October 2026

Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls is ‘oppressive and dystopian The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated listening technology that rates every phone call some of them make to customers. In a system described as “oppressive and dystopian” by a whistleblower, Co-op Legal […]

CAEVES Technology, Inc. today announced that CAEVES Context LAKE will be generally available on October 20, 2026. Part of the CAEVES AI Data Platform, Context LAKE now extends the platform beyond Microsoft Azure to any public, private, or sovereign cloud, as well as on-premises datacenter environments. Context LAKE connects to enterprise data where it already lives

Partnership brings DoiT’s cost attribution product Attribute, Forward Deployed Engineers and an FTR-approved migration path onto Amazon Bedrock to teams building on OpenAI DoiT, which attributes AI and cloud costs to the customers, features and teams that drive them, today announced a partnership with OpenAI. Through the partnership, DoiT will work with OpenAI to help

Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S. venture capital deal value about 44% past its previous annual record with a quarter still to go, according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released today, but the exits needed to return that money to investors have not kept pace. Much of the $515.8 billion invested in

A Stanford-designed molecule turns a major lymphoma-promoting protein against cancer cells, activating their own self-destruct machinery instead of simply blocking tumor growth. In mice, the treatment completely eliminated aggressive human lymphoma tumors within 11 days, although much more testing is needed before it could reach patients.

The global building boom of power-hungry data centers is straining electrical grids, causing greater reliance on energy from polluting fossil fuels. Christina Delimitrou, a newly tenured associate professor at MIT, is fighting this environmental threat by rethinking how the computer servers and networking equipment inside those data centers operate.  She and her group apply machine

Google LLC is making its SynthID identification tools for artificial intelligence-created and AI-edited videos and images more widely available with the launch of a new service today that everyone can use. The web-based SynthID Detector can identify images, video and audio clips that have been created using AI models from Google, OpenAI Group PBC, Nvidia

In its first live event in two years, Microsoft today announced its newest Surface laptop, outlined a host of changes coming to Windows 11, and shared a vision of how local-AI and agentic workflows could reshape personal computing for those in the dev community as well as home enthusiasts. Surface Laptop Ultra Originally teased in

Exclusive: Revelation comes after company’s executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian

Sources say Firmus is slashing its price and may even shelve initial public offering altogether Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The momentum behind Firmus Technologies’ high-flying valuation is showing severe cracks just weeks out from its anticipated ASX debut. Multiple sources briefed on the matter told Guardian Australia the