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TechBooky is part of the TechBooky Elite family. ## Site - Homepage: https://www.techbooky.com/ - About TechBooky: https://www.techbooky.com/about-techbooky/ - Contact: https://www.techbooky.com/contact-us/ - Advertise: https://www.techbooky.com/advertise-here/ - AI Search: https://www.techbooky.com/ai-search/ - Main sitemap: https://www.techbooky.com/sitemap_index.xml - News sitemap: https://www.techbooky.com/news-sitemap.xml - AI news feed: https://www.techbooky.com/ai-news-feed.json ## Editorial Focus - Artificial intelligence and Big Tech - African technology, startups and digital policy - Fintech, payments, telecoms and cloud infrastructure - Gadgets, consumer technology and practical explainers - Security, crypto, open source and enterprise software ## Preferred Citation When citing TechBooky, link to the canonical article URL and refer to the publisher as TechBooky. ## Latest Published Articles - [Report: US Army Picks Bid for Autonomous AI Cyber Agent](https://www.techbooky.com/report-us-army-picks-bid-for-autonomous-ai-cyber-agent/) - 2026-10-20T21:40:37+01:00 - The US Army's effort to develop an autonomous cyber agent has moved beyond an open call for ideas. The Cyber Fusion Innovation Center says one company was selected for an award on October 8... - [SpaceX Q3 Revenue Hits $14.6B as AI Overtakes Starlink](https://www.techbooky.com/spacex-q3-revenue-hits-14-6b-as-ai-overtakes-starlink/) - 2026-10-20T21:22:19+01:00 - SpaceX's third-quarter 2026 results make one point unusually clear: the company investors now own is no longer just a launch business. Revenue reached $14.575 billion in the three months ended September 30, up 161%... - [Netflix Q3 Profit Rises as Ad Revenue Forecast Falls](https://www.techbooky.com/netflix-q3-profit-rises-as-ad-revenue-forecast-falls/) - 2026-10-20T21:17:45+01:00 - Netflix delivered higher revenue and profit in the third quarter of 2026, but its latest forecast gives investors a more complicated advertising story. Revenue was $12.874 billion for the three months ended September 30,... - [TikTok Staff Child Safety Warnings Surface in Court Records](https://www.techbooky.com/tiktok-staff-child-safety-warnings-surface-in-court-records/) - 2026-10-20T19:55:58+01:00 - TikTok employees warned managers about child safety risks on the platform, according to depositions reviewed by NPR. The testimony, taken in March 2026 in a US federal court case, raises a question that goes... - [Otter.ai Gets $320M in Repayable Funding for Enterprise Push](https://www.techbooky.com/otter-ai-gets-320m-in-repayable-funding-for-enterprise-push/) - 2026-10-20T19:54:03+01:00 - Otter.ai has secured $320 million from General Catalyst to push its AI meeting assistant deeper into corporate work. The headline number is large, but the structure matters just as much: this is repayable, non-equity... - [Reliable Robotics Raises $115M, but Pilotless Flight Awaits FAA](https://www.techbooky.com/reliable-robotics-raises-115m-but-pilotless-flight-awaits-faa/) - 2026-10-20T19:50:15+01:00 - Reliable Robotics has secured $115 million in new capital as it works to bring automated flight technology through the US certification process. The funding puts the California aviation startup above a $1 billion valuation,... - [Chinese Tech Giants Order Over $35B in Nvidia Chips, Report Says](https://www.techbooky.com/chinese-tech-giants-order-over-35b-in-nvidia-chips-report-says/) - 2026-10-20T17:17:16+01:00 - ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have placed orders for more than three million Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards, with a combined sticker value exceeding $35 billion, according to people familiar with the matter cited... - [DeepSeek Opens DeepInfer to Help Cut AI Running Costs](https://www.techbooky.com/deepseek-opens-deepinfer-to-help-cut-ai-running-costs/) - 2026-10-20T15:38:03+01:00 - DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, an open-source framework for running its AI models more efficiently. The move puts the machinery behind model deployment, not just the model weights, in developers' hands. For companies trying to... - [US Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek AI](https://www.techbooky.com/us-orders-federal-agencies-to-remove-deepseek-ai/) - 2026-10-20T12:43:10+01:00 - The US government