October 2026

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Strands Labs team has been playing around with an emerging class of lightweight artificial intelligence systems known as “decision models,” and it’s now making the fruits of that work available to the open-source community. The company said today it’s releasing an open-source decision model called Strands Decider 2B, which is designed […]

AI factory economics increasingly depend on more than access to high-performance graphics processing units. As agentic systems draw on multiple models, databases and tools, the entire data center must work as one computing system. That transition is shifting attention from individual chips to the infrastructure that turns computing capacity into useful intelligence. Networking, storage, processors

SvetaZi/Shutterstock Attachment is the term psychologists use for the most significant relationships that hold people’s lives together. But what makes an attachment relationship different from all others? According to the pioneering American-Canadian developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth, it must meet the following six conditions. (1) The relationship must persist over time, having (2) been formed with

Internet sleuths have dug up old posts that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who kicked the AI safety movement into overdrive with his sensational claim that the tech “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon’s current X account, @hilbertspaess, was created in 2026, but the gumshoes

When Beijing-based AI firm Zhipu released its open-source General Language Model (GLM) and it began competing with Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT at a fraction of the price, a familiar question resurfaced. Are we watching a new kind of intelligence, or a very old story? Solar panels and electric vehicles are among the numerous Western

Apple reportedly plans to launch a Siri-powered smart-home hub on Oct. 13 alongside refreshed HomePod mini and Apple TV models. The post Apple Smart-Home Hub Reportedly Set for Oct. 13 Launch With New HomePod Mini appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google DeepMind’s SynthID Bio embeds detectable watermarks in AI-designed proteins while preserving their function in early laboratory tests. The post Google DeepMind Adds Watermarks to AI-Designed Proteins Without Breaking Them appeared first on TechRepublic.

Student journalists meet the moment, as we’ve seen most recently this week. As the Cornell University sexual abuse case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets. Claire Woodcock talked to students and legal experts about how censorship from above impacts their work. “One of the

Metaview raised $60 million to expand its AI recruiting platform and autonomous agent fillmore across sourcing, screening and hiring workflows. The post Metaview Raises $60M for AI Agents That Source, Screen and Schedule Candidates appeared first on TechRepublic.

Artificial intelligence-driven law firm Arceus Legal today disclosed that it has raised $17 million in funding to expand beyond the commercial contract work it started with. Arceus provides legal services to fast-growing companies at a flat price that is quoted before a matter begins. Licensed attorneys approve every piece of work, with help from AI