October 2026

Australia is “going too fast” in building data centres and “been swamped by US tech” expanding here to avoid growing American community opposition, former industry minister Ed Husic has warned. The outspoken backbencher – who was responsible for the federal government’s artificial intelligence (AI) policy until May last year – told The Conversation’s Politics podcast […]

Fiona Goodall/Getty Images The most damaging weather events are the record-breaking “one-in-100-year” disasters communities have usually only seen once. But understanding how these rare events could change in the future is hard. With few examples in historical records, it is difficult to estimate how severe they could become and how outcomes might vary across possible

Town.com Inc., an artificial intelligence agent startup laser focused on getting work done by collaborating with other AI agents, revealed today that it has raised $108 million in a new funding at a $1 billion valuation. The Series B round was led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, and saw participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Serena

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered artificial intelligence technology from the Chinese company DeepSeek Ltd. be removed from all federal civilian agencies. The order, published on the Federal Register website today, warned that DeepSeek’s AI models present “multiple threat vectors,” that could give the Chinese Communist Party “extensive authority” to access American government infrastructure.

Pennsylvania’s health department issued a health alert Monday as cases of measles in pregnancy and, in turn, cases of congenital measles have continued to increase. Before the current outbreak—which continues to rage across the state—congenital measles cases hadn’t been seen in decades, the department noted in its advisory. The alert included detailed clinical guidance for

Artificial intelligence developer doubleAI today announced that it has raised $200 million in funding. Lightspeed and Bessemer co-led the Series A round. They were joined by Nvidia Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. and several others. CTech reported that the investment values doubleAI at more than $1 billion. Tel Aviv-based doubleAI, officially AA-I Technologies Ltd., has created

Chinese artificial intelligence developer MiniMax Group Inc. today released M3.1 Flash, a faster and cheaper update to the M3 large language model it launched in June. The release takes aim at the cost of running AI agents, which often need dozens of model calls to finish a single job. MiniMax said Flash represents its “ongoing

System can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph Doctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict a cancer patient’s chances of survival from a single photograph of their face. The AI system was custom-built by experts at Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit, integrated academic

A group of Texans believe they’ve discovered evidence that the state’s environmental regulatory agency has continued to issue permits to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott’s call for it to stop.  The nonprofits Public Citizen and FracTracker Alliance, working with local activists in Texas, looked through the public database of the Texas Commission on Environmental

Recently fixed vulnerabilities in the Plex Media Server are under active exploitation in attacks that, when successful, install malware, including cryptominers and residential proxy apps, a researcher said. Plex fixed four vulnerabilities at the start of last month. Three weeks later, published CVE designations revealed five vulnerabilities, with one of them carrying a severity rating