Audi said on Wednesday, October 7, that this year's entire production of the new RS 5 is sold out and that it has nearly twice as many orders in Europe as it expected. The 470 kW (639 hp) plug-in hybrid, built in Neckarsulm, is now going on sale in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, followed by Korea, Taiwan and other overseas markets. Audi is tying the market launch to the Singapore Grand Prix (October 9-11), the brand's first F1 night race; Nico Hülkenberg's and Gabriel Bortoleto's R26 cars and the RS 5 on display in Singapore received a special Titanium Silver Gray paint for the occasion, which cannot be ordered.
Amazon Web Services released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model that, instead of generating text, picks one of the given options and rates how confident it is in its choice. The model has 2 billion parameters, can run locally and responds within tens of milliseconds. It was modeled on the Jev model from the startup TypeSafe AI, and OpenAI showed a similar service, the Decisions API, the same week.
SpaceX announced a deal to buy nationwide 800 MHz spectrum licenses (up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum). This band is meant to let the Starlink Mobile network reach inside buildings. Once the FCC approves, the company wants to combine satellites that connect directly to phones with a terrestrial network and compete with T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. The same week, the FCC approved the Gen2 constellation: 15,000 V2 Starlink Mobile satellites, which according to SpaceX will provide more than 100 times the capacity of the current generation.
Magnet Forensics, the maker of GrayKey, a device police use to unlock phones, claims it can bypass the iPhone's automatic restart, according to a law enforcement training video obtained by 404 Media. The new GrayKey Preserve device and the Evidence Preservation Mode on existing hardware are said to keep the phone in a state that makes data easier to access even after the restart the iPhone performs on its own after 72 hours without being unlocked. The video was probably made in early 2025 and doesn't explain how the feature works. Neither Apple nor Magnet Forensics responded to the outlet's questions.