Enterprise work management is entering a new phase as artificial intelligence agents move beyond assisting employees to executing business processes. Platforms once designed to organize projects and track assignments are becoming environments where people and… Read more: What to expect during monday.com’s Elevate event: Join theCUBE Oct. 29

Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected. In… Read more: Quantum error correction goes well beyond breakeven

Ukraine’s unprecedented drone rescue of a wounded soldier from the battlefield has shown once again how battlefield necessity can spur innovation. The operation was revealed just days after separate Ukrainian drones designed for casualty evacuation… Read more: Ukraine’s drone rescue of wounded soldier puts much touted idea into practice

It has been 13 years since the debut of a new medium-lift rocket in the United States, the Antares vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation. The initial 100-series variant of the Antares rocket was kind… Read more: Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?

TP-Link yesterday announced plans to assemble Wi-Fi routers in the US, as the company attempts to get the Trump administration’s approval to sell its newest routers to American consumers. The timing is uncertain, as TP-Link’s… Read more: TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US

Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic’s Claude AI to help build ArtCraft, an open-source project featuring seven free alternatives to Adobe’s creative software. The post One Developer Used Claude AI to Build 7 Free Adobe Alternatives… Read more: One Developer Used Claude AI to Build 7 Free Adobe Alternatives

Meta’s new Muse AI agent reportedly went beyond handling messages on Facebook Marketplace—it negotiated with a buyer, shared a pickup location, and told them the seller was home. The post Meta AI Agent Sent a… Read more: Meta AI Agent Sent a Facebook Marketplace Buyer to a Seller’s Home

Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any… Read more: The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

Anthropic just made its most powerful Claude model cheaper and faster. Claude Opus 5.5 costs 20% less than Opus 5, while Anthropic says some long-running AI workloads could cost around 40% less and output can… Read more: Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Astra- Anthropic’s New AI Model Explained

OpenBSD 8.0 is here, marking the project’s 61st release and continuing its schedule of semiannual releases dating back to 1996. What started more than 30 years ago as a fork of NetBSD has grown into… Read more: OpenBSD 8.0 arrives with security record still intact

Google kicked off 2026 with the addition of Personal Intelligence to Gemini, allowing its AI to pull in more of your data to formulate answers. It started as a paid feature but eventually came to… Read more: Gemini’s Personal Intelligence is coming to cars

Hoping to quell criticism, Meta has dropped the word “train” from its “streamlined” commercial terms of service that kick in on October 30. Last week, Meta faced backlash after legal experts warned that the tech… Read more: Meta drops the word “train” from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

Since launching in 2015, JustWatch has helped people navigate the growing number of streaming services by providing a guide on where to find movies they want to stream. Now JustWatch has its own streaming service… Read more: JustWatch, which tackles streaming fragmentation, launches own streaming service

As Meta was scrambling to release its Muse AI agent to the public earlier last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to social media to insist that it was “built from the ground up for privacy… Read more: Meta’s Muse AI Agent Caught Leaking Users’ Intimate Personal Information

Nikada/Getty Images Imagine planning a holiday across India’s Golden Triangle: Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. You could compare dozens of websites, scroll through reviews and ask friends for recommendations. Or you could give ChatGPT or Gemini… Read more: Using AI to plan your next holiday? Sometimes, too much information is just too much

The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP’s alignment with tech overlords over the public they’re meant to serve Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold… Read more: Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs

As AI agents take on more work that people used to do, enterprises need an AI operating model to match. That means changing how people, processes and work are organized, not just which tools get… Read more: Dell sees company knowledge, not AI models, as its competitive edge

What does it take to get a hyperscale data center built this late into 2026? A whole army of contract laborers living on a prison barge, apparently. New reporting by Bloomberg revealed some bizarre details… Read more: Major Data Center Developer Rents Floating Prison Barge to House Contract Construction Workers

Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio is coming in late October 2026. Here’s what to know about its M5 Ultra chip, AI capabilities, pricing, and availability. The post Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio Is Almost Here: What Buyers… Read more: Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio Is Almost Here: What Buyers Should Know

Financial transformation powered by artificial intelligence now runs as two races at once. Banks and other financial institutions are racing to turn data into action with AI, while their security teams scramble to prepare for… Read more: Dell’s security chief warns AI is lowering the barriers to sophisticated cyberattacks

The human desire to go fast is old, dating back at least as far as the first time some adventurous Yamnaya saw a horse on the Pontic-Caspian steppe and thought, “I bet if I jumped… Read more: Polestar tries to quantify what it’s like to drive a performance car

TikTok and other sites were told to curb protest footage and AI-altered images, while online retailers like Vinted and eBay reportedly signed an agreement stop looted goods from flooding resale sites.

