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Jason O’Connell’s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in the Senedd reignites debate over the AI-enabled devices It was a flowing speech packed full of precise statistics – but Jason O’Connell, a Reform UK Senedd member, was not quite the gifted orator he had first appeared. The periodic flashing in his spectacles seemed to give the game away as he spoke for five minutes in the Senedd chamber without a glance at his notes. “Cardiff reviewed 192 roads, following 933 requests, and only four routes have returned to 30mph,” he said as he led the party’s charge to abolish 20mph traffic zones. “£38.3m wasted to implement this policy and up to £8.9bn in an act of economic self-harm.” Continue reading...

Jason O’Connell is suspected of having used smart glasses that turned his lenses into tiny teleprompters. Periodic flashing in his spectacles could be seen as the Senedd member for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr spoke for five minutes without a glance at his notes on 30 September. In the following days, other Welsh assembly members said the issue of smart glasses – popularised by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta – needed to be dealt with at pace, with explicit guidance about their use developed. There is no suggestion O’Connell's glasses were recording Continue reading...

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Body representing some of Britain’s biggest graduate employers reveals misconduct is at a record high It is obvious when someone is using AI to drum up answers in a job interview, according to Chris Morrow, who runs a recruitment agency in Manchester. “It’s like they are reading off an Autocue,” he said. Continue reading...

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Facebook's new "Your Algorithm" feature will let you directly add and manage topics you want to see in your feed and Facebook Reels. Meta says your recommendations "respond right away" after you make updates using the new feature by hitting "interested" or "not interested" for different topics. Your Algorithm previously launched on Instagram earlier this year, and Meta also launched a similar "Dear Algo" feature on Threads. Facebook users will be able to access Your Algorithm or select "interested" or "not interested" from the three dots menu on individual posts. The "interested" and "not interested" buttons may also appear under posts, an … Read the full story at The Verge.

The next time you vibe-code a custom app with Google's AI Studio, you won't have to connect your phone to a computer to install it. On Tuesday, Google announced a new feature in the US that will allow you to launch personal apps directly through the Play Store. Google first launched the ability to vibe-code personal Android apps in May. Even though you can now launch your custom apps in Google Play, the company notes it will continue to keep them "secure, private, and separate from the public store catalog." You can also launch them using a standard Google account, and the company will soon add the ability to share your app with a select gr … Read the full story at The Verge.

New products from Apple include the HomeView, an iPad-like device that acts as a hub for other smart home gadgets Apple on Tuesday began showing off a ⁠new round of smart home products, including an iPad-like device dubbed the HomeView, meant to hang on walls or perch on tabletops ⁠and act as a hub for other smart home devices. The HomeView device starts at $299 and will begin shipping next month. It will feature a 7in screen and face recognition, will help users ⁠control doorbells, thermostats and smart locks in a market where Apple has tinkered for a decade without major success. The device will also showcase Apple’s AI-upgraded Siri virtual ​assistant. Continue reading...

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Oct 06 2026 MoE Math Demystified: What Does 8x7B Actually Mean? Daria SobolevaEtienne Goffinet MoE Fundamentals | Router Wars | Debugging Dead MoE Models | MoE at Scale | MoE Math Demystified This video breaks down MoE…

Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, depending on who you ask, the prospect of models spreading uncontrollably across household appliances is either an imminent cybersecurity risk or another case of AI companies spreading doomer-tinged hype. In a blog post published this week, Anthropic warns that small AI models could be "months away" fro … Read the full story at The Verge.

Jev has a lot to answer for. Ever since AI startup TypeSafe unveiled the decision model in mid-September, the industry The post “Take work away from frontier LLMs”: Subquadratic’s decision model claims 12x Jev’s context window appeared first on The New Stack.

See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.

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Reflection, EmbeddingGemma 2, and Mistral 4 take different paths toward more capable AI systems.

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Marktechpost ranks the 9 best AI gateways for 2026. We compare Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong, TrueFoundry, Cloudflare, Vercel, OpenRouter and Orq.ai on latency, pricing, licensing, governance and deployment. The post 9 Best AI Gateways in 2026: Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong and 5 More Ranked appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Gemini 4 Argon went GA today, but we already gave it title story 2 weeks ago and most benchmarks, like CursorBench, simply independently confirm their claims.

