
- Bulletproof Earns Spot on the 2026 CRN AI Innovators List
Bulletproof announced today that it has been recognized by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, on their inaugural 2026 CRN AI Innovators list. The list recognizes North American solution providers leading the way in… Read more: Bulletproof Earns Spot on the 2026 CRN AI Innovators List - Deep-Tech and Green Finance to Drive India’s Climate Investments in 2027
India’s climate-tech investment may shift in 2027, with deep-tech, energy storage, green-asset financing, and energy-efficient data-centre infrastructure set to drive the next phase of capital deployment, according to a new report by Ostara Advisors. India’s… Read more: Deep-Tech and Green Finance to Drive India’s Climate Investments in 2027 - Top Test Management Solutions for End-to-End Testing
Managing testing throughout the software development cycle becomes challenging when test cases, execution, and reporting are handled separately. Fragmented workflows often lead to limited visibility, inconsistent tracking, and gaps in test coverage. End-to-end test management… Read more: Top Test Management Solutions for End-to-End Testing - Marble Cognition raises $3.75M for its AI agent workers that watch and learn how people work
Artificial intelligence agents have become two a penny in the enterprise today, but just because they’re rapidly being commoditized does not mean organizations know how best to use them. That’s the challenge a startup called… Read more: Marble Cognition raises $3.75M for its AI agent workers that watch and learn how people work - Ryanair considers pay freezes and reducing crew on flights as fuel costs soar
Airline also weighs up increasing use of AI as part of cost-cutting measures to offset impact of Iran war Ryanair is considering cost-cutting measures including implementing pay freezes, reducing crew on flights and increasing the… Read more: Ryanair considers pay freezes and reducing crew on flights as fuel costs soar - Google’s Project Suncatcher Satellite Generates First AI Response in Orbit
Google said on October 30 that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite had generated its first artificial intelligence response using a data centre-class tensor processing unit (TPU) in orbit. The milestone marks an early test of… Read more: Google’s Project Suncatcher Satellite Generates First AI Response in Orbit - Cohere Secures Series E Fundraise Targeting CAD $7 Billion
Record-setting round marks largest private capital raise in Canadian history fuelling investment in compute infrastructure, frontier models, and full-stack AI products for enterprises and governments Cohere, a leading provider of sovereign AI for regulated industries… Read more: Cohere Secures Series E Fundraise Targeting CAD $7 Billion - India’s Frontier AI Race Gets a 240M Model That Beats Liquid AI
India’s frontier AI ambitions may have found an unlikely contender in a 240-million-parameter language model that challenges conventional approaches to building AI. NeuroDX, an Indian startup backed by the IndiaAI Mission that grew out of… Read more: India’s Frontier AI Race Gets a 240M Model That Beats Liquid AI - Genpact Certified as a Best Firm for Data Scientists
Genpact, the Agentic Operations company, has been certified as a Best Firm for Data Scientists by Analytics India Magazine (AIM) through its workplace recognition programme. The certification is based on structured feedback from data science… Read more: Genpact Certified as a Best Firm for Data Scientists - Avalonx Emerges from Stealth with $10 Mn in Funding from Ridown Capital
After 18 months in stealth, AvalonX brings continuous, enterprise-grade penetration testing to small and midsize businesses, pairing proprietary security AI trained on nine years of real-world offensive-security data with human expertise to expose potential breach… Read more: Avalonx Emerges from Stealth with $10 Mn in Funding from Ridown Capital - Intersignal LLC Announces the Launch of Braid 2.1
Intersignal LLC, a leading developer of edge AI hardware architectures and decentralized communication protocols, today announced the release of Intersignal Braid 2.1. The latest version of the local-first LLM orchestration platform introduces Memory Capsules, a… Read more: Intersignal LLC Announces the Launch of Braid 2.1 - DeepSeek Proposes Super-Agent Architecture to Automate AI Coding Workflows
Chinese AI company DeepSeek on October 31 published a technical proposal for a ‘super-agent’ architecture designed to coordinate multiple artificial intelligence agents with limited human intervention. The proposal, titled ‘Exploring Super-agent Design: Towards a More… Read more: DeepSeek Proposes Super-Agent Architecture to Automate AI Coding Workflows - Arrowhead AI Launches Fletch Voice Model for Multilingual Customer Calls
