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Hannah (Linan) Zhou, Founding Member and Head of Product at Meshy is a product leader focused on building and scaling generative AI tools for 3D content creation. At Meshy, she helps shape the company’s product strategy across consumer and enterprise applications, including 3D generation, AI agents, developer APIs, and workflows designed to integrate generative 3D into professional creative pipelines. Zhou has described her work as centered on building and scaling Meshy’s 3D generative AI…

It stars two new FBI agents that aren't named Mulder and Scully.

An employee's AI assistant can now do more than answer a question. It can connect to company systems, install extensions, run commands and build applications. For security teams, the challenge is deciding which of those actions should be allowed—and retaining the ability to intervene when the context changes. Pluto Security is emerging from stealth with $42 million in total funding to address that problem. The company announced an approximately $34 million latest financing round led by Jump…

Google is making Gemini 4 Argon available worldwide through its API, the Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. The frontier model is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. Internally, Google says Argon already cut coding tasks from months to weeks. The article Gemini 4 Argon is now available worldwide as Google's most capable frontier model appeared first on The Decoder .

Arena Physica said in an October 13, 2026 announcement that Heaviside, its foundation model for electromagnetism, is now available on Microsoft Discovery, which the announcement describes as Microsoft's platform for agentic engineering. According to the company, the model predicts full 3D electromagnetic field responses in milliseconds, roughly 100,000 times faster than a traditional solver. The announcement frames the work around what the company calls the verification problem in…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it's evaluating allegations that Tesla's 1,000 or so robotaxis using its automated driving system are exceeding "posted speed limits in active school zones." Waymo's robotaxis have also faced similar inquiries, including for illegally passing school buses and hitting a child near a California elementary school. NHTSA: The Office […]

The move is a turning point in the developer’s relationship with AI and Linux.

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield.

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B on October 13, 2026, an open-weight 24B-parameter reasoning model with 2B active parameters built for agents that run on-device. The company published the base and post-trained checkpoints on Hugging Face and detailed the release in a post on the Hugging Face blog. Liquid AI describes LFM2.5-24B-A2B as the largest and final model in its LFM2.5 family, which now spans from LFM2.5-230M to the new model. Architecture and Training The model keeps the architecture…

Google Play users can now build custom Android apps with Google AI Studio and launch them privately on their own devices, Google announced on October 13, 2026, with only a standard Google account required rather than a developer account. Personal Apps Built in Google AI Studio The personal-apps capability was part of a broader set of Google Play updates detailed by Sam Bright, vice president and general manager of Google Play and the developer ecosystem, spanning app creation, discovery, social…

The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least, will soon.

Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops

Managing AI model access across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts creates friction when each account must accept AWS Marketplace Private Pricing Offers individually. This post shows two ways to activate MPPO entitlements in AWS License Manager: a lightweight script for a one-time fix, and CDK automation for ongoing event-driven processing.

On October 13, 2026, Meta announced new AI-powered tools that let Facebook users directly shape what appears in Feed and Reels, led by a feature called Your algorithm that lets people add and manage the topics driving their recommendations. In the announcement posted to the Meta Newsroom, the company said users can now interact directly with the algorithms that rank and recommend what they see on Facebook, and that recommendations respond right away once a user states their interests. Meta also…

Michael I. Jordan, described by Science as "the most influential computer scientist," considers warnings about superintelligence pure science fiction. He calls the resignations of young AI researchers a "grand moralizing performance" and companies' demands for regulation "theater." On Hinton's thesis that the brain can be reproduced in silicon and scaled into superintelligence, he's blunt: "None of the steps in this argument is credible. Here, we're in the land of science fiction." The article M

Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.

Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.

The company is revamping the Play Store for the AI era with changes to publishing, recommendations and more.

It just got a whole lot easier to vibe code the exact Android app you need – no developer experience required.

Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

Jefferies wonders if LLMs will ever be profitable during the 'ongoing collapse in token pricing'

Are Siri AI, a new chip and Sound Glow worth the higher price?

<p>New products from Apple include the HomeView, an iPad-like device that acts as a hub for other smart home gadgets</p><p>Apple on Tuesday began showing off a ⁠new round of smart home products, including an iPad-like device dubbed the HomeView, meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops ⁠and act as a hub for other smart home devices.</p><p>The HomeView device starts at $299 and will begin shipping next month. It will feature a 7in screen and face recognition, will help users ⁠control doorbell

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How to handle uncertainty with AI vendors and disaster recovery (DR) approaches to consider. An excerpt from the book Building Resilient Distributed Systems by Sam Newman

Orca Security built Discovery AI, a natural language query agent on Amazon Bedrock that converts plain-English questions into Sonar queries. The post shares the multi-stage architecture and the results: 90% lower query cost, 93% fewer input tokens, and 75% lower latency than the initial baseline.

Last year, we introduced GEM, the industry’s largest recommendation system (RecSys) foundation model. GEM established Meta’s first LLM-inspired paradigm for ads recommendation, driving major performance gains. Building on this foundation, our next goal is to further scale both compute and intelligence transfer with next-generation hardware, and expand this capability across Meta’s entire ads ecosystem. This [...] Read More... The post Meta’s Generative Ads Model (GEM): Scaling the Central Model

Developers will get 50 percent discounted API rates through November.

Google has rolled out Gemini 4 Argon to more users.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini-4-argon__blog-header__27.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.

Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event. Prime Day ran back in June, so this post always lands as […]

ShipStation Global's engineering team built Deckhand, an AI IT help desk agent for Slack on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It answers routine IT questions from a curated knowledge base, reads error-message screenshots, and files Jira tickets. In its first three months it resolved 97.5% of channel queries with a 96% positive feedback rating.

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Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. In this post, we build a tool-calling agent on Grok 4.7 and evaluate it on three reasoning tasks at four reasoning effort levels, measuring correctness and token cost per completed task. We show how to tune the trade-off per request and monitor it in production.

<p>Asian markets fall and Samsung shares tumble after its Chinese rival CXMT claims strong progress</p><p>Shares in semiconductor companies fell on Tuesday after the boss of Broadcom compared many AI investors to “casino” gamblers, and the Chinese memory chip maker CXMT said it had made good progress on a new chip architecture.</p><p>South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index tumbled 6.25% as investors dumped chip stocks, while other Asian markets were also lower. Japan’s Nikkei fell 1.8% and the Taiwa