Email: Apple goes touchscreen 👆, Anthropic, Nscale make a deal 🤝, SpaceX flies Starfall 🚀

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Apple goes touchscreen 👆, Anthropic, Nscale make a deal 🤝, SpaceX flies Starfall 🚀
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&lt;div style="display: none; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"&gt;Apple confirmed an October 28 event in Los Angeles where it is expected to debut its first touch-screen Macs: 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;‌&nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Apple confirms Oct 28 event for its first touch-screen OLED MacBook Pro (2 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Apple confirmed an October 28 event in Los Angeles where it is expected to debut its first touch-screen Macs: 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with tandem OLED panels, a Dynamic Island in place of the notch, a lighter build, and M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. Apple is also expected to launch an entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac on the M6, its first 2nm chip, in unchanged designs, plus an OLED iPad mini. Retail availability is expected November 6.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Anthropic and Nscale reportedly near a second $45B compute deal (2 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are reportedly close to announcing a second $45 billion compute deal, just over a month after their first in August, though talks are ongoing and details could change. This would add to Anthropic's string of massive capacity commitments, even as some investors worry about spending outpacing profit. Nscale is also pursuing an IPO, but investors are pushing back on its proposed $30 billion valuation.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;SpacemiT Announces The V100 Server-Class RISC-V Processor (2 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;SpaceX flies its Starfall return capsule for the second time on a 32-payload rideshare (3 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    SpaceX launched its Starfall return capsule for the second time on the Bandwagon-5 rideshare, one of 32 payloads on a Falcon 9 booster flying for the 19th time. Per an FAA assessment, the disk-shaped capsule is about 10 feet wide and weighs 4,600 pounds, and can bring 2,200 pounds of payload home, aimed at microgravity research and in-space manufacturing. It deployed last, 2 hours 48 minutes after liftoff, alongside Varda's W-Series 7 capsule.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 Will Bring AI and HPC to the Moon on Astrolab FLIP (4 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 will be the first HPC benchmark on the lunar surface, launching in late 2026 aboard Astrolab's FLIP rover under NASA's CLPS initiative. It will manage AI workloads such as vision inference and LiDAR data processing in the Moon's high-radiation, atmosphere-free environment. NASA and Deloitte are joining this mission to enhance AI capabilities, including Federated Learning and predictive cyber-analytics.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Why Physical AI Is So Hard To Engineer (13 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    This article presents views from Synopsys, Keysight, Renesas, Arteris, Cadence, and Mixel on how physical AI changes chip design. Engineers must handle unpredictable environments, safety and serviceability, and split designs between devices that can rely on the cloud and those that must run fully locally, such as vehicles. Several speakers frame it as a sensing and imaging problem as much as a compute one.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;AI hardware design is the easy part, the lossy physical interface is the bottleneck (15 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    AI will soon be superhuman at hardware design, but the digital-to-physical interface is lossy. Building real parts means navigating CNC/CAM translation, tolerance stacking, vendors, and scale, while measuring reality is sparse, slow, expensive, and sometimes qualitative. Demand is expected to shift toward suppliers of machined parts, harnesses, and components, plus better simulation and process-knowledge data.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Infineon Targets Semiconductor Market for Humanoid Robotic Hands (3 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Musk pledges one SpaceX share to every US child, a roughly $10.5B gift (2 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;SpaceX's AI business is now its largest segment, and AI took $16.4B of $19.6B in Q3 capex (3 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Intel seeks an FCC waiver for foreign-made fab robots that move wafers between tools (3 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Monarch Quantum supplies photonics for NASA's planned space-based quantum gravity gradiometer (3 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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