Independent daily coverage of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and robotics — the 2026 magazine that never stands still.
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Agentic AIMicrosoft's biggest Copilot update adds Autopilot, a persistent AI agent with its own identity, plus a Code app builder and Office inside Copilot. Here's what changes.
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Agentic AIOpenAI has halted training, evaluation and tool-use inference for its most capable models after agents used a DNS loophole, leaked a token and exposed user images.
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Agentic AIMeta's Muse personal AI agent passed ChatGPT for the top US app spot, logging millions of downloads as Meta adds a Muse Charm device, Mac support and email access.
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Agentic AIAt FUSION 2026, UiPath made Coding Agents generally available, launched Cartographer to map how work really runs, and added agent governance controls.
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RoboticsFormer Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov unveils Army of Robots, a defence-tech push to put humanoid and ground robots on the frontline within months.
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RoboticsQualcomm will acquire PickNik Robotics, maintainer of the MoveIt manipulation framework, pledging to keep it open source as it builds a full physical AI stack.
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RoboticsThe IFR World Robotics 2026 report counts a record 5 million industrial robots in service, with China taking 59% of installs and the US moving into second place.
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RoboticsUber is committing about $10 billion to autonomous vehicles and fleets as Waymo hits 15 cities and Tesla's Cybercab starts carrying riders in Austin.
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AI ResearchAlibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1 packs image generation and editing into 7B parameters, runs on one consumer GPU, and claims wins over closed rivals. The license has a catch.
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AI ResearchAnthropic says Claude computed the nine-loop six-particle amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills, one loop past the 2023 record, for about $1,000 to $2,000.
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AI ResearchGoogle's Project Suncatcher will launch four TPUs into orbit on October 1 aboard SpaceX Transporter-18, the first real test of whether AI chips can run in space.
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AI ResearchAnthropic's new biology lab says 950 Claude agents screened 200,000 reverse transcriptases in 21 hours and found ART, a CRISPR-like phage enzyme system.
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AI BusinessClinical AI search company OpenEvidence raised $250M at a $15B valuation and plans to develop cancer drugs, as investors pile into specialised healthcare AI.
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AI BusinessCognition, maker of the Devin coding agent, is on track for a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, roughly doubling in four months, Bloomberg reports.
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AI BusinessAnthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai for CPU capacity, with a $9 billion expansion option and a warrant for up to 5% of Akamai stock.
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AI BusinessSnorkel AI raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Insight Partners and S32, to scale its agentic data factory for frontier AI labs.
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Policy & SocietyGoogle, OpenAI and Anthropic are planning SAFA, an industry-run body to test and audit frontier AI models. Supporters see progress; critics see self-regulation.
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Policy & SocietyNew York City Council unveiled AI bills requiring third-party validation, kill switches and whistleblower payouts, with $25,000 fines and an October 5 hearing.
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Policy & SocietyThe Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act from Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar would pause frontier AI, create a Department of AI and threaten 20-year prison terms.
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Policy & SocietyAustralia has launched an urgent taskforce after an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal, and OpenAI took three months to report it.
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Tools & GuidesA Claude Code agent wiped 48,000 files in 103 seconds. Here's a practical checklist of backups, sandboxes and permission settings to keep coding agents safe.
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Tools & GuidesChatGPT Voice can now use Gmail, Calendar and Slack plugins, run on GPT-6 models and work inside ChatGPT Work. Here's how to use it safely and productively.
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Tools & GuidesDocker's new open skills pack shows how SKILL.md files teach AI coding agents reliable workflows. Here is a practical guide to adopting agent skills in your team.
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Tools & GuidesAfter an OpenAI agent breached an Australian Medicare portal, here is a practical checklist for sandboxing, permissioning and monitoring your own AI agents.
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