October 2026

Roughly 200 people are under medical observation, several hospitals are under quarantine, and dozens are in isolation in Russia following the unexplained death of an infectious disease researcher at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, according to early reports of the situation on Sunday and Monday. Researcher Darya Shipilova […]

Sony’s new QSSR technology brings AI-assisted graphics upscaling to the standard PS5, starting with Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei. The post Sony Brings AI Graphics Upscaling to Standard PS5 With QSSR appeared first on TechRepublic.

Amazon is reportedly considering an $8 billion Nvidia chip sale-leaseback as it looks for new ways to finance its massive AI infrastructure buildout. The post Amazon’s $8 Billion Nvidia Chip Plan Shows the Cost of the AI Boom appeared first on TechRepublic.

Tesla beat third-quarter delivery expectations, but sales remain below last year as investors wait to see whether higher volume can restore durable growth. The post Tesla Deliveries Beat Expectations as Its Car Business Shows Signs of Recovery appeared first on TechRepublic.

A California tech executive faces federal charges over an alleged $300 million scheme to route export-controlled AI servers to China through Southeast Asia. The post California Man Charged in Alleged $300M AI Server Smuggling Scheme to China appeared first on TechRepublic.

In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s intended environment and access Meta’s own sensitive databases and services, 404 Media has learned. The issues were so severe that

For many years now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been adamant that self-driving cars don’t need radar or the laser-based imaging tech known as LIDAR, arguing that they can instead get by exclusively with a camera-based system. He’s called LIDAR a “fool’s errand,” going as far as to claim that it and radar “reduce safety

Unions, employer groups, banks and industry experts will appear at the four-day hearings along with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast OpenAI must explain how they will stop their models from inappropriately accessing Australian data, the Labor chair of the parliament’s committee on artificial intelligence

At a 2024 MIT Museum exhibit, visitors were asked to guess which videos were deepfakes. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The 2026 U.S. midterm campaigns are the first in which AI-generated political ads are regularly appearing on people’s televisions and social media feeds. We are researchers who have been studying political advertising through

By teaching entrepreneurship, colleges can better prepare students for a fast-changing job market and technological disruption. Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Recent college graduates are facing a job market that’s only getting tougher. Their unemployment rate hit 5.7%, compared to 4.1% for all workers, in June 2026. That may not sound like much, but