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The best early October Prime Day deals happening now

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The Verge • Cameron Faulkner • October 3, 2026

Amazon is currently offering early discounts on Prime Big Deal Day deals ahead of the October 6th event, which runs through October 8th for East Coast residents. These promotions include hardware and popular products intended to prepare shoppers for the upcoming holiday season. The current updates feature Bose speakers, a Belkin charging dock, an Asus monitor, and various Amazon devices like Fire tablets and Echo displays.

Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’

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The Verge • Terrence O’Brien • October 3, 2026

Capcom plans to integrate AI into its development workflows for the RE Engine project. Programmer Satoshi Ishida presented this vision at the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026, aiming to make game creation more efficient rather than replacing human work.

Amazon’s colorful and sturdy new Kindles

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The Verge • Jay Peters • October 4, 2026

The Verge’s Installer No. 146 features a guide to recent tech news, including Amazon’s new Kindles, OpenAI’s Dots, and the remastered Witcher 3 game. The issue also covers Bose’s new wired earbuds and other weekly updates. In this edition, writer David returns after a break, noting that he is back next week. He thanks readers for their recommendations and invites them to email installer@theverge.com with apps they are using or things they have watched recently.

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI

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MIT Technology Review • MIT Technology Review Insights • October 2, 2026

Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, up 44% from the previous year.

The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI

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Ars Technica •
Ryan Whitwam
• October 2, 2026

The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it’s getting more expensive. Even devices with years-old tech inside are still apparently subject to that unwritten rule. Nvidia has just announced that the Shield TV Pro is getting $100 more expensive, effective immediately.

Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract

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Ars Technica •
Stephen Clark
• October 2, 2026

This week, SpaceX celebrated the first orbital launch of its new Starship rocket. I’m not sure many people, at least those outside of SpaceX, expected it to take 14 flights of Starship before it technically reached low-Earth orbit, but Monday morning’s launch finally added that to SpaceX’s list of accomplishments with its new super-heavy rocket.

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

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Ars Technica •
Jennifer Ouellette
• October 2, 2026

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through the cracks.

US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches

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Ars Technica •
Eric Berger
• October 2, 2026

In late 1970, a Titan IIIC rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at what was then called Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It carried a top-secret payload for the US military.

How I kept cool with NYC’s free battery program for window AC units

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Ars Technica •
Jeremy Hsu
• October 2, 2026

My family has spent four summers participating in demand response programs whereby utility companies pay customers to reduce energy use on the hottest summer days. Most summers have involved carefully precooling our New York City apartment before switching off the air conditioners and sweating it out during the designated demand response periods.

Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3

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Ars Technica •
Jonathan M. Gitlin
• October 2, 2026

Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026. That’s a 2.1 percent decrease on the same quarter in 2025, when the company found homes for 497,099 EVs, and one might think that would be bad news for a company valued on the premise of near-constant growth.