Gadgets, AI tools, space and the deals behind them—what changed and why it matters.
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DoorDash agreed on 29 Oct 2026 to buy Instacart for $65 a share, about $17 billion. Nothing changes yet: the deal needs shareholder and antitrust approval and is expected to close end of 2027 or first half of 2028.
SpaceX catches Starship's Super Heavy booster with the launch tower's 'chopstick' arms. Flight 15, reported as no earlier than 8 Nov 2026, aims to catch both the booster and the Ship for the first time. Both stages finished static fires 25–27 Oct; no FAA Flight 15 license is posted yet.
Apple refreshed the 24-inch iMac and entry 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 and gave the iPad mini an 8.5-inch OLED screen, A20 Pro and IP67. Pre-orders open 28 Oct 2026; deliveries start 6 Nov. Prices start at $1,499, $1,999 and $699.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 Oct 2026: $1 / $5 per million input/output tokens, a 1.05M-token context window, 50.3% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at max effort, and a 'Critical' cybersecurity rating under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.
On 26 Oct 2026 Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq IPO under ANT. The prospectus shows $16.3B revenue in H1 2026, an $80.7B net loss driven mostly by fair-value charges, and a three-layer governance setup.
On 22 Oct 2026 Anthropic donated Agent Skills (SKILL.md format, GitHub org, agentskills.io) to the Agentic AI Foundation. What builders should do next — without invented benchmarks.
