. Amazon has already announced several of the 35 categories that volition be on sale, including beauty, tech, kitchen, fashion, and home. Some brands Amazon has already mentioned are: Shark, Princess Polly, Soundcore by Anker, UGG, Nest New York, Sony, Tarte, Adidas, and Barefoot Dreams.

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Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days, the October type of Prime Day, runs Oct. 6 and 7, and Bluetooth speaker discounts from Soundcore, Ultimate Ears, JBL, and Marshall are live. Prices range from $19.99 for the Select 4 Go to $249 for the Marshall Stanmore III, alongside plentifulness of options in between, whether you desire item small adequate to throw in a backpack or a larger speaker alongside adequate quantity for a backyard gathering. For additional discounts and the latest offers, inspect out our extended Prime Day 2026 coverage.

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The Soundcore Select 4 Go is $19.99, downward from $34.99, and its IP67 rating, floating design, and carrying strap create it uncomplicated to obtain to the coast or clip to a backpack—while the Soundcore 2 is $28.48, downward from $44.99, and is improved suited to a array or kitchen, alongside 12W of output and up to 24 hours of playback.

For outdoor use, the Soundcore Boom Go 3i is $55.99, downward from $79.99, and pairs an IP68 ranking alongside 24 hours of playback and a power division that can accusation a phone. The Soundcore Boom 2 is $84.99, downward from $129.99, and steps up to a built-in subwoofer, up to 80W of output, and a floating build for a backyard or pool, which this in-depth assessment by PCMag breaks downward further.

The Soundcore Motion X600 is $139.99, downward from $199.99, and uses five drivers, including one that fires upward, to create spatial audio for listening at home. This PCMag review looks at it additional closely. The Soundcore Boom 2 Plus is $161.47, downward from $249.99, the largest discount in this group, and its 140W output, 20-hour battery, and floating scheme lawsuit larger outdoor gatherings, as PCMag's review covers in additional detail.

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All four Ultimate Ears speakers current are IP67-rated for powder and water, starting alongside the Ultimate Ears Miniroll at $47.49, downward from $79.99. It's a flat, palm-sized speaker alongside a silicone strap for handlebars or a bag and 12 hours of power division life, although it doesn't activity alongside the Ultimate Ears app for EQ adjustments—this PCMag review gives a nearer appearance at how it performs for its size. The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 4 is $56.99, downward from $99.99, and adds 360-degree sound, a floating body, 14 hours of playback, and an Outdoor Boost manner for open spaces.

The Ultimate Ears Boom 4 is $99.99, downward from $149.99, and keeps the cylindrical form of before Boom models during switching to USB-C charging, alongside 360-degree sound, a floating design, and 15 hours of power division life. The Ultimate Ears Everboom is $139.99, downward from $178.99, and is the most outdoor-focused of the four, alongside 20 hours of playback, a Bluetooth range of up to 55 meters, an Outdoor Boost button, and a carabiner for clipping it to a bag or tent.

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The JBL Go 5 is $39.95 (regularly $54.95) and has an IP68 rating, up to 10 hours of playback alongside Playtime Boost, and AirTouch, which pairs two Go 5s for stereo whenever you tap them together. The JBL Clip 5 is $59.95, downward from $79.95, and builds in a broad carabiner for hooking onto a bag or belt, alongside alongside an IP67 rating, up to 15 hours of playback alongside Playtime Boost, and EQ controls in the JBL Portable app.

The JBL Grip expenses $69.95, downward from $99.95, and adds an IP68 rating, Auracast, and AI Sound Boost to bounds distortion at elevated volume. PCMag's review gives a nearer appearance at how it appears for its size—while the JBL Flip 5, an older example from 2019 alongside 20W of output, an IPX7 rating, and 12 hours of power division existence is currently is $89.95, downward from $99.95. This PCMag review covers it in additional detail. 

The JBL Charge 6 is $149.95, downward from $199.95, and is the largest JBL speaker here. It's rated for 24 hours of playback affirmative four additional alongside Playtime Boost, and it has an IP68 rating, a removable strap, and a built-in power financial institution for charging a phone. It additionally supports lossless audio complete USB-C. For a detailed breakdown of its performance, check out this PCMag review.