Bengaluru-based voice AI startup Arrowhead AI on October 30 launched Fletch, an in-house text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for multilingual customer conversations across India and Southeast Asia. The model is already deployed across live customer calls,… Read more: Arrowhead AI Launches Fletch Voice Model for Multilingual Customer Calls - Google search has gone from being very handy to useless | First Dog on the Moon
Google’s AI summary is punching a huge hole in their own profits – is this good? Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at… Read more: Google search has gone from being very handy to useless | First Dog on the Moon - AI translation sounds convincing, but it can be riddled with hidden errors
Jorg Greuel/Getty Images Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are more widespread than ever, and one of the functions they offer is fast, real-time translation. Some people are even questioning the need to ever learn another… Read more: AI translation sounds convincing, but it can be riddled with hidden errors - Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than… Read more: Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests - Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes
Michigan is set to deploy a major new AI system to prisons across the state, meant to classify incarcerated people based on “how dangerous they are.” That’s according to Detroit channel Fox2, which reports that… Read more: Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes - Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Real Time
Microsoft just filed a patent for an AI product that would be able to transform live video in real time to alter speakers’ words and faces. The patent, as first flagged by patent-tracker Patentlyze, is… Read more: Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Real Time - National Grid to site biggest substation on Teesside, near planned AI datacentre
New electricity generating capacity would enable north-east to attract investment for major datacentre projects National Grid has taken a step towards building Britain’s biggest electricity substation on Teesside, which could supply power to a vast… Read more: National Grid to site biggest substation on Teesside, near planned AI datacentre - New Data Centers in the US Set to Wipe Out 15 Years of Greenhouse Gas Reductions
Nearly 15 years worth of hard-won pollution reduction efforts are set to be undone in the United States, as a wave of data centers powered by gas plants enters construction. That’s according to a new… Read more: New Data Centers in the US Set to Wipe Out 15 Years of Greenhouse Gas Reductions - Agent demand can’t be forecast, meaning the database has to be ready for anything
Enterprises building an agentic AI architecture are learning that the database matters as much as the model. AI agents fire off thousands of unplanned queries at once — and expect answers in milliseconds. PhoenixAI, the… Read more: Agent demand can’t be forecast, meaning the database has to be ready for anything - AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says
Chair of National Gallery’s First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists’ agency and the authenticity of their work Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast AI is taking… Read more: AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says - Trump Living in Alternate World of AI Slop, Insiders Say
President Donald Trump’s obsession with AI is even grimmer than we believed. The commander-in-chief has hardly hidden his enchantment with AI slop, regularly posting bizarre AI videos glorifying himself, denigrating his foes, and at times,… Read more: Trump Living in Alternate World of AI Slop, Insiders Say - Ancient ape fossil in Egypt could rewrite the story of human origins
A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Egypt is challenging long-held beliefs about where the ancestors of humans and other modern apes first evolved. Scientists now suspect that North Africa and the Middle East,… Read more: Ancient ape fossil in Egypt could rewrite the story of human origins - Scientists use sound waves to deliver a new attack on deadly brain cancer
Scientists at the University of Virginia have developed a promising new strategy to fight glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most difficult-to-treat forms of brain cancer. Their experimental approach combines focused ultrasound, tiny nanoparticles, and… Read more: Scientists use sound waves to deliver a new attack on deadly brain cancer - Scientists shrink Archimedes’ screw to the size of a single molecule
Scientists have built a groundbreaking molecular motor that spins in either direction using electricity, inspired by a machine invented more than 2,000 years ago. Even more remarkably, its rotation can boost electrical conductivity by up… Read more: Scientists shrink Archimedes’ screw to the size of a single molecule - Common pesticide linked to 2.5 times the risk of Parkinson’s disease
