Upgraded Sleep Apnea Feature Now Available on Galaxy Ring Following Regulatory Approvals From US FDA and Korea MFDShttps://t.co/Mbh2z2ZGmB

— Samsung Electronics (@Samsung) November 3, 2026

Upgraded Sleep Apnea feature: Available on Galaxy Ring

With this update, Samsung becomes the first company to bring sleep apnea risk detection to a smart ring.

The updated Sleep Apnea feature, available through the Samsung Health Monitor app, marks a significant leap forward from its predecessor. The enhanced algorithm analyses a user’s vitals during sleep in greater depth and now provides insight into the level of breathing disruptions detected, going beyond the previous sleep apnea risk assessment to deliver more comprehensive, meaningful information that helps users better understand their condition, which can lead to productive conversations with healthcare professionals.

Samsung is extending sleep apnea risk detection to a smart ring for the first time. Galaxy Ring’s comfortable, lightweight design makes it easy to wear through the night and convenient for sleep measurement, encouraging nightly wear.

With the feature’s low data requirement, users can gain meaningful insight into their sleep health from as little as two nights of monitoring within 10 days. By offering the feature on both Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Ring, Samsung lets users monitor their sleep health in the way that best fits their lifestyle.

Samsung’s original Sleep Apnea feature previously received groundbreaking US FDA De Novo authorisation in February 2024, and the updated feature has now also been approved by Korea’s MFDS last October.

“Samsung has long worked to make sleep health a simple and seamless part of everyday life,” said Jongmin Choi, Head of Health R&D Group, Mobile eXperience (MX) Business, Samsung Electronics. “This approval from Korea’s MFDS, along with our introduction of the world’s first support for a smart ring, reflects our commitment to accessible innovation. We are giving people the tools to help spot possible early signs of sleep apnea and take charge of their wellbeing.”

The company has said that it will continue to expand the feature’s availability so more people around the world can detect possible signs of sleep apnea and take proactive steps toward better sleep health.

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Message threads are now in public beta on the Messages API.

The API caches your conversation on the server between turns, so instead of resending the full conversation, you send only new messages and the previous message ID, and Claude starts responding sooner. pic.twitter.com/VeiehyqfIg

— ClaudeDevs (@ClaudeDevs) November 2, 2026

Message Threads on the Claude Platform

A coding agent might make hundreds of requests in one session, each request resends every earlier message and tool result. Once a conversation reaches hundreds of thousands of tokens, resending all of it adds time before Claude starts responding.

With message threads, agents send only what’s new since the last turn, which reduces time to first token (TTFT). With message threads on by default for most Claude Code users, requests with 500k to 1M tokens see median TTFT drop by about 35%.

To use message threads, add the thread parameter to Messages API requests. The first request includes the full conversation and starts a thread. Each request after that includes only the new messages and the ID of the previous response.

A thread expires 5 minutes after its last request, and your client then resends the full conversation to start a new one. While each request is smaller with message threads, Claude still reads the full conversation on every turn, so token usage stays the same.

Message threads is best for active sessions where latency matters, including:

• Long-running coding agents, where each tool result or file edit adds to the conversation.
• Computer use agents, where screenshots stay with the thread instead of being re-uploaded on every turn.
• Document- and image-heavy workflows, where requests are made smaller.

Availability

Message Threads is available now in public beta on the native Claude Platform, on Claude Platform on AWS, Claude in Microsoft Foundry, and on Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed). Standard Claude token rates and existing rate limits apply.

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We’re renaming our Max plans:

Max 5x → Max
Max 20x → Ultra

Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do.

We’re also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing… pic.twitter.com/9QR5ASBbeb

— Claude (@claudeai) October 30, 2026

Claude renames its Max plans; five-hour limit removed from verified Ultra accounts

The Max 5x is renamed Max, and the Max 20x is renamed Ultra. The Max plan is still $100/month, and Ultra is still priced at $200/month, with no action required for existing subscribers.

The Ultra plan includes 10 times the Pro plan’s usage every week and has no five-hour limit for verified accounts. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they’re verified, which helps the company prevent abuse and fraud. Users will get an email when the limit is removed. Weekly limits remain unchanged.

The company automatically verifies Ultra accounts using factors like your account and payment history. It is specified that additional usage limits may apply to manage capacity and ensure fair access to all users. For example, Claude may limit your usage in other ways, such as weekly and monthly caps or model and feature usage, at its discretion.

Stay tuned to The Tech Outlook for the latest tech updates!

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Microsoft Edge is getting faster on Windows. ⚡

Accelerated app launches help Edge open more quickly when you start it from the taskbar, desktop, or other apps.