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The Marshall Emberton III is $99.99 (down from $179.99), pairing Marshall's amp-inspired styling alongside two 10W drivers, an IP67 rating, and a power division rated for additional than 32 hours. There's additionally a built-in microphone for calls and multipoint Bluetooth support. If you akin Marshall's scheme but don't desire a speaker permanently tethered to an outlet, the Emberton III is the apparent location to start. For item larger during motionless staying portable, the Marshall Middleton is $149.99, downward $170 from $319.99. It carries the identical recognizable Marshall styling in a bigger scheme than the Emberton III, giving you a stage up if you desire additional significant audio without moving to among the brand's plug-in residence speakers.

Speaking of which, the Marshall Acton III and Marshall Stanmore III are residence speakers that plug into the wall. The Acton III is $189.99, downward from $299.99, and is the smallest example in Marshall's residence lineup. It has 60W of amplification, Bluetooth and 3.5mm inputs, and analog bass and triple knobs on top—this PCMag's review covers in it additional detail. The Stanmore III is $249, downward from $399.99, and steps up to 80W during adding an RCA input, which makes it a straightforward equivalent for a turntable alongside a built-in preamp. PCMag's review gives a nearer appearance at its audio and setup.

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Bose’s SoundLink Plus is currently $179, downward from $269, and is built for taking your music outside, alongside an IP67 ranking that protects it from powder and h2o and up to 20 hours of power division existence to get you through a complete day distant from an outlet. PCMag’s review has additional on how it appears in practice. For additional power, the larger SoundLink Max is $279 (down from $399), alongside the identical power division existence and IP67 protection, and a USB-C harbor that can accusation another device. It’s the improved fit if you desire to inhabit a larger area alongside audio fairly than keep things compact. This PCMag review looks into its achievement in additional detail. Both models are additionally at their lowest prices to date, according to cost trackers, making either size a improved buy than usual.

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The compact Sony SRS-XB100 is $43, downward from $64.99, making it the smallest costly Sony speaker here. It's small adequate to transport easily, alongside an IP67 ranking for powder and h2o opposition and up to 16 hours of power division life. PCMag's review goes into additional item on its audio and performance. The Sony ULT Field 1 is $68, downward from $139.99, and gives you a larger portable choice without a important jump in price. It has an IP67 rating, a shock-resistant design, and up to 12 hours of power division life, during Sony's ULT clasp boosts the low end whenever you desire additional bass. PCMag's review takes a nearer appearance at how it performs.

Moving up in size, the Sony ULT Field 3 is $148, downward from $209.99. It extends power division existence to up to 24 hours and keeps the IP67 safety and ULT bass boost, during its detachable high arm strap makes the larger speaker easier to carry. You can peruse additional concerning its audio and features in PCMag's review. The Sony ULT Field 7 is the biggest choice of the collection at $448, downward from $499. It's built additional for parties and larger spaces than tossing into a bag, alongside up to 30 hours of power division life, an IP67 rating, and lighting about the speaker drivers. It additionally has inputs for a microphone and guitar if you desire to use it for karaoke or live music. PCMag's review has a nearer appearance at its performance.

October Prime Day FAQs

When is Prime Day?

October Prime Day is Oct. 6 and runs through Oct. 7. It happens all twelvemonth during October.

When does Prime Day end?

October Prime Day ends on Oct. 7, 2026. It’s a two-day online sale.

What is Amazon Prime Day?

October Prime Day is the autumn type of Prime Day, which is the biggest transaction Amazon hosts during the spring, summer, and fall. You can discover deals on many categories during the sale, including tech, tools, appliances, apparel, and more.

