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AI hasn’t benefited the bottom line of any big corporations outside the tech industry, according to a note recently published by the chief economist at Apollo Global Management (the private equity giant that used to own TechCrunch).

Amazon Polly Generative engine now offers more natural and accurate speech output. We’re introducing an upgrade to the Amazon Polly Generative engine that delivers more expressive, more accurate speech output with low latency. The upgrade adds 14 new voices across 9 locales, including general availability of Generative voices in Hindi and Finnish for the first…

The Fenix 8 and other associated smartwatches like the Tactix 8 (curr. $1,299 on Amazon) are no longer Garmin’s latest generation flagship smartwatches. As we have discussed separately, not only has the company now released the Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro, but it has also introduced the Enduro 4 and the Marq Gen 3…

Garmin has returned to its last-generation flagship smartwatches with a new update. For context, the company began rolling out System Software 23.39 to the Fenix 8 on September 25.

HP’s EliteBoard G1a, the Windows PC built into a full-size keyboard that the company first showcased at CES 2026, has now undergone a full lab test at German outlet ComputerBase, and the verdict is broadly favorable.

Less than two months after the release of Claude Opus 5, Anthropic is back with Opus 5.5. The big pitch for Opus 5 was that it had “near Fable” performance at half the price. This time, the headline is that the workhorse AI Opus 5.5 delivers Fable 5.1 performance for most work and costs about…

Garmin has released multiple updates to the Fenix 8 family of late, despite replacing them with the newer Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro. For instance, the company delivered Software Version 23.31 to the Fenix E and Fenix 8 on September 10, but not to the Fenix 8 Pro.

Japanese electronics maker Mouse Computer has introduced a compact laptop called the X2, a compact notebook weighing 981g.

Just this past weekend we caught the first cash discounts landing across the new Pixel 11 series and with the Pixel Watch 5 now out in the wild, Amazon is landing with some clearance all-time low pricing on Pixel Watch 4. 

Yesterday Nintendo announced its upcoming Customer Appreciation Sale, and today Target is giving us a sneak peek at some of the deals going live this weekend.