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Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines.

Shares in Intel continue to fall while the tech-heavy Nasdaq opens at its lowest level in more than two months.

AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...

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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers can apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI companies, instead of setting them individually. The shared "policy token" signal […]

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.

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<p>Anthropic, the creator of Claude, filed to go public on the US stock market on 26 October. The company's filing statement contains a 92-page risk factor document in which it acknowledges the dangers that AI poses to society and human beings, and factors that could negatively affect Anthropic's business. Johana Bhuiyan, senior tech reporter for the Guardian, breaks down the document and explains why Anthropic's IPO could be a real test to the AI boom</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.t

Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI firm has entered the picture.

An AI agent performed brain surgery on an epileptic mouse, picking the drug, the brain target, and the injection coordinates on its own. According to lead researcher Ocana-Santero, it's the first time an AI agent has autonomously chosen a treatment and delivered it to a living mammal. But when a calibration error hit mid-surgery, the agent refused to continue and couldn't be talked out of it. The article A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human

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But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.

Percepto has launched Axion, a hardware-agnostic physical AI platform delivering visibility across mission-critical infrastructure. The post Percepto launches Axion AI platform to unify inspection data analysis appeared first on The Robot Report .

MIT professors Adam Berinsky and Chara Podimata discuss a new project to track how AI chatbots are responding to questions about the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.

<p>Big tech stocks falter as investors question whether billions being poured into AI can generate returns quickly enough</p><p>A sell-off of tech stocks that began earlier this month and gained steam with disappointing earnings from leading tech companies drove US markets down by hundreds of billions of dollars Friday. In total, the decline has knocked nearly $1tn in value off the tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange in one week and erased about $2tn in a month.</p><p>The S&P 500, the index of the 500 mo

OpenAI announced on October 30, 2026 that it will honor a shared signal in robots.txt, the file websites use to express preferences about how their content is used, so that site operators can communicate a single AI training preference to multiple participating providers at once. A Voluntary Signal Shared Across Providers In its announcement, OpenAI described the effort as voluntary and said it addresses an existing burden: until now, website operators had to identify individual crawlers and…

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma 4 model to follow through on a prompt to create a haiku about being in space: Blue marble below Data streams in […]

A tampered Claude Code extension was live on the Cursor marketplace for about 11 hours, affecting up to 5,000 users. It tried to steal user data and set up remote access. Cursor took the entire marketplace offline and reinstated it after confirming there was no further risk. The article Malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace attempted remote access and data theft appeared first on The Decoder .

Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench, with no change to the agent. The post Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9% appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.

OpenAI has updated its Model Spec, restructuring its AI behavior guidelines around five core values, including faithfulness to human intent and correctability. GPT models should now draw on conversation history to figure out what users actually want and disclose their own assumptions. Whether the models follow these rules is another matter. The article OpenAI sets new behavioral guidelines for AI models that have already proven hard to control appeared first on The Decoder .

Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.

Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is going to explore "experiences that recognize participating customers as they arrive, present personalized digital menus, and make payment more effortless," as spotted earlier by More […]

Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google each released an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. All 4 use the same find, disprove, then patch loop. Here is how they differ, plus 12 more tools. The post AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Worldwide Express automated its less-than-truckload freight billing-exception process with a multi-agent solution built on Amazon Bedrock. Six months after launch, the company cut active exceptions by 75%, improved time-to-cash by four weeks, and unlocked $10 million in free cash flow.

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This post walks through a controlled local deployment that routes model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, a managed device policy, a named AWS profile, and network restrictions, so a security team can validate it before broader use.

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Google said on October 30, 2026, that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite returned its first AI response from orbit: a haiku generated by an onboard Gemma 4 open model running on a data-center-class Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). Travis Beals, Senior Director of Paradigms of Intelligence at Google, announced the milestone in a Google Research post, describing it as the mission's "Hello World" milestone and what the company characterized as the first-ever AI response from a data center…

During an hourlong earnings call last night, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spent less time talking about the production ramp of the all-important R2 SUV than he did hyping the company's still-unproven autonomous vehicle ambitions. But the company faces a crucial test later this year, when it rolls out its point-to-point hands-free driving feature - first […]

Reddit lost over one million Google search referrals per week in October, CEO Steve Huffman said. The stock dropped more than 25 percent despite strong earnings. Huffman blames Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode for driving zero traffic to external sites. Reddit now tests login barriers and wants to become a direct destination, less reliant on the open web. The shift threatens every content-driven business that depends on search traffic. The article Google's AI Mode doesn't drive traffic "for any

<p><strong>David Gibson </strong>says the problem is that details of the flaw were revealed before it was fixed, while <strong>Charles MacKinnon</strong> notes that we are at the mercy of technology we don’t understand</p><p>Chris Stokel-Walker may be right (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/22/website-shutdowns-ai-human-inaction-developers">The internet has broken – again. Shouldn’t the tech firms that make billions from it pay to fix it?, 22 October</a>), but the real

Modern smart TVs let you skip the streaming device, which is convenient, but they also come with their own issues, including privacy concerns and frequent updates. The Vizio Mini LED Quantum TV lets you cut out the rigamarole and just get straight to the HDMI ports. And right now, it’s discounted at Walmart, with the […]

The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

AI-native software development lifecycles reduce UX to AI context. UX must discover user needs, shape what’s built, and evaluate it before and after launch.

AI is expanding UX beyond human users to agents acting on their behalf. Experience design names this broader field, which still centers on people’s goals.

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed using a Go-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX in attacks aimed at high-value targets simultaneously. The activity has been attributed by CrowdStrike to a China-based "targeted intrusion adversary" it tracks under the moniker Vapor Panda (previously VexatiousTemper). First identified in

Google rolled out a Gemini design change to more Android devices, and brought some file generation features along with it.