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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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🍏 One Number, Two iPhones
In iOS 27, arriving this month, iPhone Handoff will let two iPhones share one number and switch between them on the fly.
A demo shows the setup: the phones are paired, with one kept as primary and the other assigned companion status.
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🧠 Every Developer’s App Evolution
It starts with Minecraft and Subway Surfers, then moves to Fortnite and Instagram.
One day, the screen is full of ChatGPT, GitHub, VS Code, Notion, plus 17 more tools “for work.”
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😺 GPT-6 Astra Maps 2234 Anatomy Parts
The 3D site breaks down male anatomy into 2234 modeled parts. It uses the existing BodyParts3D database, so Astra did not build the full model from scratch.
The source leaves 2 questions open: has an anatomist checked its accuracy, and is the project original rather than copied from an existing educational tool?
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🤖 GPT-6 Astra Gets A Spatial Boost
Early testers are already building detailed models in Blender and vibe-coding games in UE5 and Unity.
For assets, Astra cycles through hundreds of materials to recreate locations and objects more precisely. It can also generate cutscenes.
A playable demo from a single prompt is now much easier, which could soon bring a wave of DIY projects to Steam.
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🇨🇳 China Builds a Rotating Sky Villa
The capsule house-lift rises 16 metres and rotates 360 degrees for a better view.
Inside are a kitchen, sleeping berth, shower and toilet, projector, balcony, and roof hatch for stargazing.
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🔍 Google Upgrades Music Generation in Gemini
Lyria 3.5, Google’s new music model, improves vocals, creates richer arrangements, and generates higher-quality tracks.
Users can choose or describe a genre. They can select vocal or instrumental mode, then set the track length. Templates are available for background music and jingles, along with personal songs. Lyria 3.5 is now available in Gemini on web and mobile, plus Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Flow Music, and Google Vids.
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🤖 GPT-6 Rolls Out to Codex
Pro users got first access in Codex and ChatGPT.
An official prompting guide for the new model is also out.
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🍏 Jobs Letter Comes With Apple I
An Apple I linked to Fred Hatfield is going to auction on October 14. Bonhams estimates it at $500,000 to $800,000. The lot includes Steve Jobs’s 1978 reply to Hatfield, who had complained that Apple computers had no software.
Jobs offered to exchange Hatfield’s Apple I without memory, plus a $400 check, for an Apple II board with 4 KB. Hatfield declined. He later sold the machine for $40,000. In 2013, it fetched $671,400.
The computer still works. It is Apple I No. 48, with Steve Wozniak’s signature on the board. Only about 200 Apple Is were built, and fewer than 75 survive. Its original price was $666.66.
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🖥 Nvidia Officially Buys Hugging Face
The exact price is $12,930,300,000.
Nvidia says it will continue supporting Hugging Face’s mission and its open, independent approach across hardware. Together, they aim to make open source the default way to develop models.
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🤖 Astra Posts 98% on ARC-AGI-3
OpenAI’s new model scored 98% on ARC-AGI-3, a difficult abstract-reasoning test. It reached 100% on ExploitBench, which measures vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
Astra also shows gains in coding and advanced math, plus science and CAD. OpenAI is testing it as an agent that can execute long action chains. Its cyber capabilities led to tighter safety limits before release.
Some results come from OpenAI’s own agent system, making direct comparisons with other models difficult. GPT-6 Astra will first be available to organizations in Daybreak Access, then to Plus and Pro, Business and Enterprise users in the next few days.
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🗣️ A Man Broke AI Recruiters
He gives absurd answers to routine interview questions, and the recruiter treats them as normal. Asked about salary, he mentions a sideways drill bit in the first quarter.
The AI turns that into a question about horizontal drill diameters, then thanks him for sharing his expectations. That is how to behave around neuro-HR.
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📍 World Labs Unveils 3D Model Atlas
Atlas reconstructs a surrounding space in 3D from text or visual files. Users can then move the camera and change the view while the scene geometry stays intact.