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Learn how to design, build, and train an advanced multimodal tongue example from scratch using contemporary techniques akin mixture-of-experts, sparse attention, and reinforcement learning. This hands-on guide walks you through the complete lifecycle from tokenization and pre-training to post-training optimization and evaluation. Video from @vukrosic GitHub: https://github.com/vukrosic/glm-5.3-flash-from-scratch Become AI investigator in 90 days: https://www.skool.com/become-ai-researcher-2669/about Slides: https://github.com/vukrosic/glm-5.3-flash-from-scratch/blob/main/slides/slides.html Blog: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash ❤️ Support for this conduit comes from our allies at Scrimba – the coding phase that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp ⭐️ Chapters ⭐️ - 00:00 Introduction & What We're Building - 01:02 The Modern AI Researcher Role & Asking Research Questions - 04:50 Tokenization & Byte-Level Vocabulary (Why Small Vocab Matters) - 07:01 Embeddings & Transformer Forward Pass Overview - 08:53 GLM-5.3 Architecture Overview & Model Specifications - 10:25 Code Walkthrough: Embeddings & Token Representation - 11:56 Manifold Constrained Hyperconnections (DeepSeek Residuals) - 13:27 Output Projection & Weight Tying - 14:27 RMSNorm & Normalization Layers - 15:10 Positional Encodings (RoPE vs. NoPE) & Sparse Attention Indexer - 18:30 Linear Attention (State-Space Memory) vs. Sparse Attention - 20:46 Mixture of Experts (MoE) & Shared Experts - 23:06 Adding Vision: Patch Embeddings & 2D RoPE - 26:14 Pre-Training Pipeline, Loss & Optimization (AdamW) - 28:05 Pre-Training Experiments: Data Diversity, Interleaving & Curriculums - 30:27 Post-Training & Reinforcement Learning (RL) Setup - 34:44 Designing Reward Functions & Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) - 37:37 Parameter-Efficient RL Updates & Freezing Layers - 39:35 Evaluating RL Results: Task Gains & Regression Risks - 40:47 RL Hyperparameter Experiments: Group Size, Temperature & Seeds - 43:03 Summary & Advice for Aspiring AI Researchers 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 @omerhattapoglu1158 👾 @goddardtan 👾 @akihayashi6629 👾 @kikilogsin 👾 @anthonycampbell2148 👾 @tobymiller7790 👾 @rajibdassharma497 👾 @CloudVirtualizationEnthusiast 👾 @adilsoncarlosvianacarlos 👾 @martinmacchia1564 👾 @ulisesmoralez4160 👾 @_Oscar_ 👾 @jedi-or-sith2728 👾 @justinhual1290 -- Learn to code for liberated and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news

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Google is expanding the Search profiles characteristic to additional countries. Starting today, those in India and Canada are now eligible for a Search overview in Google Search. And soon, Google volition additionally assistance users in Brazil.

This was announced by Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, who wrote on X, "One of our most requested updates for Search profiles is live today: expanding to new countries!"

"Starting today, creators and publishers in India 🇮🇳 and Canada 🇨🇦 can set up their own dedicated residence basis on Google – followed by Brazil 🇧🇷 rolling out soon," he added.

Google Search profiles are a shareable, customizable leaf that brings together all of your social accounts, websites, posts, and links into one place. Google wrote, "To bring your satisfied from multiple platforms together, create a Search profile. Users detect you and your activity on Google Search and Google Discover additional effortlessly alongside a Search profile." For additional data concerning Search profiles on Google, see this assistance document.

Here is Robby's tweet:

One of our most requested updates for Search profiles is live today: expanding to new countries!

Starting today, creators and publishers in India 🇮🇳 and Canada 🇨🇦 can set up their own dedicated residence basis on Google – followed by Brazil 🇧🇷 rolling out soon.

Excited to get this into additional hands!

— Robby Stein (@rmstein) October 6, 2026

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October Prime Day is here, definition you can shop for several pretty awesome deals correct now. I've searched Amazon for the finest deals on tablets and vetted them alongside price tracking tools. While lone among the best tablets of 2026 made it onto the catalog below, all of these devices are awesome deals at their current prices.

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The iPad 11th-Gen is $427 correct now

iPads were among the many tech products that went up in cost dramatically in 2026 because of ongoing RAM crisis, so it's nice to see this example get a discount, equal if it's not that big. Right now, the iPad 11-inch alongside the A16 chip is $427 (originally $449). This is the 128 GB version, which is among the most affordable iPads. It supports the Apple Pencil, is brilliant and colorful, and is considered the best tablet for most people.