A UCLA study found that long-term exposure to a common pesticide was linked to more than 2.5 times the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Scientists also uncovered how the chemical damages brain cells and identified a… Read more: Common pesticide linked to 2.5 times the risk of Parkinson’s disease - Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate
From New York City to the streets of Tokyo, creepy AI-facial recognition security systems are quickly becoming a common sight across the world. Unfortunately for many, the tech is nowhere near ready for the responsibility… Read more: Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate - Fox News Takes Massive Ratings Hit As It Triples Down on Pro-Data Center Coverage
It’s obvious by now that data centers are political kryptonite. Across the US, bipartisan backlash to data center projects has upended city councils, while billionaire developers and industry-aligned political candidates are being routed by grassroots… Read more: Fox News Takes Massive Ratings Hit As It Triples Down on Pro-Data Center Coverage - Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry. - The Bengaluru Founder Building a Bridge to San Francisco
Walk into any technology, AI or startup conference in Bengaluru, and you may encounter a familiar scene. Long queues around stalls handing out caps, water bottles, and T-shirts. Or some may gather around a well-known… Read more: The Bengaluru Founder Building a Bridge to San Francisco - Scientists discover the hidden “muscles” trees use to straighten themselves
Scientists have discovered that trees can sense their own shape and straighten their trunks using specialized wood that acts like opposing muscles. This remarkable ability helps trees maintain their posture and could lead to stronger… Read more: Scientists discover the hidden “muscles” trees use to straighten themselves - Scientists say a forgotten particle may explain why the universe exists
A mysterious particle overlooked for decades may hold the key to why matter survived the Big Bang, allowing stars, planets, and life to exist. Scientists believe this forgotten neutrino reshaped the early universe and may… Read more: Scientists say a forgotten particle may explain why the universe exists - Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal
Inner west Sydney seat has long been safely held by the PM – but potential changes to copyright laws are angering its large creative community Get our daily political email, free app or daily news… Read more: Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal - Sam Altman to Infuriated Mathematicians: The Math Slop Won’t Stop
OpenAI Sam Altman says sorry, mathematicians: the onslaught of AI math slop will continue. The ChatGPT maker sparked an existential crisis in the field by releasing hundreds of AI-generated solutions to math problems that haven’t… Read more: Sam Altman to Infuriated Mathematicians: The Math Slop Won’t Stop - Can enterprise AI pay for the boom?
The artificial intelligence buildout is making an enormous bet on what businesses will eventually be willing to pay for intelligence. In our research this summer on forecasting the AI bubble, we argued that a key… Read more: Can enterprise AI pay for the boom? - Better Start Hitting the Gym Finally Because AI Robots Already Are
AI robots couldn’t let us keep our vanity to ourselves. They’re now hitting the gym, too — but the reps they’re getting in aren’t of the weightlifting kind. Enter Neura, a buzzy robotics startup in… Read more: Better Start Hitting the Gym Finally Because AI Robots Already Are - A-listers and AI stylists: how high-street brands are staging a fashion comeback
Gap, M&S, Topshop and more are taking a leaf from luxury label playbooks to satisfy savvier generation of shoppers High street brands that boomed in the noughties before the squeeze of both sustainably minded consumers… Read more: A-listers and AI stylists: how high-street brands are staging a fashion comeback - A simple blood test could reveal Alzheimer’s risk 10 years before symptoms
A major international study found that a simple blood test could help predict Alzheimer’s-related cognitive decline years before symptoms appear, with the highest-risk individuals facing a 38% chance of impairment within five years and an… Read more: A simple blood test could reveal Alzheimer’s risk 10 years before symptoms - Scientists smash oxygen nuclei to recreate matter from the Big Bang
