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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI “super learner” using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more — Th
Amazon.com Inc. is reportedly engaged in discussion over the potential acquisition of artificial intelligence developer Decart.ai Inc. in a deal that could be worth up to 7 billion. Decart has develop
Tony Diver / Telegraph: Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month — US had blocked
Achint Srivastava / Command Line: Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models — Decisi
Nvidia Corp. is in early talks to acquire open-weight model developer Reflection AI Inc. or invest more in the startup, according to the Financial Times. People familiar with the matter told the paper
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes — ‘
CBS News: Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more — The following is the full transcript o
Alex Heath / Sources: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are “starting to do phones” and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 — Cristiano Amon o
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as 'super intelligence,' you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader popu
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at ~7B; Anthropic had decided against acquiring Decart for ~6B in September — San Francisco comp
Many large companies have spent the past few years investing in artificial intelligence infrastructure, software and implementation. Boards approved the plans. Finance built the business cases. Procur
The semiconductor industry is entering a new era of hardware engineering as artificial intelligence accelerates demand for more powerful chips, interconnected systems and faster product development. B
There’s no question that 2026 is the year of the artificial intelligence agent. AI agents are remarkably ubiquitous, as people use them to write code, communicate with customers, identify and resolve
CBS News: A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, fin
Bloomberg: A look at differing revenue calculations of Anthropic and OpenAI, as Anthropic books gross sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI records only its net share — When measuring the race be
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to 'set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.' OpenAI would spend
Professional services firms are rethinking how they deliver client value as artificial intelligence takes on more routine work, shifting attention toward human judgment, trusted outcomes and new opera
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed '
Standard Bots develops AI‑native industrial robot arms (used for machine tending, welding, assembly) that rely on a shared pretrained base model with 1–2 billion parameters. The model is adapted to ea
Adam Morgan / Wired: Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three m
Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had subm
New York Times: Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Polic
Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administ
We see a control gap between what artificial intelligence can do and what the evidence supports trusting it to do. A great demo doesn’t prove that a system will stay within the limits of an intended d
The artificial intelligence infrastructure race is no longer just about building faster chips. AI infrastructure bottlenecks are shifting attention to a bigger challenge: keeping those chips supplied
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly underst
I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I bui
Technology stocks fell lower today following a report that artificial intelligence giant OpenAI Group PBC’s annualized revenue this year is about $20 billion less than what was previously reported by
Ai2 joined COLM 2026 to share advances in open language models, training infrastructure, and AI for science, including Olmo Hybrid, Asta, and Bolmo, while connecting with the broader research communit
Automated evals can score every agent session, but they do not automatically reflect what your team considers a good outcome. That takes human judgment. The post Alignment is a human-AI workflow: how
Emily Forlini / Fortune: Anthropic is setting up a “presidential engagement” program for the 2028 US elections that will offer AI policy education to candidates in both parties — Anthropic is setting
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the P
Podcast producer Caloroga Media has launched Linnet, a production studio that runs in a web browser with an artificial intelligence assistant built in. The company developed it from the workflow behin
AI inference is fast becoming the workload that decides the economics of the AI boom. Training built the first wave of GPU clouds, but serving models faster and cheaper will define the next. That shif
Coding-agent platforms, sandbox products, and code-execution services all need the same thing: isolated machines that start up fast, retain their state between bursts of work, and don’t consume comput
Building an AI agent that works in a demo is a different problem from running one for 40 million developers. Postman and AWS share the architectural patterns behind Agent Mode: controlling tool sprawl
A monthly recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026: broader model choice, faster serverless agents with built-in evaluation, and automated
Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no marketing, and barely so much as a website. And yet,
We are expanding the Clef decision model family with Clef-omni, natively processing audio, video, images, and text in a single pipeline. We’ve also lowered Clef-flash pricing and boosted Clef inferenc
Bloomberg: Jev developer TypeSafe AI raised ~870M led by a16z at a 7.5B valuation with Sequoia and angel investors also participating; ~33% of the Fortune 500 use Jev — TypeSafe AI, the startup behind
OpenAI released 719 mathematics manuscripts on October 6, 2026 that were generated by an internal frontier model (not publicly available), covering 372 topic families—including a solution to the Navie
Alteryx One Live Query and Google Cloud BigQuery redefine how enterprises handle complex, unstructured data at scale by reducing reliance on disconnected tools, minimizing data movement, and enabling
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest 'did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI.' BBC reports that the original first place
Tobias Mann / The Register: Nvidia commits $1B over five years to build out the US' “capacity for super intelligence R&D” in fields like quantum computing, healthcare, and energy security — Commitment
OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed 'a significant breach of trust.' In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine
I’m not going to call the bursting of artificial intelligence bubble yet, not with all that money still pouring into every hardware and software company with AI in their pitch decks. But we got a litt
Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we function
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blue
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Sabi, which is building a baseball cap that uses 100K non-contact neuro-sensors to convert neural signals into text prompts for AI systems, raised a $50M seed — Palo Alto-b
Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction — Meta had del
Maria Curi / Axios: Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event — - The first example of significan
Brenda Goh / Reuters: The Chinese developer of ARTEX says they have converted the AI agent into a closed-source project after CrowdStrike said it was used to hack South Korean banks — The Chinese deve
Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a 12M seed and a 50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots — Finance edito
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is fu
NVIDIA’s SimReady Foundation provides a five‑step workflow to convert CAD models into simulation‑ready OpenUSD assets for robotics. The process imports an ABB YuMi robot from STEP files, applies visua
Cade Metz / New York Times: A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built — Atomic Machine
Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than 500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It stated that private equity firm Boyu C
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a 99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a