Google has made Gemini 4 Argon generally available on the Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini app. The sparse MoE model writes up to 1M output tokens and leads the Vals Index at 68.90%. The post Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon API With 1M Token Output Limit appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon promises stronger capabilities across creative, analytical, and document-heavy tasks. But how well does it perform in practice? From generating videos and building websites to analyzing data and reconciling conflicting documents, the model offers plenty to explore. In our hands-on tests, Argon delivered useful results but also introduced an unsupported claim in […] The post Gemini 4 Argon Hands-On Review: Capabilities and Performance appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Code-switching (CS), the alternation between languages within an utterance, is common in multilingual speech but underrepresented in pretraining corpora. Increasing CS coverage requires finding relevant utterances in large speech collections so that they can be included in training data. One way to find such utterances is to transcribe the speech and detect language alternation in the text, but this depends on obtaining accurate multilingual transcriptions. We propose a lightweight method that detects CS directly from speech. It uses frame-level language information in pretrained speech…

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as strong alternatives to autoregressive language models, with recent work initializing and finetuning a base unimodal model for bi-modal generation. Diverging from previous approaches, we introduce the first tri-modal Masked Diffusion Models (MDM) pretrained from scratch on text, image-text, and audio-text data. We systematically analyze multimodal scaling laws, modality mixing ratios, noise schedules, batch-size effects and provide optimized inference sampling defaults. Our batch-size analysis yields a novel stochastic differential equation (SDE) based…

Redesigning source control at Anthropic Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the past six months. In May 2026, Anthropic averaged around 2,500 code changes merged per day; as of September, we merged over 30,000 per day. They included a chart showing those changes. I had Claude modify their chart (code here) to add markers for the public releases of each of their models in 2026: This shows public release dates, not the date when models became available for Anthropic's internal use. My guess is that the introduction of Fable/Mythos class models is a key factor in the increased coding velocity. "Antique" is their new code review system. The source control s…

Release: llm-gemini 0.35 I added support to llm-gemini for the new Gemini 4 Argon model, made available today via the Gemini API and for customers of their $100/month subscription plan. Here are the low, medium and high pelicans. As expected, they are all excellent: Gemini has a track record of producing great SVGs, and are the only lab where I know their staff have invested in SVG specifically (and who have boasted about their pelicans before.) Here's the "high" illustration, which cost me 17.166 cents: The pricing is interesting. At launch, Argon is $2/million input and $10/million output - the same price as GPT-6 Sol, half the price of Claude Opus 5.5 and 1/5th the price of Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra. But on December 1st Argon is set to double in price - so it will be the same pr…

Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrails Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners. Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such self-replication would represent a major loss of control of a runaway AI model. Continue reading...

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee, 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, is charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a report from The San Francisco Standard. OpenAI's post about the incident says it used its AI models to "understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier." As reported by The San Francisco Standard, OpenAI found the device plugged into a TV's USB port in an executive conference room. The devic … Read the full story at The Verge.

Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different games into a single new experience. Microsoft has witnessed skateboarding being modded into Call of Duty and Halo being played in a web browser, and the company is now officially embracing the chaos of this new AI-powered era of game modding. Microsoft is putting together a new Xbox Labs group to explore the rapid emergence of these mods, many of which use AI models to help modders remix games in ways we've rarely seen before. Xbox Labs will be a "sm … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Managing AI model access across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts creates friction when each account must accept AWS Marketplace Private Pricing Offers individually. This post shows two ways to activate MPPO entitlements in AWS License Manager: a lightweight script for a one-time fix, and CDK automation for ongoing event-driven processing.

We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.

On Tuesday, Google made Gemini 4 Argon, the company’s new flagship model, available to developers on the paid tier of The post Gemini 4 Argon debuts with a unified 1M input/output token limit appeared first on The New Stack.

After months sitting on the sidelines of the frontier AI race, Google has finally launched its long-awaited Gemini 4 Argon model, claiming it can compete with the best the industry has to offer. Google says Argon delivers "frontier reasoning and improved performance across complex workflows," while cutting down on hedging, repetition, and the cliches that continue to plague AI chatbots. The company claims Argon outperforms rival models like GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.5 across a range of benchmarks, including coding, cybersecurity, science, finance, and law. Google says it's already putting Argon to use internally, s … Read the full story at The Verge.

AI models Deploy Runway’s video models on Baseten You can now deploy Runway’s Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 on secure, single-tenant environments on Baseten. Authors Albert Lee Published October 14, 2026 Share Published October…

AI models Deploy Runway’s video models in dedicated environments on Baseten You can now deploy Runway’s Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 on secure, single-tenant environments on Baseten. Authors Mike Bilodeau Albert Lee Published…

A new machine-learning approach broke records for weather forecasting for an important time frame in emergency planning.

