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At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now AI agents are coming to Windows.
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Samsung Electronics reported preliminary third-quarter earnings on Thursday, with operating profit forecast to top 100 trillion won for the first time.
Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that SpaceX’s AI unit will now use some AI models from competitors to power Grok Bot, signaling a shift away from relying exclusively on models developed in-house. “Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude ...
The deal is handing the AI agent developer fresh capital after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition.
Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with "Intelligent UI," a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can now respond while still thinking, cutting wait times by 44 percent. Paying customers get GPT-6 Sol, free users get GPT-6 Luna.
Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task.
After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta's agentic AI tool (designed to compete with OpenClaw, ChatGPT's Dots, and Grok Bot) was released about a
Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a "virtual cell" that researchers can use to combat disease, as reported earlier by Reuters.
Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.
Meta donates 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to four Singapore community organisations to help persons with disabilities.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 51% rise in quarterly revenue, a positive signal for investors trying to gauge the sustainability of a global AI infrastructure buildout.
The newest hires in finance won’t have to wait years to become managers. They’ll be overseeing artificial intelligence agents from the time they join, raising the question of what happens to the current middle managers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Kevin Sneader.
Isomorphic Labs, an Alphabet Inc. company using artificial intelligence to discover drugs, is in early talks to raise new funds at a valuation of at least $40 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data centers more energy efficient.
arXiv:2610.08793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise systems increasingly rely on automated workflows, yet many AI-driven solutions remain brittle under non-stationary conditions, evolving policies, and delayed operational feedback.
Companies’ legal operations leaders share some realities of incorporating the latest tech into their lawyers’ repertoire
A new age of discovery and automation is here. Can you feel it? The leading AI companies certainly can. But you may not. The rare slow news day gave us more time to marinate on the significance of OpenAI’s late-breaking announcement on Tuesday that its unreleased AI model had solved or made major progress on hundreds…
Beijing is rolling out computing infrastructure at breakneck speed in Inner Mongolia
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