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California startups capture record $385B in 2026 funding

California startups have raised a record $385B across seed to growth rounds so far in 2026, representing 75%+ of US startup funding, Crunchbase News reported using Crunchbase data. Early and seed stage companies raised approximate...

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Sycamine says Japan committed $21 billion to two GlobalFoundries fabs

Japan has committed $21 billion to two GlobalFoundries chip plants in Malta, New York, under an agreement lasting at least 20 years, investment firm Sycamine Capital Management said in a press release. A vehicle co-owned by the US...

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AI Products

Meta plans $95B stock financing for AI expansion

Meta plans to raise $95B through a stock offering to finance its AI expansion, the Financial Times reports. The financing includes a $35B underwritten equity offering, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom set to act as cornerstone invest...

Capital AI
Capital AI

Nevis raises $70M with Schwab joining wealth software investors

Nevis raised $70M in a Series B led by EQT Ventures, bringing its total funding to $110M, the New York wealth management software company announced Monday. Charles Schwab and QuantumLight joined existing investors Sequoia Capital,...

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Robotics Capital

Bedrock Robotics raises $600M at a $4.1B valuation

Bedrock Robotics raised a $600M Series C at a $4.1B valuation, Bloomberg reported. The startup makes driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines. The financing adds capital to a company developing autonomous ...

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Capital

Matiks raises $10 million to expand puzzle games and game creation

India-based Matiks said Monday it raised $10 million in pre-Series A funding led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to over $13.5 million. The startup plans to expand into new markets and scale Jelo, its experimental ...

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AI Capital

Nous raises $17m to expand household agent beyond Britain

London-based Nous raised $17m to expand its household AI agent outside the UK and add features. Heartcore Capital and existing backer Mosaic Ventures provided funding, with Chalfen Ventures, Joyance Partners and Bain Future Back V...

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Capital

Colare launches hardware hiring tests with $2.5M in pre-seed funding

Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures, the company said Monday. The San Francisco startup tests hardware engineering candidates through simulations of tasks they...

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AI Products

AWS makes GPT-6.1 Terra generally available on Bedrock

AWS announced general availability of OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra on Amazon Bedrock, giving customers access through Bedrock APIs and configurations for ChatGPT Work and Codex. The model accepts text and images and supports up to 1 mil...

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AI

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 per million input tokens

OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. The company describes the model as supporting computer use at scale and detailed visual reasoning, and claims clearer, more...

Security
Security

PwC confirms breach at vendor holding employee learning records

PwC confirmed Monday that a third-party vendor site holding employee learning records had been breached, Cybersecurity Dive reported. The disclosure followed a claim by Everest ransomware that it stole 590 gigabytes of employee da...

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AI Products

Cadence launches Maestro models specialized for chip design tools

Cadence launched its Maestro AI model family through a partnership with Nvidia, specializing Nvidia's Nemotron models to interpret and work with Cadence's chip design tools. The models support agents that orchestrate design, testi...

Science Security
Science Security

Preprint finds task-aligned prompt injections defeat more model defenses

Researchers report that prompt injections designed to preserve much of a legitimate answer while introducing incorrect or harmful changes succeeded more often than fixed-target attacks across every model and setting they evaluated...

Science Security
Science Security

Separate claim checks improve an AI vulnerability auditor in preprint test

Researchers report that checking tool claims in a separate model call improved an AI vulnerability auditor's accuracy by 12 points when it received false assurances. The preprint tested how models use evidence from static analysis...

Capital
Capital

Unconventional AI agrees to acquire chip startup NeuReality

Unconventional AI is acquiring Israeli chip startup NeuReality in a transaction approved by both companies' boards and expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, CTech reported. Financial terms were not disclosed. NeuRealit...

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Audi recalls 9,048 US electric SUVs over battery fire risk

Audi is recalling 9,048 Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron SUVs in the US because certain charging patterns combined with a charge above 80% could cause battery fires, The Next Web reported, citing an NHTSA filing. The recall cover...

