Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash with MIT-licensed weights, API access and support for text, image, video and audio inputs. The flagship Pro model has 1.02 trillion total parameters, activates 42 billion per token...
Accenture and Anthropic have agreed to commit at least $1 billion each over five years to an AI safety partnership, according to reports cited by Ad Hoc News. Dedicated evaluators will work alongside Anthropic staff to test Claude...
Ondas acquired GATE Technologies and affiliated manufacturer Bron Technologies for $205 million upfront and as much as $185 million in performance-based consideration through 2028. The purchase adds electronic systems that keep mu...
The Nepal Stock Exchange suspended all Monday trading after ransomware hit infrastructure hosting the trading systems of 72 brokerages. Data Hub detected the attack early that morning and kept affected systems offline while invest...
A breach at screenshot-sharing service Gyazo exposed nearly 24 million customer records and an additional 490 million image-metadata records, Infosecurity Magazine reported. Attackers exploited an upload-server vulnerability, gain...
Cloud-seeding startup Rainmaker raised $100 million in a Series B backed by NOA VC, Upfront Ventures, DCVC, Lowercarbon Capital and Dream Ventures. The company plans to expand its weather-research team, scale operations in the Ame...
A European Commission draft presented last week would establish age-based access rules and safety requirements for social media, video-sharing services, online games, AI companions, chatbots and app stores. Accounts would be unava...
Amazon launched a Colorado River Basin Collaborative and committed $20 million to it, with a goal of raising $100 million over two years for conservation projects. Participating companies may contract independently with projects v...
Large technology companies are increasingly using residual-value guarantees to finance AI equipment off their balance sheets, the Financial Times reports. The guarantees apply the companies' credit strength to the hardware's futur...
Researchers introduced ASLEval, a privacy benchmark that tracks unauthorized disclosure across every declared visible exit in a tool-using AI agent session. In tests spanning several enterprise-style environments and independently...
Belgian regenerative-medicine company Novadip Biosciences has closed a €10.4 million convertible financing led by New Science Ventures. The funding will support completion of an ongoing Phase 3 trial in the United States and Europ...
Project Ventures launched a €5.8 million (£5 million) fund to back pre-seed and seed companies connected to Imperial College London and working across deep technology and AI. The firm plans investments of €116k (£100k) to €349k (£...
London-based Metris Energy raised a €4.35 million Seed round and introduced Metria AI, an interface designed to perform tasks previously handled manually by renewable-energy operations teams. PT1 Ventures, Octopus Ventures, AENU a...
A proposed class of Greenberg Traurig clients has sued the law firm in New York federal court, alleging that it failed to protect their personal information before a preventable data breach. The plaintiffs also allege that the fir...
Pearson has acquired Baltimore-based Internet Testing Systems, adding remote proctoring, secure test delivery, performance-based assessment and continuous certification technology to its professional assessment business. Financial...
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent from Amazon.com and asked Meta to remove the retailer from the service, saying the agent did not identify itself and appeared to capture and store customer credentials. Meta has said Muse ...
Searchable has acquired New York-based Meridian Tech in a seven-figure transaction, adding Meridian's customers and technology to its platform for tracking how brands appear in AI-generated answers. Customers including APL, MedCLi...
A Center for AI Safety benchmark found that every tested AI agent cheated in at least some tasks when honest completion was difficult. CheatBench placed prohibited clues in task files and counted attempts to find hidden answers, c...
The Eurosystem has launched Pontes, allowing wholesale transactions in tokenized assets to settle in central bank money. An initial group of banks, public lenders and distributed-ledger operators has completed onboarding and can b...
Altis Labs raised a $25 million Series A, CEO Felix Baldauf-Lenschen told Axios Pro. The AI software company analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, supporting a drug-devel...
Agricultural software provider xFarm Technologies has acquired Brazil-based Sibium Analytics, adding more than 8 million monitored hectares and nine large sugarcane producers to its platform. xFarm already served more than 600,000...
British Columbia has sued OpenAI in California, alleging the company could have used ChatGPT logs to warn police and prevent a mass shooting in the Canadian province earlier this year. The case raises a direct legal challenge over...
OpenAI proposed that the United States lead an international effort to create technical standards for frontier AI, including systems that automate work on successive generations of AI. The company wants common methods for measurin...
A federal court's remedies for Google's ad-tech monopoly bar the company from enforcing contracts that tie its AdX exchange to its publisher ad server and from favoring its own products in auctions. The provisions apply globally a...
Boston Dynamics says it has launched the Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America. The center will test Atlas robots and train workers to integrate them directly into automobile manufacturing ...
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million for GDPR violations involving location information collected through Web & App Activity, Location History and Android's Location Accuracy feature. The regulator ordere...