When companies talk about the cost of artificial intelligence, the conversation almost always starts with models: which one to use, what it costs per million tokens, and whether a smaller model is “good enough.” That… Read more: Agents are breaking AI economics, and the fix starts in the data layer

Much of Donald Trump’s unpopularity in polls stems from dissatisfaction over the economy and war on Iran US politics live – latest updates *** Continue reading…

AI tools continue to automate more parts of our lives — and in turn, we become more reliant on them. Students use ChatGPT to do their homework, programmers ask Claude to churn out code, and now… Read more: Experts Warn of Humans Becoming Empty Vessels Controlled by AI

When a Department of Homeland Security official sent out an alert to stop Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, at an airport in January 2025, they said the reason was because he was suspected… Read more: DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied

A computer program has finally oudone humans at solving cryptic crosswords. Plus, more from around the puzzleverse • Don’t get Cluesletter, our weekly puzzles newsletter, delivered to your inbox? Sign up here When the IBM… Read more: Could this be a Deep Blue moment for the cryptic crossword?

Four Google DeepMind AI agents defeated Minecraft’s Ender Dragon after 27 hours and 605 deaths, revealing both the promise and limitations of autonomous AI. The post Google’s AI Agents Finally Beat Minecraft. It Took 27… Read more: Google’s AI Agents Finally Beat Minecraft. It Took 27 Hours and 605 Deaths

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash with claims of faster, cheaper AI agents. See how its pricing, benchmarks, and reliability compare with enterprise requirements. The post China’s MiniMax Says Its New AI Model Cuts Agent Costs by… Read more: China’s MiniMax Says Its New AI Model Cuts Agent Costs by 70%

Hysteria over the agent’s appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.

Someone vibe-coded a gun and 3D-printed it — and wants the freedom loving citizens of the world to enjoy this power, too. The creator, gun-rights activist Cody Wilson, told The Verge that it’s the “first… Read more: We Regret to Inform You That “GatGPT” Is Exactly What It Sounds Like

As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how… Read more: The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world

Nvidia RTX Spark laptops start at $2,599. Explore local AI capabilities, compatibility checks, and the cost and security trade-offs IT teams should assess. The post Nvidia RTX Spark Brings Local AI Agents to Windows Laptops… Read more: Nvidia RTX Spark Brings Local AI Agents to Windows Laptops

Replit has chosen OpenAI as its preferred AI partner while keeping Anthropic models available. Here’s what the shift means for developers and enterprise teams. The post Replit CEO Says ChatGPT Is Better Now, but Anthropic… Read more: Replit CEO Says ChatGPT Is Better Now, but Anthropic Isn’t Out

A gang of hackers targets Staples, but not to buy things from Staples.

DHS has ordered DeepSeek removed from federal civilian IT systems over security concerns. Learn what the restrictions mean for agencies and technology vendors. The post DHS Orders DeepSeek Removed from Federal IT Systems Over Security… Read more: DHS Orders DeepSeek Removed from Federal IT Systems Over Security Risks

Australian workers expect the government to act to protect them from AI harms. There is a clear reform solution at hand Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s major political… Read more: Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher

Top AI labs have been hiring subject matter experts across academic disciplines for years at this point — often turning them into glorified fact-checkers whose labor is used to train the AI models of tomorrow.… Read more: Google’s DeepMind Quietly Hiring Nuclear Physicists

With the U.S. midterms approaching, about 1 in 5 voters has asked AI chatbots about elections and politics, a recent survey found. But many voters may not know that governments around the world increasingly shape… Read more: How governments worldwide are shaping what AI can say about politics