Scientists have recreated a primordial state of matter from the dawn of the universe by colliding oxygen nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The surprising results show that this exotic substance can form in… Read more: Scientists smash oxygen nuclei to recreate matter from the Big Bang - A surprising vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have uncovered a surprising process that helps humans develop sharp vision before birth, challenging decades of assumptions about how the eye forms. Using miniature human retinas grown in the lab,… Read more: A surprising vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision - Scientists discover a bacterial defense so strange they thought it was broken
Scientists have discovered a bizarre bacterial defense system that works almost completely backward from anything seen before. Unlike typical bacterial immune systems that keep a deadly toxin under control until a virus attacks, this unusual… Read more: Scientists discover a bacterial defense so strange they thought it was broken - 75,000-year-old Neanderthal may have been killed by a spear aimed at the heart
A Neanderthal who died 75,000 years ago may have been killed by a wooden spear deliberately aimed at the heart, revealing rare evidence of prehistoric violence. A circular hole in the shoulder blade suggests the… Read more: 75,000-year-old Neanderthal may have been killed by a spear aimed at the heart - Scientists discover metals that defy the deep freeze at -424°F
Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism that allows certain metals to resist cracking at temperatures as low as -253°C (-424°F), when similar materials typically become dangerously brittle. Instead of breaking, two experimental alloys reorganize their… Read more: Scientists discover metals that defy the deep freeze at -424°F - A mysterious 4,000-year-old wall is rewriting North Africa’s history
A remarkable 4,000-year-old defensive structure discovered in Morocco is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient North African civilizations. The massive fortifications reveal unexpectedly sophisticated prehistoric societies and suggest that the region played a… Read more: A mysterious 4,000-year-old wall is rewriting North Africa’s history - Creeps Are Using AI to Undress Celebrities in Paparazzi Shots for Clicks
Engagement hackers on X-formerly-Twitter have a new strategy to attract attention: use AI to undress celebrity men and publish it as if it’s the real deal. The strategy, which was flagged earlier this week by… Read more: Creeps Are Using AI to Undress Celebrities in Paparazzi Shots for Clicks - The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
In May 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration released a lengthy briefing document on an experimental medication for a rare autoimmune form of vasculitis that often damages the kidneys and lungs. The agency was… Read more: The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy. - Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
Flying across several time zones often causes jet lag, a feeling when the body insists it’s the middle of the night while the clock says it’s lunchtime. Now it turns out this nuisance is not… Read more: Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged - Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts. - Is AI your new wingman? How chatbots are transforming dating
Almost 40% of British singles have used AI for romantic advice, from writing messages to assessing potential partners After Sam’s ex joked that her sister found him ugly, he turned to AI. Google Gemini had… Read more: Is AI your new wingman? How chatbots are transforming dating - People Used to Drink Wine Made From Ground-Up Mummies. Now, Scientists Are Studying It
Welcome back to the Abstract—and Happy Halloween! Here are the studies this week that smashed into Earth, put aliens on ice, drank mummy wine, and hugged it out. First, a century-old theory that comets enriched… Read more: People Used to Drink Wine Made From Ground-Up Mummies. Now, Scientists Are Studying It - Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat. - An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs. - Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it | Carly Dober
Each new tech product is designed to make our lives easier and keep us mindlessly entertained. Switch off: embrace discomfort – and boredom Ever longed for your own personal assistant? In the ever quickening tech… Read more: Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it | Carly Dober - Are Boutique AI Firms India’s Next Big Thing?
. After a decade building and scaling product-led startups across fintech and insurance, Prateek Jogani set out in 2025 to find his next problem to solve. AI was the unavoidable frontier, and a closer look… Read more: Are Boutique AI Firms India’s Next Big Thing? - Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block artificial intelligence developers from using their content… Read more: Google, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard - Think you can save the Hubble Space Telescope? NASA wants to know.