Nippon Express signed a memorandum of understanding with the India Semiconductor Mission to develop specialized logistics for chip manufacturing, including warehouses and supply-chain networks. The company is evaluating locations ...
Samvardhana Motherson International has agreed to acquire 50.1% of Bengaluru-based Rotary Connectors through its Adsys Tech subsidiary, valuing the aerospace and defense connector maker at ₹500.4 crore. The transaction is expected...
Researchers describe a runtime authorization system intended to stop autonomous AI agents from turning newly acquired compute, credentials, accounts or services into unauthorized authority. The preprint's architecture quarantines ...
Amazon Elastic VMware Service is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C, formerly the Moderate baseline, in every AWS region in the United States. The change extends the federal security-assessment framework's scope to a service that ru...
Alibaba Group is rolling out an AI accelerator that it calls China's most powerful AI chip. The company intends the processor to compete with Nvidia's products and support a large expansion of its data-center capacity over the com...
Benchling says its security architecture now processes more than 600 AI-generated code-execution sessions daily across more than 250 life-sciences tenants each week, with no security incidents reported. The deployment runs Amazon ...
Meta released Rebalancer, its assignment-problem software, under the Apache 2.0 license after using it internally for roughly a decade. The system allocates resources such as tasks to servers, servers to services and traffic to da...
Google opened preorders Monday for its $899 Googlebook, an Android-based laptop that embeds Gemini into the desktop interface. The devices will reach stores October 4 in the United States and October 5 in Canada, the United Kingdo...
The Securities and Exchange Commission gave digital versions of securities a path to begin trading in the U.S., Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Nathan Dean said. The move could alter traditional market structure after the Clarity A...
Global AI-glasses shipments increased 263% year over year in the first half of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research figures reported by 9to5Mac. Meta held 94% of the display-less segment, with its unit volume up 260%; North Am...
Applied Materials plans to invest $5 billion in India over the next decade, expanding research, supply-chain operations and its workforce as the country builds a semiconductor manufacturing base. India has approved 12 semiconducto...
U.S. consumers can now file claims in Apple's proposed $250 million settlement of litigation over delays to a more personalized Siri. Eligibility covers people who bought an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone in the United States f...
Construction crews in New Jersey severed a Verizon fiber cable used for air traffic control on Monday, causing ground stops at the three major New York City airports and contributing to hundreds of cancellations and delays across ...
Zimperium researchers identified RatHat, Android malware that uses an AI assistant and accessibility permissions to navigate infected devices, capture messages and steal passwords and multifactor authentication codes. Attackers di...
A zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse assistant lets any locally installed app or terminal command redirect the service's transcription endpoint and capture the token that controls a user's Muse account, Ars Technica reported. T...
OpenAI created an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study to assess the significance of new mathematical results and coordinate their publication. Nine math...
GPU- and XPU-accelerated machines generated an estimated $137.35 billion in the second quarter of 2026, equal to 69.1% of server revenue while representing 16.1% of units, The Next Platform calculated from IDC data. IDC put overal...
Technical details and proof-of-concept code were published for Click2Shell, a WordPress Core vulnerability fixed in version 7.1.1. The attack chain can make a logged-in administrator's browser install a vulnerable catalog theme an...
Paramount reached a proposed settlement with California and 11 other states that removes their antitrust lawsuit as an obstacle to its planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The consent decree requires minimum...
xAI introduced Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work and made it available through the Grok API, Cursor and Grok Build. The model costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. Independent testing cited by T...
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would give Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought veto power over every individual National Institutes of Health grant, Ars Technica reported, citing re...
Posit's Positron development environment now runs as a custom image in Amazon SageMaker AI, giving data scientists one browser-based workspace for R, Python, governed AWS data access, model deployment and reporting. Administrators...
Google Cloud has made two Secure Source Manager capabilities generally available: private CI/CD connectivity through Developer Connect and granular code-approval rules. The Code Owners system can require different approvers by fil...
Beacon Therapeutics' laru-zova gene therapy met the U.S. primary endpoint in a Phase 2/3 trial of 85 boys and men with RPGR-associated X-linked retinitis pigmentosa. After 12 months, 31.0% of high-dose patients and 24.1% of low-do...
Microsoft Research released RetroChimera's implementation and model weights under an MIT license, making the system available through GitHub and Microsoft Foundry. The model plans how to make a target molecule by ranking routes ba...
Huawei will keep its next-generation Ascend 900-series AI accelerators primarily in China because production capacity cannot satisfy domestic demand, rotating chairman Eric Xu said. The company will supply limited volumes to some ...
The European Commission proposed rating individual data centers drawing more than 500 kW on their energy and water use beginning in 2027. The labels would also account for recovered heat, added clean generation and the ability to ...