A like- new Kindle Scribe is nearly fractional the cost of a new one

Kindle Scribes are expensive—the 64GB can run for nearly fractional a grand—but you can get a "like-new" 64GB version for $319.99 correct now. The 16GB version is $284.99, but the upgrade in retention is value the $35 difference. It's improbable you'll discover a improved agreement on s like-new Scribe during this sale.

The TCL NXTPAPER 14 is $120 off

TCL started venturing into tablets in 2020, and their latest tablet, the NXTPAPER 14, came out this year. Right now, it's at its lowest cost ever: $349.98 (originally $469.99). This tablet has a 14.3-inch matte display alongside distinct viewing modes for reading, streaming video, and writing. While it's not the most portable because of the size, its design makes it versatile, and ideal for group who desire a tablet that can do a bit of everything.

The Xteink X4 Classic pocket e-reader is fair $76

Pocket readers appear to be gaining fame lately, alongside additional companies making new models of these hyper-small study tablets. The Xteink X4 Classic is particularly small: At fair four inches (about the size of a credit card), you can fit comfortably into nearly any pocket. This is the second generation of the device, which came out in first September, and it's incredibly affordable: At $75.99 (originally $89), it's about fractional the cost of the entry-level Kindle.

The Fire HD 10 tablet is 53% off

Right now, the Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet is additional affordable than ever: It's currently 53% off, bringing its cost downward to a document low of $72.99. (Note that this agreement is for the type of the equipment alongside lock-screen ads.) While this tablet won't win any awards for offering the latest and finest specs, it's an amazing value for the price, and it can likely grip all the essential tasks you'd ask of a tablet.

FAQ for October Prime Day

When is Prime Day in October?

Amazon Prime Day is an annual event held in June or July. Amazon's October Prime Day event, known as Prime Big Deal Days, is a two-day transaction that starts Oct. 6 and ends on Oct. 7.

What goes on transaction during October Prime Day?

Since Prime Big Deal Days happens in the fall, you're apt to see additional deals on gaming and indoor gym equipment. Amazon has already announced several of the 35 categories that volition be on sale, including beauty, tech, kitchen, fashion, and home. Some brands Amazon has already mentioned are: Shark, Princess Polly, Soundcore by Anker, UGG, Nest New York, Sony, Tarte, Adidas, and Barefoot Dreams.

Is Prime Day formerly a year?

Prime Day happens all summer. Prime Big Deal Days (or October Prime Day) happens all October. Amazon's Big Spring Sale happens all spring.

With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn’t form a recording. For most of gadget history, it’d be sensible to assume that a equipment alongside a microphone or camera is either record you or it isn’t; it’s either on or off, without much gray area. Microphones grasp sound. Cameras grasp images. That data is saved onto a device. Sometimes, it’s additionally sent to the haze — hopefully alongside end-to-end encryption — for processing. That data is a preserved instant in period and is hence a recording.

Perhaps not anymore.

Last week, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple is operating on a astute residence camera that doesn’t preserve video recordings. Instead, AI uses the ocular data to create content snippets that depict what’s happening about your home. Supposedly, it’ll assistance facial recognition, but without video footage. The idea is that it motionless protects several privacy. This tech, Gurman says, is akin to how the cameras in rumored forthcoming AirPods volition additionally work.

It’s akin to Apple’s Audio Intelligence on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4. The Apple Watch has had a microphone for ages, mostly for Siri and taking phone calls from the wrist. Of the four Audio Intelligence features, two have caused the most conversation online: Live Rewind and Siri Recap. The erstwhile produces a copy of the former 15 seconds, whereas the second can create high-level summaries of the conversations you have throughout the day.

In another words, Ray-Ban Meta glasses obtain photos and document video, which is stored on your phone. This rumored Apple method would average cameras can see you, microphones can comprehend you — but neither is “saving” anything.

