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Use public benchmarks such as MTEB to shortlist embedding models, then choose the winner on your own relevance set. Hold chunking, preprocessing and retrieval settings…
OpenAI has apologized to Australian lawmakers over its handling of the Medicare agent incident, intensifying debate over mandatory AI incident reporting.
South Korean authorities say AI appears to have been used in cyberattacks affecting seven financial institutions, intensifying concern about automated vulnerability discovery…
UC Berkeley AI professor Stuart Russell argues that optimizing powerful systems to imitate or satisfy human feedback may not solve the deeper…
Former researchers from leading AI labs warned New York City lawmakers about loss-of-control risks as the council considers reporting, validation and whistleblower…
The United States and 16 other countries have endorsed a Kyoto declaration calling for wider use of “Super Intelligence” in scientific research,…
Continuous batching lets an LLM server change which requests are active between generation iterations instead of holding a fixed batch until the…
A new security preprint finds that malicious instructions placed in AI assistants' long-term memory can continue influencing later conversations. Tests across ChatGPT,…
Google Flow emphasizes story and scene development with Google video models; Adobe Firefly provides video creation and a model-selectable editing environment. Because…
Langflow is one of the strongest maintained visual AI builders in late 2026 because it combines a drag-and-drop authoring experience with Python…
Flowise reached official end of life on August 31, 2026, and its GitHub repository is now archived. The Apache 2.0 code remains…
Dify is strongest when a team wants one platform for visual AI workflows, first-class knowledge/RAG, agents, model providers and deployment. Its Cloud…
Foxconn reported record September and third-quarter revenue as cloud networking and AI server demand continued to expand.
USB-C names the connector; Thunderbolt adds a certified set of connection capabilities. Match the computer, accessory and cable to the data, display…
U.S. authorities seized seven domains associated with the Microscan and FishHub hacking tools on October 8, 2026. The action targets infrastructure allegedly…
Microsoft made Execution Containers generally available for Windows on October 7, giving developers and administrators a policy-driven boundary around AI agents' access…
ChatGPT Images 2.5 is the stronger choice for conversational image generation, reference-based creation and repeated natural-language edits. Recraft V4.1 is the stronger…
Google has paused product-vulnerability submissions to its OSS bug bounty program after a surge of automated reports, most of which it says…
South Korean authorities say AI appears to have been used in cyberattacks affecting seven financial institutions, intensifying concern about automated vulnerability discovery…
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon with an unusually restricted first release to trusted cyber defenders, pairing ambitious coding and cybersecurity claims…
The US Energy Department awarded $159 million to 12 Phase II Genesis Mission projects and selected six more Phase I projects on…
Finnish regulators ordered Tuike Finland, which represents Google, to stop environment-altering preparatory work at planned data-center sites in Muhos and Kajaani until…
Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire PTC for about $22.6 billion in equity value, combining energy technology, industrial software and AI-ready engineering…
The US Treasury pressed for 'super intelligence' in an IMF committee statement. The October 17 outcome instead used 'advanced intelligence technologies'.
On October 8, 2026, the ICO opened a six-week evidence call on data protection risks from autonomous AI agents and confirmed enquiries…
A new AP-NORC poll finds that 64% of U.S. adults think AI is developing too quickly, while large majorities in both parties…