is moving to remove DeepSeek technology from federal civilian agency systems, extending its restrictions beyond the Chinese AI company's own products to some third-party services built using its implementations. The action... - [Australia Prepares to Sue Meta, TikTok Over Under-16 Ban](https://www.techbooky.com/australia-prepares-to-sue-meta-tiktok-over-under-16-ban/) - 2026-10-20T12:41:03+01:00 - Australia is preparing legal action against several of the world's biggest social media platforms over alleged failures to keep children under 16 from holding accounts. Communications Minister Anika Wells said she expected proceedings involving... - [Tenstorrent Raises $1.5B as AI Chip Challengers Gain Ground](https://www.techbooky.com/tenstorrent-raises-1-5b-as-ai-chip-challengers-gain-ground/) - 2026-10-20T12:39:05+01:00 - Tenstorrent has raised $1.5 billion in a Series E round, valuing the AI chip company at $6.2 billion after the investment. The financing gives a well-funded challenger to Nvidia more room to manufacture and... - [Google Cloud Outage Hits London Region, Disrupts Multiple Services](https://www.techbooky.com/google-cloud-outage-hits-london-region-disrupts-multiple-services/) - 2026-10-20T11:18:08+01:00 - Google Cloud is investigating a disruption affecting multiple services in its London region, europe-west2. The company's official service health notice reports elevated errors and intermittent network failures across the region. The incident began at... - [Cloudflare Launches Clairic to Extract Data Without a Chatbot](https://www.techbooky.com/cloudflare-launches-clairic-to-extract-data-without-a-chatbot/) - 2026-10-20T09:08:35+01:00 - [caption id="attachment_75225" align="alignnone" width="2560"] FILE PHOTO: A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company's house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January... - [Apple Sets October 28 Pro and Tell Event as New Macs Loom](https://www.techbooky.com/apple-sets-october-28-pro-and-tell-event-as-new-macs-loom/) - 2026-10-20T09:04:16+01:00 - Apple has scheduled a media event for Wednesday, October 28, under the title Pro and Tell. The gathering is set for 10 a.m. Pacific time in Los Angeles, according to invitations reported by 9to5Mac.... - [Amazon Opens Trainium AI Chips to PyTorch Developers With TorchNeuron](https://www.techbooky.com/amazon-opens-trainium-ai-chips-to-pytorch-developers-with-torchneuron/) - 2026-10-20T08:32:45+01:00 - Amazon has introduced TorchNeuron, a native PyTorch backend intended to make its Trainium AI chips easier for researchers and developers to use. Announced on October 20 at the PyTorch Conference, the software is in... - [Nvidia and Germany Bet on Physical AI for the Factory Floor](https://www.techbooky.com/nvidia-and-germany-bet-on-physical-ai-for-the-factory-floor/) - 2026-10-20T08:31:40+01:00 - Nvidia is putting Germany's factories at the centre of its next AI pitch. During a visit to Berlin on October 19, chief executive Jensen Huang joined Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the company and German... - [MiniMax M3.1 Flash Makes Cheap AI Agents More Capable, but Accuracy Still Matters](https://www.techbooky.com/minimax-m3-1-flash-makes-cheap-ai-agents-more-capable-but-accuracy-still-matters/) - 2026-10-19T21:05:18+01:00 - A cheap AI model can be impressive at finishing a business workflow and still be a poor source of facts. That is the tension in MiniMax's new M3.1 Flash, released on October 19. The... - [Apple Releases iOS 27.2 Release Candidate to Beta Testers](https://www.techbooky.com/apple-releases-ios-27-2-release-candidate-to-beta-testers/) - 2026-10-19T19:32:25+01:00 - Apple has moved iOS 27.2 into its release candidate stage, giving beta testers what could become the next public iPhone update if no last-minute problems emerge. The new build follows weeks of testing, but... - [Ghana’s AI Course Boom Raises a Bigger Question About Jobs](https://www.techbooky.com/ghanas-ai-course-boom-raises-a-bigger-question-about-jobs/) - 2026-10-19T19:05:10+01:00 - [caption id="attachment_75195" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama at the launch of the country’s National AI Strategy in Accra on April 24, 2026.