Learn what’s changing: https://t.co/yXiy3TEEqw

— Windows Update (@WindowsUpdate) October 30, 2026

Microsoft Edge supports accelerated app launches on Windows

The company has announced that Edge is the first browser to support accelerated app launches on Windows.

With accelerated app launch, most Windows users will see a 15% improvement in launch speed, with gains of up to 33% under heavy multitasking. The Edge and Windows teams partnered to bring this new Windows accelerated app launch capability to Edge users quickly. A visible Edge window might already be open, or Edge might already be running in the background through features such as Startup Boost.

Now, with accelerated app launches on Windows, when an Edge process starts, it sends a registration request to Windows. Windows checks and accepts the request. Later, when Edge is launched again, Windows can use the accelerated-launch registration to notify the already running Edge process directly.

Accelerated app launches are supported by the Start menu and the Taskbar, and by opening supported links that open in Edge by default. The Microsoft Edge Team is working with Windows on adding other ways to utilise this feature, such as when opening PDF files.

The company is also contributing this work to Chromium, the open-source project on which Edge is based, so other Chromium-based browsers can benefit from accelerated launches on Windows in the future.

Availability

Accelerated app launch has already rolled out starting with Microsoft Edge version 150 and later and is supported on Windows 11, versions  25H2, 26H2, 26H1 with the October 2026 non-security update (KB5127936) or later.

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Style Sketch app

The app helps users create outfit combinations using clothes they already own. It can connect to Instagram or Facebook to build a virtual closet using previously shared photos. Users can also add clothing items manually by taking photos, recording short videos or importing images from their camera roll.

The features include:

• Outfit suggestions: Creates outfit combinations using clothes in the user’s wardrobe, based on their style and available items
• Virtual try-on: Displays suggested outfits on a realistic model matched to the user’s body shape and skin tone
• Individual item styling: Suggests different outfit combinations around a specific clothing item, such as a jacket or a pair of shoes
• Daily outfit planning: Suggests what to wear based on the weather
• Travel outfit planning: Creates day-by-day outfit plans based on the destination, trip duration, planned activities, and weather forecast
• Style Inspiration: Lets users browse looks and trends and find ways to recreate them using clothes from their own wardrobe
• Outfit sharing: Allows users to share outfit options with friends to get their opinions

Availability

Sky Sketch is free to use, and it is currently available on iOS and Android in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. Plans for a wider rollout are not disclosed yet.

If you recall, last month Google released some updates for its Google Photos app, which included the Wardrobe feature. The Wardrobe feature is similar to Style Sketch. Users can curate their ultimate digital closet with Wardrobe, which automatically catalogs the clothing in their photos and lets them virtually style and try on new looks.

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Introducing Brush: Our first vision-language model for design. 🖌️

Brush sees your design’s layout, layers and vibe the way you do, and edits alongside you. Fix one line of text, restyle a whole deck or build from a blank page.

See what Brush can do 👇 pic.twitter.com/RHKmlxZkmA

— Canva (@canva) October 29, 2026

Canva Brush

Brush sees your design, understands how it’s put together, and makes the changes you ask for, from a single line of copy to every slide in a deck. It refines the design around the generated image.

With Brush, creating with Canva AI is now:

• 69% faster for general design editing tasks (compared with Canva’s previous agent)
• 46% lower cost per edit task (compared with Canva’s previous agent)
• 100% in your control, as every design is always editable

Rather than treating design as a series of isolated decisions, Brush can continually evaluate and improve its work, helping you take an idea from a rough sketch to a polished design that’s ready to share. Behind the scenes, it uses an agentic loop that writes and runs code to adjust design elements, and can then inspect what’s happening on the page to guide its next step. Everything Brush creates is fully editable, just like any other Canva design.

In Canva’s internal testing, Brush matched or exceeded the quality of its previous setup on most editing tasks, with particularly strong results in restyling designs and adapting them to different formats.

Brush is trained to support every step from draft to published design. The company has developed a reward system for reinforcement learning that evaluates the model’s work against a range of criteria, including visual quality, how well the layout follows design principles, and whether the model completed the task as requested.

You can use Brush for various tasks:

• Restyle an image
• Make a change across a multi-page design
• Remix assets for different channels

The company announced that this is the first version of Brush, and there’s plenty more to come, like Brand Kit support.

Starting today, Brush is powering supported design edits in Canva AI for people on Canva Pro plans, with wider availability coming soon. Just open an existing design in the editor, or attach or link to a design in Canva AI. To make sure Brush is powering your full editing experience, select ‘Brush’ from the dropdown list in Canva AI.

