October 2026

A Florida woman was arrested after Anthropic’s Claude reportedly flagged an alleged threat, showing how AI safety systems can escalate chats to police. The post Florida Woman Arrested After Claude Flags Alleged Threat to Sheriff’s Office appeared first on TechRepublic.

Moflin leads our robot companion picks, while Loona, Mirumi, Ropet KAMOMO, and Eilik offer mobile, wearable, customizable, and budget alternatives. The post Best Robot Companions for 2026: Mirumi, Moflin, Loona, Ropet and Eilik appeared first on TechRepublic.

Enterprises sitting on decades of legacy information face a pressing question as artificial intelligence moves from pilots to production: Can that archive become AI-ready data without a costly rebuild of the infrastructure underneath it? NetApp Inc. is betting it can answer that question with a platform that reaches well beyond its storage roots. The company

Moving an agentic workflow out of the pilot stage is where many enterprise AI programs stall. A workflow can look impressive in a demo and still fall short in production, and prompt-level testing alone rarely tells you whether a workflow is truly ready. Agents that answer customer queries, flag suspicious transactions or process claims need

Catch up on every session from AIAI Berlin with sessions from Lovable, Aleph Alpha, Bosch and more.

The “fair use” doctrine under the US Copyright Act of 1976 allows for copyrighted materials to be used for purposes like criticism, journalism, and research. Whether something is deemed fair use depends on several factors, including how transformative it is, how much of the work is used, and whether the reproduction alters the market value

MIT is launching a new strategic initiative today: MIT for America, which seeks to strengthen STEM education nationally, at many levels of learning.  Addressing a critical national need, the initiative ranges across STEM fields and will engage students from kindergarten through community college, preparing them to live and work in a world increasingly shaped by

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have captured the clearest evidence yet that quark-gluon plasma, the scorching-hot matter that filled the newborn universe, behaves like a true liquid. By tracking individual quarks as they blasted through the plasma, researchers saw them leave behind ripples, splashes, and swirling wakes much like a duck moving through water.

Couples who exercise together report better communication, healthier conflict resolution, and lower marital stress than those who work out alone. Even something as simple as taking a walk together may create valuable opportunities to talk, listen, and feel more connected.

Ancient pottery from Tampa Bay appears to have been made by migrant craftspeople who brought specialized Mississippian pottery-making knowledge hundreds of miles south. Remarkably, they even incorporated crushed fragments of older homeland pottery into new vessels, preserving a physical link to their past across generations.