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Amazon has launched three Alexa Tablets that run Android with full Google Play Store access and its Alexa+ assistant built in. Prices, UK shipping date, the opt-in screen-reading feature, and which claims are Amazon's own.

Google Cloud has announced the Gemini agent, a single agent for knowledge work, media and code that can spin up sub-agents and "coworker" agents with their own identities. The Financial Services and Legal versions are in preview; Google gave no general-availability date. What it does, how Google says it is fenced in, and what is still unproven.

At the White House's "Science: A New Golden Age" summit on 8 October, six technology leaders received the US's top science and technology honours. What the two medals are, how winners are normally chosen, and why the choice of tech chief executives is drawing attention.

Samsung's third-quarter guidance points to about ₩107.4 trillion in operating profit on ₩195 trillion of sales, up from ₩12.17 trillion a year ago, with AI data-centre memory demand credited. AWS becomes a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation, with a board seat. What the numbers say and what they leave out.

DARPA has moved Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ into the final, hands-on stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, and says it increasingly expects a useful quantum computer by 2033. UK trapped-ion firm Universal Quantum has raised more than $100m, IonQ claims big speed-ups for error-corrected operations in simulations, and a peer-reviewed Cornell paper shows a full gate set on a qubit that partly tolerates its main error. Plus a Jülich preprint and Infineon's ion-trap chips. What each confirms, and what is only claimed.

CoreWeave plans 240 MW in Navi Mumbai, Bell Canada's Regina campus could reach 1.2 GW with its own gas plant, and Applied Digital reported $341.9 million in quarterly revenue alongside $6.4 billion of debt. Meanwhile the bond financing Meta's Louisiana data centre hit a record low, and Entergy's CEO let slip that the site will draw 4,500 MW. What each company confirmed, and what is reported.

Duke Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have filed a North Carolina settlement that makes big data centres pay upfront, sign 10–15 year contracts and accept some power cuts. Indiana approved Google paying the full cost of serving a 390 MW site, and a bipartisan Senate bill would make data centres pay for the grid upgrades they trigger. And gas equipment is being shipped straight to AI projects: a 380 MW Doosan turbine for SpaceXAI and 282 MW of Wärtsilä engines. What is agreed and what still needs approval.

AirTrunk is adding $1B to its 300MW+ TOK1 campus in Japan for liquid-cooled AI, backed by a green loan. In Finland, the regulator has told Google's subsidiary to stop groundwork at two data-centre sites until environmental reviews finish. What each confirms and what it shows about where AI infrastructure can be built.

Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will build and run the Terafab AI chip complex in Texas, with TSMC at most subleasing part of it. Intel's CEO says Intel remains involved. What was said, what Terafab is, and the open questions.

Black Hills Corp. says it signed definitive agreements through 2048 to serve a planned Google data centre in Cheyenne, Wyoming, investing $1.8bn in 564 MW of company-owned natural gas generation. Company-reported.