The Hubble Space Telescope still shines in the eyes of astronomers after 36 years in orbit, but it is not as nimble as it once was. Left alone, the observatory will plunge back into the… Read more: Think you can save the Hubble Space Telescope? NASA wants to know. - Google X co-founder Sebastian Thrun raises $130M for AI engineering startup Dulo
Dulo Inc., a startup co-founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Sebastian Thrun, has raised $130 million in funding. The Information broke the news of the investment on Thursday. Dulo co-founder Adrian Aoun confirmed the report… Read more: Google X co-founder Sebastian Thrun raises $130M for AI engineering startup Dulo - Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has yet to warn customers of the incident. The compromised package… Read more: Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours - Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI data… Read more: Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers - Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
Along with the rest of the world, we at Ars are mourning Sir Patrick Stewart—the beloved award-winning actor best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in… Read more: Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart - Flesh-eating screwworms are feasting on pets; 4 dogs and cat attacked this week
For a genuine fright this Halloween, you can turn your gaze to the southern border, where ravenous, flesh-eating maggots are festering and have taken to eating people’s pets. This week, the country’s New World Screwworm… Read more: Flesh-eating screwworms are feasting on pets; 4 dogs and cat attacked this week - Cockroach Labs Names Sam Jones as Chief Revenue Officer
Former Adaptive ML CRO and founding Postman enterprise sales leader brings experience turning developer adoption into enterprise revenue Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum the Agentic Database Cloud, today announced the appointment of… Read more: Cockroach Labs Names Sam Jones as Chief Revenue Officer - Tech Leaders Kiss the Ring and Refuse to Call It “AI” After Trump Told Them Not to
It turns out the only thing more sycophantic than AI chatbots are the people in charge of building them. After president Donald Trump decreed that artificial intelligence should now be referred to as “Super Intelligence”… Read more: Tech Leaders Kiss the Ring and Refuse to Call It “AI” After Trump Told Them Not to - How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the contractor who plugged their AI agent into a Pentagon system, Anthropic’s IPO filing, and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms. - Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
As AI tools and agents have continued their march across all aspects of digital life, many companies are trying to use LLMs to improve the experience of purchasing goods and services on the Internet. Thus… Read more: Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders - Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren’t even good
A significant number of patients in the US lie to their doctors to get antibiotics they likely don’t need, according to two new studies. While that may not be a startling revelation, the studies drills… Read more: Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren’t even good - Dartmouth’s provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
On August 9, 2026, Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell wrote a Washington Post op-ed called “Universities are fighting AI cheating. But there’s a deeper problem.” This week, Schnell discovered the depths of the problem himself… Read more: Dartmouth’s provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job - Sam Altman Says Gen Z Are Lame for Not Worshipping AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sympathizes with Gen Zers entering the job market. It’s just unfortunate that the AI tools he’s responsible for ushering into the world are completely upending the nature of work and finding… Read more: Sam Altman Says Gen Z Are Lame for Not Worshipping AI - I read Anthropic’s 92-page risk factor document, so you don’t have to – video explainer
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… Read more: I read Anthropic’s 92-page risk factor document, so you don’t have to – video explainer - MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate… Read more: MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows - Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust
Crater counts tell us that most of the Martian surface is more than 3 billion years old, but pieces of Mars we have on Earth tell a different story. The three main classes of Martian… Read more: Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust - ‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage
In the wake of fanfiction repository Archive of Our Own (AO3) announcing a weeks-long security incident outage, readers and writers are reflecting on why the site is important to the fanfiction community, and how they’re… Read more: ‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage - Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year?
