Artificial Intelligence
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NVIDIA says its new Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B model will arrive on October 15 for local AI agents running on RTX Spark PCs. In the company’s October 13 software update, NVIDIA describes the model as a 74-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts system with 9 billion active parameters, compressed into 24GB using 2-bit quantization. NVIDIA says developers will be…
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Alexandr Wang says an early AI psychoanalysis using his email, photos and other personal context helped convince Meta that personal agents could become a major consumer product — but he did not say the raw therapy exchange itself was used as model-training data.
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Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with Disney offering $20 million for certain assets and an IP license while the chatbot platform continues operating during the sale process.
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Nvidia is taking stakes in French technology companies Doctolib and Genesis AI as it expands its role in Europe’s AI ecosystem.
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Xbox is creating Xbox Labs to explore the wave of game decompilation, cross-platform ports and source-code remixing that AI tools are accelerating.
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GitHub secret scanning now blocks Anthropic user and service API keys with push protection by default and adds Salesforce as a secret scanning partner.
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Google Play now lets adults in supported markets run personal Android apps built with Google AI Studio on their own devices without a developer account.
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A Delaware jury found Arm breached Qualcomm’s architectural license agreement and interfered with its Meta business, while Arm prevailed on four other claims. The jury awarded $2 total.
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SK hynix unveiled MARS, a CXL-based memory-centric AI rack architecture designed to pool memory across CPUs and GPUs and reduce duplicated data movement.
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Open Compute Project is evaluating high-temperature superconducting power infrastructure for future AI data centers, from grid interfaces to rack-level distribution.
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The IMF says an AI-related market correction, rising sovereign bond yields and major cyber incidents are three near-term risks that could amplify stress across global financial markets.
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Microsoft introduced Maia 300 on October 12, 2026, its third-generation custom AI accelerator for inference. The company says production deployments will begin in 2027 and that Maia will become the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services as deployments expand to multi-gigawatt scale. According to Microsoft’s technical disclosure, each Maia 300 uses eight HBM4…