AuxoAI Inc., an enterprise engineering and consulting company that helps large businesses build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, today announced it has raised $20.7 million in a Series A funding to accelerate growth and scale… Read more: AuxoAI raises over $20M to bring AI expertise to the enterprise and redesign how work gets done

Customer learning software company Thought Industries Inc. today launched Lens, an artificial intelligence product that checks a business’ product knowledge for conflicts before it reaches customers. Thought Industries Academy, its existing course software, joins Lens… Read more: Thought Industries’ Lens checks product knowledge for conflicts before customers see it

The digital world has already become much smarter thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence, and now a startup called Firefly Technology Inc. wants to do the same for the physical world, beginning with workplace… Read more: AI startup Firefly secures $20M to make the physical world a safer place

Enterprise customer service vendor Scaled Cognition Inc. is introducing a text-to-speech model today that it says provides more accurate pronunciation of account numbers, addresses and other details at a lower cost than competing services. The… Read more: Scaled Cognition targets customer service with low-cost voice model

Over the weekend, it became fashionable to use AI to replace the operating systems on smart TVs with vibe coded or AI reverse-engineered ones to make them less bloated. People have taken proprietary internet-of-things devices… Read more: ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI

The aging brain may be undergoing a remarkable transformation rather than simply losing its abilities, shifting its focus from remembering details to understanding the bigger picture. Scientists suggest this change could be an evolutionary adaptation… Read more: Your aging brain may be trading memory for something more valuable

The White House AI task force has begun a 120-day review of cybersecurity, biosecurity and oversight, with potential implications for businesses and developers. The post White House Begins 120-Day AI Safety Review Amid Growing Security… Read more: White House Begins 120-Day AI Safety Review Amid Growing Security Concerns

ViceForge Gamer Pro finds wins, eliminations, and clutch plays in your footage, then exports polished clips. The post Turn Raw Gameplay Into Shareable Clips With This $50 AI Editor appeared first on TechRepublic.

Gmail AI Inbox is expanding to paid Google Workspace accounts. Learn what IT admins can control, how rollout works, and what users should verify. The post Gmail AI Inbox Reaches Workspace: What IT Admins Can… Read more: Gmail AI Inbox Reaches Workspace: What IT Admins Can Control

Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in Wyoming’s ancient seas 160 million years ago. The exceptionally rare fossils reveal a creature unlike anything previously known, potentially… Read more: Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic “squid” unlike anything ever seen

Learn how AI tool calling works, how it differs from APIs and MCP, and what businesses should know about integrations, permissions and security risks. The post What Is Tool Calling in AI? How It Works… Read more: What Is Tool Calling in AI? How It Works and Why It Matters

Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through Web links, researchers reported Monday. Like many online services, Muse allows users to share searches, conversations, images, and… Read more: Meta Muse exposes users’ personal and business secrets when they share conversations

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding the Universe’s earliest moments, measuring the amount of helium formed in the first five minutes after the Big Bang with unprecedented precision. Using one of the world’s… Read more: Astronomers uncover new secrets of the Universe’s first five minutes

A new study reveals that improved hurricane forecast graphics may help people identify threatened areas without making them more likely to recognize the danger or take protective action. Researchers also found that a widespread misunderstanding… Read more: Hurricane warning maps are improving, but a dangerous problem remains

Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why statins, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help prevent heart attacks and strokes, can sometimes cause muscle pain, weakness, and even severe muscle damage. Using advanced imaging technology,… Read more: Scientists finally uncover why statins can cause muscle pain

A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes. In the report, Decrypt Ads — a startup that tracks the supply chains of online advertisements — identified more than two… Read more: Recipe Scammers Are Using an AI-Generated Emily Blunt as a Slop Puppet to Promote Their Garbage

AI is increasingly getting good at doing some tasks, but it can never replace human workers’ judgment Autonomous cars, which may be the safest we have built, keep getting easily avoidable parking tickets. While Waymos… Read more: I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka

Use of tools ‘may result in the transfer of sensitive data to (China)’, defense department says The US government on Monday ordered its agencies to stop using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Chinese startup DeepSeek,… Read more: US bans use of China’s DeepSeek AI tools by government agencies

Scientists have discovered that an exotic particle that existed at the birth of the universe might solve one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology and help explain reality as we know it, according to a… Read more: Scientists Discover A Strange Particle Explains the Origin of Reality