Does this figure as recording? Apple doesn’t comment on rumors, but according to how it’s publically communicated its Audio Intelligence privacy philosophy, I’d contend the business doesn’t think so. Apple says these features don’t preserve any audio. The raw data is deleted formerly it’s completed handling in a separate, safe exclave on the S11 processor. Any data sent to the haze is through personal haze compute and is hence inaccessible to Apple or third parties.

It’s not fair Apple, either. Sandeep Waraich, Google’s elder director of wearables, told The Verge in a conversation that Google is additionally mulling this concept. What if, he posited, cameras on astute glasses didn’t document data? For example, if the glasses could procedure ocular data in your surroundings using AI, but didn’t preserve any footage for posterity. In that way, Waraich argued, the camera could “just” be an depiction sensor.

By these definitions, item have to be preserved and reviewable to be “recording” you. But wouldn’t any content transcripts generated by a astute residence camera or smartwatch figure as preserved and reviewable? Or, in trying to create AI hardware additional palatable, are tech companies relying on what can be subpoenaed in court?

It power appear silly to contend semantics, but multiple concepts are being tested here.

Whatever your individual opinions concerning privacy, it’s mostly accepted that you can do any you desire alongside your own data. Before gadgets could “always listen,” they slotted into community and personal spaces additional seamlessly. This new crop of gadgets, however, asks you to be a additional energetic steward of another people’s privacy. After all, humans don’t live in hermetically sealed bubbles. We live, work, and suspend out in a multitude of environments — several private, others public, and plentifulness in a gray area. The rules for a eatery differ from those of a theater, office, or sporting venue. They’re vastly distinct from a community restroom, equal although these are all at smallest semi-public spaces. Even if you “record” everything you see in your mind, individual memories can’t be shared objectively. They’re colored by biases and warped by perspective. Recordings are small subjective and arguably factual.

There’s additionally the inquiry of indication intent in the deficiency of universally understood norms. Take Meta’s astute glasses. They use a white, pulsing “privacy light” to signify whenever someone’s record video. Conversely, the worldwide color for record lights is red, so a small tech-savvy individual may not equal cognize what a pale ray signifies. (These are, following all, motionless niche products.) Even without modification, pale privacy lights are effortlessly obscured by bangs and a brilliant sunny day. This is additionally a new norm; another astute glasses or AI hardware companies aren’t obligated to indication this intent in the identical way as Meta. An AI circle or pendant that records audio or video may have no ray at all.

Even additional confusing, products that can document increasingly appearance akin products that can’t. That could be exacerbated equal additional if tech companies commencement adding cameras that don’t document ocular footage. If we commencement adding cameras to astute glasses that don’t document video footage, how volition you inform them distinct from pairs that do? If an Oura Ring — which has no microphone — looks akin a Vocci Ring — which does — and the two appearance akin regular rings, what is the average individual expected to do?

Right now, hardware seems to be the chief concentration of the surveillance tech debate. There’s a awareness that getting rid of cameras solves the problem. It doesn’t, although it makes it harder to use this tech in nefarious ways. But arguably, it’s not the camera or microphone that gives group the ick. The queasy emotion comes from knowing a preserved snippet of you can be in person else’s equipment alongside no cognition of how it’ll be used.

This is anywhere all the strain surrounding AI hardware converges. For AI to be “good” and really individual in the way Big Tech imagines, it has to cognize a lot concerning you — and the group in your life. It has to “see” what you see, comprehend what you hear, and study from your day-to-day actions. To do that, it has to “remember” these things. So in several ways, it must document your existence and everything that happens in it. The incentives for Big Tech to collect this data are obvious: Personal data is money, prosperity is power, and power is influence. What’s small apparent is what community gets from this tradeoff. Vague promises of helpfulness and convenience?

Regardless, it’s apparent tech companies have decided to cask onward alongside stuffing AI into all existing gadget during inventing new form factors. Right now, it’s most apparent in phones and wearables, but these considerations are shortly headed to the astute home, TVs, laptops, tablets, and headphones. Likely in ways consumers have yet to consider.

