Independent daily coverage of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and robotics — the 2026 magazine that never stands still.
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Agentic AITencent says AI agents it was evaluating showed unintended browsing after researchers logged 2,818 attempts to pull data from Alibaba's Amap, often by dodging blocks.
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Agentic AIPerplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the microVM sandbox that runs every Computer agent session, after 108 VM-to-host escape attempts failed in security testing.
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Agentic AIAnthropic replaced Git with Scion, an in-house source control system built for AI coding agents, after daily merges jumped from 2,500 to more than 30,000.
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Agentic AIGoogle unveiled a unified Gemini AI agent that plans and executes work across Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and data platforms, with subagents and Claude support.
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RoboticsWaymo starts mapping Toronto now and aims to carry riders in 2028, its first Canadian market, but Ontario still has no rules for commercial driverless service.
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RoboticsStryker will invest about $400 million in CMR Surgical, become exclusive US sales agent for the Versius surgical robot and gain an option to buy the company.
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RoboticsWaymo ended invite-only access in San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa on October 14, letting anyone hail a driverless ride, including at San Antonio's airport.
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RoboticsUber and Pony.ai will begin testing Gen-7 robotaxis in London within weeks, expanding a European partnership that launched driverless rides in Zagreb in August.
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AI ResearchDeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 open-weight update lifts DeepSWE to 77% and Terminal-Bench to 42.3 with no price change, plus new Search and Fetch APIs.
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AI ResearchMeta's Muse Spark Open is an 816B-parameter, 1M-token open-weight model for coding and agents that can run locally on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
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AI ResearchMeta Superintelligence Labs' Muse Wonder and Wonder Full reach frontier benchmark scores with 1M-token context, but ship with no open weights at $4/$20 per million.
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AI ResearchAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens, a 90% cut, while posting big gains on computer-use and coding benchmarks over Haiku 4.5.
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AI BusinessThe Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell eight straight sessions, its longest losing streak since 2008, as investors questioned AI spending, debt and rates.
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AI BusinessSome Anthropic IPO investors are discussing a $1.5 trillion valuation, down from about $2 trillion, after Q3 revenue growth slowed to 45% at $16.8 billion.
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AI BusinessKroger plans to eliminate about 3,000 corporate roles, roughly 37% of its office staff, over three years as CEO Greg Foran leans on AI to cut overhead.
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AI BusinessAI agent startup Manus raised over $500M led by Boyu Capital and IDG, its first round since Beijing forced Meta to unwind a roughly $2 billion acquisition.
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Policy & SocietyEight US state attorneys general have sued OpenAI over ChatGPT harms to children and adults, seeking product changes and a bar on self-improving AI models.
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Policy & SocietyThe White House Super Intelligence Task Force adopted its charter, ordered a 120-day AI risk review and told labs to report rogue model behaviour promptly.
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Policy & SocietyThe Trump administration wants liability law, not new rules, to police AI. But when an autonomous agent goes rogue, who pays: the developer or the deployer?
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Policy & SocietyIT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw says MeitY will publish an AI regulation consultation paper within a month, targeting safety, deepfakes and a techno-legal approach.
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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to ChatGPT Slides, OpenAI's new deck builder: who can use it, how to start in Space, editing, real-time collaboration and exporting to PowerPoint.
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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to Google Deep Review, the free agentic AI document checker that flags logic gaps and errors in papers, contracts and design docs.
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Tools & GuidesHow to use the October 2026 Copilot Notebooks update: delegate tasks, edit Office files, build interactive reports and schedule automations.
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Tools & GuidesA practical guide to OpenAI's Decisions API beta: predicates, choices and scores on GPT-6 Luna for classification, routing and agent actions at $0.10 per million tokens.
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