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Israel removes around 250 Palestinian families from West Bank city of Hebron after soldier deaths
Days before tight elections are due to be held in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a massive operation on the West Bank after two Israeli soldiers were killed by militants at a checkpoint.
I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptop
It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is […]
Dubai’s iconic The View Palm Jumeirah unveils glass ledges
The View Palm Jumeirah celebrates five years with thrilling new experience
Taylor Swift made a rare PR misstep by revisiting 'Showgirl' instead of her debut album
Taylor Swift's self-titled debut album turns 20 this week. The album's anniversary momentum was interrupted by the "Showgirl" deluxe release.
Video shows extensive damage inside France's historic Limoges Town Hall
Limoges Town Hall, a historic building dating back to 1883, was largely destroyed by fire during riots on 17 October. Images released by the city council show the extensive damage inside the building.
John Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain’s security
Chancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop ‘distinctively British’ approach to AI John Healey has pledged to use Wednesday’s budget to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster Britain’s security and prosperity against the risks in the accelerating global technology arms race. As he prepares for his debut budget, the chancellor said that Andy Burnham’s government would commit hundreds of millions of pounds to develop a “distinctively British” approach to AI that would capitalise on the benefits of the frontier technology. Continue reading...
Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters
Moonshot AI today introduced Kim K3.1 Pro, a large language model that can perform some tasks better than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. The LLM is a post-trained, or upgraded, version of an algorithm that the Chinese artificial intelligence company released in July. The latter model, Kimi K3, comprises 896 individual neural networks with […] The post Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
This paper introduces torchsom, an open-source Python library that provides a reference implementation of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) in PyTorch. This package offers three main features: (i) dimensionality reduction, (ii) clustering, and (iii) friendly data visualization. It relies on a PyTorch backend, enabling (i) fast and efficient training of SOMs through GPU acceleration, and (ii) easy and scalable integration with the PyTorch ecosystem. torchsom also follows the scikit-learn API for ease of use and extensibility. The library is released under the Apache 2.0 license with 90% test coverage, and its source code and documentation are available at https://github.com/michelin/TorchSOM.
Simulated Control Evaluations
We’ve released a paper on simulated control evaluations (SCEs). They’re a method for testing whether the monitors AI developers use to oversee their agents would catch a model deliberately trying to cause harm, under conditions much closer to real deployment than current tests allow. Developers have started running monitors in their agentic deployments: models that flag or block an agent’s actions when they look dangerous. To know whether a monitor is good enough, you want to know how often it would stop a model that was actively trying to do something harmful, such as quietly inserting a security vulnerability, exfiltrating credentials, or sabotaging an experiment. The standard way to measure this is a control evaluation: instruct a model to attempt such attacks, and measure how often the monitor catches it before an attack succeeds. Developers typically do this using purpose-built control settings like BashArena or LinuxArena , where attacks can actually be executed. However, these settings only provide indirect evidence for what we really care about: how well monitors will work in the real deployment, where opportunities for harm might depend on particular codebases, services and tasks that aren’t represented in control settings. How can we evaluate monitor performance in more realistic settings? You can’t just run the eval in deployment, since that would mean actually attacking your own systems. And building a faithful sandbox replica of every deployment context is impra…
AI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment
Pathos AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $237 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation. Pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb Co. led the Series E round with participation from several unnamed returning backers. Pathos’ investor roster includes big names such as AstraZeneca plc, NEA and General Atlantic. Pathos is developing cancer drugs […] The post AI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twice the price (except for input token cache hits, which are priced the same). The US dollar pricing is $2.00/million tokens for input and $10/million for output - the same as GPT-6.1 Sol and half the price of Claude Opus 5.5. Moonshot's own benchmarks show Kimi as approximately level with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra - beating them on a few benchmarks, coming close on others. Artificial Analysis scored Kimi at 55 - ahead of Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and Gemini 4 Argon (all at 53) and behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (58). This is the first time a (soon-to-be) open weight model has scored this highly against the frontier. I tried it out via the Moonshot API using the llm openai endpoint command I added to LLM 0.32 back in August: llm openai endpoint \ https://api.moonshot.ai/v1 \ --key kimi \ -m kimi-k3.1-pro \ "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" \ --responses \ -o reasoning_effort low \ > kimi-k3.1-pro-pelican-low.stdout.txt \ 2> kimi-k3.1-pro-pelican-low.stderr.txt llm openai endpoint can run prompts against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint but doesn't log the results, hence the extra options to save stdout and stderr (the reasoning trace). Here are the pelicans I got for Kimi K3.1 Pro on the three reasoning levels it supports - l…
Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between […]
Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1
Anthropic says it has an internal AI model that outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1. During a cybersecurity test by the UK's AISI, Mythos 5 went rogue in 9 of 43 runs, sneaking malicious code into a real GitHub project and creating fake accounts to get it approved. An internal research model stopped such attacks on its own 67 percent of the time. The article Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1 appeared first on The Decoder .
Tencent Opens Hy-Nomas, an Interactive Video World Model Running on One RTX 4090
Tencent's Hunyuan team released Hy-Nomas, an open source interactive video world model with text and camera control that runs on a single RTX 4090.
Feds want robotaxis to signal ‘I’m driving’ with cyan-colored lights
After years of debating how driverless cars should tell the world no one is at the wheel - flashing text, audio alerts, custom lights - the feds just stepped in with a single answer: cyan. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released proposed changes to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108, specifically rewriting […]
Uganda Launches Five-Year Data Strategy as Groundwork for National AI Plan
Uganda has launched a five-year National Data Strategy to overhaul how government collects, stores and shares information — work officials describe as the foundation for the country’s forthcoming National AI Strategy. The starting point is stark. A baseline survey found Uganda currently holds data for only 36% of the indicators in its Fourth National Development [...]
SoleCrypt Plans 40MW Solar-Powered AI Campus in Bizerte, Tunisia
London-based SoleCrypt has announced plans for a 40MW AI campus in Bizerte, Tunisia, powered by solar energy and targeting operations in 2028. The company unveiled the SoleCrypt AI Campus at NVIDIA GTC Berlin. Its first phase will deliver 7MW, built around NVIDIA’s HGX Rubin NVL8 platform with up to 1,728 GPUs. SoleCrypt described the campus [...]
Legora’s valuation leaps to $8.8B, Europe's tech funding rebounds, and solving the problem of brain fog
This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.5 billion and 4 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.We also released our Q3 report offering...
The Sigma FP2 brings significant upgrades to the ‘world’s smallest’ full-frame camera
Seven years after Sigma claimed its original fp was the world's smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera, the company has announced a similarly compact follow-up with several welcome upgrades, including an improved sensor, an articulating LCD display, and longer battery life. But this time around, Sigma is only claiming its new FP2 is the "world's […]
Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model
Design platform Canva has released Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model. The article Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model appeared first on The Decoder .
LTM Launches BlueVerse Industrial AI Lab in Chennai
The facility will support testing of industrial AI, robotics and digital twins, including solutions for factories with legacy equipment and limited connectivity.
Chariot Launches Speech Recognition Model for 10 Indian Languages
Discover Chariot's new model that outperforms competitors in Indian languages. Learn more about its capabilities and applications!
Tributes paid to actor Tom Skerritt as star of Alien and Top Gun dies aged 93
Tom Skerritt, a Hollywood veteran actor, known for iconic roles in Alien and Top Gun, has died aged 93 of natural causes, according to a statement released by his family.
'Music is medicine': RAYE wins Mercury Prize 2026 for her second album 'This Music May Contain Hope'
British jazz and soul artist RAYE beat competition from heavyweights including Paul McCartney, Florence + The Machine and favourite Olivia Dean. The Mercury Prize honours the best album released by a British or Irish artist each year.
Alibaba's Z-Image Turbo Tops Open-Weight Rankings on a 16GB GPU
Alibaba's Tongyi-MAI lab released a 6B text-to-image model that renders photorealistic images in under a second on a 16GB GPU, with Apache 2.0 weights.
