Tuesday, 27 October 2026
- Firefox's Smart Window AI can now fill in forms from your open tabs
Mozilla's update also lets the assistant watch webpages for changes, but the data handling is less clear-cut than the "privacy-first" pitch.
- Robinhood teams up with Ripple on stablecoin and institutional crypto tools
RLUSD and Ripple's institutional services will feed into Robinhood's trading and treasury operations, days before third-quarter results.
- HomePod update lets Macs use Apple's speaker for real-time audio
HomePod 27.2 cuts the lag that made AirPlay unusable for calls, games and music-making, but only on newer Macs.
- Chinese team builds AI that designs proteins from plain English, but the lab still decides what works
Protein design has always demanded a specialist's vocabulary.
- Google adds sound and live editing to its world-simulation AI
Google DeepMind adds sound to Genie 4 world model
- Oracle to run Google's AI chips in a first for TPUs
Oracle gets a second big chip supplier beyond Nvidia, and Google gets a new route to market for its TPUs.