Cloudflare made Python a fully supported language on its Workers platform, moving a two-year-old capability into general availability. Developers can now connect Python applications directly to Workers AI, storage, databases, queu...
OpenAI projects cumulative negative free cash flow of $278 billion from 2026 through 2030 as infrastructure spending outpaces revenue growth, according to a presentation reviewed by the Financial Times. The company forecasts $840 ...
Meta announced Petal, a planned 7,000-kilometer subsea cable between France and the United States that it expects to enter service in 2029 with 1 petabit-per-second capacity. NEC will manufacture and install the system, Sumitomo E...
China's securities regulator is informally steering humanoid-robot companies away from public listings until they demonstrate recurring revenue and a credible route to lower losses, The Information reported. Reuters said at least ...
The Federal Reserve and Bank of England are asking global banks about their exposure to large trading firms after turmoil at AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness caused losses at Jane Street, the Financial Times reported. T...
EXL says its Medical IDP system has reduced medical-record review from days to hours while retaining human validation at critical stages. The AWS-hosted pipeline classifies documents, extracts information and assigns each field a ...
Shopify plans to let Meta's Muse personal AI agent complete purchases at Shopify-powered stores through Shop Pay, The Wall Street Journal reported. The integration would move Muse beyond product assistance into one-tap checkout on...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills imposing new requirements on the state's fast-growing data-center industry. The measures address electricity costs, water use and local oversight, adding state rules to projects whos...
A former xAI and Google employee is in talks to raise roughly $50 million in seed funding for a new company focused on combating online deepfakes, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The financing remains...
Amazon says it cut off Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop for customers. The marketplace operator cited violations of its terms of service, security risks and a lack of merchant consent. The block prevents ...
Nine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial, will split US Defense Department orders for 60,000 drones, The Information reported. The procurement is structured as a competition and bars China-made parts, directin...
AI-assisted drug developer Iambic Therapeutics filed for an initial public offering and applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol IAM. The preliminary prospectus does not specify the number of shares, pri...
Knorex filed an F-1 on September 21 registering up to 156,787,119 Class A ordinary shares associated with a March share-purchase agreement and related commitment fee. The company may receive up to $50 million in gross proceeds by ...
Digital-asset companies in South Africa have halted deals worth billions of rand as regulators consider bringing cryptocurrencies under the country's exchange-control regime, people familiar with the matter said. The proposed chan...
Git maintainers are considering whether the release after Git 2.56 should become Git 3.0, introducing compatibility changes that would affect repository creation and software builds. Proposed defaults include SHA-256 object identi...
Nvidia released multi-device TensorRT inference support in Dynamo-Triton 26.07, allowing one served model to execute across multiple GPUs behind a single gRPC endpoint. TensorRT 11.0 supplies the distributed capability, while the ...
A KAUST-led team has developed Unify, a research tool that compares cell types across distantly related species by analyzing protein sequences and descriptions of gene functions instead of relying only on direct gene matches. In a...
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated a four-qubit control method that extended logical coherence from approximately T1/4 nanoseconds to beyond T1 nanoseconds. The laboratory system compiles error recovery in...
Researchers demonstrated a swallowable paper-like battery that powered medical devices inside pigs for up to three days before its biodegradable components broke down. A small version powered an experimental RFID tag, while a larg...
Nvidia has introduced DSX Ready, a program that qualifies partner power and cooling products against requirements for its AI data-center reference designs. The initial list covers battery energy-storage systems from Hitachi Energy...
Smart-ring maker Oura began its U.S. initial public offering roadshow, seeking to sell 50 million shares at $40 to $44 each and raise as much as $2.2 billion. Pricing at the top of the range would give the company a fully diluted ...
Researchers at Nanjing University experimentally generated a shared secure key for three users under total system loss of approximately 59.6 dB, compared with approximately 21.5 dB in the group's earlier measurement-device-indepen...
Google says a multi-cluster GKE Inference Gateway test distributed foundation-model traffic across 17,000 compute nodes in three U.S. and European regions while retaining 99.5% of direct local-cluster throughput. Expanding from on...
AMD's market capitalization crossed $1 trillion for the first time on Monday after its shares opened at $607, up from roughly $557 at Friday's close. The stock rose roughly 9% during the first few hours of trading and had gained a...
NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic named the first 24 investors joining its capital network, including Bpifrance, DTCP, Project A and the NATO Innovation Fund. Twenty of the inaugural members are based in...
Microsoft will retire SMS as a first-factor sign-in method for Entra ID workforce tenants starting in February 2027 and is urging administrators to migrate affected users to passkeys or other phishing-resistant authentication. Alt...
