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

Here are the eight biggest technology and AI stories of the day, 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 in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for About $7B

The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal for the real-time video model maker, valued at nearly $4B in May, could come soon, after Anthropic dropped its own pursuit last month.

2. A Third Yandex Data Center Shuts Down After a Drone Attack

Yandex said a drone attack damaged infrastructure and fully shut its data center in Russia's Vladimir region, leaving some services unavailable, the third Yandex data center hit by drones in a few days.

3. Apple's Smart Home Hub Will Reportedly Be Called HomeView

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

4. TSMC Is Expected to Post a Record Quarterly Profit for a Sixth Straight Quarter

Analysts polled by LSEG expect third-quarter net profit of about T$746.3B ($23.4B), up 65% from a year earlier, when the chipmaker reports results on Thursday, October 15, Reuters reported.

5. Anthropic Reportedly Has an Unannounced Multiyear Cloud Deal With IREN

The Information reported the deal with the former bitcoin miner as part of Anthropic's push to bring leased data centers online, and IREN shares rose about 8% in overnight trading; neither company has commented.

6. Palantir's CTO Says Human Error, Not AI, Likely Caused the Iran School Strike

On CBS's Face the Nation, Shyam Sankar defended the military's use of AI and said he expects the final investigative report into the bombing of a girls' school in Iran to point to human error.

7. Bain's Bridge Data Centres Seeks to Grow a Loan to About $6.6B

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

8. Musk Asks Chip Design and Production Engineers to Join Tesla or SpaceX

In a post on X, Elon Musk called on world-class chip engineers to join either company, pitching the chance to iterate on designs and customize production machines at high speed, without giving job numbers.