Launch coverage.

I tried 4 open-source launchers on my Pixel, and settled on the most underrated one

Samsung launches Certified Re-Newed Galaxy phones on Amazon starting at $489

The Hue Bridge Pro’s missing custom behaviors feature will launch very soon

Supernatural's VR exercise app has relaunched on Meta VR headsets

SpaceX Seeking FAA Approval to Launch More Than 450 Starship Flights Per Year

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reviewing a proposal from SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, to launch up to 456 Starship rockets per year from spaceports in Texas, Florid…

New prize launches for books co-written with AI

Socialist primary sweep sparks launch of new resource laying out what’s at stake in 2026

AAF launches "DSA Exposed" website countering Democratic Socialists of America policies from universal healthcare to abolishing the Senate.…

Blink Launches Its First 4K Camera, Trail Cam With 7,000-Foot Range, More

ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a personal, long-running enterprise AI agent for productivity tasks across email and Teams, for RTX Spark and Nvidia OpenShell (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)

Spotify launches its first standalone, native in-car app built on Android Automotive OS, debuting on select Audi models, with a custom UI controlled by Spotify (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Nvidia launches its OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework to secure, monitor, and govern AI agents, and partners with Canonical, AWS, BBVA, and others (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in April (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC : OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in Apr…

Spotify is busting free of CarPlay with the launch of its first native car app

The EU Commission launches a DSA probe into Booking Holdings' Booking.com to determine whether it is doing enough to combat fraudulent listings and phishing (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The Odin 3 Portal launches this week with Elite power, and the price is better than expected

Exclusive: ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a new AI agent for enterprise

Micron's Taiwan union will launch a one-day strike this week, threatening memory production

Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents

The next Xbox could arrive in 2028 for $1,200 to $1,800, Xbox handheld may launch in 2027

First iPhone Duo Unboxing Video Appears Ahead of Friday Launch

Trump is giving Nick Shirley $10,000 and launching a $25 million fraud bounty program

Spotify Launches Paid Fan Memberships for Podcast Creators

Obsidian launched safety scorecards for every plugin, and checking mine changed what I keep installed

OpenAI’s former research chief launches Arda at a $1.5bn valuation - The Next Web

JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service

AWS launches open-source Physical AI Toolchain for robotics

Google launches TorchTPU, an open-source version of PyTorch to let AI apps run on TPUs and Google Cloud via simple configuration changes without rewriting code (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Ex-OpenAI executive Bob McGrew launches Arda to accelerate US manufacturing - The News International

ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 Turbo to chase OpenAI in voice agents - Startup Fortune

HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon

Startup Launches Financing Platform for Neoclouds, Others Seeking Funds for GPUs

Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins

TCL TAB 10 Gen 4 returns to its lowest price since launch at just $150

Apple explains why HomeView couldn’t launch until now

STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about drug launch prices, an AstraZeneca AI deal, and more

The median net price for newly launched medicines, when adjusted for inflation and manufacturer discounts, rose by 35% from 2022 to 2025.…

HPE Spaceborne Computer 4 to launch AI straight to the Moon aboard Astrolab’s FLIP rover

Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end…

Ex-OpenAI Exec Launches $1.5B AI Manufacturing Startup Arda - The Tech Buzz

OpenAI Launches a Coding Model for Older Programming Languages - Thurrott.com

Spotify launches paid podcast memberships in 34 markets, including the US; creators can offer perks like bonus content or fewer ads and keep 90% of revenue (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Spotify launches paid podcast memberships with perks beyond bonus content

Samsung fighting iPhone Duo by launching six foldable phones next year

Dutch Bros just launched its first-ever plushies and 100% of profits go to charity — how to buy

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani launches India’s biggest-ever IPO

Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos

Mercury CEO Immad Akhund says the fintech hit $1B in annualized revenue, up ~50% YoY, has more than 450K customers, and is launching a payroll service (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

Pump.fun Spikes 8% After Pre-IPO Token Launch for OpenAI, Polymarket - Coinpedia

Pump.fun Launches Pre-IPO Tokens for OpenAI and Polymarket, Driving an 8% Surge in PUMP Price - KuCoin

Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it claims is "comparable to Luna and Haiku models" but 4x to 8x faster, generating ~1,000 tokens per second (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)

Fable 5.5 Surprise Launch Confirmed for Tomorrow – Google & OpenAI Fully Gear Up to Meet the New Challenge - 36Kr

Apple's October 28 'Pro and Tell' Launch: What's Coming

‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

Japan Is Launching a Mission to Mars Moons and Plans to Bring Samples Home

Apple is launching major new products next week, here’s what’s coming

AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch

Solidworks launches AI features [video]

Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – We trained a model to catch silent agent failures

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers "a generational leap" in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23 (MiniMax)

Japan’s Mission to Snatch a Sample of a Martian Moon Launches Today. Here’s How to Watch

Samsung reportedly hasn’t finalized Galaxy S27 details, considers February launch