People are peppering artificial intelligence chatbots everyday with questions, but when it comes to politics and the looming 2026 U.S. midterm elections, what role are AI platforms playing? Could an AI chatbot sway a voter… Read more: Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year? - Shufti Announced the Launch of Know Your Agent
Businesses can manage agentic commerce with greater confidence by verifying AI agent identities, enforcing human approvals, and blocking unauthorized or high-risk activity.Shufti launches Know Your Agent (KYA), an AI agent verification solution designed to verify autonomous… Read more: Shufti Announced the Launch of Know Your Agent - Pope Leo Comes Out Swinging Against AI Personhood
Sorry to anybody who believes AI models deserve rights: the Pontiff is not on your side. In a lengthy thread on X-formerly-Twitter today, Pope Leo XIV issued a scathing rebuke of calls for “AI personhood,”… Read more: Pope Leo Comes Out Swinging Against AI Personhood - Tech sell-off drives US markets down by nearly $1tn after subpar earnings reports
Big tech stocks falter as investors question whether billions being poured into AI can generate returns quickly enough A sell-off of tech stocks that began earlier this month and gained steam with disappointing earnings from… Read more: Tech sell-off drives US markets down by nearly $1tn after subpar earnings reports - Google Unveils Gemini Suggested Autofill for Chrome: What Users Should Know
Google is adding Gemini-powered autofill to Chrome using information from Gmail. Learn how it works, who can use it, and what privacy concerns to consider. The post Google Unveils Gemini Suggested Autofill for Chrome: What… Read more: Google Unveils Gemini Suggested Autofill for Chrome: What Users Should Know - Mistral Releases 1-Trillion-Parameter AI Model for Cybersecurity
Mistral releases Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight AI model targeting cybersecurity. Here’s what IT teams should know about costs and deployment. The post Mistral Releases 1-Trillion-Parameter AI Model for Cybersecurity appeared first on TechRepublic. - Analysts find looming launch crisis is “more severe” than anticipated
A new report from the analytics firm Quilty Space confirms that, outside of China, the world faces a significant shortage of rockets over the next five years. The firm estimates that between now and 2030,… Read more: Analysts find looming launch crisis is “more severe” than anticipated - Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
The US has charged five individuals as part of the first broad federal crackdown on “ghost students”—fraudsters who steal the identities of hundreds of Americans to pose as fake college students and steal student loans.… Read more: Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says - Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape. Fujifilm attributes… Read more: Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand - 110 Humanoid Robots Dance in Sync as China Sets Guinness World Record
China’s AGIBOT sets a Guinness World Record by deploying 110 humanoid robots to dance in sync, showcasing advances in robot coordination and fleet automation. The post 110 Humanoid Robots Dance in Sync as China Sets… Read more: 110 Humanoid Robots Dance in Sync as China Sets Guinness World Record - Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio Now Costs $22,299: Here’s What You Get
Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio costs $22,299. Explore its M5 Ultra specs, memory upgrades, pricing, and whether this high-end workstation is worth buying. The post Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio Now Costs $22,299: Here’s What You Get… Read more: Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio Now Costs $22,299: Here’s What You Get - Scientists Analyzed Thousands of Psychedelic Trips. They Found Something Disturbing
Researchers have amassed a trove of more than 25,000 calls to a support hotline for people during and after psychedelic trips, making it “the largest dataset of psychedelic support interactions ever assembled—exceeding the combined sample… Read more: Scientists Analyzed Thousands of Psychedelic Trips. They Found Something Disturbing - Allstacks Enhances Product Studio With Collaboration and Code Context
Recent updates help product teams execute to the same standard by sharing context and skills, collaborating with stakeholders, and scoping and sizing work with more precision. Allstacks, the workspace for product teams and AI to… Read more: Allstacks Enhances Product Studio With Collaboration and Code Context - Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’
On Friday, Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, cancelled a series of nearly company-wide ‘re-interviews’ that would have forced employees to explain how they are using AI, with the clear intention that they may be… Read more: Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’ - FusionAuth 1.70 Enables Secure App Access for Customer AI Agents
