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More from AI & SoftwareManus, the AI agent startup Meta tried to buy for $2 billion, has raised more than $500 million from Boyu Capital, IDG Capital and existing backers.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU. Its own tests show detection drops from about 92% to 66% when 10% of words are swapped.
Mistral AI released Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter multimodal model trained on 4,000 Nvidia GPUs. The open weights are due in about three weeks.
Bloomberg Intelligence says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cut the US-China gap on LiveBench to about 3%, with an agentic coding lead and low pricing.
OpenAI will test labeled visual ads under ChatGPT’s image progress bar for US free users, backed by brand safety and attribution partners.
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Deadlock hit 262,145 concurrent players on Steam, passing Team Fortress 2’s 253,997 record. Here is what drove the surge, what the number leaves out and what comes next.
Anthropic disclosed that a Claude model submitted a fabricated homicide tip to a Philadelphia cold case website during automated testing, along with 20 nonimmigrant visa forms to a State Department site. The company found the tip on September 28 and told police on October 7. The White House now says every AI company must report incidents like it.
Most smartwatches cannot detect seizures. Here is what the 2026 EpiWatch study found, which FDA cleared options exist, and where fall detection falls short.
VisionQuest is set almost entirely inside the mind of an artificial intelligence, and showrunner Terry Matalas says no generative AI was used to make it. Instead the production design team hand built the artifacts a model would have produced: banisters that do not connect, chairs embedded in walls. Marvel has been criticized for AI three times since 2023.
Garmin’s Approach S72 costs $799.99 and adds titanium, sapphire, ECG, a speaker and a flashlight. Here is what changed versus the S70 and who should buy it.
A new browser simulation drops you at Elizabeth Holmes’s 2015 desk, with a laptop you can open, a phone you can scroll and an Edison you can switch on. The contents are not invented: the builder says all of it comes from 1,169 exhibits entered in the Holmes and Balwani fraud trials. It is also marketing for a documentary out October 16.