October 2026

Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding.  Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Nvidia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Y Combinator and several others. Nous is now valued at $1.5 billion. The company […]

OpenAI Group PBC says ChatGPT is moving away from its traditional wall-of-text responses and giving users a more interactive user interface to play with. In a media briefing today, the company said its GPT-6 models will now be able to access an “Intelligent UI” that will allow the chatbot to generate more visual outputs when

For a while, those hoping to avoid the difficulty and expense of dealing with Adobe’s Creative Suite have been able to use several free and/or open-source alternatives that replicate some or all of those capabilities. Now, one developer is using AI-powered reverse engineering to mimic the look, feel, and functionality of Adobe’s well-known software with

Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads on that model. Two weeks after Opus 5.5 launched Sept. 22, Haiku 5.5

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 with an Nvidia RTX Spark GPU, up to 128GB of memory, and support for running large AI models locally. The post Microsoft’s $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts Nvidia RTX Spark Inside a Windows Laptop appeared first on TechRepublic.

TP-Link is facing more legal troubles in the US as Florida and three other states filed lawsuits alleging that it lied to consumers about its connections to China and the risks of its routers being exploited by Chinese state hackers. The lawsuits were filed yesterday, about six months after the Federal Communications Commission announced a

Pennsylvania’s explosive measles outbreak is now the largest the US has seen since the highly infectious virus was declared eliminated in 2000. With well over 1,000 cases, it’s the largest on record since 1991. Pennsylvania’s health officials reported 1,078 measles cases in all of 2026 as of this afternoon. That includes 12 cases in January

Artificial intelligence has become part of the zeitgeist. And while it’s a polarizing topic, Linda Rabieh has a unique take on AI: “It’s good for business. Our business, of humanistic thinking.” As senior lecturer in the Concourse program, one of MIT’s first-year learning communities, Rabieh has been introducing students to the “business” since 2010.  “What

Ampersand lets agentic applications read and write inside legacy systems of record, removing the integration work that has stalled AI projects industry-wide. Ampersand today announced a $15 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Matrix and Flex Capital. New investors participating in this round also include Yelp, Tenacity Capital,

Back-end AI gives manufacturers opportunities to improve operations, but choosing where to apply it requires attention to business value. For Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., that means evaluating operational use cases while preserving its personalized customer experience. That decision is sharper for a carmaker selling handcrafted, highly personalized vehicles. Infor LLC is pushing industry-specific AI agents