CIMD support and OAuth token exchange let companies connect MCP-compatible AI apps and govern access on behalf of customers. FusionAuth, the deploy anywhere Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) platform built for security, control, and… Read more: FusionAuth 1.70 Enables Secure App Access for Customer AI Agents - OmniTrust Announced the Launch of Halo, a Unified AI Governance Platform
Vendor-independent platform unifies AI discovery, security, governance, and cost management across employee AI applications and agents OmniTrust today announced the launch of OmniTrust Halo, an AI governance platform that helps organizations put AI to work… Read more: OmniTrust Announced the Launch of Halo, a Unified AI Governance Platform - Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People Running Their Own AI Models at Home, Argues They Shouldn’t Own Computers
Shares of US chipmaker Intel cratered on Friday, plunging almost 30 percent, the worst stock collapse in 52 years. The wipeout, analysts said, could be due to a massive slowdown in the PC market. The… Read more: Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People Running Their Own AI Models at Home, Argues They Shouldn’t Own Computers - A question for those who hate datacentres
Technology and urban planning | The Guardian letters page | Porridge Your account of the datacentre controversy in Cardiff (The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle, 24 October)… Read more: A question for those who hate datacentres - Credit where it’s due to AI for uncovering the PHP flaw – and discredit to the leaker | Letters
David Gibson says the problem is that details of the flaw were revealed before it was fixed, while Charles MacKinnon notes that we are at the mercy of technology we don’t understand Chris Stokel-Walker may… Read more: Credit where it’s due to AI for uncovering the PHP flaw – and discredit to the leaker | Letters - Behind the Blog: Tech Support
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss customer service and Proton fallout. JASON: Since… Read more: Behind the Blog: Tech Support - Stock Market Bloodbath Spikes Fears of AI Bubble Bursting
The entire US stock market looked like a house of Halloween horrors on Friday, driven by rapidly sinking tech stocks tied to the swelling AI bubble. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 — home of major AI stocks… Read more: Stock Market Bloodbath Spikes Fears of AI Bubble Bursting - The hidden threat in Anthropic’s prospectus: diseconomies of scale
As potentially the largest IPO in history, Anthropic PBC is breaking new ground. Its prospectus lists 88 risk factors covering 93 pages alone. From artificial intelligence posing an existential threat to humanity to the possibility… Read more: The hidden threat in Anthropic’s prospectus: diseconomies of scale - As Anthropic finally files for IPO, rising risks aren’t slowing the AI buildout – yet
The other artificial intelligence shoe dropped this week, as Anthropic filed for what surely will be the second blockbuster AI initial public offering of stock this year. Nearly 70,000 words in the filing list a… Read more: As Anthropic finally files for IPO, rising risks aren’t slowing the AI buildout – yet - Beyond the books: Real-time data is driving a small-business lending surge
Small businesses have long treated cash flow management as an afterthought, tallying expenses after the money is gone. Now, financial platforms are folding payments, payroll, credit and lending into one system that can see money… Read more: Beyond the books: Real-time data is driving a small-business lending surge - Intuit targets the mid-market ERP gap with AI
Growing companies that outgrow entry-level accounting software face a hard choice: Stay put or gamble on a mid-market ERP that promises automation but often brings cost and disruption. Artificial intelligence is now giving financial software… Read more: Intuit targets the mid-market ERP gap with AI - Democrats Trying to Get Hold of Trump’s Grok Conversations
Ahead of the deadly airstrikes and military raid that saw US troops kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and deputy to the National Assembly Cilia Flores, Donald Trump was reportedly in the throes of a weeks-long… Read more: Democrats Trying to Get Hold of Trump’s Grok Conversations - Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural
Ghost hunting has changed in recent years due to AI chatbots, and paranormal enthusiasts are concerned Ghost hunting is a tech-heavy pursuit. When Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting investigate haunted locations, they’re loaded up with… Read more: Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural