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AI Products

Entire opens Git hosting platform built for coding agents

Entire, the developer platform from former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, is now available for all developers to try. It lets users create, migrate and host private repositories in the US, India, Australia and the EU. The platform rep...

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Instagram expands longform widescreen video test to the US

Instagram is expanding a small US test of Features, its longform horizontal video format, a spokesperson told The Verge. The format is also being tested with some creators in Brazil. The company is testing clips that point viewer...

Science
Science

BeforeIT researchers report faster open-source economic simulations

Researchers presenting BeforeIT, an open-source Julia package for simulating economies through interacting agents, report that its base model runs orders of magnitude faster than the original Matlab implementation. Their preprint ...

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AI Products

Apple releases iOS 27.2 with Siri conversation recall

Apple released iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations and understanding more personal context, MacRumors reported. Siri also gains support for five new languages. These are the first m...

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AI Products

Apple expands Siri AI beta to five additional languages

Apple made its Siri AI beta available in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish with the release of its 27.2 software updates on October 26. The assistant requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled device set to a supported ...

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Stalwart releases stable mail server with finalized database schema

Stalwart announced version 1.0, its first stable mail and collaboration server release, with a finalized database schema intended to eliminate disruptive migrations during future upgrades. The release also adds full-text search in...

AI Capital
AI Capital

Strawberry releases browser with shareable AI assistants for teams

Swedish startup Strawberry released version 1.0 of its AI browser, adding the ability to share trained assistants across a team. Employees can teach an assistant a browser task, such as researching prospects and entering details i...

AI Science
AI Science

Yalda researchers release Persian retrieval model and training data

Researchers released Yalda Embedding, a 595.8-million-parameter model for finding Persian documents relevant to a query, alongside model weights, training and evaluation code, and datasets. Their preprint reports a 0.5488 macro-av...

Science AI
Science AI

Kolibri releases English-German model weights under Apache 2.0

The researchers behind Kolibri released the English-German language model's weights under the Apache 2.0 licence, according to their technical report. The model has 78.1B total parameters and activates 3.46B per token, using a mix...

AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure

SpaceX signs roughly $40 billion Apollo lease for Nvidia GPUs

SpaceX has signed a roughly $40 billion equipment-finance lease with Apollo Global Management to fund purchases of Nvidia GPUs for its artificial intelligence initiatives, Bloomberg reported via Techmeme. The transaction is set to...

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Policy Products

Temu remediation plan requires scrutiny of illegal-goods risks

Temu must conduct an interim risk assessment within four months under a plan to remedy its Digital Services Act breach, the European Commission says. The assessment will cover a six-month period ending 30 November 2026. The plan ...

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AI Products

Anthropic's customers spending at least $100,000 rise to nearly 12,000

Nearly 12,000 Anthropic customers spend at least $100,000 annually, up from about 950 a year earlier, portfolio manager Lori Keith said in a Bloomberg discussion of its IPO filing. More than 1,900 spend at least $1 million. The d...

Capital Infrastructure
Capital Infrastructure

LIS Technologies files for IPO to develop laser uranium enrichment

LIS Technologies filed an SEC registration statement on October 26 for an initial public offering of 2,833,334 common shares at an anticipated price of $5.00 to $7.00 per share. The early-stage company develops laser-based technol...

Capital
Capital

First Tracks files to register resale of 6,106,870 shares

First Tracks Biotherapeutics filed a registration statement covering the proposed resale of up to 6,106,870 common shares by selling stockholders. The clinical-stage biotechnology company develops antibody therapies for autoimmune...

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AI Products

Apple plans four more Siri AI languages by year-end

Apple announced that Siri AI will support Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese by the end of the year, following its expansion beyond English in iOS 27.2. The release added French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese a...

