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An artist's impression of two black holes colliding. Interacting wormholes could produce a similar gravitational wave signature. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library RF/Getty Images) Double the fun. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

TypeSafe launched Jev on September 15, 2026. It is a decision model, not a chatbot. You define the allowed answers, and Jev returns a label, a score or a yes/no probability. In about 4 weeks, at least 20 Jev alternatives shipped. They come from Cloudflare, OpenAI, Perplexity, Liquid AI, AWS’s Strands Labs and independent developers. […] The post 20 Jev Alternatives: The Decision Models Taking On TypeSafe in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost .

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for long-horizon agentic work. It has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and up to 1M tokens of context. For developers, this is […] The post StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind every task in Perplexity Computer. The Perplexity SPACE sandbox gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM. Credentials and outbound traffic are controlled from outside that VM. The code ships under Apache 2.0 on GitHub. For teams building coding or browsing agents, this is a production-tested isolation […] The post Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is now available on AI Gateway . DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is a minor update to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash that improves reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and image understanding. The coding gains show up in terminal work and in building and editing whole repositories, and the agentic gains in multi-step automation. With images, the model reads charts and handles visual reasoning more accurately when it can call tools. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 also finishes tasks faster and with

Campaigns and PACs have spent more than $137 million on AI-generated or AI-enhanced midterm ads, and about 70% of them carry no AI label, the New York Times reported. The biggest pro-AI super PAC network paid about $20 million to a Nevada company that exists only as a post office box. A new report found 81 of 134 AI models failed a test built from terrorist-style questions. A video game reverse engineering site is closing because AI made the work too easy. Some companies that rushed into AI are

Ben Waters explains why opportunity charging is becoming essential for keeping autonomous robot fleets moving, scalable, and operationally efficient. The post Why opportunity charging is winning as robot fleets scale appeared first on The Robot Report .

Replit CEO Amjad Masad said during an onstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that the company is no longer working with Anthropic, framing the decision around cost, partnership, and performance. The session recording was published by TechCrunch on October 16, 2026. Onstage Confirmation and Rationale The exchange began when the interviewer asked whether the OpenAI partnership Replit announced in August 2026 meant the company was no longer working with Anthropic. "Yeah. I mean, yeah," Masad…

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Apple's App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called "nudify" apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools. The rule changes follow significant criticism toward Apple after X users used Grok earlier this year to make nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes, including minors. Apple didn't pull X or Grok from the App […]

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<blockquote cite="https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/"><p>We think "did a human read the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?"</p> <p>Asking that question also changed <em>when</em> review happens. Before, review was a gate at the end of the road: write the code, open a PR, wait for your colleague.</p> <p>Now, review runs continuously, more like spellcheck while you write. Mo

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Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.

After this horrific crash involving a Tesla driver who said he was asleep and using the driver assist mode, the California Highway Patrol warns that "Despite its name, full self-driving is not fully autonomous. Technology does not relieve drivers of their responsibility to safely operate their vehicles." Video released by CHP shows the Tesla speeding […]

Autonomous AI agents fail softly: latency stays flat while answer quality quietly erodes. This post shares a nine-stage evaluation framework, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, that catches silent quality regressions across the full agent lifecycle, from first commit to live production.

El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16

Discord user flagged AI CSAM, triggering arrest of New Jersey deputy AG.

Teachers are venting on TikTok and Reddit about student learning, AI homework, and the growing demands of the classroom.

The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.

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The future is private, the present is plunder

And there’s no opt-out available.

And there’s no opt-out available.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reported in a research publication on October 16, 2026, that an internal Claude research model had traced the origins of the NIST ECDSA curve seeds to the C library's lrand48 random-number generator seeded with Unix timestamps, answering a provenance question that had been open since the NSA supplied the values without explanation. The Unexplained NSA Seeds ECDSA is the most widely used elliptic curve cryptography standard. NIST adopted it in 2000 as part of the…

With ia.i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>hey, CS student here. for the past few days I've been building DenseCore, a small deep learning framework in rust with a pytorch-like python API.</p> <p>the thing I'm kind of proud of: if you point `import torch` at it and run karpathy's nanoGPT unchanged, you get the exact same numbers as pytorch. same initial weights from manual_seed, same loss, same gradients, same weights, bit for bit, for all 50 steps I tested, even with dropout on. not "close enough", lite

Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.

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Australia has proposed a switch to force social media platforms to let users turn off recommended content.

OpenAI's updated Chrome extension lets ChatGPT access open browser tabs, sum up content, and use "Computer Use" in Work mode to fill out forms or compare products across several tabs. It is open to all ChatGPT plans. The article ChatGPT becomes a full Chrome browser assistant that reads and acts on your open tabs appeared first on The Decoder .