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New in Claude for Legal: a gallery of ready-made artifacts for contract review, regulatory horizon scans, cite checks, and more.

Start from the built-in example, add your own documents and connectors, and share it with anyone across the business. pic.twitter.com/Wn2VK2HeMU

— Claude (@claudeai) October 28, 2026

Claude artifacts for legal work

Artifacts are interactive tools, such as trackers and dashboards, that teams can use and share in Claude. The company’s new legal gallery includes artifacts for specific tasks, such as reviewing a stack of contracts, tracking regulatory changes, and taking in legal requests from the business.

Each artifact opens with an example, so legal professionals can see how the work comes together before adding their own data and connectors. Each answer or output has a link to its source.

What’s in the gallery?

• Cite check compares a legal document with its sources and flags quotes that don’t match, wrong page numbers, and sources that don’t support the claim.
• Jurisdiction survey matrix compares a legal topic, such as data breach notice rules, across states or countries in one table, with links to the underlying law.
• Matter board turns engagement letters, emails, or spreadsheets into one board of open matters, showing the owner, next step, and next deadline.
• Playbook deviation board compares contracts with your company’s standard terms, flags each clause that differs, and sends it to the person who approves exceptions.
• Regulatory horizon scan maps upcoming regulations on a timeline, based on your company’s business and where it operates, and ranks them by impact with links to the sources.
• Tabular review builds a table from a set of contracts, showing the terms you ask about, such as severance or non-competes, with links to the exact language.

Legal professionals can ask Claude to tailor artifacts to their team and use connectors to bring in their playbooks or research sources, so nobody has to upload documents manually. Since the company launched Claude for Legal, it has added more than 60 legal connectors, including Bloomberg Law, Filevine, Ivo, Legora, and Patlytics.

Artifacts enable collaboration inside and outside the organization. A legal team can work on an artifact with colleagues across the business or with clients and partners, with sharing settings that ensure privacy and support ethical walls between teams.

The company has partnered with legal tech companies and law firms to build artifacts for legal professionals:

• AI Governance Benchmark built by Goodwin
• Harvey Intake built by Harvey
• Obligations Checker built by Foley & Lardner
• Subpoena Response Tool built by PwC

The gallery includes nine access-to-justice artifacts, five of which were built by nonprofit and public interest organisations we supported with Claude credits:

• Criminal Charge Reality Check built by Zealous (opens in new tab) takes a criminal charge and shows defense teams the sentencing range, public data on how those cases usually end, and standard playbooks for release. New York only.
• Immigration Papers Reader, built by Mobile Pathways (opens in new tab), turns a client’s immigration paperwork into a plain-language first read of key dates and missing documents.
• Rent Ledger Reviewer built by Rising for Justice (opens in new tab) helps attorneys find errors in a landlord’s rent ledger when preparing an eviction case. Based on D.C. law.
• Record-Sealing Screener, built by Rising for Justice (opens in new tab), helps attorneys assess whether a client’s criminal record is eligible for sealing. Based on D.C. law.
• Record Clearance, built by The Access Project (opens in new tab), helps legal aid teams work out whether a client’s record can be cleared under their state’s rules.

Availability

Legal teams can browse the gallery in Claude or start from the company’s Claude for Legal page.

To plan a rollout for your organisation, talk to Anthropic’s sales team or work with one of their implementation partners, including Accenture, AnswerRocket, Caylent, Deloitte, KPMG, Lazer, Perficient, phData, Protiviti, Provectus, PwC, Sia Partners, and Tenex.

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Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our latest frontier model.

Carbon delivers improved performance across domains — ranking #1 on v5.0 of the @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index and sets a new state-of-the-art in cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.

It’s rolling out starting… pic.twitter.com/oQrHzxvMSo

— Google (@Google) October 28, 2026

Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon is built on Gemini 4 Argon. Designed to take on much harder, long-horizon engineering problems, Carbon is built for sustained agentic workflows. Building on user feedback, Google has focused on improving model performance across a variety of domains, including coding, agentic, and scientific tasks, as well as full-stack web development and multimodal understanding.

Carbon ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59. It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks, as well as across key capabilities critical for cybersecurity defense, landing a firm lead in SEC-bench Pro (88.2%) for finding vulnerabilities, ExploitGym (54.8%) for exploitation, and CWE-bench (71.0%) for patching. On internal benchmarks, Carbon drives a strong uplift in generating secure code, and in live coding environments with Google’s own teams, it shows reduced misalignment and fabrication rates.

Gemini 4 Carbon delivers a significant leap in cybersecurity capabilities. It achieves state-of-the-art performance across the cybersecurity defense lifecycle — vulnerability detection, validation, and remediation.