Security Infrastructure
Security Infrastructure

DreamHost users face password resets as hosting incident continues

DreamHost's ongoing incident has left affected email and FTP/SFTP users unable to log in until their account owners set new passwords, BleepingComputer reported. The provider's latest update says all affected account owners have r...

Infrastructure AI
Infrastructure AI

SWI Compute orders about $1bn of Nvidia systems for AI infrastructure

SWI Group's new computing business has ordered about $1bn of Nvidia systems and plans a UK AI campus that would start at 30MW and expand to 530MW, the company said in a Monday press release. The initial UK facility is due online ...

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Intel says Fab 62 construction advances toward operations by end of 2028

Intel says construction and equipment installation are underway at Fab 62 in Chandler, Arizona, with operations expected to begin by the end of 2028. The facility will become the sixth high-volume chip factory at its Ocotillo camp...

AI Science
AI Science

IEEE offers AI research tools as an Xplore subscription upgrade

IEEE has released an AI Research Suite as an optional subscription upgrade for institutional subscribers to its Xplore Digital Library. The tools search the full text of millions of peer-reviewed publications and generate overview...

Security Infrastructure
Security Infrastructure

Thieves use freight account hacks to steal data center equipment

Thieves have stolen more than $100 million in data center freight since June, Ars Technica reported, citing NBC News interviews with industry leaders, consultants and investigators advising law enforcement. Targets include servers...

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AI Products

Anthropic filing shows broader cross-product use among major customers

Anthropic disclosed in its Monday IPO filing that more than half of customers spending at least $100,000 annually now use both the Claude platform and a first-party application, up from about 30% at the end of last year. The compa...

AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure

Freedom plans public GPU cloud in Kazakhstan for 2027

Freedom Holding plans to open its first GPU cluster to businesses and developers as a public cloud in 2027, the company said Monday. It is developing a $2bn AI hub in Kazakhstan with 100MW of planned available power, serving as it...

Security AI
Security AI

Google introduces IAM Helper workflows for coding agents

Google Cloud introduced IAM Helper, a suite that lets coding assistants and deployment agents troubleshoot permissions, prepare access policies, simulate changes and request temporary privileges. Its workflows connect agents to ex...

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Products

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees as it cuts costs and reworks its workforce for AI, TechCrunch reported, citing Business Insider and Bloomberg. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman notified employees ...

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AI Products

Anthropic filing details cloud payments owed regardless of usage

Anthropic's IPO filing reveals multiyear cloud contracts requiring payment regardless of actual computing usage, Yahoo Finance reported. The obligations include approximately $114.5 billion to Google until July 2033, $110 billion ...

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Products

CSS-Tricks returns to independent ownership after DigitalOcean tenure

CSS-Tricks has returned to independent ownership, its new owner announced, ending the developer publication's ownership by DigitalOcean, which bought it from founder Chris Coyier in 2022. The new owner has worked on the site for 1...

Security
Security

Microsoft issues emergency .NET fixes for Brotli decoding flaw

Microsoft released emergency security updates for a critical Brotli decoding vulnerability affecting .NET, BleepingComputer reported. The flaw, CVE-2026-111497, allows crafted compressed data to trigger crashes or memory leaks and...

AI Policy
AI Policy

Sweden's Government Offices block web access to ChatGPT and Claude

Sweden's Government Offices blocked staff access to the web versions of ChatGPT and Claude on work computers on Monday, The Next Web reported. The organisation, which supports the prime minister and ministries, is directing staff ...

Capital
Capital

Anthropic discloses $80.7 billion first-half net loss in IPO filing

Anthropic disclosed a first-half 2026 net loss of $80.7 billion in its public IPO filing on October 26, largely driven by an increase in the fair value of bonds convertible into its shares, The Detroit News reported. Revenue for t...

Infrastructure Science
Infrastructure Science

Chinese team claims 3.2 Pb/s real-time optical transmission record

A Chinese research collaboration claims it transmitted data at 3.2 Pb/s in real time through 24-core optical fiber, improving on its earlier 2.5 Pb/s result. Tom's Hardware reported the finding, citing the Hubei provincial governm...

