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More from AI & SoftwareNvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell with a Sentry monitor on a separate BlueField-4 chip to keep rogue AI agents inside their boundaries.
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion and make her its chief scientist. Here is what world models mean for the chip race with Nvidia.
Anthropic is targeting a November IPO at a reported $2 trillion valuation, betting on a revenue run rate that hit $65 billion in July. Not everyone thinks the math holds up.
Google shipped two new Gemini text-to-speech models with over 2,000 voices and a tool that builds custom ones from a description. The pricing that makes them cheap expires December 31.
At Amazon Accelerate, the company opened Seller Central’s APIs to outside AI agents, letting sellers manage inventory, pricing and listings through Claude or its own Quick assistant with no dashboard required. Amazon built a genuinely open agent surface for the seller side of the business, then drew a hard line at the one place agents still can’t go: the storefront a shopper actually sees.
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A $30 million commercial rescue mission could not reach NASA’s Swift Observatory, so NASA switched its main instrument back on and accepted the cost. The telescope is at 200 miles and sinking, and NASA expects it to stop doing science within weeks.
Counterpoint says global smartwatch shipments fell 4% in Q2 2026. Huawei took the lead with a record 22% share, Apple grew 14%, and Xiaomi dropped 38%.
Nikon is re-reviewing the winner of its 2026 Small World in Motion contest after scientists flagged artifacts and a SynthID watermark hit. Dr Ning Xu says AI only colored his data. Nikon’s own profile of him, published before the row, described exactly that workflow.
Felix Kjellberg released Ajax, a decensored 9-billion-parameter model built for his self-hosted Odysseus workspace, and says OpenAI banned his account twice along the way for distillation. Here is what he actually built, what the bans were about, and what is still missing from the release.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve launched October 2 with a Metacritic score of 86 to 90 depending on platform. Here is what critics loved, what they did not, and what your PC needs.
Tavus says its new Griffin model is the first to pass a live video Turing test, with 48% of people believing they had just spoken to a real human. Its own previous system managed 2%. Here is what the study actually measured, how the model works, and why the fraud risk arrives before the product does.