October 2026

As I sat in the cab of the pickup truck and manually rolled down the windows, I closed my eyes and flashed back to opening the windows on a cold, winter day in my dad’s 1975 Ford Ranger to let more cigarette smoke escape. The memory faded as I opened my eyes and looked through […]

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A generative AI prototype can answer questions, generate SQL or produce charts. But deploying it in an enterprise is a different challenge. The system must work with live data, enforce access controls, manage unreliable outputs and handle thousands of queries without compromising performance. At Cypher 2026, held in Bengaluru from October 7 to 9, Bhanu

AIAI’s recent article, “System One models: why fast AI agents act wrong,” describes a failure agent builders will recognize. The System One model covers “read agent state well and still pick the wrong action.” The fix described is plain: the authors repaired the failures by combining the models’ correct answers to factual questions in ordinary

Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth, a daring international project that could yield new insights into the formation of the Solar System. The robotic Martian Moons eXploration mission, known as MMX, lifted off at 3:41

As a freaky Val Kilmer doppelganger stars in a new western and faux starlet Tilly Norwood is set for her feature debut, experts are split on whether mainstream adoption is a long way down the line – or just around the corner ‘Don’t fear the dead – and don’t fear me.” An exact facsimile of

The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost Another morning, another avalanche of emails. Even after a guilty cull, my inbox is sitting at well over 7,000, but lately I’ve started subscribing to the Quentin

In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center

A robot can pick up a box, navigate a warehouse, and work alongside human workers. But what happens when it misreads an object, encounters an obstacle, or makes an unexpected decision?  In July this year, a viral video showed a Chinese humanoid robot in Saratov, Russia, unable to recognise the gesture of a handshake and

After a wobble on the tech-heavy Nasdaq, some AI market observers think a reassessment of the potential value of various businesses may be under way Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The world is holding its breath as it waits to find out whether this year’s estimated $US1tn investment in