October 2026

Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion LLM ever released. Across a range of benchmarks, Mercury 3 outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8x faster. More than 40 times the size of Mercury 1, Mercury 3 runs at comparable speeds over 1,000 tokens per second, challenging the assumption that greater intelligence requires […]

Readers react to Simon Jenkins’ article that said it’s more important for children to learn how to speak fluently than study mathematics Simon Jenkins must have had a deeply unpleasant experience of learning maths at school because he seems to have a pathological antipathy towards it (We are teaching children maths they will never use.

A federal intelligence center warned police that city council meetings about Flock “may be viewed by extremists as a desirable target,” and told them to be on the lookout for “emotional confrontations” between people who oppose surveillance and government officials, according to a copy of the warning obtained by 404 Media. The warning, obtained by

Global enterprise software provider recognized in the SaaS Products category for helping organizations simplify work and maximize their technology investments Appfire, a leading global provider of enterprise solutions connecting the world’s top platforms, has been named an Inc. Power Partner Awards winner for the fifth consecutive year. This annual award recognizes B2B companies that help entrepreneurs and

Red Hat Inc. today expanded its collaboration with Nvidia Corp. to help enterprises secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents, govern access to AI models and deploy workloads on Nvidia’s upcoming Vera Rubin data center infrastructure. Announced at Nvidia’s GTC event in Berlin, the updates center on Red Hat AI Factory with Nvidia, combining agent runtime controls,

Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.

Professional-grade image editing powered by AI is now accessible without a subscription for content creators. The post Luminar Neo’s AI Photo Editing Suite Is 75% Off For Life appeared first on TechRepublic.

Salesforce’s $5.66 billion Braze deal raises questions about pricing and integrations, while existing customer contracts remain unchanged. The post Salesforce to Buy Braze for $5.66B — Contracts, Pricing and What Comes Next appeared first on TechRepublic.

Microsoft will remove eight OneDrive Copilot shortcuts from File Explorer starting in November 2026, changing how users access AI-powered file tools. The post Microsoft Is Removing 8 Copilot Shortcuts From File Explorer — Here’s What Stays appeared first on TechRepublic.

The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.