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Channel Startups & Ventures (@tech) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 2 094 408 subscribers, ranking 34 in the Technologies & Applications category and 48 in the International region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 2 094 408 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 23 October, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -149 383 over the last 30 days and by -4 392 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Verified (Officially confirmed by Telegram)
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 0.26%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 0.14% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 5 366 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 2 942 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 1 114.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as claude, openai, gemini, insider, developer.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“A hub for startup news, trends, and insights, covering the global startup ecosystem for founders, investors, and innovators.
Community: @startupdis
Buy Ads: @strategy (this is our only account).”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 24 October, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Technologies & Applications category.
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🤳 AI Threatens Budget Smartphone Market
By 2030, phones under $200 may be hard to find. Shipments could fall by 40% from 2025, or more than 230 million units.
Rising component prices are squeezing margins. Vendors are finding it harder to make money on cheap phones.
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🤖 OpenAI Readies $500 Subscription
Compared with ChatGPT Pro, the only listed change is the fastest Work and Codex access.
That likely means Astra/Sol on Cerebras.
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6️⃣ GTA VI Collector’s Set Costs $400
Rockstar is taking preorders for the set, which arrives on 19 November, the game's release day.
It has 11 items, including a Leonida map, mascot figure, magnetic board, cap, and accessories. The game is not included.
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🤖 Skild AI Trains Robots Through Self-Play
Skild AI trained its S1 humanoid in a football simulator, where it played against earlier versions of itself for 140 simulated years. The only reward was scoring goals. No separate rewards were given for learning specific moves.
Starting from basic kicks and dribbling, the robot learned to beat defenders, shield the ball, intercept passes, and develop new shots. In early matches, 4 agents already show passing and coordination. S1 must output joint angles 50 times per second.
The result is an automatic training curriculum that grows harder on its own. Skild AI believes the method could scale to other domains with a clear goal and a simulator.
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🏎 Honda Takes Its E-MTB to Production
Shown as a concept since 2023, the bike is finally moving toward production. Honda displayed it at Sea Otter Europe in Spain, with sales expected next year, probably first in Europe.
Its motorcycle-inspired design uses a custom frame and swingarm made from thin-wall aluminum. Fox suspension has been fitted to prototypes from the start, while the motor is designed to help riders across uneven terrain.
Honda has not disclosed the specifications or price. The model is positioned as premium, so it will not be cheap.
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🍏 Apple’s Battery Shipping Workaround
International shipping rules cap a single-cell battery at 20 Wh. The iPhone 18 Pro Max reaches about 21.75 Wh in US eSIM-only versions and 21.06 Wh in European models with a physical SIM slot.
Apple says a firmware-level battery setting keeps capacity below 20 Wh while the phone is shipped. After the buyer first turns on and activates the iPhone, the limit is removed and the battery returns to its rated capacity.
For repair or resale, Prepare to Ship restores the limit and caps charging at 80% for 14 days. Apple warns the process may require the battery to discharge, and the phone may run hotter than usual. The feature can be turned off at any time.
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🤖 OpenAI launches cheaper GPT-6 models
GPT-6 Sol targets coding and complex tasks. Luna handles document summaries and data extraction. It is also designed for fast answers.
API access costs half as much as the 5.6 series. OpenAI says Sol makes about 2x fewer factual errors, based on the company’s internal test.
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🎵 Winamp Adds Its First Subscription
The classic MP3-era player still has more than 40 million people using it, according to Winamp. In 2027, it will add its first paid subscription in almost 30 years, with Deezer providing the licensed catalog and streaming infrastructure.
The service will combine streaming with local files, plus internet radio, podcasts, and cloud music. The desktop app will remain, while price and platforms are still unannounced.
For Deezer, Winamp is its biggest brand in this partner program. Partner subscriptions fell to 3.1 million in the first half of 2026, while revenue dropped 7.6% to €70.7 million after the Mercado Libre deal ended.
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💻️ Huang rejects custom AI rules
In a CBS News interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called startup leaders’ calls to slow AI and add regulation a “fiction”. He said labs want to replace existing liability laws with custom AI rules that suit them better.
For cyberattacks on AI labs, he cited existing laws on unauthorized access, damage liability, and product safety. They apply across industries, and AI should not be an exception.
Huang also called the claim that AI could end humanity within 10 years “absolutely false”.
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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 cuts cost by 40%
Anthropic says the model is 40% cheaper than Opus 5 and reaches Claude Fable 5.1 in most work tasks. A tester moved a 680,000-line codebase in under a day. Another test took 3 hours to review and fix 200,000 lines, versus more than 20 hours for Opus 5.
The main upgrade targets agentic coding. Opus 5.5 scored 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and responds more than 30% faster, while needing fewer steps for long tasks.
