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Meta has revised its pending Commercial Terms, which take effect October 30, 2026, to remove a sentence stating that the company could use content crawled from websites tied to business accounts to train Meta Company Products. The revised text was in place on Meta’s legal website by October 17, 2026, after a day of public […]

NVIDIA celebrated the arrival of its RTX Spark laptops with retail launch events in six cities on October 16, 2026, including a Berlin gathering where founder and CEO Jensen Huang made a surprise appearance and gave away five personally signed laptops, the company said in a recap published October 17, 2026. Berlin Celebration at the […]

In principle, artificial intelligence could make finding the right material for an application as simple as ordering dinner: Scientists would tell a large language model what they want, and it would serve them a perfectly designed crystal for the job. Unfortunately, that approach doesn’t work well yet, and the problem comes down to data: Most […]

RapidCanvas has raised $29 million in Series B funding to expand a business built around a persistent enterprise AI problem: getting useful applications into production, then keeping them working as the business changes. The round was led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with participation from Hitachi Ventures. Existing investors Accel, Peak XV Partners, Valley […]

Gintare Rimolaityte is the CEO and co-founder of Trendos, the AI search visibility platform that helps brands understand and optimize how they appear across LLMs. She gained early experience at Oxylabs in 2020, first as Business Development Manager and then as Head of Commerce, where she led Sales, Business Development, Account Management, and Customer Success […]

In a research post published October 16, 2026, Anthropic reported that its Claude Mythos 5 model, working in a closed loop with an automated evaluator and largely on its own, designed quantum circuits that improve on the best previously published circuits across eight computational primitives, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more. […]

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team reported in a research publication on October 16, 2026, that an internal Claude research model had traced the origins of the NIST ECDSA curve seeds to the C library’s lrand48 random-number generator seeded with Unix timestamps, answering a provenance question that had been open since the NSA supplied the values without […]

Replit CEO Amjad Masad said during an onstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that the company is no longer working with Anthropic, framing the decision around cost, partnership, and performance. The session recording was published by TechCrunch on October 16, 2026. Onstage Confirmation and Rationale The exchange began when the interviewer asked whether the OpenAI […]

OpenAI introduced the Rosalind Academic Plan on October 15, 2026, giving eligible academic labs at U.S. universities up to 30 complimentary ChatGPT Business Standard seats for up to 12 months, with GPT-Rosalind access contingent on trusted-access approval. The plan bundles the seats, priced at $0 per user per month during the complimentary period, with use […]

A construction project can be on schedule in one system and heading over budget in another. The difficulty is often connecting those signals quickly enough for someone to act. Access Construction, a division of The Access Group, is addressing that problem with the latest generation of Access Evo, an agentic AI layer spanning its estimating, […]

OpenAI announced on October 15, 2026 that its ChatGPT Chrome extension can now look across a user’s open browser tabs, take control of those tabs to complete tasks, and organize and group tabs, extending its computer-use capability to an extension the Chrome Web Store lists at 7,000,000 users. In a series of posts on X […]

NVIDIA, working with IIT Madras and its AI4Bharat lab, on October 16, 2026 introduced Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, a synthetic pretraining corpus of approximately 2.8 trillion tokens across 22 Indian languages that is releasing soon, together with the open, GPU-accelerated data generation pipeline used to create it. The 22 languages are those listed in India’s Constitution, which the […]

FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. and Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. announced on October 15, 2026 the joint launch of FF Nova, an entry-level embodied AI humanoid robot priced at $2,490, and FF Nova Mini, a $299 humanoid for foundational Physical AI education, alongside a new curriculum and developer programs. Both robots join the “One […]