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Four years ago, a senior official in Russia’s foreign ministry painted a bullseye on commercial satellite networks that assist Ukraine in its fight against invading Russian military forces. On Wednesday, several days after a Russian military spacecraft moved within striking dista

Weekly quiz: How long did Katie Zacharia last as White House press secretary? Published 22 October 2026 This week, cities across France were hit by a night of violent protests, the UK government approved the controversial Jackdaw gas field, and Tesla unveiled a flying car. Bu

I owe this article to an uncomfortable moment while writing the last one. I built the demos in Testing an iframe’s postMessage Handler with AI assistance. I designed the handlers and the test cases, and a model wrote much of the page scaffolding around them. The first time it han

Shares of Meta Platforms plunged 7.5% in Thursday’s trade on October 22, to reach $644.30 apiece as investors worried about the social media giant’s aggressive bet on artificial intelligence (AI), overshadowing better-than-expected September-quarter results. During its quarterly

Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives — shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people’s AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a life in which we communi

From AI companies financing data center projects to France's heavily indebted government, credit markets are flashing warnings as investors grow warier of borrowing risks. Five-year credit default swap spreads have widened for CoreWeave, Oracle and SoftBank Group, as well as Fran

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Tops Physics Benchmark With 83.1% on CritPt v2 The revised physics research benchmark gives models a code sandbox, and frontier systems have jumped from single-digit to 80%+ accuracy. - CritPt v2 launches with 70 revised research-level physics challenges and

22nd October 2026 - Link Blog Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation. News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux

You.com's Inference Router Challenges OpenRouter With Built-in Failover and Web Search You.com's new Inference Router pairs open-weight models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 with a 99.9% uptime SLA, zero data retention, and built-in web search. - You.com launched Inference Router, an O

Offer your subscriptions to businesses and schools October 22, 2026 Starting today, organizations and educational institutions can purchase subscriptions to apps in volume with multiseat purchasing. This makes it easy for organizations that use Apple Business or Apple School Mana

For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now “it is finally here,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge. The company claims to have developed an AI-powered tool it says can diagnose con

Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman said two geopolitical conflicts — the Ukraine-Russia and Iran wars — along with elevated inflation and interest rates are holding back an otherwise "booming market environment." "Once the overhang of the war is done — and it sounds like we're also

Brook underlines status as world's best all-format batter in remarkable defeat - Published Just under a year ago, Harry Brook was left wondering if he would be sacked as England white-ball captain and what damage he had done to his international career. What a turnaround in 12 mo

President Donald Trump’s alliance with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. helped deliver Make America Healthy Again voters. But the movement Trump spent years cultivating is showing signs of splintering. Now the question is whether Kennedy could reconsolidate the same voters

Storage news ticker - 22 October Data protector Acronis has a new CEO Prakash Panjwani, joining this month. A prior CEO Ezequiel Steiner left a year ago. He was replaced by Jan-Jaap Jager, coming from being President and CEO at Virtuozzo. Panjwani previously served as CEO of Watc

Warm welcome to Basil Chatha, our newest cohost from the Forward Deployed side of the AI Engineering world! We’ll be ramping up a new show with him and couldn’t pass up an interview with Modal’s CEO Eric on the occasion of their monster Series D! Two years ago, we spoke with Erik

Warm welcome to Basil Chatha, our newest cohost from the Forward Deployed side of the AI Engineering world! We’ll be ramping up a new show with him and couldn’t pass up an interview with Modal’s CEO Eric on the occasion of their monster Series D! Two years ago, we spoke with Erik

Nonprofit evaluators METR and Redwood Research on Thursday said they conducted a pilot review of an internal monitoring system at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company's latest effort to determine how it will deepen its work with third-party safety organizations. METR and R

Nonprofit evaluators METR and Redwood Research on Thursday said they conducted a pilot review of an internal monitoring system at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company's latest effort to determine how it will deepen its work with third-party safety organizations. METR and R

Elon Musk has invested approximately $1 billion in the newly formed media company Skydance, according to a new report from Semafor. News of the investment comes a few weeks after Paramount completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to create the combined com

MBZUAI Opens RL360, the Agent Training Engine Behind K2 Horizon IFM open-sources the agentic reinforcement learning stack behind K2 Horizon, running 8,192 concurrent sandboxes and 1.3M rollouts across seven days. - IFM open-sourced RL360, the RL infrastructure behind K2 Horizon's

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Jewellery retailer BlueStone reported a 45% year-on-year growth in revenue from operations in the second quarter of financial year ending March 2027. At the same time, the company narrowed losses by 92% to Rs 4.37 crore during the quarter. Bluestone’s revenue from operations rose

The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft. Someone hacked the Switch

The pressure has been particularly strong in companies seen as major beneficiaries of the AI infrastructure boom, with investors increasingly questioning whether aggressive data centre expansion can be supported by rising debt. CoreWeave, Nebius face heavy short bets Short intere

Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found - Published Organisations and businesses are still scrambling to update their systems after cyber-security flaws were revealed in a widely-used programming language, PHP. Websites around the world were take

Apple Inc. has emerged as one of the most reliable trades in the stock market as sentiment towards artificial intelligence (AI) swings wildly. While AI stocks face volatility amid concerns over rising infrastructure spending, the iPhone maker’s shares have continued to climb, mak

Bengaluru-based cybersecurity company eMudhra, which recently found itself at the centre of a security key issue, has announced plans to voluntarily wind down its global secure sockets layer and transport layer security (SSL/TLS) certificate business. In a filing, the company sai

Meta must pay $25 billion to New Mexico after a jury found the tech giant guilty of nearly 44 million violations of state consumer protection laws. The largest fine to ever hit Meta came after New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez declined to join an $18 billion settlement Meta

Liquid AI's RIPL Engine Beats vLLM by 28x on Real-Time Inference Liquid AI's new RIPL inference engine runs small Liquid Foundation Models in under 50ms end-to-end, targeting search, ads, fraud, and payments. - Liquid AI launched RIPL, a sub-50ms inference engine for LFM2.5 model

A federal judge in Miami on Thursday ordered that President Donald Trump sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11, according to multiple news outlets. U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett, at a court hearing Thursday, also warned Trump

AI - Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows - Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all fea

Over two months after attaining the IOCC (Indian-Owned and Controlled Company) tag, Swiggy announced that it will shortly commence transitioning its quick commerce business, Instamart, to an inventory-led model. In its Q2 shareholders letter, the company announced that it will pi

Ackman was speaking at the Sheba Medical Center's annual ARC summit in Tel Aviv. Ackman and his wife, Neri Oxman, in 2024 bought a 5% stake in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. He said he became very bullish on Israel after the October 7, 2023, attacks and had grown even more optimist