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MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. In a post, the company says that "many active buyers say they can't tell which items involve AI-generated content" and that sellers are "concerned about your work appearing alongside items that use […]

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Kimi K3.1 Pro from Moonshot AI is now available on AI Gateway , along with Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed , a faster version for interactive use. K3.1 Pro is the first model in Moonshot's K3.1 series. It builds on Kimi K3 with improvements in coding, 3D modeling, financial analysis, and agentic tasks, and keeps the 1M-token context window and image input. For coding, K3.1 Pro handles work ranging from small fixes in an existing codebase to building a full project, including long agent runs with many st

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.

Anima expands what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients.

<div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/build-ai-agent" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://blog.hubspot.com/hubfs/blogbot/how-to-build-an-ai-agent-featured-1175958.webp" alt="how to build an ai agent" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p>Building an AI agent is a multi-step process. Marketers need to define the agent’s task, connect approved dat

Anthropic published research on October 22, 2026, reporting that Claude produced machine-checked formal proofs of security properties at the RISC-V assembly code level for 239 fuzz-test entry points across 123 open-source libraries, in a collaboration with Theorem. According to Anthropic, Claude patched the bugs it found and then proved the programs will always exit normally without triggering memory-safety errors or failing assertions, for every input under 64 MB and every modeled Linux…

AI research can run into a physical limit long before it runs out of ideas: the amount of computing a laboratory can power and keep cool. Ferveret says researchers at MIT are using its high-performance computing platform to develop AI methods for studying nuclear materials, putting its Adaptive Phase Cooling technology to work on sustained scientific workloads. The October 22 announcement connects two engineering challenges. Researchers need more computational capacity to understand materials…

Canva on October 22, 2026 unveiled Canva Craft, the first foundation model built and trained from scratch by Canva Research, the company's in-house AI lab. The image generation model is available to all Canva users globally through Dream Lab and to developers through the company's public API. Canva said the launch makes it the world's second most advanced AI lab for image generation, as measured by rankings from DesignArena, which the company described as the largest crowdsourced assessor of AI…

Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/21/openclaw-creator-says-he-spent-10-million-in-tokens-last-month/5304573 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201606 Points: 9 # Comments: 3

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for "greater precision, consistency and control," according to an […]

<p>Datacenter and chip costs fueled sharp decrease in AI sector although non-AI stocks still had a strong showing</p><p>The latest shudder for stocks in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">AI</a> industry pulled markets lower worldwide on Thursday, while oil prices hit their highest levels since May on worries about the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-israel-war-on-iran">war with Iran</a>.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/busi

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The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows, higher benchmark scores. Those advances have…

Every company is suddenly an AI company. Compute is an asset. Cars are flying. We’ve been promised robots — again. It’s time again to dig through earnings reports, listen to investor calls, and call out the latest wins and losses from around the tech sector and what it means for where the companies go next.

Comcast plans job cuts and more AI agents for its shrinking cable customer base.

Third Dimension's technology uses AI to match the physical world, which when combined with Rivian's reams of data could turn into a valuable simulator.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> When Coqui AI shut down, they left XTTS v2 without official training code for the DVAE audio tokenizer and Latent HiFi-GAN vocoder, and fine-tuning new scripts (Arabic, Indic, etc.) broke on fixed vocabularies. I built <strong>Open-XTTS-Trainer</strong> — an open-source, modular 3-component training suite under MPL-2.0 with verified GPU loss convergence on real human speech and a 1-click Colab demo.</p> <h1>Why I Built This</h1> <p>XTTS v

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>A while back I posted SteerTTS v1, a small English TTS you steer with numbers (<a href="https://huggingface.co/WhissleAI/steer-tts">https://huggingface.co/WhissleAI/steer-tts</a>). Today I am releasing the edge variant:</p> <p><a href="https://huggingface.co/WhissleAI/steer-tts-edge"><strong>https://huggingface.co/WhissleAI/steer-tts-edge</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Size:</strong> everything an app has to ship (weights, voices, text front end and Python runtime)

Publisher Pantaloon says the Playbill won't feature games that use generative AI in any way.

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a new security service that uses AI to automatically find, validate, and prioritize code vulnerabilities in your environment, then delivers ready-to-review fixes as pull requests replacing what previously took hours of manual investigation and days of cross-team coordination.

Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge - but legal experts say these changes aren't enough to address their concerns. "This does nothing to restrict the 'associated with your products or services' [language] that would let Meta scrape […]

Not to kill the human, of course – to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection

On October 13th, Brendan Carr's FCC gave itself a new power - it can block gadgets for containing any computer chip made by any company on its list of potential threats to national security. Today, it's exercising that power for the first time, blocking two gadgets because they contain "foreign surveillance chips," the FCC claims. […]

Our position on long-running, autonomous agents, and why most business processes need a specialist instead. Picture the person who has to sign off on your first autonomous agent. It might be your head of audit, your CISO, or the risk lead for the business unit that wants it. They ask one question: when this agent... The post Autonomy Where It Pays Off. Control Where It Counts. appeared first on DataRobot .

No actual digits or cats were harmed beyond the number crunching that went into this LLM poisoning experiment

WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”

OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available on October 22, 2026, the company announced, taking the GPT-6 Luna–powered endpoint out of public beta at a price of $0.10 per million input tokens. The API returns bounded, typed answers (a probability, a selection, or a rubric score) that applications use to classify content, route requests, and prioritize work. OpenAI said the API focuses Luna's intelligence on questions with bounded answers, enabling near real-time decisions from text…

Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which […]

Runtime optimizations and a thorough evaluation process driven by agentic AI help ensure that models written in PyTorch will execute efficiently and reliably on Trainium systems.

Microsoft's MAI-DxO diagnostic system outperformed participating generalist physicians on complex diagnostic cases in a peer-reviewed study published October 22, 2026 in Science, which reported 83.2% accuracy for the system on New England Journal of Medicine case records against 36.1% for physicians using reference resources. The study, "Sequential diagnosis with language models," appears in Science Volume 394, Issue 6822, pages 423–428; it was received April 4, 2026 and accepted August 10…

The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.

Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If an employee had that much reach with that little oversight, you would call it an insider risk. So why do we still call the agent a productivity tool?