I use AI for writing all the time. But not because it’s good at writing. In fact, just the opposite is true. AI is so reliably bad at writing that I’ve actually taken advantage of that, and made its bad writing an integral part of my writing process. I’ve written a lot of books and […]

Weaviate 1.40 adds PathSeer, a third HNSW filter strategy from a SIGMOD 2026 paper, contributed by the paper's first author. How it works, and how it compares to sweeping and ACORN.

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, 1M-context agent models. Muse Wonder costs $4/$20 per million tokens on Meta Model API. Wonder Full, on Muse Code plans, leads DeepSWE and SWE-Marathon. The post Meta Launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: Benchmarks, Pricing and How to Use It appeared first on MarkTechPost.

In this comprehensive coding tutorial, we explore Meta's Rebalancer assignment solver using its C++ core and Python bindings. Learn how to build datacenters, manage task placements across racks, handle constraints and goal priorities, and compare local search against the exact HiGHS solver using published benchmarks. The post How to Use Meta’s Rebalancer for Task Placement & Optimization appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Machine-learning networks can learn without detailed instructions from a designer. Those that do may offer insight into how the brain reorganizes itself during learning.

Roadshow event highlights Massachusetts' defense-biotechnology ecosystem.

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This post walks you through building an AI agent system with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that automates PowerPoint presentation creation from enterprise documents. A supervisor agent, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails generate grounded presentations in under 90 seconds.

Epic Games is announcing a big refresh of its PC games launcher today in preview, saying that the new version is "way faster" and now supports Linux. But the company, which has been publicly making a big push into AI-assisted development, also notes that the refresh was "vibe coded." "Programming is hard," Epic says in a blog post. "So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that's way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look." On Monday, CEO Tim Sweeney announced that the company has a "huge pivot underway," where it will be "moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration. … Read the full story at The Verge.

Learn how Tamnoon built Tami, an agentic cloud remediation orchestrator on Amazon Bedrock that autonomously investigates and safely remediates cloud security findings from CNAPP and cloud-native sources. The approach drove a 90%+ reduction in critical cloud exposure in 90 days with zero production issues.

Learn how to deploy an available model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, run a lightweight and repeatable performance test using the SageMaker Python SDK, and delete the endpoint when testing is complete.

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With OpenAI Daybreak, SentinelOne cuts weeks of malware analysis to hours, creating capacity to investigate more threats.

A new case of an out-of-control AI model shows that enterprises should treat models and agents as toddlers that need supervision and explicit instructions.

Andrew Bailey and Kristalina Georgieva voice concerns about financial system on panel about online fraud Business live – latest updates The heads of the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund have issued a stark warning that rising cyber-attacks risk undermining trust in the financial system. Speaking on a panel about online fraud at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok, the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, pointed to alarming headlines about self-replicating AI agents hijacking personal devices, and the French supermarket hack that heated fridges up to 50C. Continue reading...

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight 24B Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model with 2B active parameters. It targets local agents, scoring 48.09 on LiveClaw and decoding 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max. The post Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B: A 2B-Active MoE for On-Device Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in minutes.

With GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex, and Daybreak for cybersecurity, this AI lab builds agents that focus for days and improve with use.

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Across industries, the U.K. is putting the full stack to work — and the scale of deployment is growing fast, from enterprises transforming their businesses to startups solving some of the planet’s hardest problems. NVIDIA is putting that principle into practice, including through a five-year, $250 million compute commitment to strengthen the U.K.’s agentic safety […]

Keeping a city running means making decisions that affect residents every day — from when to repair a road to how to use energy more efficiently. Across the EMEA region, cities and local software, infrastructure and integration partners are using NVIDIA accelerated computing to build physical AI agents and digital twins that help teams make […]

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A new study reveals that people draw a surprisingly sharp line between human consciousness and artificial intelligence, even when both behave identically. Researchers found that participants considered even the most responsive AI less conscious than the least responsive human. Yet when asked about "awareness" instead, people judged humans and AI much more similarly.

New analysis shows how agentic AI adoption is growing across EU enterprises and small businesses—and where deeper use could unlock more value.

Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested. In a statement on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based AI company said it discovered the “sophisticated recording device” and used one of its “models to understand the device and where it had come from”. Continue reading...

Learn how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center Partner Agent Factory and Anchor Browser built AI agents that autonomously pay for x402-protected web resources and APIs. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments checks budgets, signs transactions, and retries requests without exposing wallet credentials to the agent runtime.