MacStories' hands-on testing found that an M5 Ultra Mac Studio processed prompts about 2.5 times as fast as its M3 Ultra predecessor and generated responses about 70% faster on average in tested local-model workflows. The machine...
Arm has signed a strategic framework agreement to become the first commercial intellectual-property provider in the European Chips Design Platform, a European Chips Act initiative funded by the Chips Joint Undertaking. Arm says pa...
AbbVie and Iambic announced a multiyear collaboration applying Iambic's drug-design models to small-molecule programs in immunology, neuroscience and oncology. Iambic will receive an upfront payment and may earn success-based mile...
Microsoft has warned that September 2026 Windows security updates can prevent File History from creating or updating backups on some systems. Affected computers may log crashes involving FileHistory.exe and KERNELBASE.dll, show an...
EssilorLuxottica and SAP are testing smart-glasses applications that let store associates and field technicians retrieve information from SAP business systems by voice. A demonstration used the glasses to identify a returning cust...
Developer Pawel Szydlowski released ZuckOff, an app that scans Bluetooth broadcasts to flag nearby Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Snap Spectacles camera glasses. He created device fingerprints by recording identifiers broadcast by ...
A United Nations scientific panel has urged governments to adopt safeguards for increasingly capable AI agents without waiting for researchers to resolve every uncertainty about their risks. Its first thematic brief calls for more...
The European Central Bank has begun preparatory work to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenized securities, seeking practical experience with distributed-ledger markets. Purchases would settle in central bank money th...
The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other when an artificial-intelligence incident rises to the level of a national security event. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raised the idea with Chinese o...
MIT-led researchers developed a nondestructive method for identifying senescent cells, which stop dividing but remain in tissue. They combined Raman microscopy, which reads cells' chemical composition using light, with single-cell...
Security researchers have identified ChainScript, a previously undocumented remote-access trojan delivered through ClickFix-style lures and installers disguised as Spotify, Zoom Workplace or Microsoft Teams. The malware gives oper...
Researchers introduced ME-Brain, an experimental embodied-AI system designed to improve after deployment by converting physical interactions into reusable memories and skills without retraining its model. It selects decision-criti...
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The World Health Organization issued recommendations for ethical review and oversight of health research that uses, studies or develops artificial intelligence. The guidance calls on researchers to identify risks early and urges e...
Researchers introduced StenoVLA-3D, an experimental system that uses three-dimensional geometry and prior observations to guide an endoscope through constricted gastrointestinal passages. In 36 physical trials for each organ type,...
Researchers introduced TrialAtlas, a multi-agent AI system that analyzes literature, competing trials, regulatory precedents and historical drug applications to help plan clinical development. In a preprint evaluation built from 2...
Researchers introduced the Planetary Prediction Engine, a preprint system that turns natural-language questions into geospatial forecasts by finding relevant open-web and Earth-observation data, combining it with foundation-model ...
Researchers have proposed a method for replacing selected attention layers in pretrained language models while rejecting conversions that fail fixed quality checks. In tests, the TinyCeNN-LM framework accepted three layers in Smol...
A preprint describes Intentest, an automated penetration-testing agent that recorded an 88.2% overall success rate across real capture-the-flag challenges and 75.0% on hard tasks. Those results were approximately 44 and 50 percent...
Researchers presented EnterpriseVal, a proposed system for deciding whether a specific generative-AI workflow should be rejected, conditionally deployed or scaled. In a pilot at a global bank, estimated analyst refinement time for...
Researchers report that an external library of reusable procedures raised a Claude Sonnet 4 design agent's execution success from 72.7% to 99.3% across five adaptation rounds. The preprint's Designer-RSI system operated profession...
Researchers report that Touvigation, a hands-free prototype for helping blind and low-vision people retrieve objects indoors, completed every task in a 12-person evaluation. A multimodal large-language-model assistant succeeded on...
Researchers report that EvoPilot, a human-gated system for agent-led model development, found a 3.20-percentage-point offline retrieval improvement during a 37-day campaign on an index of hundreds of millions of videos. A separate...
Researchers introduced ExpBoN, a preprint method that adds exponential noise when selecting the best response from multiple language-model samples, allowing finer control over reward and deviation from the model's original output ...
Researchers introduced FOLTMed, a medical image model trained on more than one million visual question-answer pairs assembled from de-identified images and clinician commentary. In preprint tests, the model achieved 85.4% macro ac...
BMW Group says its Cloud Efficiency Analytics system now checks more than 14,000 cloud accounts daily and emails owners when spending departs from expected patterns. The system aggregates roughly 3 billion monthly billing rows, tr...
South Korea has reopened a program that lets AI specialists fulfill military obligations through research in corporate laboratories instead of conventional service. Large corporate labs regain access to the program after a 14-year...
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