Amazon sets up supplier financing to borrow as much as $80 billion
Amazon has established supplier financing arrangements to borrow as much as $80 billion against the value of hardware it buys, Bloomberg reported.
Researchers demonstrate faster water transport with more selective membrane
University of Queensland researchers demonstrated a membrane that increased water transport by approximately 44% and reduced ethanol transport by 90% in ethanol-water separation experiments, Phys.org reported.
AI election PAC spending reaches nearly $80M, with regulatory advocates ahead
AI-oriented political action committees spent nearly $80M on the 2026 US elections, mostly before the primaries, Puck reported, citing FEC data.
Quilty Space projects shortfall of about 150 launches through 2030
The world outside China faces a shortfall of about 150 rocket launches through 2030 against demand from satellite operators and civil space agencies, analytics firm Quilty Space estimates in a new report.
TBC launches Mischief video model through fal.ai
The Biological Computing Co. is launching Mischief, an image-to-video model based on Wan 2.2, through fal.ai on October 30. Access is free through November 2, with an announced price of $0.02 per second of generated video.
Salesforce agrees to acquire military logistics developer Rune
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rune Technologies, a developer of military logistics and sustainment software and hardware, Axios reported. Rune raised ~$30M to build AI military logistics software.