Input now costs $4 per million tokens, output costs $20. Cached input fell to $0.20. Fast Mode can run up to 2.5 times faster, and agents now face an action check before execution. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are next.
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+2🎨 GPT-6 Sol and Luna Get Cheaper
Prices fell 2x. Astra’s best features were added. Coding and computer use were upgraded, along with complex tasks.
At maximum effort, Luna matches new Sol at minimum effort while using up to 10x less. Sol handles some tasks about 5x cheaper than Opus 5.
Every Claude and ChatGPT subscriber received 1 free reset.
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🌐 AI Lowers the Barrier to Grid Attacks
The average US nuclear reactor is 44 years old. Much of the power infrastructure was built before today’s cyber threats, and some systems were connected to the internet only later.
Patching is often difficult. Some equipment makers have gone bankrupt, while industrial controls may be updated only once a quarter or once a year.
Security experts see generative AI in attackers’ hands as a bigger concern than rogue agents. A model can read manuals and guide someone who knows little about industrial protocols. The risk still comes down to people who could train an agent specifically to attack the grid.
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📱 OnePlus 16 Gets a Glowing Edition
The Tomorrow Starlight version has an interactive “breathing” light hidden in the rear panel. It highlights the logo and celestial coordinates in the dark, according to an official preorder listing. Memory options go up to 16 GB/1 TB.
The phone has a 9000 mAh battery with an Oppo power-saving chip for low-voltage use. Charging reaches 100 W wired and 50 W wirelessly, while the screen runs at 165 Hz across the system and up to 185 Hz in optimized games. Unboxing videos are already circulating, with release expected in October.
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😐 Grok 4.7 Extends Coding Runs
SpaceXAI’s flagship model scored 46.3% on CursorBench 4.0, up from 40.4% for Grok 4.6. Terminal-Bench rose from 20.3% to 38%.
The focus is long agentic work. Grok 4.7 is better at checking its own output, retaining context, working with the Grok Bot agent environment, and generating documents and presentations.
Pricing is unchanged at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. A faster version doubles generation speed and price. The model is available through the API, Cursor, Grok Build, third-party tools, and cloud platforms.
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🔍 AI Studio Builds Interfaces From Text
Describe an app in plain text to get working code with a live preview. Web projects use React with a backend by default.
In Annotation Mode, select an element and describe the change. You can continue through chat or edit the code manually. Gallery projects can be adapted, then synced with GitHub or exported locally.
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🤖 Anthropic’s Independent Evaluator Questioned
Anthropic named Accenture as the first independent evaluator under its Embedded Evaluators program. The review will cover red-teaming, alignment checks, and safeguards testing. Anthropic says it will fund the work.
Accenture trains ~30,000 employees to work with Claude and has had a multi-year contract with Anthropic since late 2025. That makes its independence an open question.
Anthropic previously gave METR “independent access” to investigate agent incidents. METR is also indirectly financed through Anthropic stock, leaving the evaluators tied to the startup’s financial interests.
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💧 A Computer Inside a Drop of Water
At Maynooth University in Ireland, a saltwater drop containing DNA answered 10 + 3 = 13 in 30 seconds. There are no chips or wires. Short DNA strands and one long scaffold strand are briefly heated, then self-assemble as the drop cools. The system needs no continuous power.
The resulting molecular pattern is the answer. The molecular processor ran 10 programs and reused the same drop up to 25 times without losing quality.
Large numbers expose the limit. Adding numbers up to 34 million took about 14 hours. It will not replace a smartphone, but its developers call it the fastest DNA computer.
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+1🧩 Sony’s PSX Media Center Failed
Released in December 2003 only in Japan, the PSX combined a full PS2 with a digital video recorder and DVD writing. A 160 GB or 250 GB hard drive came built in, unlike the regular PS2.
The price was 79,800 or 99,800 yen, while the PS2 had just fallen to 19,800 yen in Japan. Sales reached 100,000 units in the first week, then slowed. By March 2004, reports put shipments at several hundred thousand, but Sony gave no exact figure.
The project also exposed friction between Sony’s game division and its Blu-ray team. The PSX was shelved by early 2005, though its XrossMediaBar interface later became a signature feature of the PS3.
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✈️ Pilot Draws Mona Lisa in the Sky
A US pilot flew a Cessna Skylane RG along the Mona Lisa’s outline, spending 3 hours 47 minutes in the air.
About 70,000 users watched live. Better than Strava drawings after a run.
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🤖 Anthropic Prepares Astra Rival
Reuters reports that Anthropic is safety-testing a new model that could launch soon.
It is meant to compete with Astra, just 1 week after Dario Amodei argued for slowing AI progress.
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