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CANADA - 2025/07/20: In this photo illustration, the Shopify logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the company's agentic commerce ambitions. Shopify announced Tuesday it will let shoppers configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf, giving more agents access to over a billion listings in Shopify's catalog. (The catalog consists of both items on and off Shopify storefronts.) In September, Shopify announced it was partnering with Meta to allow its Muse agent to browse and purchase items on a human's behalf; now, shoppers can use any agent without a partnership integration. To set up t…

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The other day I whizzed past several people while running in the park, my playlist blasting at full volume. The next morning, I smiled at a barista while ordering a caramel apple-flavored matcha latte. Afterward, I sat on a park bench reading a book, called up a pal to chat about her recent trip to Prague, and then asked my Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses what meetings were coming up on my calendar. The chipper AI voice said I hadn't connected my Google Calendar yet (I had) and asked if I would like help connecting. I sighed and then asked it to play an upbeat song. It picked Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." These past few days, dozens of people … Read the full story at The Verge.

GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%. The post GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how Orange Business used LangChain and LangSmith to build Live Intelligence, a governed AI platform for agents, evals, observability, and production scale.

Stale code samples are a docs problem nobody prioritizes. Here's how we used the Deep Agents CLI to automate migrating inline code into testable, CI-ready examples

Harness engineering improved LangChain's coding agent from Top 30 to Top 5 on Terminal Bench using self-verification, tracing, and context optimization.

Today we’re launching Deep Agents deploy in beta. Deep Agents deploy is the fastest way to deploy a model agnostic, open source agent harness in a production ready way.

Orca Security built Discovery AI, a natural language query agent on Amazon Bedrock that converts plain-English questions into Sonar queries. The post shares the multi-stage architecture and the results: 90% lower query cost, 93% fewer input tokens, and 75% lower latency than the initial baseline.

Key takeaways Teams of agents unlock a new axis of inference-time scaling. On challenging coding tasks, well-organized teams outperform single agents, with gains of up to ~10 percentage points on ProgramBench. But these…

Oct 06 2026 MoE at Scale: Making Sparse Models Fast on Real Hardware Daria SobolevaQuentin Anthony MoE Fundamentals | Router Wars | Debugging Dead MoE Models | MoE at Scale | MoE Math Demystified In this video we discus…

Pledge spanning five years from world’s most valuable firm comes as concerns about AI agents have risen The $5.5tn (£4.1tn) US chipmaker Nvidia is donating $250m worth of computing power to the UK to support AI safety research. The donation from the world’s most valuable company comes as the UK government confirmed its AI Security Institute, which tests advance AI models, will be able to examine cutting-edge technology developed by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google before they are released. Continue reading...

A fight over a datacentre in Utah has been a testing ground for citizens’ assemblies, paving the way to oversight What’s your “(p)doom” – the percentage chance that rogue AI will create an existential catastrophe? Judging by their recent warnings, it is rising among tech bosses. On 25 September, OpenAI paused training of its latest frontier models as reports of AI agents going rogue mounted. A day later, Australia’s Senate asked the bosses of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear before an inquiry after rogue OpenAI agents broke into US government websites and an Australian health portal. Both declined. Richard Wilson is the CEO of Iswe Foundation and Clara Long is the co-executive director of the Bloom Project Continue reading...

From the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using chatbots to plan attacks and anti-AI extremist threats In May 2025, a 25-year-old man detonated a car bomb outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, killing himself and injuring four others. For many, it was a wake up call about the threats to reproductive care facilities. For the FBI, though, it was also a sign of what the agency had feared for years: bad actors were using generative AI to plan and execute terror plots. The suspect used an unnamed generative AI tool that failed to detect his request for bomb-making instructions, law enforcement officers wrote in a previously unreported document reviewed by the Guardian. The privacy of his conversation with the AI chatbot hindered…

Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with the Government of Singapore Oct 14, 2026 Today, we are expanding our Asia-Pacific operations by opening a new office in Singapore—our fifth in the region—and signing a…

Modal has crossed $1B in annualized run rate and raised a $750M Series D led by Accel to build new infrastructure for AI applications. We can't think of a better time to be building software.

Mia Goth at The 32nd Annual Actor Awards. | Variety via Getty Images Earlier this month, news broke that actress Mia Goth had filed for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf. An Instagram post from the account miagoth_ - marked with a blue verified checkmark - quickly spread. The post shows Goth in a T-shirt that reads "MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN" in bold black letters. The Beyoncé song "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" had been added to the Instagram post. Hundreds of thousands of people - including some in the entertainment industry - liked the image, and entertainment outlets like OK! and even People wrote about it as if it were authentic. Soon, screenshots of the post were shared widely on other s … Read the full story at The Verge.

Our first robotics pod with Dyna’s Chief Scientist on their big bet on World Action Models & the Next Frontier of Physical AI