What we authorize these AI gadgets to recall volition rewrite civilization as we cognize it. This is why we must attain a social agreement on what constitutes a record — and who, if anyone, gets to alter that definition.

An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI.

openTPU brings the lessons of auto-arch-tournament to AI accelerators. It asks two questions: how far can AI agents go at hardware design, and can they build the part that runs their own inference?

otpu-chat operating LFM2.5-230M on the FPGA cardstock (left), alongside otpu-smi showing the card's utilization and DRAM bandwidth (right).

openTPU is additionally a learning project. The entire accelerator lives in one small monorepo that you can peruse end to end: the hardware scheme (SystemVerilog), the education set, a bit-exact simulator, a kernel tongue and its compiler, and the presenter application that drives a genuine PCIe card. If you desire to comprehend how an AI accelerator works, from a matmul in Python downward to the wires, this is a fine location to start.

The scheme runs ten contemporary models alongside their genuine weights on an Inspur YPCB-00338 card (Xilinx Kintex-7 xc7k480t, two DDR3 channels), and the cardstock produces the identical tokens as the simulator, bit for bit.

Measured on the card: the archetypal three models on 2026-09-29 alongside the manufacturing image deploy_champ_e698dcd7. LFM2-2.6B, SmolLM3-3B and Phi-4-mini on 2026-09-30, and Qwen3.5-2B and 4B and Gemma 4 on 2026-10-01, alongside build B, deploy_fused133c_79c5707a, manufacturing since then. Build B decodes LFM2-2.6B, SmolLM3 and Phi-4-mini 8-9% faster than e698dcd7 (Gemma 4 E2B 10%), at 91-94% of the DRAM highest alternatively of 82-87%. Qwen3.5-4B's int8 depiction is complete 4 GiB.

• The image: chief e698dcd at 133.33 MHz, one bitstream for all models. It has LiteDRAM controllers calibrated by a small CPU inner the recollection core, a four-column systolic matrix unit and the stream motor (docs/stream.md). DDR3-1066, alongside a 17.1 GB/s peak.
• The host: the cardstock sits in opentpu (Intel Core i7-4790).
• Method, tools/qual/perf.py: decode is 64 greedy tokens following a 512-token prompt, alongside the host's argmax in the iteration (not streamed). "Device" counts lone the cycles the accelerator runs; "wall" adds the host. Prefill is the 512-token prompt, on the device.
• DRAM traffic comes from the card's own counters during it runs.
• Gemma 4 E2B keeps its per-layer embedding tables on the cardstock (3.5-3.6 GiB images; docs/gemma4.md); in int8 it does not fit. It matches Hugging Face's greedy tokens on three prompts alongside either head. E4B's array (2.95 GB) stays on the host, which copies one 11 KB row into the cardstock per token; its depiction is 3.96 GiB, int8 alongside the caput and the archetypal 24 layers' downward projections in 4-bit (docs/gemma4_e4b.md). In the card's own decode iteration (the cardstock picking all token) Gemma 4 decodes faster: E2B 11.01 / 12.73 tok/s (int8 / 4-bit head), E4B 3.83 tok/s, on the device.
• Every configuration matches the simulator token for token, per-position and alongside the resident decode program. More item in docs/board.md.

With the logits streamed rear during the cardstock runs (tools/decode_profile.py, 96 tokens), 4-bit decode is faster, in equipment / partition tok/s:

• LFM2: 89.5 / 84.5;
• Qwen3: 33.7 / 33.3;
• Qwen3.5: 24.6 / 24.2;
• LFM2-2.6B: 11.07 / 11.02 (build B);
• SmolLM3-3B: 8.92 / 8.89 (build B);
• Phi-4-mini: 6.69 / 6.67 (build B).

The former manufacturing image, se-cand3, was built alongside the Xilinx MIG, a two-column matrix unit and a 120.755 MHz clock. Measured the identical way, the new image:

• decode: inside 2.3% of se-cand3's in all configuration. Decode is border by DRAM, and LiteDRAM says at 82-85% of the DDR3 peak, as the MIG did.
• prefill: 1.3x (Qwen3.5) to 2.0x (LFM2 4-bit) faster.
• calibration: whenever the depiction starts, the core's CPU calibrates the two DDR3 channels in 12 s, with no presenter involvement.

