AI model releases, research, compute build-outs, regulation and the companies behind them, from technology desks and AI-specific outlets.
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Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar said taking up smoking has become a way for AI researchers to show how much they believe in AI. Tom Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty Images Some AI researchers are picking up cigarettes, Palantir's CTO said. Why? They think AI is going to cure cancer anyway, Shyam Sankar said
Business InsiderUnited States
Bitcoin and gold hold steady as a firm dollar and rising bond yields weigh on sentiment, while IREN secures a multiyear cloud services deal with Anthropic.
CoinDesk
University of Phoenix researchers have published a new peer-reviewed study examining how stress, self-regulation, resilience, belonging, psychological safety and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) interact in the experiences of nontraditional online students. The article, "Designing for Pers
Phys.orgUnited States
Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 12, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, concluded its TOKEN2049 Singapore presence with a series of interactive experiences and industry discussions spanning TradFi access, AI-powered trading and the future evolution of global trading platforms. MEXC’s
NewsBTCSingapore
Channel News AsiaIndia
An investment surge into artificial intelligence may be helping prop up a global economy battered by energy supply shocks, but the technology’s potential to cull jobs requires swift mitigation if Asia’s youth are to secure a place in the future workforce, delegates were warned at the IMF–World Bank
South China Morning PostThailand
I put ChatGPT’s virtual try-on to the test with jackets, dresses and even a 1920s ballgown. The clothes looked realistic, but there's a catch.
TechRadar
Maurice Heumann's Claude and Codex agents rebuilt Modern Warfare 2's source; 83% of functions match the original byte for byte.
Tom's Hardware
New findings from OpenAI revealed its agents are math geniuses—leading prominent figures to warn public encryption is in danger.
Fortune
NVIDIA's new agent safety platform puts enforcement in the right place. It still must know what it is letting through. The post Your AI agent is only as safe as the packages it downloads appeared first on CyberScoop.
CyberScoop
Artificial intelligence could help offset Asia's shrinking workforce as some countries' populations age, provided its adoption is scaled evenly across the region instead of deepening existing disparities, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.
Bangkok Post
We checked 12 AI live translation tools, including Palabra.ai, Google Live Translate, DeepL Voice, Teams Interpreter and Wordly, against official pages for languages, latency, platforms and pricing. The post Top 12 AI Live Translation Tools in 2026: Latency, Languages, Pricing appeared first on Mark
MarkTechPost
Singapore, October 12, 2026 – From October 6 to 8, the global crypto industry turned its attention to Singapore for TOKEN2049, a major international industry event. Taking advantage of the gathering, HTX pursued a multifaceted approach encompassing global industry engagement, ecosystem development,
NewsBTCSingapore
Brad Smith adds to calls for tougher rules for AI, including ‘kill switches’ and legal obligation to victims of rogue agents Business live – latest updates Artificial intelligence is less regulated than milk and washing machines, the president of Microsoft has said, as the tech industry warns over
Guardian Technology
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which brings together commodity offensive tools like Cobal
The Hacker NewsUkraine
TII has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B speech recognition model for Arabic with an Emirati focus. It reports 20.92% average WER on 6 Arabic test sets, but weights and an API are not yet available. The post TII Releases Falcon-ASR: 1.6B Arabic Speech Model Hits 20.92% WER appeared first on MarkTechPost.
MarkTechPost
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
NYT Technology
Cloudflare released Clef-omni, an Apache-2.0 multimodal decision model built on Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B. It scores text, images, audio and video in one call for $0.15 per million input tokens, while Clef-flash drops to $0.038. The post Meet Cloudflare Clef-omni: A 30B-A3B Multimodal Decision Model for Au
MarkTechPost
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
TechCrunch AI
Less than 48 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your pass before prices increase at the door, plus get 50% on a second pass. Or score other deals.
TechCrunch AIUnited States
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 population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley's most powerful are falling in line and trying to
The Verge AIUnited States
On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.
TechCrunch AI
Baby’s first local AI agent. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly possible to run powerful
The Verge AI
This is no scoffing matter. The accelerating proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons is bringing ‘end times’ closer by the day Humankind has fearfully and sometimes joyfully anticipated the end of the world ever since it began. The Bible’s Book of Revelation speaks of “end times”, a period of trib
Guardian Technology
In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a "set of nested black boxes" whose advice and actions we simply accept or reject. He call
The Verge AI
Geneva, Switzerland, October 10, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), participated in TOKEN2049 Singapore as Title Sponsor and in Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summ
NewsBTCSingapore
Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.
BBC Technology
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
Ars Technica AIUkraine
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Ars Technica AI
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
Ars Technica AIVietnam
Hugging Face Blog
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…
MIT Technology Review
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 full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recentl
MIT Technology Review AI
Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.
OpenAI Blog
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.
OpenAI Blog
Sui and Alibaba Cloud are working on an integration that would let AI agents pay for cloud services per request using stablecoins within budgets set by their owners. The collaboration was unveiled at Sui Basecamp and remains under development, with no public launch date yet.
Bitcoinist
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 blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next
MIT Technology Review AI
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
OpenAI Blog
This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs. Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of the evening newscast. She held up a hand-drawn sign behind the anc
Schneier on SecurityChina
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been popping up on video feeds.
MIT Technology Review AI
Hugging Face Blog
Hugging Face Blog
Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.
Google AI Blog
Google DeepMind
Who chooses what AI gets to do?
Import AI
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026
Google AI Blog
Google DeepMind
Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.
Google DeepMind
Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
Google AI Blog
Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?
Import AI
Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?
Import AI