The model is built on the same multi-layered safety and security stack as Argon — combining model training, real-time misuse defenses, prompt-injection resilience, and chain-of-thought monitoring.

Gemini 4 Carbon is trained to respond to complex or high-pressure tasks in the right way. The model is advanced with safety and security:

• Reduced shortcuts and loophole exploitation
• Greater transparency and honesty
• Improved collaboration with the users in the face of ambiguity
• Following through without overstepping
• Resisting prompt injection

Availability

The company is taking a deliberate approach to rollout and is actively engaged in the US government’s voluntary process for pre-release model testing.

Starting this week, Google will make Carbon available to a subset of cyber defenders and will gradually phase access to additional trusted partners through its Fairwind Program. The company is continuing to gather feedback and iterate on guardrails before making Carbon available to developers, businesses, and consumers via Google’s product surfaces as soon as possible.

Gemini 4 Carbon will launch at the same introductory price as Argon at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off the input token price.

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Truecaller Lite

The app occupies approximately 10MB of storage, and it is engineered to run on devices equipped with up to 4GB of RAM.

Truecaller Lite is not a stripped-down build of the primary application but rather an independently developed native Android app built specifically for lower-tier hardware specifications. The app connects to the same underlying database, fraud-detection infrastructure, and privacy protocols as the standard version.

Truecaller Lite app key highlights:

• Displays caller identities prior to answering incoming calls
• Filters unsolicited and fraudulent calls utilising reports from the global user network
• Consolidates call logs, contacts, and directory search within a single interface
• Provides caller identity summaries following Incoming and Outgoing calls

Functionalities such as in-app messaging, voicemail, Family Protection and the AI-powered assistant that are included in the standard app are not present in the Lite app, allowing it to focus strictly on calling and spam prevention. The features are excluded to maintain reduced memory overhead, data usage, and storage requirements.

Availability

The app is currently available for free on the Google Play Store in India for compatible Android devices with up to 4GB of RAM.

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Today we're introducing Genie 4 — our newest interactive world model from @GoogleDeepMind 🌐 pic.twitter.com/iE4WEWZRN4

— Google (@Google) October 27, 2026

Genie 4

This model incorporates and builds on capabilities from the Gemini family: Gemini Omni anchors the simulations in real-world appearance and behaviour, while other Gemini models provide the complex reasoning needed to help maintain a simulation’s coherence and continuity.

Genie 4 advances Google’s ability to create safe, infinitely variable simulations that can help with everything from developing training environments for robots and agents to unlocking the creation of new interactive experiences.

Model advances 4 key capabilities

Shaping world simulation in real-time

With Genie 4, you can use natural language to modify a simulation in real-time — like changing the weather, moving the camera, or introducing a new person or object — and Gemini will contextually adapt your prompt to match the surrounding scene.

Pushing the frontier in realism for physics and human action

Genie 4 introduces a new standard of realism to real-time interactive simulation. Built on an advanced physical understanding of the world, Genie 4 simulates real-world physics scenarios, such as aerodynamics, collisions, and more.

The most dramatic leap is how Genie 4 simulates people, creating characters that move naturally, respond organically to their environments, and can be interactively steered in real time.

Modeling how the world sounds

Genie 4 is Google’s first real-time world model to generate audio natively. Every world carries the ambient sound of its own setting, from wind in the trees to waves crashing at the beach.

Genie 4 introduces interactive dialogue that adapts on the fly. Characters converse and react to your inputs or events in the world, all in real time.

Simulating complex events with Gemini models

Gemini 3.8 Flash serves as a guiding agent in the loop: as Genie 4 generates a world in real time, Gemini continuously observes the scene, breaks down goals into a sequence of steps, and reviews incoming frames to track the progress and verify that each step succeeded. As the world shifts or the user intervenes, Gemini adapts its plan in the moment, unlocking worlds with reliable causality, procedural behaviors, and multi-step reasoning.

The company has also experimented with Gemini 4 Argon and Genie 4 to bring its frontier research together with Gemini Robotics.

This latest model is being tested for creative direction, historical scenarios, immersive photographs, interactive experience concept design and simulation.

Safety

Genie 4 includes strict safety guardrails that are consistent with Google’s safety policies across other models. Before launching this preview, the company evaluated Genie 4 through internal rigorous safety evaluations to prevent the generation of harmful or malicious content. Also, Google has intentionally deployed it first to trusted tester partners to get early feedback before the model is released more broadly.

To maintain transparency, all video and audio generated by Genie 4 will include SynthID, which helps identify AI-generated content across visual and audio modalities.

Availability

Genie 4 has been released as a research preview to trusted testers, and is coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie and early access partners in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

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