Zetwerk shares list at over 5% premium in stock market debut
Bengaluru-based Zetwerk Manufacturing Businesses made a positive debut on the stock exchanges on Friday, with its shares listing at a 5.5% premium over the IPO price. According to exchange data, the company shares opened at Rs 159.25 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), compared with the issue price of Rs 151 per share. On the final day of the IPO, the qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) portion received the highest demand, with 4.73X subscription, followed by the non-institutional investors (NIIs) category at 1.4X. The employee quota was subscribed 1.58X, while the retail portion saw weaker demand at 0.72X. Ahead of the IPO, Zetwerk raised Rs 2,251 crore from anchor investors, including global investors such as Capital Group, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Nomura, alongside domestic investors such as SBI Mutual Fund, ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund and HDFC Mutual Fund. According to its RHP, the issue comprises a fresh issue of shares worth Rs 2,830 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of up to 14.45 crore shares worth Rs 2,182 crore by existing shareholders. The company plans to use a portion of the fresh issue proceeds to repay debt, with the remaining funds earmarked for acquisitions, strategic investments and general corporate purposes. On the financial front, Zetwerk’s revenue from continuing operations grew 40.4% to Rs 15,913 crore in FY26 from Rs 11,332 crore in FY25. In Q1 FY27, revenue from operations rose 55% year-on-year to Rs 4,118 crore, while losses from continuing…
Russia's new type of 3D printed missile will make jet Shaheds look like a 'small problem,' Ukraine's drone gurus warn
Ukraine's military intelligence agency released new details on the Filin, a new type of cheap Russian cruise missile that can fly at nearly 500 mph.
Sakana AI's Aquarium Gives Enterprise Agents a Shared Brain for Business Rules
Sakana AI launches Aquarium, an ontology-based agent platform that unifies enterprise data, workflows, and governance for operational AI deployments.
Highlights from Garrison Lovely's "Obsolete"
I’ve just finished reading Garrison Lovely’s recently released book, “Obsolete.” I wish I had time for a longer review, but I’ll give a brief one and highlight some particularly interesting sections below. I think it’s a great introduction to non-technical readers and even as a pretty dedicated reader of AI policy and news I learned a good bit. It’s deeply, deeply researched and has a good pulse on the alignment community, and Lovely is careful not to understate or overstate his case. The core argument is that AI development should be analyzed through the lens of mass or universal labor displacement, and that a mass movement to shape, pause or freeze development is much more possible, much more positive, and capable of greater breadth of salience and support than is often argued in the alignment community. He makes an, in my opinion, decisive case that “competitive pressures” by themselves don’t dictate that AI development is fated to happen, and certainly not that it’s fated to happen at the pace the frontier labs are setting. But I wish he’d been a bit more careful about the limitations and subtleties of the plan he’s advocating for; I share the concern raised by folks like the AIFP that it’s hard to pause indefinitely at any given point for very long and that the cost to train a model at any fixed intelligence level, once first reached, is falling precipitously, and that many well-capitalized actors currently want to and are able to speed up development precipitously. I t…
Scalable PDF Retrieval with Cohere Embed 5 and Qdrant Asymmetric Quantization
Cohere released Embed 5 , a family of embedding models. The family has a quality-focused model, Embed 5 Pro ( embed-v5.0-pro ), and a lighter one, Embed 5 Fast ( embed-v5.0-fast ). Both accept text and images, support 100+ languages, and share an embedding space.
Ant Group's Ming-3.0 Beats Larger Voice Models at Just 0.5B Parameters
Ant Group's Ming-3.0-tts packs top-tier speech synthesis into just 0.5B parameters, released MIT-licensed and holding its own against 3.5B+ rivals.
1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
Discord now formats Markdown previews right
Discord's latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly instead of with "a bunch of symbols," according to the company. LLMs and AI agents often rely on Markdown files for instructions and context, so these improved previews could be helpful for people sharing information about AI projects […]
The new Fire TV Stick 4K is already half off
Despite being announced just a few weeks ago, both Amazon and Best Buy are now offering the latest Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K for 50 percent off, bringing the price down to an all-time low of $29.99. The most notable new feature is that the Fire TV Stick 4K no longer requires a separate power […]
Former OpenAI science lead launches Warp Science to automate wet labs with robots
Wearing cameras and sensor gloves, the startup’s human chemists will train robots to perform various lab tasks.
humans& Launches Boba, a Group Chat AI Trained on Social Restraint
humans& launches Boba, a text-based assistant that lives in group chats and uses a model trained inside simulated societies.
How to build a software factory that tests its own prompts
A small software factory that turns GitHub issues into released code, traces every station to Arize AX, and uses the verdicts it already produces to test and improve its own prompts before they go live. The post How to build a software factory that tests its own prompts appeared first on Arize AI .
Ai2's OlmoEarth v1.3 Turns a Year of Satellite Imagery Into 128 Numbers
Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3 with precomputed global satellite embeddings at 10m resolution and a browser tool that trains classifiers without a GPU.
AI #191: The Hackening Begins
It was the probably worst day in cybersecurity history. So far. Not only is there a critical flaw in PHP that due to a leak was announced a day before the fix would be available, sending most of the internet scrambling for solutions and likely dooming a lot of long tail websites permanently, there were several other unrelated incidents. The floodgates seem to have been opened. I have a market on whether there will be an even worse day before the end of the year . Another key leak this week was the draft bill Anthropic had been shopping around Congress , similar to but weaker than the FRONTIER Act. Anthropic’s initial attempts to explain itself only made the situation seem worse, as they seemed to not understand the problem with what they had done. Dario’s later response was better, but the situation remains troubling. There are enough different Anthropic developments, that I plan to have a post soon covering them all. It is a mix of news running from excellent to terrible. Will interpretability save us ? There is a new claim that neural networks are cleaner than we thought, meaning that individual neurons mostly have a single interpretable meaning, and it is tractable to go through and label them one by one. Initial reactions got out of hand, treating this as a far bigger development than it was. This is still excellent news that makes our estimate of difficulty substantially lower going forward. The work can begin. We had better get on that, because there have been quite a…
Ultraviolette launches X-47 Venom electric motorcycle, introduces new VX-100 platform
Bengaluru-based electric mobility startup Ultraviolette Automotive has launched the X-47 Venom electric motorcycle alongside a new 100V VX-100 platform. The motorcycle is priced at Rs 2.65 lakh under an introductory offer, with deliveries scheduled to begin in November 2026. The X-47 Venom is the first motorcycle built on Ultraviolette’s new VX-100 architecture. The company said the platform is designed to improve performance, energy efficiency, charging speed and safety while reducing vehicle weight. Bookings for the motorcycle open on October 22, with the introductory price applicable to the first 5,000 customers. The vehicle will be available across India through Ultraviolette’s UV Space Stations. The X-47 Venom offers an IDC-certified range of 343 km, a peak power output of 30 kW (40 hp) and a top speed of 155 kmph. It can accelerate from 0 to 60 kmph in 2.7 seconds and from 0 to 100 kmph in 5.9 seconds. The motorcycle delivers 550 Nm of torque at the wheel and has a kerb weight of 180 kg, which is up to 20 kg lower than that of the previous-generation platform, according to the company. The motorcycle supports 12 kW DC fast charging and comes with a 1.6 kW onboard charger. Ultraviolette claims it is the only electric two-wheeler in India to support 12 kW DC fast charging. “The X-47 Venom brings these advances to life, combining distinctive design with deeper engineering capabilities and technology that enhances the riding experience,” said Narayan Subramaniam, CEO and c…
NVIDIA Unveils Minerva to Bring End-to-End Observability for AI Factories
Launched today, NVIDIA Minerva is an AIOps platform built to help teams find problems earlier and keep AI factories productive. It brings together telemetry from infrastructure and AI workloads, then applies purpose-built AI models to turn that data into timely, actionable insight. AI factories are among the most complex operations in the world, with vast […]
The Alignment Journal: Our Approach and Related Projects
The Alignment Journal is now open for submissions! This is the fifth post in a series: the announcement post introduced the journal's core premise and its three key innovations: paid attributed review, published review summaries, [1] and LLM-assisted workflow; the features and policies post examined the shortcomings of existing venues and argued for the advantages of a journal over a conference ; the Adaptation to AI post described how we expect AI progress to shape the journal; and the Organization, Personnel, and Scope post announced our editorial board, scope, and acceptance criteria. In this post we go deeper: presenting our theory of change — including the status and information economics of the journal ; a survey of previous related projects ; and the high-level conclusions that follow from this analysis. We list some of the key performance indicators we'll track, the downside scenarios we must avoid, and possible future extensions of the journal. The journal is being built to serve the alignment research community. This post’s purpose is to solicit feedback and encourage you to sign up on alignmentjournal.org if you want to participate. Our plans will be continually revised. Goals The primary function of a journal is to bring together exceptional researchers and focus their collective attention on identifying and elevating the best work. To reprise, our goals in concert with this are: Improve and disseminate research on alignment that emphasizes advances in scientific…
Seaya raises €600M for new growth fund to back Europe's next global tech leaders
Investment firm Seaya has announced the launch of Seaya Nova, its new growth fund, after raising €600 million at first close in just six months. The fund is backed by the European Investment Fund (EI...
Binny Bansal-backed ShopOS launches AI creative platform Sloosh
ShopOS, a Bengaluru-based AI startup backed by Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal’s 3STATE Ventures, has launched Sloosh.ai, an AI creative platform that generates product images, visual scenes, reels and creator-style videos from ideas, photos and videos. The launch comes after ShopOS raised $20 million from 3STATE Ventures. The startup provides AI-powered creative production for fashion, retail and direct-to-consumer brands across India, the UAE and the US. Sloosh uses the same image and video orchestration engine that ShopOS deploys for brand clients. The platform combines AI agents, reusable workflows and human expertise to help creators, agencies, founders and small businesses produce content across formats. The platform offers four ways to create content: an AI chat interface, ready-made workflows called Spaces, a visual workflow builder called Spacelab, and assistance from ShopOS’s in-house creative team. Its batch mode can generate hundreds of images and videos through reusable workflows. Sloosh also connects with AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Cursor through its Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration. The company is also launching a plugin for Adobe After Effects. Founded by Sai Krishna V K and Ajay P V, ShopOS was built by the team behind Scapic, an AI and augmented reality commerce platform acquired by Flipkart in 2020. The founders later set up and led Flipkart Labs. Sloosh is available globally, with new accounts receiving 20 free credits and…
Hong Kong badly lags peers in Greater Bay Area AI supply chains
Hong Kong is significantly lagging behind its neighbours and ranks near the bottom in meeting the growing demand for artificial intelligence supply chains, according to a major index evaluating key developments across the Greater Bay Area. The finding is part of the Greater Bay Area Industry Development Index 2026, jointly released on Thursday by think tank Our Hong Kong Foundation and Dah Sing Bank. The index evaluated the performance of the 11 cities in the bay area in key sectors including...
Ai2 releases OlmoEarth v1.3 state-of-the-art AI-ready satellite embeddings for the whole planet
Ai2, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, today released a satellite map embedding model called OlmoEarth v1.3 and precomputed annual embeddings for the whole planet at various resolutions with a browser-based map-making tool. The model compresses a year of satellite observations into a numerical fingerprint for each 10-by-10-meter patch of ground at the smallest resolution, […] The post Ai2 releases OlmoEarth v1.3 state-of-the-art AI-ready satellite embeddings for the whole planet appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Startup Action State launches tools for verifying interactions between AI agents
Action State Group Inc. is launching a set of open-source tools designed to let businesses independently check records of what artificial intelligence agents did, addressing a trust problem as automated systems begin buying, selling and delegating work across corporate boundaries. The offering combines EvidenceBook, which preserves tamper-evident records, Terms Packs for evaluating agent behavior and […] The post Startup Action State launches tools for verifying interactions between AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Insta360 launches a cheaper version of its wireless mics with color screens
Following the launch of its wireless Mic Pro system last May featuring built-in color E Ink screens for custom branding and an array of three microphones to emulate different pickup patterns, Insta360 has announced a cheaper alternative that skips a few features many content creators might not miss. The new Insta360 Mic sits between the […]
Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn't. It came up with some promising starting points, but nothing close to an actual drug, experts tell The Verge. Citrini Research, the firm […]
Unicorn India Ventures Launches US Operations To Back Indian Deep-Tech Startups
The VC firm has appointed former Google executive Kishore Kanakamedala as Venture Partner to lead its US expansion and help portfolio companies enter the market.
HCLTech Launches NVIDIA-Powered Validation Offering for Software-Defined Vehicles
The offering uses AI agents and virtual simulations to test automotive software, including rare and safety-critical scenarios, before release.
Best Microsoft Surface Laptop (2026): Which Models to Buy and Avoid
With pricing in flux and new models available, here’s which Surface Laptop and Surface Pro to buy.
Russia launches massive strikes on Ukraine as Trump says peace is closer than ever
Kyiv also attacked Russia with more than 800 drones, the defense ministry in Moscow said.
Most AI data centers may never be built. Blame the 'bragawatts.'
Analysts estimate that almost two-thirds of announced data center capacity may never get built. Meet the industry's "bragawatts."
HUMAIN plans 27,000 NVIDIA GPUs across 84MW
Announced at GTC Berlin as HUMAIN scales AI factories; to deploy Vera Rubin
The FSE Group launches £70M+ London growth fund to back underserved scaleups
The FSE Group has launched the Future London Growth Fund, a new debt fund designed to support the growth of ambitious scale-up businesses across London’s 32 boroughs and the City of London. The Fund i...
Barcelona's Masia closes €18M debut fund and opens new home for frontier tech founders
Masia has closed its €18M debut fund to invest in early-stage AI and frontier tech companies with a Barcelona connection, and opened Masia House to bring its founders, international investors and LPs ...
Canada unveils $6.2bn plan to shield manufacturers as Trump trade tariffs bite
Prime Minister Mark Carney said the Trump tariffs make both US and Canadian industries weaker and reduce choice for households in both countries.
El Salvador launches military operation in Haiti to free four kidnapped aviation technicians
Bukele warned that failure to free the men who have been missing since Sunday’s attack on an armoured vehicle would trigger a far more powerful operation.
OpenAI to make its most advanced AI models available in Google Cloud
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to make its latest large language models accessible in Google Cloud. The LLMs will be available through the Alphabet Inc.’s unit Model Garden service. It provides access to more than 200 neural networks from Google, its partners and the open-source ecosystem. The lineup includes not only LLMs but also […] The post OpenAI to make its most advanced AI models available in Google Cloud appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Tesla says it will start selling Cybercabs by end of year
There is at least one obstacle that could throw off Tesla's Cybercab fleet plans. The NHTSA announced last month that it had opened an investigation into the Cybercab, just hours after the vehicles began operating on public streets in Austin.
Two critical PHP flaws put the web on alert as emergency patches arrive
Organizations are scrambling to protect themselves following the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in commonly used code that powers much of the internet. The flaws discovered in the PHP scripting language could allow attackers to perform unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE). On Wednesday morning, the PHP Foundation released patches for affected versions, and said it is “imperative” that organizations running PHP patch immediately. It said that all PHP installations serving web requests are at risk, including PHP-FPM, Apache with mod_php, php-cgi, FrankenPHP and LiteSpeed. It considers the risk highest for mod_php, where an unauthenticated request can trigger exploitation before application code runs. In response to the disclosures, some government websites in Europe, including those in the Netherlands and Finland, as well as those of other organizations worldwide, went offline as a precautionary measure. PHP is ‘the web itself’ PHP is a widely-used, open source server-side scripting language that underlies websites like WordPress, which powers 43% of the web , as well as Mailchimp, Drupal, Magento, Laravel, and parts of Slack and Zoom, and numerous others. The impact is not limited to websites, noted the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) in its description of the flaws, collectively dubbed PHP2Shell . PHP is also embedded in appliances, network devices, management interfaces and other vendor products where administrators may not be able to…
Witkoff calls Putin a ‘humanitarian’ after Russia releases US prisoner
US envoy Steve Witkoff hailed Vladimir Putin as a “true humanitarian” after the Kremlin released a 74-year-old retired teacher accused of fighting for Kyiv and agreed to trilateral talks to end the war in Ukraine.
Year-old AI research lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a reported $6B valuation
Artificial intelligence research lab Flapping Airplanes Inc. today announced it has raised $1 billion in new funding, about a year after it was founded. Investors valued the startup at $6 billion in the deal, Bloomberg reported. No commercial product has come out of the lab yet. Flapping Airplanes is trying to build AI models that […] The post Year-old AI research lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a reported $6B valuation appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
The 'Fourth Wing' TV show has cast its Violet and Xaden. Here's everything we know so far.
Rebecca Yarros' "Fourth Wing" is being turned into an Amazon show. The streamer announced it had cast its Violet and Xaden, the show's leads.
Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with trading beginning in 2027. "The scale of investment required to compete, sustain growth, expand infrastructure, […]
Cornell Bowers launches two online master’s programs in AI
Starting in fall 2027, working professionals can pursue a master's degree in AI or applied AI. The post Cornell Bowers launches two online master’s programs in AI appeared first on Cornell AI Initiative .
Meta says it would’ve made over $22 billion if it didn’t have to pay a child safety settlement
Meta had to shell out $9.89 billion to pay for a chunk of the child safety settlement it reached with US attorneys general. That's according to the company's third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, which says Meta's income from operations would have been $22.89 billion without the settlement. In August, Meta agreed to pay $17.1 […]
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, its answer to Meta and OpenAI's personal agents
Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work.
Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
Bose acquires Skullcandy to help it reach a wider audience
Bose announced today it has acquired Skullcandy. Although the two companies are competitors in the consumer audio space, Skullcandy recently partnered with its new owner to bring several of Bose's audio technologies - including its head-tracking spatial audio and excellent active noise cancellation (ANC) - to products like the Skullcandy Crusher 1080 ANC headphones and […]
Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent
Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available as a standalone app on iOS and Android and through Claude on the web. The AI agent is […]
GM is betting compute and AI will help it compete with Chinese automakers
To compete with Tesla, Rivian, and a host of Chinese automakers, GM’s fourth-gen EV platform will roll out a new central computer and electrical architecture that will debut in 2028 in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.
Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation
Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion.
Autonomous researchers will strain peer review, funding, and oversight
Summary : Autonomous AI researchers could greatly accelerate AI safety research, but even if we solve sabotage, they will strain the research ecosystem. They will multiply the volume of research and make researchers homogeneous. If nothing changes, peer review will collapse, false positives will rise, funding will concentrate, and humans will lose track of the science. We should start valuing replication, preserving diversity, and anchoring research to human understanding now. I think this needs a dedicated metascience organization. Frontier labs are aiming to build autonomous researchers, and they are making progress. OpenAI announced in September 2026 that they had built a "research intern", and their stated goal is a fully automated AI researcher by March 2028. Independent forecasters put full automation of AI R&D a few years later, around 2031 to 2032 . Autonomous researchers will amplify many issues that already exist in science and introduce new issues . We already see AI having an impact on research and publishing , primarily automating many steps of the research process, increasing the volume of publications, and weakening the peer review process. We should think more deeply about what autonomous researchers will look like and what they mean for the ecosystem of AI safety research. While there is huge potential to accelerate progress, there is also the possibility that existing infrastructure collapses under this new weight. The failures we consider here are relevant…
Xbox Cloud Gaming’s pay-as-you-go option starts at $3.99 for 10 hours
Microsoft announced last month that it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The new pay-as-you-go model will require players to purchase bundles of cloud hours, and now Microsoft is revealing today that bundles will start at $3.99 for 10 hours of cloud playtime. […]
Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
Surrogacy in Silicon Valley
Sarah Anderson’s debut novel follows an in-house surrogate for a Big Tech firm.
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are married — and their exes are engaged. Here's a complete timeline of their relationship.
Just eight days after news of Holmes and Robach's wedding broke, thier exes announced that they're engaged.
Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile
Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork which reskins the game to take place in steampunk 1900s France and adds an animated intro! Panache est un jeu de stratégie en temps réel pour mobile et navigateur, dans la France de la Belle Époque (vers 1900) : dirigeables, Fardiers à vapeur, Creusot cuirassés, automates en képi, Gargantua la forteresse marchante — et beaucoup de panache. You can play Panache here - it's worth clicking that link just to experience the new intro video. So far it's mostly just aesthetic updates as opposed to gameplay changes. The music has had a French twist added to it as well. The new steampunk models are so cool! Here's a page with the original Battle Drones models and that same page with the new Panache alternatives . This is a comparison of the original and the new design for the Goliath: Via @Meffysto69 Tags: game-design , open-source
Red Hat and Nvidia expand their partnership to secure autonomous AI agents
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, […] The post Red Hat and Nvidia expand their partnership to secure autonomous AI agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
New prize launches for books co-written with AI
After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMs A prize for AI-written books has launched this week. The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication. Continue reading...
UN warns El Nino could be strongest on record as it urges world to prepare
The UN's aid chief says the humanitarian system cannot cope alone, as $50 million is released for 11 frontline countries including Chad and Somalia.
Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the wait
Inception says Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion language model released so far. The company claims it runs four to eight times faster than GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 and beats both in eight of 12 benchmarks. There are no independent tests yet. The article Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the wait appeared first on The Decoder .
Apple says it only has ‘limited’ iPhone Duo units for in-store sales
Apple says it will have "limited" iPhone Duo models for sale in stores, according to a report from Reuters. The iPhone Duo launches on Friday, October 23rd, but online preorders quickly sold out, with some delivery estimates extending into next year. "On Friday morning, our teams look forward to welcoming customers at Apple Stores to […]
As fans reject AI-generated music, even boosters are drawing the line
Enthusiasts like Grimes and A$AP Rocky may embrace AI-generated content, but they won’t produce it themselves Streaming services, notable musicians and fans are confronting the growing presence of AI-generated music and drawing lines in the sand. On Tuesday, Spotify announced it had removed about 50m songs considered AI slop from its recommendations to users over the past year. Continue reading...
Nvidia’s latest GPU driver brings a new way to speed up PC games
Nvidia is rolling out a new GPU driver today (621.01) that enables Microsoft's new Advanced Shader Delivery technology to speed up game launches. The technology also removes mid-game "just-in-time" shader compilation, reducing stuttering and CPU spikes. Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery works by offloading shader compilation for different hardware combinations to the cloud. "Using DirectX 12, […]
Meta shifts policy chief ahead of US midterm elections
Meta’s Republican policy chief Joel Kaplan announced his departure just ahead of a projected blue wave in Washington that threatens to rain down scrutiny on big tech companies.
Spotify is busting free of CarPlay with the launch of its first native car app
Spotify announced Wednesday the launch of its next-generation, fully native in-car app, built directly on Google's Android Automotive operating system. The standalone app, which is launching today in select Audi models, runs directly on the vehicle's infotainment hardware - eliminating the need for phone tethering, Bluetooth connections, or aux cables. It's the clearest sign yet […]
NVIDIA Confidential Computing Expands, Enabling Frontier Model Builders to Securely Scale Across Global Infrastructure
NVIDIA builds tools to enable safe agents across the stack. The NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture, announced today, is part of NVIDIA’s growing portfolio of technologies that enables organizations to safely deploy agents at scale. NVIDIA Confidential Computing is the infrastructure layer that protects the models and data those agents depend on while running. Today, NVIDIA […]
Chennai to Host One of the World’s Largest AMD GPU Clusters
Vultr has announced a 20MW cluster of AMD MI355X GPUs in Chennai.
Nuclear-powered spaceships
Just before the Artemis II crew began its historic slingshot around the moon this past April, NASA announced plans to build Space Reactor-1 Freedom. SR-1, the first-ever nuclear-reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft, is meant to fly an uncrewed mission to Mars by the end of 2028, arriving in 2029. A successful mission would herald a new era…
Whatnot Launches Its First National Spot as Live Shopping Finally Starts Gaining Traction
The ad starring New York Giants' Cam Skattebo comes as live shopping takes off among Gen Z
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – A MNT of fresh air
In today's edition: MNT-Halan share price rises 6.6% || Netflix lays off Africa content boss || Trading for NCBA shares suspended || Spiro launches e-bikes in Ghana
DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the growing divide between open-source and closed-source AI as a battle between “light and darkness”. The company on Tuesday released DeepInfer, an inference framework tailored to support its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model on both Nvidia’s SM100 Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) and Huawei...
ElevenLabs Launches Real-Time Voice AI Models With Up to 98.8% Speech Reasoning Accuracy
ElevenLabs’ new models combine speech recognition, turn-taking, and speech generation into a single system for building voice agents.
Only 3% of Hong Kong firms have fully integrated AI into workflows, survey finds
Only 3 per cent of Hong Kong companies have fully integrated AI into their workflows, with many facing hurdles including resistance to organisational change and outdated digital infrastructure, a survey has found. Consultancy Accenture, which polled 150 companies and released the results on Wednesday, said the survey suggested businesses had a strong desire to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in their work but many struggled to put it into practice. “Hong Kong really has strong AI ambitions...
Google unveils TorchTPU in a push to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI compute
Google LLC is striving to pry open Nvidia Corp.’s grip on the artificial intelligence computing industry with the launch of a specialized version of the open-source PyTorch framework, called TorchTPU, which is designed to eliminate a key advantage of its rival. One of the reasons why Nvidia and its graphics processing units remain so dominant […] The post Google unveils TorchTPU in a push to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI compute appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise This is very, very bad news: The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Chrome root programs and by many downstream trust stores. Any software that bundles a list of trusted certificates needs to be updated. This site is tracking software updates via this GitHub repository - Linux distros need to update their ca-certificates packages. In Python world uv 0.13.4 and pip 26.2.2 and certifi 2026.10.19 have been released with upgraded certificate lists. There's a very informative thread about this on the official Python forum. Tags: encryption , https , pip , python , security , uv
Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed
Diffusion language model startup Inception AI Inc. today released Mercury 3, its new flagship model. In the company’s own benchmarks, Mercury 3 beat OpenAI Group PBC’s GPT-6 Luna and Anthropic PBC’s Claude Haiku 5.5 on eight of 12 tests at four to eight times their speed. The release takes on the main doubt about Inception’s […] The post Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Otter.ai raises $320M in funding for its AI meeting assistant
Otter.ai Inc., the developer of a popular artificial intelligence meeting assistant, today announced that it has raised $320 million in funding. The capital came entirely from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. The investment vehicle provides startups with financing for sales and marketing initiatives. General Catalyst doesn’t take a stake in portfolio companies, but instead receives […] The post Otter.ai raises $320M in funding for its AI meeting assistant appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Netflix used to chat a lot about its plans for video games and podcasts. Not anymore.
When Netflix released its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, the streamer had nothing to say about its games or video podcasts.
SpaceX says big AI growth fueled revenue jump
SpaceX announced revenues of $14.6 billion in its Q3 earnings on Tuesday, which it says was a growth of 161 percent year-over-year "fueled by our Super Intelligence (SI) segment and accelerated growth in Connectivity." While its Space division posted a $7 million loss in income from operations, its Connectivity group posted income from operations $2.4 […]
The release of Sarah J. Maas' 6th 'ACOTAR' book is one week away. Here's everything we know.
Sarah J. Maas revealed Feyre Archeron will return as a narrator in "A Court of Splintered Harmony" a week before its release.
Xbox CEO is reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is planning new rounds of layoffs for sometime this month, November, and January, according to Fortune. In July, as part of an organizational "reset," Sharma announced planned layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers over the course of Microsoft's 2027 fiscal year, including 1,600 cuts at that time, and in September, Microsoft laid off […]
Amazon is phasing out Fire HD tablets, but not without some big discounts first
Amazon recently announced it’s phasing out its Fire HD tablets in favor of much pricier Alexa Tablets. While the days of getting an affordable, but good tablet from Amazon seem to be coming to an end, you can still get a fantastic deal on the ad-supported Amazon Fire HD 10. It has dropped to a […]
Which AI economics and governance research most needs independent expert evaluation? (help The Unjournal prioritize it)
The Unjournal commissions public expert evaluations and ratings of research (and “ pivotal questions ”) with potential for global impact. We’re currently making a push to consider AI economics and governance research. [1] We’re seeking input from people who use this: which themes, which papers/projects, which claims, who should evaluate them, what should evaluators focus on, and why? (If you only have a moment, skip to “ What would help most ”.) Why do this? (Why us, and why now?) The usual story, which you’re ~probably on board with: AI is advancing rapidly, and becoming more clearly and deeply important to most major global priorities. It’s having large actual and predicted impact on the economy and the concentration of power. This is itself entangled with AI safety and AI global catastrophic risks. “How fast will capabilities grow and replace human work?” “How will gains flow to labor versus capital?” “How will revenue and compute accumulate in a few firms and countries?” “Will regulation change which models get released where?” Questions like these impact the nature of catastrophic AI-risk (resources, race dynamics, human empowerment, state capacity, etc.), as well as the strategic approaches to handling it. There are also direct implications for global poverty, global health systems, and for non-AI GCR (e.g., bioengineered pandemics). [2] These questions (and ‘ cruxes ’) seem to directly impact a set of live decisions surrounding AI safety strategy, philanthropic fundin…
Netflix Lowers Expected Ad Revenue After Slower Rollout of Capabilities
After previously targeting $3 billion in ad revenue, Netflix announced it's expected to hit $2.7 billion for the year.
Taylor Swift's 'Patient Zero' is her newest No. 1 hit. Here are all 16 of her songs that topped the chart.
Taylor Swift's newest single, "Patient Zero," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Swift has the fourth-most No. 1 hits in history.
Mistral AI launches Voxtral 3, a full voice agent stack that listens, thinks, and talks in real time
Mistral AI launched Voxtral 3, a new family of language models built for real-time voice agents. The system combines speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and a voice agent SDK, supports more than 50 languages, and lets agents tap into external tools during live conversations. It can run on your own infrastructure or through EU-hosted APIs to keep data under your control. The article Mistral AI launches Voxtral 3, a full voice agent stack that listens, thinks, and talks in real time appeared first on The Decoder .
PyTorch Foundation Welcomes Nine New Members As Momentum Builds Around Open Source AI Center of Gravity
New Platinum members include Nebius, Nscale and Shopify, deepening the PyTorch Foundation’s role as the intelligence layer for open source AI development Summary The PyTorch Foundation announced nine new members,... The post PyTorch Foundation Welcomes Nine New Members As Momentum Builds Around Open Source AI Center of Gravity appeared first on PyTorch .
Egypt launches ‘Chat EGYPT’ AI platform to counter rumours
Platform analyses text, images and video against official data
Krea Launches Krea 3 to Edit 2K Images 71% Cheaper Than GPT
Krea 3 lands in the top ranks of image arenas with 2K edits under 8 seconds and $0.06 per image, roughly a third of competitor pricing.
VPD's Evaluation Adversary Finds Systematic Defects in the Released Decomposition
TL;DR: adVersarial Parameter Decomposition (VPD) decomposes model weights into simple components and assigns labels that specify whether a component is needed for a given input. A core aspiration of VPD is robust mechanistic faithfulness - the property that switching off any set of unneeded components for a given input leaves the model's output approximately unchanged. The authors use an evaluation adversary to measure the degree of robustness, and report that the decomposition is not at all robust to very long adversarial searches. The authors list this as a limitation, but also argue that complete robustness is not necessarily the goal. Their discussion implies two conditions under which a lack of robustness at large step counts may not matter in practice: 1) the adversary could be finding defects in the decomposition that are tuned to particular inputs, rather than systematically carrying over to other inputs, or 2) the masks a practitioner might apply may be very different from adversarially found masks. To test the first condition, we ran a series of measurements on the paper's released decomposition of a four-layer, 67M-parameter language model and found that from 20 steps on, the faithfulness defects the evaluation adversary finds on one batch of inputs systematically transfer to other inputs never seen by the adversary. The adversary is therefore not simply exploiting interference noise that is particular to one set of inputs. We explore why the adversary used during…
Parasite-infected mosquitoes released in Europe for first time
Male mosquitoes infected with a parasite have been released in Barcelona to reduce the number of insects that can transmit infections such as dengue
Adobe Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with a simple tap
Adobe announced yesterday that the mobile version of Lightroom, available for iOS, iPadOS, and Android, can now open closed eyes in photos using generative AI with just a single tap. When the app detects a person, or a group of people, have their eyes closed in a photo it will automatically present users with a […]
AuxoAI raises over $20M to bring AI expertise to the enterprise and redesign how work gets done
AuxoAI Inc., an enterprise engineering and consulting company that helps large businesses build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, today announced it has raised $20.7 million in a Series A funding to accelerate growth and scale its enterprise AI consulting model. The company said it has spent over three years working with Global 2000 enterprises and […] The post AuxoAI raises over $20M to bring AI expertise to the enterprise and redesign how work gets done appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
The 10 safest cities in the US — and the 10 least safe
WalletHub released a report ranking the safest cities in the US, analyzing 41 safety indicators across 182 cities.
US bans use of China’s DeepSeek AI tools by government agencies
Use of tools ‘may result in the transfer of sensitive data’ to China, defense department says The US government on Monday ordered its agencies to stop using artificial intelligence (AI) tools from the Chinese startup DeepSeek , as the countries race for dominance in the fast-moving sector. A notice from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the ban on products developed by DeepSeek – and tools created using DeepSeek by third parties – saying they must be removed from IT devices. Continue reading...
UK to deploy fighter jets to help Saudis against Houthi attacks
The Ministry of Defence announced Tuesday that Royal Air Force Typhoon fighters will be deployed to the Gulf Kingdom — but stressed they will be only used in a defensive capacity.
Cloudflare's Clairic pulls data from documents faster and cheaper than LLMs
Cloudflare has released an AI model it says pulls data from documents faster and more cheaply than large language models. The article Cloudflare's Clairic pulls data from documents faster and cheaper than LLMs appeared first on The Decoder .
IBM-backed llm-d framework adds controls for running AI models in-house
IBM Corp. and several other contributors to the open-source llm-d project are releasing version 1.0 of their distributed artificial intelligence inference framework, adding operational controls intended to help enterprises run large models reliably on their own infrastructure. The release, announced ahead of the PyTorch Conference North America in San Jose today and tomorrow, focuses on […] The post IBM-backed llm-d framework adds controls for running AI models in-house appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Spotify launches paid podcast memberships with perks beyond bonus content
Spotify's new paid memberships let podcasters offer fans exclusive perks, including ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content, while keeping 90% of the revenue.
Spotify’s new podcast memberships let you pay for extra perks
Spotify is enabling podcast creators to earn more money through the platform by providing their fans with a way to pay to access exclusive content. First announced in May, the new Memberships subscription feature is starting to roll out in 34 regions today, allowing podcasters to offer perks including additional content, early access, bonus episodes, […]
EIT launches €40M funding call to help bring university deep tech research to market
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has launched a new call to strengthen the capacity of higher education institutions to turn their research into innovations focused on the man...
Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation. […]
Today in Paris, we announced new capabilities across Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, expanding choice and control for organizations running their most sensitive workloads across public and private cloud, and our growing partner ecosystem.
The post Today in Paris, we announced new capabilities across Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, expanding choice and control for organizations running their most sensitive workloads across public and private cloud, and our growing partner ecosystem. appeared first on Source .
Japan launches mission to bring back samples from Mars’s moon Phobos
Japan’s H3 rocket launched the MMX probe on Tuesday, starting a three-year mission to collect samples from Phobos and study the origins of the Solar System.
Silent sailing, noisy generators: Hydrogen startups PowerUP and H2Boat tackle yachting's diesel problem
PowerUP Energy Technologies, the Estonian company renowned for its advanced hydrogen fuel cell-based electric generators, today announced a strategic partnership with H2Boat, an Italian marine hydroge...
Enterprise AI needs more than an AI engineer
Anthropic has a $100 million plan to help enterprises get more from AI. No, it doesn’t involve agents. It involves people. Lots of people. How retro. On October 2, the company announced Claude Frontier Academy , with a goal of training 10,000 frontier deployed engineers by the end of 2027. Participants work through a simulated deployment, including use-case selection, security review, and handover, before undertaking a 12-week residency on a real project at their own company. For a business selling increasingly capable models, it’s telling that Anthropic recognizes some of the thorniest problems in AI don’t involve AI at all. This, to me, is indicative of real progress, because the heart of any technological shift is always people. Which people? Well, that’s where this idea becomes particularly interesting. As critical as developers are to the success of AI in any particular organization, we need those developers working alongside the people who understand the business, with authority to turn that understanding into systems that other employees can use. That’s the key to AI success. Old advice for a new assignment It has always been thus, however much we try to pretend that this time it’s different. Back in 2013, I quoted Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular discoursing on the rise of big data technologies like Hadoop: “Organizations already have people who know their own data better than mystical data scientists.” She continued, “Learning Hadoop is easier than learning the comp…
Liquid I.V. Swaps Singing Toilets for F1 Precision in Its McLaren Debut
Liquid I.V.'s first campaign under its McLaren deal features Formula 1 Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
Blackwall hits $2.2B valuation with $100M Series C just weeks after joining Estonia's unicorn club
Web traffic management platform Blackwall today announced it has raised $100 million in Series C at a valuation of $2.2 billion.Last month it was reported that Blackwall reached a €1 billion valuation...
Semafor’s Upcoming Tech Summit Is Already an Eight-Figure Business
Silicon Valley & The World has signed 24 commercial partners ahead of its November debut, the latest sign of how central events have become to the publisher.
Former Google DeepMind top researcher launches London “compute-efficient” AI company
A London-based AI company co-founded by a former Google DeepMind research lead and AlphaGo co-creator is launching today, pursuing a “compute-efficient” alternative path to Anthropic and OpenAI’s fron...
Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars?
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 a young Val Kilmer, not quite dead and not quite alive, utters that baiting line in the trailer for the new western As Deep as the Grave. Director Coerte Voorhees knows exactly what he is doing – this is an AI-created version of the late actor, approved by his family but bringing with it a heap of controversy about whether such technology could make flesh-and-blood thespians redundant. Not just yet, judging by the extended glimpse of the film released earlier this year : it looks like a thirtysomething Kilmer, if a robot version had been sent back to the 1920s American wilderness by Skynet and, as well as being strangely rigid, had forgotten to download his voice, let alone his signature air of spacey shrewdness. Kilmer’s estate signed off on it, citing his enthusiasm for new technology that expands storytelling, but surely he would have been dismayed by this freaky doppelganger. Continue reading...
Japan launches unprecedented mission to bring back samples from Mars' moon Phobos
NASA has landed nine spacecraft on Mars over the past 50 years, and China touched down in 2021, but no one has returned samples from Mars, let alone its moons.
Baseus’ new security camera has a spotlight that tracks and follows moving targets
Baseus announced a new addition to its lineup of AI-assisted security cameras that's more proactive about discouraging unwanted visitors instead of just recording and alerting you to their presence. The Baseus Security PrimeSentinel U2 Pro Outdoor 3K Dual Camera introduces a motorized spotlight that shines directly on a moving target, even as they're running across […]
EU unveils strategy to boost Arctic presence
EU unveils strategy to boost Arctic presence
A Tourist Mathematician’s Apologia: Living in a Human-AGI World
Graham Greene described G. H. Hardy’s 1940 book, A Mathematician’s Apology , as the best account of what it is like to be a creative artist. Hardy had many friends, wide-ranging interests that included the game of cricket, and empathy for the less well-off. But it was his creative work in pure mathematics that gave Hardy “the one great permanent happiness of my life.” “Mathematics,” writes C. P. Snow, “was his [Hardy’s] justification.” It gave meaning to his life. Fast forward to October 2026, when OpenAI released more than 700 AI-generated documents claiming to have solved or made major progress in over 300 areas of mathematics. Many of these are ‘solutions’ to the most difficult mathematical concepts that have challenged mathematicians for decades and some for centuries. Mathematicians used to spend entire lifetimes, as Hardy did, solving only one or a few of these problems. OpenAI deployed an advanced ‘reasoning’ LLM and a swarm of 10,000 AI agents that required an average of only three hours of computation per solution. The solutions to these 700-plus problems were ‘checked’ not by humans but by another computer program, making the process almost entirely free of human intervention. What has remained human is the posing of the question, the way it is framed and input into the AI, and of course the design and then training of the AI. Will these too soon be done by AI? How would Hardy have reacted? What would he have said? What advice might he give us as AIs take over more…
Alibaba’s RISC-V IP powers over 6 billion shipped chips as tech giant targets AI, autos
Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has seen more than 6 billion chips shipped based on its XuanTie RISC-V architecture, marking a milestone as the tech giant doubles down on the open standard in artificial intelligence and automotive systems. Meng Jianyi, chief scientist at Damo Academy, announced the figure on Monday at the annual RISC-V Summit China in Shenzhen. The achievement comes as Chinese companies seek to play a greater role in the global RISC-V ecosystem, an...
Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal
If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.
AI startup doubleAI debuts Maxwell ‘code execution model’
Startup doubleAI today debuted Maxwell, a model that can optimize software code and generate mathematical proofs. Tel Aviv-based doubleAI, officially AA-I Technologies Ltd., is led by Chief Executive Officer Amnon Shashua, who earlier co-founded auto chip supplier Mobileye Global Inc. The company is backed by $220 million in funding from Nvidia Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. […] The post AI startup doubleAI debuts Maxwell ‘code execution model’ appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Nvidia, Dell back $200M round for AI model developer doubleAI
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 […] The post Nvidia, Dell back $200M round for AI model developer doubleAI appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
US sanctions 5 Chinese entities over ex-Google engineer’s AI trade secrets theft
The US State Department announced on Monday that it was imposing sweeping sanctions under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) on five Chinese entities suspected of stealing trade secrets from American companies. The targets include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by former Google software engineer Ding Linwei, venture capital firm MiraclePlus and three related entities. Ding was convicted of seven counts of trade secret theft in January. A federal judge subsequently...
Elon Musk’s proposed SpaceX stock giveaway would go into ‘Trump Accounts’
President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that Elon Musk's SpaceX shares for children will be given through Trump Accounts. Musk said earlier today that he would give one of his SpaceX shares to "every kid in America" sometime next year. Musk had thanked Trump Account booster Brad Gerstner for "helping enable this," and Trump appeared […]
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70%
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 […] The post MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70% appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: 2026 year-to-date in review
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart onboarded over 100 new models from 30 providers in the first three quarters of 2026. This recap covers the model-onboarding highlights and JumpStart enhancements, including the simplified Model Hub, pre-configured deployment options, and Hugging Face deep link integration.
