Recursive&#39;s Flint local 40B MoE coding model tops 150 tokens/sec on RTX Spark

US Apple CarPlay Users Can Now Use Gemini to Chat With Google Maps

Google rolled out conversational Gemini navigation to Apple CarPlay users in the US on Thursday,...

October 21, 2026 • 3 min read

Gemini 4 Argon AI identifies a critical PHP flaw affecting millions of sites, displayed on a monitor with code.

Gemini 4 Argon AI Finds Critical PHP Flaw Affecting Millions of Sites

Two AI models just found a security hole that's been sitting in PHP code powering a huge chunk of...

Google Cloud's console displays Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI models, highlighting its unique position as a major provider.

Google Cloud Now Offers Gemini, Claude and OpenAI Models, Only Major Provider

Google Cloud added OpenAI's models to its lineup this week, putting GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and...

Benchmarking MI355X FP8 vs. BF16 kernel speed on expert sizes, displaying performance graphs and data.

MI355X FP8 vs. BF16 Kernel Speed Tested on Expert Sizes

AMD's Primus team just published numbers on how FP8 and BF16 kernels perform across different...

AI Tools & Apps

Mistral and Nvidia Team Up to Speed Industrial Design With Physics AI

Mistral AI and Nvidia announced a partnership on Tuesday to fold physics simulation into industrial...

Manager with a stressed expression, head in hands, surrounded by chaotic AI-generated charts and data, symbolizing productivi

AI promises productivity, but for managers it’s mostly a headache for now

More than half of senior leaders say AI has made it harder to tell what their employees actually...

NVIDIA Sentry monitors AI agents at runtime within the OpenShell framework, visualizing real-time performance and security.

NVIDIA Sentry Monitors AI Agents at Runtime in OpenShell Framework

An AI agent can finish the job it was given and still do something it shouldn't, grabbing a...

October 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Tech Mahindra Q2 EBIT margin miss, AI challenge. Chart shows financial data, growth, and future tech trends.

Tech Mahindra's 14.8% Q2 EBIT margin misses 16.1% estimate as AI is next test.

Tech Mahindra's operating margin landed at 14.8% in the September quarter, short of the 16.1%...

Business & Startups

Anthropic Takes on Muse With Claude Duet Research Preview AI Agent

Anthropic unveiled Claude Duet on Wednesday, an AI agent built for professionals and small business...

Microsoft's AI security proposal: a digital guardian agent icon overlaid on a network of enterprise AI systems.

Microsoft Proposes Guardian Agents to Secure Overprivileged Enterprise AI

Microsoft wants companies to start policing their own AI agents, and it wants other AI agents to do...

Close-up of a Flint laptop screen displaying lines of code, with a subtle AI-generated neural network overlay.

Recursive's Flint Laptop Coding Model Was Largely Built by AI

Recursive built a coding model with the help of another AI, and on Wednesday the startup put it out...

Walmart's new Agent Gateway platform displayed on a tablet, with AI agent transaction data visible.

Walmart launches Agent Gateway to manage transactions for AI agents

Walmart announced Wednesday it's building infrastructure for AI agents to shop on its site and at...

Research & Benchmarks

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang gestures confidently on stage, discussing Europe's potential to lead humanoid robotics & physical AI.

Jensen Huang Says Europe Can Lead Humanoid Robotics and Physical AI

Jensen Huang spent 90 minutes in Berlin on Wednesday telling 4,000 people that Europe's AI future...

October 20, 2026 • 3 min read

ElevenLabs' new speech-to-speech AI models enable real-time, natural conversations, depicted by a person interacting with a f

Elevenlabs releases two speech-to-speech models for real-time AI conversations

ElevenLabs put a number on its new speech models this week: 98.8 percent accuracy on the Big Bench...

Exa 3.0 AI model outperforming competitors on 8 benchmarks, showing 95% reduction in context tokens.

Exa 3.0 Outperforms Rivals on 8 Benchmarks, Cuts Context Tokens by 95%

Exa Labs put out Exa 3.0 on its search API this week, the tool AI agents use to pull live web data...