The before images and their numbers are in docs/board.md, division 5.

Mixture-of-experts models bigger than the card's 4 GiB run alongside their experts streamed from host storage (docs/offload.md, division 10). The cardstock routes all token and computes every expert, and it keeps the experts in per-layer slots in its DRAM. The presenter lone copies missing experts from a pond document into those slots, at the link's charge (section 10.1). Measured on 2026-10-01 alongside build B (79c5707a), the card's own decode iteration picking all token, 4-bit experts, int8 head:

• LFM2.5-8B-A1B (8.5B parameters, 1.7B active): 10.6 tok/s complete 160 tokens. 98.5% of expert uses hit the slots, and 5.2 MB streamed per token.
• Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (34.7B parameters, 3.0B active): 3.95 tok/s, alongside Hugging Face's 16 greedy tokens. 62% of expert uses hit, and 153 MB streamed per token at 1.41 GB/s complete PCIe (section 10.3).
• Both equivalent the simulator bit for bit.

4-bit weights (docs/quant.md) use FP4 values alongside two-level obstacle scales, 4.25 bits per weight, and keep the LM caput in int8 for accuracy. They cut the bytes per token by about a third and lift decode speed by 40% (Qwen3.5) to 45% (Qwen3, LFM2), at a measurable disbursal in perplexity that docs/quant.md reports per model.

The presenter is nearly out of the way. For LFM2 and Qwen3 the cardstock runs one decode program compiled once, which says the stance from a enroll and looks up its own embedding and RoPE rows, and the logits stream rear during the cardstock is motionless running: the presenter adds 0.17 to 0.30 ms per token on omarchy (0.45 to 1.3 ms on opentpu). Qwen3.5 runs the identical way for decode; its prefill motionless compiles all chunk's program on the host, ahead of the card.

 Kernels in ol mlp, attention, complete example layers | @ol.jit Language + compiler layouts, affine iteration addressing, fusion | ISA 8 x 32-bit words per instruction | ISA simulator <======> RTL identical bits, checked by the tests (Python) (SystemVerilog) | Vivado bitstream FPGA cardstock Kintex-7 xc7k480t | PCIe Host otpu-chat, otpu-smi, otpu-lens 

The device is deliberately simple. A sequencer issues one education per sequence to a few units: DMA moves data, the matrix component multiplies int8 weights streamed from DRAM, the vector unit does fp32 math, and a quantizer turns results rear into int8. There is no cache and no hidden scheduling: all data movement is an instruction, so a trace shows exactly anywhere the cycles go. docs/isa.md describes the entire education set.

A kernel looks akin this:

from opentpu import language as ol @ol.jit def mlp(h, gamma, w_gate, w_up, w_down, out, eps): # simplified; see kernels/mlp.py x = ol.load(h) xs = ol.quantize(rmsnorm(x, ol.load(gamma), eps)) g = ol.dot(xs, w_gate) u = ol.dot(xs, w_up) a = ol.all_gather(silu(g) * u) y = ol.all_gather(ol.dot(a, w_down)) if ol.program_id() == 0: ol.store(out, x + y)

Because all data movement is an instruction, a trace of a run explains its speed. Lens, the profiler, records a run from the RTL, the simulator or the cardstock and opens it in the browser, with a roofline, a timeline and per-instruction tables (docs/lens.md).

Lens replaying part of a Qwen3 decode step. Colours display what all component is doing in each cycle: busy, waiting on DRAM, or waiting on another instruction.

Everything apart from the cardstock runs on a laptop.

pip instal -e . pip instal pytest torch transformers python3 -m pytest -q # RTL tests additionally need Verilator 5 hf download LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M --local-dir models/LFM2.5-230M otpu-chat --model lfm2 --backend isa # conversation on the simulator

With a card, build the bitstream (make bit in boards/ypcb-00338), load it complete JTAG, afterward run sudo otpu-setup and otpu-chat --backend board. docs/board.md walks through the bring-up.

