AI and Tech News, 12 Oct 2026: Amazon-Decart, Yandex, HomeView

Amazon is in talks to spend about $7B on an AI startup. That's today's lead, and it's one of eight big tech and AI stories, running from Amazon's talks to buy Decart and a third drone-hit Yandex data center to Apple's HomeView smart home hub.

1. Amazon is negotiating to buy AI startup Decart for about $7B

A deal for the real-time video model maker could come soon, according to The Wall Street Journal. Decart was valued at nearly $4B in May, and Anthropic dropped its own pursuit last month.

2. Drones knock out a third Yandex data center

Yandex said a drone attack damaged infrastructure and fully shut down its data center in Russia's Vladimir region, leaving some services unavailable. That makes three Yandex data centers hit by drones in just a few days.

3. Apple's smart home hub will reportedly be called HomeView

Expect it at Apple's October 13 event, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported. The A18-powered display hub will reportedly come in four colors, ship around mid-November, and launch without an App Store.

4. TSMC looks set for a record quarterly profit for the sixth quarter running

Reuters reported that analysts polled by LSEG expect third-quarter net profit of about T$746.3B ($23.1B), up 65% on a year earlier. The chipmaker reports results on Thursday, October 15.

5. Anthropic reportedly has a multiyear cloud deal with IREN that hasn't been announced

According to The Information, the deal with the former bitcoin miner is part of Anthropic's push to bring leased data centers online. Overnight, IREN shares rose about 8%. Neither company has commented so far.

6. Palantir's CTO says human error, not AI, likely caused the Iran school strike

Shyam Sankar went on CBS's Face the Nation to defend the military's use of AI. He said he expects the final investigative report into the bombing of a girls' school in Iran to point to human error, not AI.

7. Bain's Bridge Data Centres wants to grow a loan to about $6.6B

Bloomberg reported that the company, which runs data centers in Malaysia, Thailand and India, is in talks with banks to more than double a loan that began at $2.8B. It could launch as soon as November.

8. Musk calls on chip design and production engineers to join Tesla or SpaceX

In a post on X, Elon Musk invited world-class chip engineers to join either company. His pitch was the chance to iterate on designs and customize production machines at high speed. He didn't give job numbers.