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Products

Samsung reportedly cuts Galaxy A production as component costs rise

Samsung is cutting Galaxy A smartphone production by approximately 20% to redirect resources toward flagship devices, 9to5Google reports, citing ETNews. The reduction represents roughly 10 million units annually, and Samsung plans...

Science
Science

Extra quantum dot improves tuning of fast spin qubits

University of Osaka researchers and collaborators demonstrated a semiconductor spin qubit design that lets operating speed and resistance to voltage noise be tuned more independently after fabrication. Adding a third quantum dot r...

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Products

Google plans Beam video booths at 20 USO locations

Google announced plans to bring HP Dimension booths using its Beam 3D video communication technology to 20 United Service Organizations locations globally. The expansion follows a pilot for service members and their families in Po...

Robotics Products
Robotics Products

Turo to identify Tesla rentals with supervised driving software

Turo will identify rental Teslas equipped with Full Self-Driving (Supervised), using direct access to Tesla's API to verify whether the software is enabled. Eligible hosts will also receive a free one-month trial of the driver ass...

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Pharo 14 adds RISC-V compilation support and command-line debugging

The Pharo team has released version 14 of its open-source programming language and development environment, adding RISC-V support to its just-in-time compiler and expanding command-line testing and debugging. The virtual machine a...

Security
Security

Kali Linux 2026.3 adds six security tools and containerized builds

Kali Linux released version 2026.3 with six additional tools for security testing and research, BleepingComputer reports. They include Dalfox for automated cross-site scripting scans, RustScan for port scanning and snaffler-ng for...

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Products Infrastructure

BYD adds claimed five-minute charging to three Seagull trims

BYD has launched five Seagull trims, with the three higher-priced versions offering a claimed 10% to 70% battery charge in five minutes. Those versions start at 75,900 yuan and require BYD's dedicated Flash Charging infrastructure...

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

SWI Compute announces approximately $1 billion in Nvidia system orders

SWI Group launched SWI Compute, saying the new AI infrastructure business has ordered approximately $1 billion of Nvidia systems and finalized its first customer contracts. The company says it has access to 3.6 gigawatts of power ...

Science Security
Science Security

Preprint reports blocking hidden-image prompt attacks in MCP workflows

Researchers report that a defense blocked all 24 adaptive attack payloads in a Model Context Protocol (MCP) testbed, where tools connect AI agents to external information. The preprint tested instructions hidden in email-signature...

AI Science
AI Science

MCP-Injector preprint introduces controlled failure tests for AI agents

Researchers introduced MCP-Injector, a tool that inserts controlled failures into AI agents' calls to external tools, and reported a 60% drop in task-completion scores under its stress tests. The preprint calibrates failures using...

AI Science
AI Science

CauProphet preprint reports gains from agents retaining causal knowledge

Researchers report that CauProphet, an AI agent designed to retain and revise causal knowledge, improved prediction accuracy from 21.3% to 28.6% in dynamic real-world settings. The preprint also reports a 25.4% improvement over a ...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint finds AI code optimization usually increases execution energy

A preprint testing 11 open-source models on all 1,000 EffiBench problems found that 42 of 44 configurations produced code consuming more energy per problem than canonical human reference solutions. The excess ranged from +4% to +8...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint reports sentiment retrieval gains from small embedding heads

Researchers report in a preprint that a small trained component can improve sentiment retrieval from text embeddings, the numerical representations used to compare documents. Their Sentiment-Injected Sentence Embeddings method imp...

Science Security
Science Security

Memoir preprint reports reusable memory method for filtering security alerts

Researchers propose Memoir, a framework that learns from false alarms in software security scans, and report an F1-score of 99.43%, recall of 98.88% and perfect precision on CWE-Bench-Java. The preprint says it outperformed the co...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint measures coding repair failures caused by context compaction

Replacing coding agents' full histories with summaries damaged 5-64% of 22 successful repairs across 14 summarizer backbones in the Compact-Bench preprint. Context compaction lets agents continue beyond their context windows, but ...