1. docs/isa.md: the education set. Everything alternatively is built on it.
2. opentpu/kernels and docs/compiler.md: how a kernel becomes instructions.
3. opentpu/isasim.py: the simulator, which is the spec.
4. rtl/: the hardware, starting from rtl/top/otpu_top.sv.
5. docs/lfm2.md, docs/qwen35.md, docs/llama.md, docs/benchmarks.md: entire models and anywhere their cycles go.
6. docs/board.md: the bodily card, from clocks to PCIe.

• The final few percent of DRAM. Decode is border by DRAM efficiency: it says 82 to 85% of the DDR3-1066 peak. Work on the LiteDRAM path's effectiveness is under way.
• Timing border and area. The scheme closes 133.33 MHz, the clock at which the 128-byte port matches the two DDR3 channels, but lone fair (WNS +0.032 ns). A tournament of Vivado runs keeps working on its border and area. Decode is border by DRAM, so a faster clock mostly helps prefill.
• Faster prefill. The four-column systolic matrix component is in the manufacturing image; prefill is still constricted by the matrix unit's multiply rate.

Issues and drag requests are welcome, and most of the activity needs lone Python and Verilator, not an FPGA. Changes to the ISA, the simulator or the RTL must keep python3 -m pytest -q passing, and achievement claims should say how they were measured.

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Here is a screenshot of the email I fair received for a random Search Console overview I have admission to:

It says:

People are choosing domain as a preferred source

To the owner of domain:

Preferred sources lets Google Search users choose the publications they desire to see most. When readers choose your site, your satisfied can appear additional frequently throughout features akin Top Stories, AI Overviews, and AI Mode.

Here’s your latest preferred sources data as of 2026-10-05:

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Take a 2-minute study to assistance us form preferred sources reporting in Search Console.

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Here are additional who spotted this:

Google has started sending location owners emails on Preferred Source achievement as a nudge to add their CTA. This includes the genuine numbers of users who chose your location as a Preferred Source. This is a archetypal and fairly helpful to correlate known CTR to selections. (@rustybrick) https://t.co/6FVRswcjPF

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Arturia’s AstroLab sequence was already amongst the finest phase keyboards out there. They basically put the company’s AnalogLab suite of vintage synth emulations, sampled pianos, and original device plugins into playable hardware. But they were ultimately glorified preset browsers. You could lightly tweak patches using the four macro controls, or dial in several effects, but you couldn’t do any genuine audio design. That’s all changed now alongside the AstroLab 2.0 update.

The latest firmware adds a Sound Edit list that lets you dig into the idiosyncratic parameters of any instrument. It’s not excellent intuitive to quickly blaze up a blank place from the device of your choosing, and these additional advanced audio scheme tools necessitate several list diving, but formerly you get there, creating tradition appears is beautiful easy.

The quickest way to build patches from scratch is to create a tradition category for templates and preserve initialized patches for all device there. For example, upload a essential Moog bass place template from the AnalogLab desktop app, afterward you can tweak it to your heart’s satisfied and preserve it as a entirely new audio immediately on the hardware.

Since a firmware update can’t add additional knobs and buttons, you motionless have to create all the changes alongside the four macro knobs and leaf through settings four at a time. It can be a bit time-consuming, and you’re not going to do a bunch of on-the-fly tweaking, but it gets the job done.

Arturia has additionally added a new gathering of multisampled instruments, including pianos, strings, and brass sections that recommendation additional realistic acoustic instruments. This is one area anywhere its competition plainly outclassed the AstroLab, but this should assistance near the gap. In total, there are 67 new patches.

Lastly, Arturia has additionally made a figure of small quality-of-life improvements. The octave LEDs volition now display transposition, aftertouch has been tweaked to awareness additional responsive, and app connectivity has supposedly been made additional reliable. While connectivity alongside the desktop AnalogLab seems rock-solid, the mobile AstroLab Connect app seems as flaky as ever.

AstroLab 2.0 is accessible now as a liberated update for all AstroLab keyboards.