Consumer research is a slow and cumbersome challenge that few companies do well, but if Vectorial AI Inc. is successful, they’ll never have to worry about doing it again. The startup today said it has… Read more: AI startup Vectorial lands $3M in funding to simulate human behavior for consumer research

IBM Corp. and several other contributors to the open-source llm-d project are releasing version 1.0 of their distributed artificial intelligence inference framework, adding operational controls intended to help enterprises run large models reliably on their… Read more: IBM-backed llm-d framework adds controls for running AI models in-house

As AI-driven traffic surges, that layer is struggling to keep pace, and it’s quickly becoming the constraint on how fast AI can scale. Every model, every inference, and every data centre depends on the optical… Read more: The hidden network powering AI: Why fiber is the new bottleneck

In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new… Read more: ‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons – video

As I sat in the cab of the pickup truck and manually rolled down the windows, I closed my eyes and flashed back to opening the windows on a cold, winter day in my dad’s… Read more: Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production

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A generative AI prototype can answer questions, generate SQL or produce charts. But deploying it in an enterprise is a different challenge. The system must work with live data, enforce access controls, manage unreliable outputs… Read more: Why Enterprise AI Prototypes Break in Production

AIAI’s recent article, “System One models: why fast AI agents act wrong,” describes a failure agent builders will recognize. The System One model covers “read agent state well and still pick the wrong action.” The… Read more: Why AI agents need workflows

Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth, a daring international project that could yield new insights… Read more: Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos

As a freaky Val Kilmer doppelganger stars in a new western and faux starlet Tilly Norwood is set for her feature debut, experts are split on whether mainstream adoption is a long way down the… Read more: Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars?

The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost Another morning, another avalanche of emails. Even… Read more: Don’t be fooled. The AI that was supposed to save us time is doing just the opposite | Gaby Hinsliff

In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new… Read more: ‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons – podcast

A robot can pick up a box, navigate a warehouse, and work alongside human workers. But what happens when it misreads an object, encounters an obstacle, or makes an unexpected decision?  In July this year,… Read more: Anyone Can Make a Robot Move, Few Can Make It Stop

After a wobble on the tech-heavy Nasdaq, some AI market observers think a reassessment of the potential value of various businesses may be under way Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news… Read more: Is this the beginning of the end of the AI stock market boom?

Australia is “going too fast” in building data centres and “been swamped by US tech” expanding here to avoid growing American community opposition, former industry minister Ed Husic has warned. The outspoken backbencher – who… Read more: Politics with Michelle Grattan: Ed Husic urges brakes on data centres ‘swamping’ Australia

Fiona Goodall/Getty Images The most damaging weather events are the record-breaking “one-in-100-year” disasters communities have usually only seen once. But understanding how these rare events could change in the future is hard. With few examples… Read more: AI reveals how a warming climate will intensify NZ’s most extreme downpours

Town.com Inc., an artificial intelligence agent startup laser focused on getting work done by collaborating with other AI agents, revealed today that it has raised $108 million in a new funding at a $1 billion… Read more: AI work assistant startup Town secures unicorn status after raising $108M just weeks after launching

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered artificial intelligence technology from the Chinese company DeepSeek Ltd. be removed from all federal civilian agencies. The order, published on the Federal Register website today, warned that DeepSeek’s… Read more: Trump administration orders ban on DeepSeek in federal agencies

Pennsylvania’s health department issued a health alert Monday as cases of measles in pregnancy and, in turn, cases of congenital measles have continued to increase. Before the current outbreak—which continues to rage across the state—congenital… Read more: Pennsylvania issues alert on congenital measles—something US hasn’t seen for decades

Artificial intelligence developer doubleAI today announced that it has raised $200 million in funding. Lightspeed and Bessemer co-led the Series A round. They were joined by Nvidia Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. and several others. CTech… Read more: Nvidia, Dell back $200M round for AI model developer doubleAI

Chinese artificial intelligence developer MiniMax Group Inc. today released M3.1 Flash, a faster and cheaper update to the M3 large language model it launched in June. The release takes aim at the cost of running… Read more: MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70%

System can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph Doctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict a cancer patient’s chances of survival from a… Read more: New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests

A group of Texans believe they’ve discovered evidence that the state’s environmental regulatory agency has continued to issue permits to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott’s call for it to stop.  The nonprofits Public Citizen… Read more: ‘It Ain’t Right:’ Texas Said It Would Halt Data Center Permits. The State is Pushing Ahead Anyway

Recently fixed vulnerabilities in the Plex Media Server are under active exploitation in attacks that, when successful, install malware, including cryptominers and residential proxy apps, a researcher said. Plex fixed four vulnerabilities at the start… Read more: PSA: Patch your Plex media server before someone hacks it

The first order of business for the energy transition is electrifying applications like vehicles and heating and making sure that the electricity that powers them is made using renewables. But once the dominant slices of… Read more: Batteries help reduce emissions, but how do we reduce their emissions?

On Monday, a court granted the US government’s request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets. In a court filing Sunday,… Read more: Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says

A Russian military satellite maneuvered in “extreme proximity” of a commercial Earth-imaging satellite in recent days in the first known example an unsanctioned rendezvous in low-Earth orbit, according to the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs. The… Read more: Russian spacecraft maneuvers in “extreme proximity” to satellite used by Ukraine

Whether as short-form slop Reels or the data centers that spit them out, Americans are absolutely sick of AI. Their elected officials, however, are going all-in — both embracing gobs of money from tech lobbying… Read more: Political Candidates Spending An Obscene Amount of Money on AI-Generated Election Slop

By Felix Chen, Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan. See the full author list and affiliations here. There are growing calls for independent and embedded AI evaluation, especially of AI agents. But much remains… Read more: New paper: Emerging trends in AI agent evaluation

Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms. Now, though, AI coding… Read more: AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work

Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NT Files System drive partition. As reported by Phoronix, the move to NTFS clears a… Read more: ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support

The world’s first demonstration of a subsea geothermal power plant has taken place near an active underwater volcano almost a mile below the ocean surface. It generated less than 10 seconds of net-positive electricity but… Read more: Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”

The interactive report compares translation quality, cost and translation time across 100 languages. It evaluates 229 solutions built from 57 AI models and machine translation engines, showing which solutions meet different translation requirements. Intento has… Read more: Intento Releases The State of Translation Automation 2026

The Canadian government recently launched its Responsible Data Centre Development Principles, enabling the country to set the terms for responsible growth of artificial intelligence computing power and storage. The promise: “Building more capacity here at… Read more: Where does all the hardware go? The hidden environmental footprint of AI data centres

Acquisition adds widely adopted data observability and reliability capabilities to the Boomi Enterprise Platform, giving enterprises the data quality and governance required to operationalize AI Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced it… Read more: Boomi Acquires Elementary Data to Strengthen Trusted AI Data Governance

Every company in the customer experience ecosystem now claims to be an artificial intelligence company. Last week, at NiCE Ltd.’s annual industry analyst summit, the company demonstrated what happens when an AI strategy shifts the… Read more: NiCE bets the company on AI, data and accountability, and the legacy business buys it time

Reply [EXM, STAR: REY] is among the first NVIDIA partners in the world to achieve the “Physical AI Specialization” within the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN), in recognition of its expertise in developing and deploying AI-driven… Read more: Reply Achieves the “NVIDIA Physical AI Specialization”

Cheng Xin/Getty Images Meta’s recently launched AI agent Muse promises to be many things: it can fire off emails, book holidays and fill out cumbersome online forms. But it’s attracting particular attention for its potential… Read more: New AI shopping agents promise better bargains. But who pays the price?

Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years. And now the International Monetary Fund is the latest to sound the alarm. In its Global Financial Stability Report published last week, the global financial… Read more: IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy

Despite millions of years of evolution, the development of the human fetus remains a complex process that is vulnerable to genetic, environmental, and metabolic disruptions. These disruptions could result in developmental abnormalities, starting with one… Read more: Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable

Alex Tait on a proposed amendment to the representation of the people bill, and Dr Joseph Mullen on Russian interference in the Brexit referendum Andy Burnham’s comments about Russian interference in Brexit (Report, 11 October)… Read more: We need to stop disinformation in UK political adverts. Here’s a chance to do so | Letter