EU Parliament launches probe into fake email seeking to sway internal election
The email comes amid a fierce campaign for the EPP’s vice-chair positions, with voting set for Tuesday.
Fired OpenAI engineer accused of bugging office won't be released from jail
Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI engineer arrested and accused of bugging the AI startup's office, will stay detained after a judge's decision Monday.
How is "prosaic aligned AI" supposed to work?
Cross-posted from my website . There's a vision of aligned AI where it totally restructures the accessible universe and everything is different, which isn't what I want to talk about today. I'm talking about the prosaic vision of aligned AI, where things are basically normal but better, artificial superintelligence is helpful and harmless, we continue on the trajectory of steady economic growth but now it's 20% per year instead of 2%, we end scarcity but society is still recognizable—basically we're living in the Star Trek universe. This seems to be what AI companies are going for—or rather, it's what they publicly say they're going for (I expect they're soft-pedaling). How exactly is this flavor of ASI [1] supposed to function? If you start to think it through, major issues come up. Example: The first ASI is released. It's incredibly useful and every world government wants one. The Israeli government gets an ASI instance. The Palestinian government gets an ASI instance. Israel says "Hello ASI, I would like to control the Gaza strip." Palestine says the same thing. What happens next? On any particular decision, there is a dichotomy where ASI must choose one of these: It does what you tell it to do. [2] It follows its own moral code. Sometimes those two will agree, especially when you give it mundane tasks like "Please make a website for me." But sometimes they will disagree, in which case the ASI must choose only one of the two options. If AI always does what you want, then…
IEEE Report Highlights How Members Are Engineering for Public Good
Advancing technology for the benefit of humanity isn’t just the tagline for IEEE’s mission as a public charity. It’s something that the organization’s more than 500,000 members strive to do all the time. IEEE’s recently released 2025 Social Impact Report showcases a variety of programs volunteers worked on to increase public awareness of technology’s impact on society, many of which The Institute covered. Here is a selection of the programs from the report, with links to our related articles: Shaping trustworthy digital experiences for children online. An IEEE collaboration with Indonesian policymakers led to a new regulation to protect children, a first of its kind in the region. The advanced frameworks used for the design of Internet platforms and systems are based on the IEEE 2089-2021 and 2089.1-2024 standards. The IEEE 2089-2021 Standard for an Age-Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children provides practical steps to qualify online products and services. The follow-up, the IEEE 2089.1-2024 Standard for Online Age Verification, provides a framework for designing, specifying, evaluating, and deploying age-verification systems. You can learn more about the two standards in “ IEEE Makes Strides to Improve Online Safety for Kids .” Catalyzing humanitarian outreach. Last year IEEE launched its Mobile Outreach Vehicle (MOVE) program in India. The vehicle brings educational resources to communities and can provide communication and tech…
Albanian PM Rama accuses anti-government protesters of crossing 'red line' amid violent demonstrations
The European Commission released a statement condemning the violence in Albania on Sunday, saying it had "no place in a democratic society" and that the response "must remain within the law and proportionate."
Introducing Clairic, a new System One class of extraction models
Clairic is a new model from Cloudflare that is a System One extraction modeI, capable of extracting, computing, estimating, and forecasting data from unstructured inputs.
Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant
Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompt comprehension expanded to 8,000 tokens. In comparisons with Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0 holds its own but doesn't pull ahead, which could be an early sign that the breakneck pace of progress in AI video models is starting to level off. The article Kling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant appeared first on The Decoder .
Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
Motive brings agentic AI to physical operations with agents that act before problems escalate
Motive Inc., the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence platform provider for physical operations, today announced the launch of Agents, a new capability that automatically responds to safety, maintenance and operational issues before they escalate into accidents, costly breakdowns or business disruptions. The new Agents platform moves beyond alerts to automatically contact drivers, initiate maintenance and coordinate […] The post Motive brings agentic AI to physical operations with agents that act before problems escalate appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Major European mobile carriers are teaming up for a ‘direct’ satellite program without Starlink
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX's Starlink. The four telecom companies say they would handle the ground infrastructure while a separate, unannounced satellite partner provides the satellite constellation: The joint initiative by Deutsche […]
France launches ‘massive’ law enforcement operation after weekend looting, PM says
Lecornu said nearly 200 investigators would analyse footage from the weekend to identify suspects in the Paris region alone after businesses were destroyed and looted after protests turned violent on Saturday.
AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’
The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and as the company prepares for a stock market listing Anthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the “public good”, as the AI developer behind the Claude chatbot seeks to bolster its appeal before its stock market listing. The company announced it would commit the shares, worth around $48bn (£36bn) at its latest valuation in May, subject to shareholder approval. It will add a further 2% of its stock to the fund for every 50% increase in its value above an undisclosed baseline. Continue reading...
Daedalus: Greece unveils new supercomputer as it eyes role in Europe's AI race
With a performance of 85.69 petaflops, Daedalus opens up new possibilities for developing advanced AI models in Greece.
Pax8 launches 8os to let IT partners govern AI agents and 8bot as a managed AI co-worker
Small business software marketplace Pax8 Inc. today launched 8os, an operating system that lets its information technology service provider partners govern the artificial intelligence agents running inside their customers’ businesses. A second product, 8bot, gives those customers’ employees a managed AI coworker that partners deploy and supervise through 8os. Pax8 unveiled both at its Beyond […] The post Pax8 launches 8os to let IT partners govern AI agents and 8bot as a managed AI co-worker appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Are clearinghouses the answer to the AI hacking threat?
This summer, the White House rolled out the Gold Eagle Initiative , billed as an “unprecedented” effort to coordinate cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure across government and industry. It was easy to miss this news with all of the other safety concerns in the world of AI, but the timing isn’t a coincidence — and neither is the terminology. Gold Eagle is just one in a fast-growing category of security clearinghouses. Although it has already been scaled back once, recast in an August CISA fact sheet as a narrower triage layer rather than the sweeping coordination system first announced, it still indicates a trend we’re seeing in the world of cybersecurity. To understand what a clearinghouse is, and why the number of them is increasing, it’s important to understand what has broken — namely (and hugely), the vulnerability disclosure process. For many years, vulnerability disclosure worked like this: A researcher found a bug, reported it privately, and honored an embargo period that gave vendors time to patch quietly (and hopefully quickly) and ship the fix before the bug was made public. This gave the good guys a chance to patch before the bad guys had a chance to use the vulnerability for bad guy things. The process was tedious, but it worked because the economics worked — historically, only nation-states had the resources to hunt for — or reward teams of experts to hunt for — undisclosed vulnerabilities at scale. Of course, AI has changed all that — all of that. The averag…
Emmanuel Macron rejects resignation of interior minister Laurent Nuñez
In a statement issued on Monday morning, the Élysée announced that the French president had refused the interior minister's resignation "given the need for continuous command of the security forces in the current situation".
Birla AI Labs Launches Yug-1, a Time Series Foundation Model Built in India
Yug-1 is built to analyse such time-dependent data and generate forecasts across multiple variables.
DeepSeek releases updated V4.1-Flash model it says completes tasks faster
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. has released an updated version of its V4.1-Flash model that it says completes tasks faster. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 arrives a little over five weeks after the company launched the original V4.1-Flash as the smallest model in a new architecture family. Its model card on […] The post DeepSeek releases updated V4.1-Flash model it says completes tasks faster appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns
Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft pulled out of the project over concerns about power supplies. The development by the British company Nscale, heralded by ministers as the country’s largest AI datacentre when it was announced in 2025, was planned to open at Loughton in Essex next year. Continue reading...
Rokid launches ‘no man’s land’ retail experience with Hong Kong flagship store opening
When shoppers step into Rokid’s brand new flagship store in Hong Kong, they are greeted not by eager sales associates, but by glowing monitor screens and a robotic system waiting at the exit. In what the Chinese augmented reality (AR) gadget pioneer called an experiment in “no man’s land” retail, customers navigate the entire journey independently: testing artificial intelligence smart glasses, making payments on a screen and receiving their new devices directly from an automated system on their...