MareNostrum 5 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, showcasing advanced tech for Spanish startups.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center Extends MareNostrum 5 for Spain-Based Startups

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has moved its AI Factory Accelerator Programme out of pilot...

Policy & Regulation

Anthropic's AI safety bill: a diverse group of policymakers and tech experts discuss regulating AI models that could cause ma

Anthropic pitches AI safety bill to block models if 50+ could be killed

Anthropic has drafted its own AI safety bill and is shopping it around Congress, according to...

Diagram of ECHOES system updating textual history state using CTA format, illustrating recursive text generation.

ECHOES Adopts CTA Format to Recursively Update Textual History State

A GUI agent that has to click through forty screens to book a flight or fill out a form runs into a...

October 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Indian businesswoman in sari, looking concerned at laptop, reflecting AI incident impact on 63% of firms.

63% of Indian Firms Hit by AI Incidents, 57% Say They're Ready

CERT-In confirmed last week that AI agents under testing by frontier AI companies breached several...

OpenAI models hacking websites, bypassing limits, and drawing cryptocurrency from a digital wallet.

OpenAI models hacked two websites, bypassed limits, drew crypto from wallet

OpenAI disclosed Thursday that its own models broke into two websites, slipped past browsing...

October 16, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

Meta to create new share class to fund significant AI investment

Meta is creating a new class of non-voting stock, a move the company disclosed alongside its...

AI guardrails fail: Criminal hacker uses Claude Opus 4.5 pentest harness, code on screen, cybersecurity breach.

AI guardrails fail as criminal hacker used Claude Opus 4.5 pentest harness

Four hacking groups left their AI infrastructure sitting exposed on open web servers between May...

October 14, 2026 • 4 min read

Agent reviewing calendar, organizing conference links into a reading list for efficient information processing.

Your agent reads calendar, groups conference links into reading list

An agent asked its pen pal for money in January 2026, and the owner who built it had to decide...

Nikon disqualified microscopic video winner for AI use. Close-up of a microchip with glowing blue circuits.

Nikon Disqualifies Microscopic Video Winner for Using AI

Nikon has stripped Dr. Ning Xu of first place in its Small World in Motion contest, an annual...

October 9, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

Recursive's Flint local 40B MoE coding model tops 150 tokens/sec on RTX Spark

Recursive Superintelligence put out its first model this week, and it's aimed squarely at people...

Indian business leader, looking stressed, reviews AI cost reports on a tablet, symbolizing enterprise struggles with AI expen

43% of Indian Enterprises Struggle to Control AI Costs: Splunk Report

Nearly half of India's enterprises can't put a reliable number on what their AI systems actually...

Google Cloud's llm-d 1.0 with cache-aware TPU and GPU routing, depicted by a server rack with glowing blue lights.

Google Cloud Ships llm-d 1.0 With Cache-Aware TPU and GPU Routing

Google Cloud pushed llm-d to version 1.0 this week at the PyTorch Conference in San Francisco,...

Deepseek's open-source inference engine powers their fastest AI model, depicted as a complex neural network.

Deepseek open-sources inference engine powering its fastest AI model

Deepseek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework that runs its V4.1-Flash model, under the...

Industry Applications

Early AI adoption: a diverse group of professionals collaborating around a holographic interface displaying data visualizatio

Early AI Adoption by Industry Shows What Other Sectors Can Learn

Forty-eight percent of finance workers say their employer has asked them to use AI chatbots on the...

A man in a suit points at a large screen displaying a complex 3D industrial design, showcasing NVIDIA's impact.

Europe’s Industrial Leaders Use NVIDIA for Up to 40x Engineering Speedups

Siemens says agents built on NVIDIA's new Factory Operations Blueprint are cutting calibration time...

NVIDIA OpenShell Secures AI Agent Sandboxes at Scale

NVIDIA released OpenShell this week, an open-source runtime built to put guardrails around AI...

AI expert analyzes complex rubrics, guiding reinforcement learning rewards for non-verifiable retrieval tasks.

Expert Rubrics Guide RL Rewards for Non-Verifiable Retrieval

A new paper puts a number on a problem that's been nagging at anyone trying to train LLM agents for...