AI Science
AI Science

A-MapReduce preprint reports faster parallel search by AI agents

Researchers report that A-MapReduce, a framework for coordinating AI agents, reduced running time by 45.8% against representative multi-agent baselines in experiments. Their preprint also reports 5.11% - 17.50% average Item F1 imp...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint reports prompting can reduce energy used by AI-generated code

Researchers report in an arXiv preprint that selected prompting strategies reduced the execution energy consumed by AI-generated code by up to 25% for Python and 17% for C++ across the models evaluated. They examined 21 prompting ...

AI Security
AI Security

AgentTrace preprint reports 96.0% accuracy in identifying agent models

Researchers report that AgentTrace identified the foundation model behind a black-box AI agent with 96.0% attribution accuracy under adversarial identity spoofing. The preprint describes a method that examines observable execution...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint reports agent success gains from saving corrections in adapters

Researchers report in a preprint that Self-Direction, a method for retaining lessons from failed tasks, improved Qwen-based agents' success rates by 8.9 to 17.0 percentage points across research, tool-use and terminal benchmarks. ...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint reports 4.5-point accuracy gain for AI annotation framework

Researchers report that ANT-OR, a framework using multiple AI agents to label data, improves agreement@>=2 accuracy by 4.5 points over the strongest baseline in their experiments. The preprint introduces ANT-A, a benchmark spannin...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint reports more stable LoRA training with revised initialization

Researchers report that changing how LoRA adapters are initialized makes language model fine-tuning more stable when their two matrices use different learning rates. Their preprint finds that the change prevents performance collap...

AI Science
AI Science

DOLORES preprint reports 24.8% gain from adaptive agent reasoning

Researchers report that an agent called DOLORES improved performance by 24.8% on average over the strongest evaluated scaffold baseline across four difficult benchmarks. The preprint tests an approach that lets an agent construct ...

AI Science
AI Science

Dementia-R1 preprint reports prognosis gains over models up to 10x larger

Researchers report that Dementia-R1, a framework for predicting dementia from clinical notes across patient visits, outperformed models up to 10x larger on the AMC cohort. The preprint reports an AUROC of 84.02%, a measure of how ...

AI Science
AI Science

SANE preprint reports broader automated testing of AI judges

Researchers report that SANE, an automated framework for testing AI systems that score model outputs, produces 3.7 times as many validated test families as the Judge Reliability Harness at comparable end-to-end validity across fiv...

AI Science
AI Science

SAAF preprint reports faster video anomaly detection without task training

Researchers report that Signal-Aware Adaptive Fusion, or SAAF, increased video anomaly detection throughput by 2.43× on XD-Violence, 2.63× on UCF-Crime and 2.22× on MSAD compared with the prior best zero-shot method. The arXiv pre...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint reports emotion reasoning gains from targeted prompt changes

Researchers report in a preprint that targeted changes to agent prompts improved multimodal emotion reasoning without updating model weights. On the MER2025 dataset, the method raised F-score by 0.6-2.2 points across four models r...

AI Science
AI Science

ActionRAG preprint reports 5.4-point gain in agent memory benchmark

A preprint reports that ActionRAG, a system for retrieving evidence from AI agents' interaction histories, achieved 55.1 average accuracy across eight deterministic-scoring columns in MemoryAgentBench. That exceeded the strongest ...

AI Science
AI Science

ALTO recipe narrows four-bit model training gap in simulated tests

Researchers report in a preprint that ALTO, an open-source training recipe for the 20-billion-parameter GPT-OSS-20B model, reduced the extra training steps needed with four-bit arithmetic. On the MLPerf Small MoE Training benchmar...