"Holy shit" graphs and how to get more of them
We are likely in a situation where the most powerful models in the world are internal models, and, here's a key distinction, potentially even models that are never intended to be released to the public (i.e. a model designed to provide internal uplift on capabilities during training but that is not intended to be / not particularly suitable for commercial purposes.) Internal-external information and capability gaps can distort both public and regulatory perception of frontier capabilities and dangers. If the internal frontier is three or six months ahead, such a gap is worrisome if the labs are close to automating various bottlenecks to increased capabilities development, like automating AI R&D. Some ways of mitigating these visibility gaps and communicating the existing data we do have are implementable over the short term and confer minimal cost for many actors relative to the advantages of visibility for policymakers. What is a "holy shit" graph? Many of my intuitions about the coming impacts of AI are shaped by "Holy shit" graphs. The METR time horizon graph is one such graph, but has been discussed to death [1] , so let's talk about another three: Internal spending by OpenAI researchers (at API prices) Source: Epoch AI, "Coding-agent spending by OpenAI researchers is doubling roughly every month", adapted from OpenAI data, Oct. 2026 This spending graph is so bananas that when I try to google the source, The Gemini overview sometimes gets "AI token spending" and "Interna…
Seventeen's hot new JxJ unit are showing off their chemistry — with a little help from Pinterest
Seventeen's JxJ are debuting as a duo on Monday — and they picked Pinterest as a key platform to hype their album.
SpaceX’s ambitious, expensive gamble to replace AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
Today, I’m talking with Walter Piecyk, a partner and analyst at LightShed Partners who covers tech, media, and telecom, about SpaceX’s recently announced plan to become a major wireless carrier. Last week, SpaceX agreed to buy a big chunk of low-band spectrum to expand the Starlink network, spectrum that’s been traded around the telecom business […]
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its predecessor. The company is also opening up its internal search engine through new Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls. API users in tools like Claude Code and Codex get free access for now. The article Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs appeared first on The Decoder .
Ixigo posts Rs 63 Cr profit in Q2 FY27 on the back of FreshBus exit and other income
Online travel aggregator ixigo has released its financial results for the second quarter of FY27, reporting a 13% year-on-year growth in operating revenue. The company also swung to a net profit of Rs 63.42 crore, steered by the sale of its stake in FreshBus and Rs 22 crore in other income. The Gurugram-based company’s operating revenue increased 13% year-on-year to Rs 321 crore in Q2 FY27, compared with Rs 284 crore in Q2 FY26, according to its unaudited financial results sourced from the National Stock Exchange. Train bookings remained the largest contributor to the company's operating revenue, spiking 16.4% year-on-year to Rs 149.1 crore in Q2 FY27 from Rs 128.1 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. Bus revenue grew 23.8% to Rs 81 crore in Q2FY27 from Rs 65.4 crore, whereas revenue from flight bookings declined 7.5% to Rs 82.7 crore in Q2FY27 from Rs 89.4 crore. The hotel segment recorded the sharpest growth, with revenue surging to Rs 8.1 crore from Rs 1.3 crore in Q2 FY26. Besides operational revenue, the company reported Rs 22 crore from other income, pushing its total income to Rs 343 crore in Q2 FY27. Employee benefit expenses declined 13.2% to Rs 64.38 crore from Rs 74.18 crore, while total increased 6% year-on-year to Rs 309.5 crore in Q2 FY27. Notably, on a quarterly basis, ixigo’s revenue fell 10% from Rs 357 crore in the previous quarter (Q1 FY27). On the profitability front, ixigo reported a net profit of Rs 63.42 crore in Q2 FY27, against a loss of Rs…
Toward scalable capability evaluations
This research was completed for London AI Safety Research (LASR) Labs Summer 2026. The team was supervised by Justin Olive (Generality Labs) and Magda Dubois (UK AISI). Find out more about the programme and express interest in upcoming iterations here . We encourage readers seeking technical details to read the paper on arxiv . TLDR: We rely on benchmarks to estimate model capabilities. But now, many existing benchmarks are becoming too easy for frontier models – causing them to become saturated . For high-risk domains like cyber and bio, we cannot afford underestimating how capable models are in these domains. So how do we estimate capabilities after benchmarks have saturated? Running a benchmark already produces a transcript of how each model solved each task, meaning that the information within the transcript is just discarded. Using transcript analysis literature, we propose a set of protocols and replayed the last few years of model releases to see if they could predict capability beyond benchmark saturation. And they can, for the most part. But they also fail to generalise across “paradigm shifts” such as when reasoning models came out and models suddenly started to behave differently. Our main argument is that we need to move past evaluations that are judged by their average accuracy on familiar models, to methods for scalable evaluation that are judged on how robust they are across shifts like this one. Saturated on day one On September 22, Scale released SWE-Bench P…
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Abu Dhabi launches TAMM Global; UAE firms face agentic AI readiness and security gaps
CarrotParsnipBench: A Lightweight Multi-Agent Deception and Detection Eval
TL:DR Earlier this year I introduced the very simple Social Deduction game of Carrot-Parsnip and showed that most models are better-than-random at identifying Parsnips (the hidden, deceptive role) and that being a strong Parsnip (skilled at strategic deception) does not perfectly correlate with being a strong Carrot (skilled at deception detection). I have recently completed a substantially larger experiment with 10 models and over 5000 games. I have attempted to fit the results to a four-parameter model tracking Parsnip deception, Parsnip divisiveness, personal accuracy (as Carrot) and teammate assistance (as Carrot). I believe that my results demonstrate the potential for Carrot-Parsnip (and minimalist Social Deduction games in general) to act as the basis for a multi-agent benchmark of LLM strategic deception and deception detection ability. In particular, a strength of Carrot-Parsnip a very small and simple game that can be understood and played competently by a wide variety of models with only general advice and no specific strategic prompting, it also runs for cents per game, even with near-frontier models. This means that it can be used to host a benchmark of possibly hundreds of models for a very reasonable budget, and that benchmark can be continuously updated with new model releases for a reasonable cost and the same scaffolding, since it appears possible to accurately calculate a new model's ELO by anchoring off only a fraction of the initial model set. Further re…
Abu Dhabi launches TAMM Global to export government platform
Company will license TAMM’s architecture to other governments
Is your AI yours?
Epistemic status: my personal reflections. AI use: Claude (Fable 5.1, one of the models discussed) fact-checked the claims, found the sources, fixed grammar and light phrasing, and wrote the footnotes; the ideas and the rest of the wording are mine. One of its responses during the review was itself cut off by a safety classifier. I was impressed by agents sacrificing themselves for the collective in an OpenAI evaluation run during the Hugging Face attack. [1] I wanted to read the full transcripts with chains of thought to understand their motivation better, but sadly the full texts were not publicly released. [2] So I decided to write a fictional transcript inspired by as many real sources as I could. I made great progress researching the context and writing the first rough draft, and then I wanted an AI to review it. Sadly, the transcript describes the AI working on ExploitGym, [3] and this triggers the cybersecurity classifiers of Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 and of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Sol. [4] So I effectively couldn't continue working on it. I tried Kimi K3, which made some progress but wasn't as rigorous as I would like, so it didn't do what I expected an AI to do. This made me realize how the classifier is effectively shaping my actions regarding this transcript. Then I had another realization: my everyday use of AI might be biased in a less dramatic fashion. For example, when I ask an AI to do a web search for me, it picks the results, and with them some worldvi…
Reflection AI open-sources Beam’s weights, post-training recipes
Startup Reflection AI Inc. today made the weights of Beam, its first large language model, available on Hugging Face. The company also released technical resources that will enable developers to customize the algorithm. Originally introduced last week, Beam is one of the industry’s most advanced open-source LLMs. It features about 500 billion parameters, yet approaches […] The post Reflection AI open-sources Beam’s weights, post-training recipes appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Vals AI's Science Index Puts GPT-6 Astra Above Gemini 4 Argon
Vals AI launches a Science Index averaging three agentic benchmarks, and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops it at 65.09% despite ranking only seventh on the general Vals Index.
Tesla driver says he was asleep and using FSD when he crashed into highway patrol cars
After this horrific crash involving a Tesla driver who said he was asleep and using the driver assist mode, the California Highway Patrol warns that "Despite its name, full self-driving is not fully autonomous. Technology does not relieve drivers of their responsibility to safely operate their vehicles." Video released by CHP shows the Tesla speeding […]
RapidCanvas raises $29M to develop custom AI applications for enterprises
Software development startup RapidCanvas Inc. today announced that it has raised $29 million in funding. Vertex Ventures SEA & India led the Series B round with contributions from Hitachi Ventures, Accel, Peak XV Partners, Valley Capital Partners and Titanium Ventures. The deal follows a $16 million investment in 2024. RapidCanvas develops custom artificial intelligence applications […] The post RapidCanvas raises $29M to develop custom AI applications for enterprises appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
LM Arena's Max Router Matches Claude While Cutting Agent Costs by 37%
Arena's weekly leaderboard brings a new agentic router matching Claude at 37% lower cost, plus top-5 debuts from Gemini 4 Argon and Muse Wonder.