JetBrains released Mellum2.1, an Apache 2.0, 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model with 2.5B active parameters. RL in real repositories lifted its SWE-bench Verified score from 2.0 to 47.0. The post JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Jabil, which is working with robot developers such as Apptronik, provides a design perspective on humanoid progress. The post Jabil discusses the pace of humanoid robot development and production appeared first on The Robot Report .
FOX Nation will premiere Houdini: Back from the Dead, a three-part series, on October 14, 2026, the platform announced on October 8, 2026. The company describes the project as the streaming service's first full-length, multi-episode production to rely entirely on AI-generated imagery. Platform president Lauren Petterson announced the series in a company release that arrived with a trailer. "FOX Nation is breaking new creative ground by using emerging technology to bring one of history's most…
USA TODAY Co., Inc. and its affiliated newspaper entities sued OpenAI in federal court in New York on October 8, 2026, alleging the company trained its GPT models on hundreds of thousands of their copyrighted articles without authorization and repackaged their journalism in chatbot outputs that substitute for the originals. The suit seeks damages in excess of $250 million. The Filing and Requested Relief The case, USA Today Co., Inc. v. OpenAI Foundation, was filed in the U.S. District Court…
For most of the history of software development, people have been the control. A developer makes a change, another person reviews it, someone approves it, and eventually it gets deployed. AI is accelerating that entire system while we're still trying to keep people in the middle of it. Developers can now create code and changes in seconds. Agents can work across repositories, tools, infrastructure, and other systems with less human involvement. Our instinct is to add humans back into the…
A suspicious login can be the beginning of an intrusion—or an employee working from an unfamiliar location. The hard part is establishing what happened next, which systems were involved, and whether the evidence justifies interrupting someone’s access. Artemis Security is betting that a model trained specifically for defensive operations can make those decisions more effectively. The company has announced Orion-1, a proprietary foundation model for cyber defense that investigates threats across…
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker.
Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: Instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and only call in backup when something looks fishy.
Your models can be both cutting-edge and compliant if you stop treating governance as the final hurdle and start building it into every stage of the ML pipeline.
Helm.ai trained its foundation models using its unsupervised 'deep teaching' methodology to master the structure of the physical world itself. The post Helm.ai reaches $70M in signed commercial contracts for its foundation models appeared first on The Robot Report .
Haiku 5.5 is the fastest and most token-efficient AI model from Anthropic. I’ve demonstrated what this model is capable of in my previous… Continue reading on UX Planet »
Mike Rousselle, Chief AI Officer at OptimizeRx, is an artificial intelligence and healthcare technology executive with nearly 15 years of experience applying AI to create business value. In his current role, he leads the development and application of AI-driven technologies designed to make communications between life sciences companies, healthcare professionals (HCPs), and patients more clinically relevant and actionable. His work spans predictive intelligence, behavioral and clinical signals…
The big drop of this week was not a new AI model.
Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness
A fusion experiment, a geothermal reservoir, and a chip built to survive intense radiation have something in common: each can require researchers to explore an enormous space of possible designs before finding one that works. The U.S. Department of Energy’s latest Genesis Mission awards aim to put AI inside that search process, helping scientists decide what to simulate, build, and test next. DOE announced $159 million for 12 new Phase II projects on October 8, 2026, alongside six additional…
Three moves to decode the hype The post Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight, is free to use and runs on macOS using the company's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. Similar to AI note-taking apps like Granola and Wispr Flow, Foresight summarizes […]
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Harness has acquired select assets from Augment Code, including the Cosmos software factory, the Auggie CLI, the Code Context Engine, and related technology, with the team behind those products joining Harness, co-founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal announced in a Harness blog post on October 8, 2026. Cosmos becomes the Harness Cosmos Software Factory Agent and is available now. The Asset Sale and Executive Statements The agreement transfers select Augment Code assets, specifically the Cosmos software…
Anthropic announced on October 8, 2026 that it is committing $150 million over three years to the Genesis Mission, a federal initiative to accelerate scientific and technological discovery through AI. Anthropic said the funding will go toward making Claude available to more than 15 agencies participating in the mission, including NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. The company made the announcement as part of the Science: A New Golden Age Summit, hosted…
Meta’s Muse AI agent is now on iPad, with connections to Canva, QuickBooks, Notion, and Zoom, as privacy concerns persist.
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NVIDIA on October 8, 2026, announced commitments valued at $1 billion to build out U.S. capacity for super intelligence research and development over the next five years, in fields the company described as critical for U.S. leadership, including quantum computing, healthcare and energy security. The announcement was made during the Science: A New Golden Age event in Washington, D.C., where U.S. officials, industry leaders and members of the science community convened to discuss the…
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Vendors are pitching AI as a cure-all for legacy IT systems, but is it?
If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one. The nuclear industry is historically cautious and risk averse—understandable given the possible catastrophic consequences of an accident or a mistake. Even well-trained managers struggle with the operational complexity of a nuclear reactor. It’s not the kind of setting that seems well suited to a powerful but error-prone new technology. Reality tells a startlingly different
Google is launching a "universal" Gemini AI agent that can work across apps and devices in the background. The tool, announced as part of the Gemini at Work event on Thursday, will be available within the Gemini Enterprise app, allowing users to chat with the Gemini agent and assign it tasks from a single interface. […]
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a targeted campaign aimed at South Korean financial organizations that used an artificial intelligence (AI) pen testing tool named ARTEX to carry out the attacks. The activity, per CrowdStrike Intelligence, was active from late September to early October 2026, and resulted in data exfiltration from various South Korea-based financial firms,
When U.S. labs train models on the world’s writing, Washington calls it fair use. When Chinese labs train on U.S. outputs, it’s a “malicious attack.” It can’t have it both ways.
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My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now — homebrew OpenClaw setups led to a surge in Mac Mini sales earlier […]
Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of popular Cal AI calorie tracking app, has launched a new personal AI agent startup that competes with Instinct, Muse, and Bee.
AI agents can now write CUDA kernels that outperform PyTorch—but proving those speedups are real is the harder problem. I put them to the test on an NVIDIA DGX Spark and found that benchmark design matters just as much as the code. The post AI Agents Beat PyTorch: Writing Faster CUDA Kernels appeared first on Towards Data Science .