With several photos, it builds a complete 3D space. From one image, it can infer hidden parts, while more source frames improve accuracy. Atlas also generates controllable video up to 1 minute in 1440p, with the camera path set directly. The same system can turn footage of a real room into a simulation for robot training.
Atlas is currently available only to early-access partners. It will later serve as the basis for new versions of Marble and other World Labs products.
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🎧 MiPAL Sends Sound in a Narrow Beam
Researchers at POSTECH built MiPAL, a parametric speaker with one emitter and 2 metamaterial layers. A front acoustic metasurface focuses ultrasound, while elastic metacells suppress vibrations that would spread audio sideways.
MiPAL modulates an ultrasonic wave with an audio signal, using nonlinear behavior in air to send sound along a narrow path. Tests in a mock aircraft cabin covered 500 Hz to 10 kHz, while the adjacent seat stayed quiet.
The modules are 3D-printed, so the design can be adapted to seat spacing, beam angle, or other conditions. Possible uses include personal announcements on planes and audio guides at museum displays.
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🛸 Rainmaker Reports 71 Million Liters
During a three-hour test over Alaska, Rainmaker’s drones released small amounts of silver iodide into cold clouds. The company says this helped form ice crystals that fell as rain or snow, producing an estimated 71 million liters of additional precipitation.
Rainmaker uses weather algorithms, radar, and satellite data to select clouds and time each seeding flight. Atmo’s AI models help identify clouds with high seeding potential. The estimate is based on Rainmaker’s own analysis.
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🌬️ Dyson puts camera in $499 toothbrush
The CameraJet’s tiny camera captures 28 photos per second. An AI system trained on 470,000 dental images finds gaps between teeth and directs a small rinse stream there during brushing.
It can also stream a live view of the mouth to the MyDyson app, showing cleaning coverage and close-up images of the teeth.
Dyson says development took 6 years and involved 661 engineers. The $499.99 device combines an electric toothbrush, oral irrigator, and camera.
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🤖 Claude 5.1 Puts Science to the Test
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, the same model with different restrictions. Fable is open to everyone. Mythos requires verification for cybersecurity and life sciences work. With open protein-design tools, almost 50% of designs worked across 12 targets, versus 10-15% normally. Binding affinity was 10 times higher than leading Adaptyv Bio contest entries for 3 targets.
The model also built a new elevation map for a third of Venus from Magellan radar images. Resolution improved to 2 to 3 km. Terminal-Bench-Science reached 52.6%, up from 24.7%. Cached reads are 75% cheaper, cutting typical task costs by about 25% and agentic costs by up to 45%.
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🍏 Apple Shelved a Foldable iPhone Pencil
The prototype was a shortened Apple Pencil made for the foldable iPhone. It was designed to attach magnetically to the side of the case, where it could also charge.
Testing exposed 2 problems. The stylus was awkward to use in some positions, and its hard tip left marks on the inner display. Foldable screens are softer than regular ones.
Mark Gurman believes the accessory will not launch with the foldable iPhone expected next month. The project may also clash with Apple’s long-standing position, linked to Steve Jobs’s 2007 claim that nobody needs a stylus. The Pencil will likely remain an internal prototype.
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🧠 OpenAI Orders Tens of Thousands of Macs
The shift from traditional GPUs is tied to Apple’s unified memory architecture, which gives the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine shared access to memory, reducing data transfers during agent training.
Reinforcement learning combines inference with interaction with an environment. Many compact Macs can therefore cost less than GPU clusters built for matrix-heavy workloads.
Anthropic reportedly uses Mac mini too, renting them from AWS. Demand has stretched delivery times for high-memory Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations to weeks or months.
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✈️ Telegram Launches Gram Wallet
Gram Wallet is already available to some users. Full access is promised within the next couple of weeks.
Telegram says it will become the “largest non-custodial crypto wallet in history”. Gram rose 4.5% within minutes of the announcement.
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