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INTERA’s EAGLE Cognit uses near-memory processing, configurable 2–32-bit precision and native spiking-neural-network support for low-power edge AI.

YouTube said on October 14, 2026 that YouTube Music is rolling out labels for tracks created primarily with generative AI, including music where generative models produced the composition or vocals. The label appears on the player page and can be tapped for more information. YouTube says it is working with music partners and using its…

British photonics startup Siloton has secured a £8.448 million Innovate UK contract to accelerate GiraffeOCT, its handheld optical-coherence-tomography system built around a photonic chip smaller than a £1 coin. The two-year program will fund both in-clinic and at-home versions of the scanner plus clinical trials. UK Research and Innovation describes Siloton’s approach as moving conventional…

Rice Robotics has launched TOMO, a wheel-based humanoid designed for classrooms and supervised STEM learning. Axonex AI announced the robot on October 15 as Rice Robotics Hong Kong joined a new embodied-AI training and validation hub operated with Hong Kong’s FLAIR robotics center. TOMO has an expressive face, an interactive chest display and two-finger parallel…

Aescape has launched the Brady Protocol, a 30-minute robotic deep-tissue recovery session co-developed with Tom Brady and now available across its massage-table network. The program targets the posterior chain from the calves through the traps. Before each session, Aescape’s system maps the user’s body, then its robotic arms follow the fixed recovery sequence while adapting…

D-Wave has delivered a 4,400-plus-qubit Advantage2 annealing quantum computer to Lombardy for installation at Villa Saporiti in Como, giving Italy its first on-premises system of this type. In its October 15 announcement, D-Wave said the machine will operate within the Q-Alliance ecosystem under the name VoltaB1. The installation follows a €10 million agreement with Swiss…

TDK has made its InvenSense PositionSense platform available for worldwide distribution, giving robotics, drone, wearable and mobile-device developers a two-chip nine-axis sensing package for absolute heading and orientation. The company’s October 13 announcement says the system combines a six-axis SmartMotion IMU, a three-axis tunnel-magnetoresistance magnetometer and on-chip sensor-fusion software. The hardware is designed to keep…

Intel says select Xeon 6+ rack configurations can scale beyond 46,000 CPU cores while drawing 133.45 kW at the rack level, giving agentic-AI systems a dense x86 layer for orchestration, data movement and tool execution. The design was shown at OCP Global Summit 2026 alongside Intel’s GPU D-series. Many of the Xeon systems follow Open…

Reuters reports that Apple chairman Tim Cook said Apple Intelligence has received approval in China, citing an exclusive interview with Chinese state-backed outlet The Paper. Cook said a test version is expected later in October. The first rollout is expected to include core Apple Intelligence features such as Live Translation, Writing Tools and photo cleanup,…

NVIDIA announced on October 15 that it is joining the European Commission’s AI in Science Enablers initiative, expanding access to AI tools, training and compute for researchers across Europe. The commitment includes access to accelerated computing platforms, cloud resources, scientific software, technical support and collaborative research programs. NVIDIA says it has released more than 250…

Google Research says it will reveal a new low-power Edge AI chip next week, co-designed with Synaptics and built using Google’s open-source AI hardware IP. The chip is aimed at devices where power and thermal limits matter: smart glasses, watches, connected cameras, streaming hardware and industrial vision or voice systems. Google says the new design…