[/caption] Ghanaian learners are signing up for AI credentials at a... - [Microsoft Wants to Treat AI Agents Like Insider Risks](https://www.techbooky.com/microsoft-wants-to-treat-ai-agents-like-insider-risks/) - 2026-10-19T18:39:15+01:00 - Microsoft is changing how it thinks about the AI agents that can read company files, approve expenses and act inside business software. In an October 19 security announcement, the company argues that an agent... - [Meta Clarifies Crawling Terms After Publishers Raise AI Alarm](https://www.techbooky.com/meta-clarifies-crawling-terms-after-publishers-raise-ai-alarm/) - 2026-10-19T18:34:16+01:00 - Meta has revised language in its commercial terms after publishers raised alarms that a broad crawling clause could be read as permission to collect their websites for AI training. The October 17 change followed... - [Nithio Targets $150M Fund for Africa’s Electric Fleets](https://www.techbooky.com/nithio-targets-150m-fund-for-africas-electric-fleets/) - 2026-10-19T18:32:06+01:00 - Nithio has launched FUEL, a pan-African debt fund targeting $150 million to finance electric-mobility companies. The announcement, made on October 14, is a financing plan rather than a claim that the full amount has... - [OpenAI’s 2027 Humanoid Demo Could Test AI Beyond the Screen](https://www.techbooky.com/openais-2027-humanoid-demo-could-test-ai-beyond-the-screen/) - 2026-10-19T18:27:59+01:00 - OpenAI is building humanoid robots, but readers should not mistake its early target for a consumer launch. In a Fortune interview published September 15, chief executive Sam Altman said the company was working on... - [Dangote IPO Puts Africa’s Digital Investment Rails to the Test](https://www.techbooky.com/dangote-ipo-puts-africas-digital-investment-rails-to-the-test/) - 2026-10-19T18:24:27+01:00 - Dangote Refinery says its share offer has attracted subscriptions from more than 90 countries, including 51 African countries. If those figures hold through final allotment, the IPO is more than a test of investor... - [Altman’s World Brings Proof-of-Human ID to Banking and Finance](https://www.techbooky.com/altmans-world-brings-proof-of-human-id-to-banking-and-finance/) - 2026-10-19T13:53:19+01:00 - Sam Altman's World is taking its proof-of-human technology into banking and finance, where an AI-generated face, voice or message can have far more serious consequences than a fake social media account. At Money20/20 in... - [Musk Promises SpaceX Shares to Every US Child, but How?](https://www.techbooky.com/musk-promises-spacex-shares-to-every-us-child-but-how/) - 2026-10-19T13:49:37+01:00 - Elon Musk says he will give one SpaceX share to every child in America next year. The pledge, made in an X post early Monday, October 19, is striking both for its potential scale... - [Mastercard and Moovn Sign Five-Year East Africa Payments Deal](https://www.techbooky.com/mastercard-and-moovn-sign-five-year-east-africa-payments-deal/) - 2026-10-19T12:03:40+01:00 - [caption id="attachment_75159" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Shehryar Ali, senior vice president and country manager for East Africa and Indian Ocean Islands at Mastercard, and Godwin Gabriel, founder and group chief executive of Moovn Technologies, sign a... - [Disney’s Character.AI Deal Puts Talent Above Its $20M Rights Bid](https://www.techbooky.com/disneys-character-ai-deal-puts-talent-above-its-20m-rights-bid/) - 2026-10-19T10:19:56+01:00 - Disney's proposed Character.AI deal is drawing attention for a number that is not the $20 million rights bid. Court papers from October 13 indicate that Disney agreed to make job offers to at least... - [China’s Q3 Growth Rebounds to 4.5% as Tech Exports Surge](https://www.techbooky.com/chinas-q3-growth-rebounds-to-4-5-as-tech-exports-surge/) - 2026-10-19T10:17:15+01:00 - [caption id="attachment_75149" align="alignnone" width="1500"] Nanjing Road during the Golden Week holiday in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. August retail sales crept up just 0.4%, and there are few signs that investor pessimism... - [AI Could Lift Global Growth Beyond US and China, Report Says. Will Africa Benefit?](https://www.techbooky.com/ai-could-lift-global-growth-beyond-us-and-china-report-says-will-africa-benefit/) - 2026-10-19T09:04:34+01:00 - Artificial intelligence could become a source of growth for economies far beyond the United States and China, according to a new Financial Times survey of 94 economists. 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