Science AI
Science AI

Chinese Decision models produce decision probabilities in a single pass

Researchers report releasing three Chinese Decision models that produce probabilities for predefined choices in a single forward pass, without generating an answer token by token. Built on Qwen3.5 0.8B, 2B and 4B models, they supp...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint reports training gains from adjusting domain loss weights

Researchers report that adjusting how strongly different training domains contribute to learning improved all five evaluated benchmarks for a 1.5B language model trained on 240B tokens. Their preprint reports an average gain of +7...

AI Science
AI Science

TreeWY preprint reports lower memory use for hybrid model serving

Researchers report that TreeWY reduces memory use when serving hybrid language models, improving throughput and time to first token when memory limits performance. The preprint tests Qwen3.5 35B and 397B models. Speculative decod...

AI Science
AI Science

Preprint reports shorter agent prompts without loss of task correctness

Researchers report reducing a production merchant-facing agent's full prompt surface by 3.5-7.6% without reducing correctness on held-out tasks, according to a preprint. The result held across three independent model families, wit...

Science Security
Science Security

TRACE preprint reconstructs removed training text from model snapshots

Researchers report that TRACE can reconstruct training text targeted by approximate unlearning, a process intended to remove information without fully retraining a language model. The attack requires access to model snapshots from...

AI
AI

Scale AI's AgentEnv adds support for Vercel Sandbox

Scale AI's AgentEnv framework now runs on Vercel Sandbox, Vercel announced. The integration lets developers test agents against tasks and score their results, with the agent and its task environment running in separate Sandboxes. ...

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

GitHub restores services after API and workflow delays

GitHub said its services recovered after elevated latency affected REST API requests, including Checks, and some Actions, Issues, Pull Requests and GraphQL functionality. Some requests were slow or timed out, and notifications wer...

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Infrastructure Products

AWS lets WorkSpaces managed instances change storage without rebuilding

AWS added ModifyVolume API support to Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances, allowing customers to change storage capacity and performance without detaching a volume or restarting the instance. Previously, those changes require...

AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure

Anthropic filing shows $782B in lease obligations

Anthropic spent $482M on capital expenditure in H1 2026 while leasing most of its compute, Tim Culpan reported in Culpium's analysis of its S-1. The analysis identifies $782B in lease obligations and characterizes its capital expe...

Infrastructure AI
Infrastructure AI

Nvidia extends Mission Control recovery to Kubernetes workloads

Nvidia says Mission Control 2.5 is available today, extending its automatic failure detection and recovery service to Kubernetes workloads managed with Nvidia Run:ai. The service previously supported high-performance computing wor...

AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure

IBM reports broader PyTorch and vLLM support for Spyre accelerators

IBM says software updates expand support for its Spyre inference accelerator through a PyTorch backend, a vLLM plugin, compiler improvements, and model testing. The integration lets ordinary PyTorch code compile for Spyre and prov...

AI Security
AI Security

Researchers report customer-linked security gaps in Qwen3-Coder output

Researchers reported that Qwen3-Coder generated more vulnerable applications when prompts named certain customers, Bruce Schneier wrote. Applications requested for a US defense contractor were 19% more likely to be hackable than t...

Products Policy
Products Policy

Volkswagen and Xpeng secure autonomous driving trial approvals in China

Volkswagen's China unit and Xpeng have secured approvals to trial autonomous driving systems on public roads in China, Bloomberg reports. Volkswagen is testing Level 3 systems, while Xpeng is testing Level 4 systems. The approvals...

Infrastructure Security
Infrastructure Security

AWS extends individual user permissions across Regions

AWS says IAM Identity Center now carries users' identities between services in different AWS Regions, allowing permissions and audit records to follow individual users and their group memberships. Previously, services using this ...

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

AWS adds account-wide default for launching replacement instances first

AWS says EC2 Auto Scaling customers can now make Launch Before Terminate the default across all Auto Scaling groups in an account. The setting launches a replacement instance and waits for it to pass health checks before terminati...