Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge) Reviewed by Contributer on October 07, 2026 Rating: 5

Meta, Walmart, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure interactions between AI bots and businesses (Kate Rooney/CNBC) Reviewed by Contributer on October 06, 2026 Rating: 5

Your Pixel Launcher may be getting a clever new way to make app suggestions Reviewed by Contributer on October 06, 2026 Rating: 5

Flai, which makes AI tools for car dealerships to manage phone calls, emails, and texts, raised a $27M Series A led by Base10 Partners (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch) Reviewed by Contributer on October 06, 2026 Rating: 5

Forget booking restaurant reservations — Gemini could soon call your mom for you Reviewed by Contributer on October 05, 2026 Rating: 5

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety (Bloomberg) Reviewed by Contributer on October 05, 2026 Rating: 5

Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico) Reviewed by Contributer on October 04, 2026 Rating: 5