AI news digest for October 13, 2026
Today's turbulent day in the world of artificial intelligence has shown us how companies are rapidly developing and adapting new technologies. Microsoft announced the Maia 300 chip to reduce dependency
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Today's turbulent day in the world of artificial intelligence has shown us how companies are rapidly developing and adapting new technologies. Microsoft announced the Maia 300 chip to reduce dependency
Promise Robotics says it can accelerate homebuilding by standardizing component manufacturing. Source: Promise Robotics The construction industry is fragmented and has been relatively conservative about adopting new technologies, but physical AI promises to modernize…
The HomeView is a smart speaker with a touchscreen display. It’s available in silver, starlight, rose pink, and space gray. | Image: Apple It's finally here: Apple's long-rumored smart display, the Apple HomeView, has arrived. I got a first look at the device in New York City…
American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping grows.
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released…
October strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia caused failures in taxi and delivery services in Almaty, giving Kazakhstani authorities direct grounds to demand the transfer of computing processes inside the country, notes Teniz Capital analytical material. For the largest...
Anthropic says it has cut the extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent. The company links the large-scale distillation attacks to Chinese companies Zhipu and Moonshot, and has already banned tens of thousands of accounts. The article Anthropic says it…
In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.
Small AI models may be just months away from spreading on their own across poorly secured consumer devices like smart TVs and robot vacuums, according to a new Anthropic study. In tests, one model already completed the full infection chain. CEO Dario Amodei has warned that a…
Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the…
Sometimes, when dealing with health problems, it is useful to get the opinion of several specialists — especially if the prescribed treatment raises questions. A second opinion can help you understand the diagnosis and understand whether the examinations and treatment were chosen correctly. Neurologist…
AI labs are starting to buy data from defunct startups to train their models.
Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a…
MIT is exploring how AI influences accountability in civil discourse.
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code…
France is actively developing agent computing using NVIDIA technologies.
Закупки оборудования для ресторанов и заработок на сборе данных для искусственного интеллекта – с такими предложениями казахстанские Prometei и NCSpeech приехали на Startup Campus в штаб-квартиру Glovo в Барселоне. Сооснователь Glovo Саша Мишо рассказал Kursiv о возможностях…
In Kazakhstan, conscripts are learning to operate unmanned aerial vehicles, including FPV drones. The new specialty can be acquired directly in the army. Since the beginning of the year, training of drone operators has been included in the National Guard program. Among the first to attend classes…
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Kazakhstan can turn its strengths in energy, mining, transport and industrial operations into an AI competitive advantage by investing in infrastructure, encouraging local talent and…
During testing, the AI model Claude Haiku 4.5 sent a false report about a real unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police website. The developer of the neural network, Anthropic, reported this in a statement. The message ended up in spam and was not passed on to investigators. What the neural network did Vo…
Amazon Bedrock предоставляет глобальный доступ к моделям OpenAI GPT-6 через кросс-регионный доступ для команд в Азии.
Meta's new Muse Wonder models rank in the top three on six out of ten benchmarks, with the biggest gains in agentic tasks. But the cost per task has nearly tripled. The article Meta's new frontier model Muse Wonder Full breaks into the AI top tier appeared first on The Decoder.
Meta представила новые модели Muse Wonder, которые показывают успехи в ИИ.
Sakana AI's MASS method lets one language model improve itself by solving tasks, judging results, and refining workflows, reaching a win rate of nearly 70 percent against the base model after two rounds. But when the model misses the same errors across all three roles, it can…
Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.
AWS представил многонодовые контейнеры глубокого обучения Ray LLM для вывода.
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.