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.
Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.
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Manufacturers are investing heavily in AI, digital thread initiatives, automation and enterprise modernization to improve productivity and decision-making. Much of the conversation focuses on AI models, infrastructure and integration. But many organizations are overlooking a fundamental prerequisite for these efforts: confidence in the underlying product data and business rules that drive operational decisions. The challenge is not simply connecting systems but ensuring that the product…
A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve?
OpenAI on October 30, 2026 announced a Community Safety Report on violence prevention that it will update every six months, alongside new protections that restrict weapons-related information for teens and tighten how ChatGPT handles questions about past mass attacks. The company said it made more than 200 law enforcement referrals in the third quarter of 2026. Community Safety Report Planned for Early 2027 OpenAI committed to launching the Community Safety Report covering violence prevention…
Crisp has launched Halo, a retail AI platform that can run inside an enterprise's own cloud environment, bringing sales and supply-chain analysis closer to the data and governance systems companies already operate. Announced on October 29, the platform targets consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers, retailers, distributors and brokers. The launch addresses a familiar retail problem: teams can see a change in sales or inventory, yet still spend hours assembling the context needed to explain…
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AI is rendering the Leetcode-style interview pointless and now Anthropic has deleted it from its interview loop. Also: details of incident.io’s AI spend, Microsoft’s exit offer to engineers, and more
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2026 : 9–12 November 2026, AUSTIN Humanoids 2026 : 6–9 December 2026, SANTA CLARA, CA Enjoy today’s videos! Some top-notch whole-body manipulation here from RAI, although it’s a little hard to tell whether there’s direct torso involvement, which is s
Claudeshop fingers 'malicious actor' in targeted supply-chain attack on Cursor
Agility said it expects to raise $465 million in its combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI, $155 million less than it had estimated. The post Humanoid developer Agility now expects to raise $465M in SPAC deal appeared first on The Robot Report .
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Jen Vescio is President of Empiric Earth, overseeing product strategy, corporate development, and commercialization. She previously served as Chief Business Development Officer at Uber, where she led global business development and new partnerships in mobility and autonomy. Her experience also spans investing in and advising emerging technology companies, with a focus on helping physical AI move from research into commercial deployment. Empiric Earth brings together Nexar and Nauto to provide…
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.
Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools. To deploy an agent more securely, developers need a runtime that enforces...
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The folks behind Wikipedia say that an extreme decision in either direction could threaten the open web.
A viral tweet says LLMs pick 7 because of gradient descent. The math says it’s more interesting than that. The post Pick a Number Between 1 and 10 appeared first on Towards Data Science .
