How a New Satellite Constellation Is Rewriting the Rules of Early Wildfire Detection

FireSat is the first satellite constellation dedicated entirely to detecting the first signs of a wildfire from space.

You Can’t Travel to ‘Dune,’ So ‘Dune’ Is Coming to You

'Dune: The Experience' will open in LA ahead of 'Dune: Part Three,' before going to other cities.

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Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M

Wen Shao / Fortune: Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M Halluminate, a nine-p

Asteroid Bennu Has an Identity Crisis, and Jupiter Might Be to Blame

Asteroid sample return missions have brought well preserved samples of the early solar system (that hadn’t been roasted in a fireball) back to Earth for the first time. But those samples, like the OSIRIS-REx sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu, sometimes provide more questions than answers. A new paper, published in Science Advances from researchers at ETH Zurich and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, highlights one of those questions - why Bennu appears to have been born in both the inner ...

Election Deniers Think the GOP’s Terrible Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’

Dozens and dozens of high profile MAGA influencers and pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling out,” Catturd posted on X.

US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024

Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 Federal pr

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

Balcony solar installations will soon be legal in America's most populous state

California has joined nine other US states in approving balcony solar installations.

31 Best STEM Toys for Kids (2026): Learning Made Fun

We found lots of math-filled and science-rich toys for tiny nerds to assemble, bake, squish—or even tear apart and rebuild.

Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess

A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.

Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents

Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription. The article Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents appeared f

Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows

US companies are spending less on AI, according to the latest Ramp AI Index from Ramp economist Ara Kharazian. The article Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows appe

Tavus' AI looks, listens, and talks back live

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New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40 billion in penalties for Cambridge Analytica scandal

New Mexico's attorney argued that the penalties Meta has to pay need to be significant enough to make an impact on the company.

A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions (Vanity Fair)

Vanity Fair: A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions The $200 billion software ti

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five

OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Rogue AI Agent Activity

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over rogue AI agent activity. Here are some other details: - The Sam Altman-led company has been conducting a broad review of the activities of its AI models after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face. - OpenAI is searching through roughly 50 peta...

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ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024

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OpenAI Has Sent Notices of Sketchy AI Behavior to Over 100 Organizations So Far

None of the instances of what OpenAI calls “misaligned agent activity" have been as severe as the Hugging Face attack so far, the company said in a blog post.

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Scientists Invent Underwater Umbrellas to Protect Coral Reefs—and It Appears to Be Working

The world's coral reefs are in crisis, but a crafty solution could help.

Domain generalization and synthetic data in object detection: the enabler, the probe, and the gap

arXiv:2610.00030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detection models often experience performance degradation when deployed under distribution shifts, caused by for example changes in weather type,

Encoded but Disconnected: Decomposing Vision-Language Model Failures under a Patching Null

arXiv:2610.00024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across three vision-language model architectures (LLaVA-1.5-7B, Qwen2.5-VL-7B, InternVL3-8B), we report a universal negative finding for mid-layer inter

A Holistic Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of Noor, a Very Large Arabic Language Model

arXiv:2610.00223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As ever larger language models grow more ubiquitous, it is crucial to consider their environmental impact. Characterised by extreme size and resource us

Legal text classification in Korean sexual offense cases: from traditional machine learning to large language models with XAI insights

arXiv:2610.00087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of natural language processing (NLP) has expanded AI-based text classification in the legal domain. However, accurately classifying lega

Measuring Human-Like Bias in LLMs? A Critique of Human-Derived Bias Constructs in LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2610.00070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers increasingly use human-derived bias constructs to study Large Language Models (LLMs), including social-cognitive constructs such as implicit

The First Token Is Not the Verdict: Hidden Costs of Reading LLM Judges Without Generating

arXiv:2610.00054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reading an LLM judge's verdict from the logits of its first generated token is cheap, requires no generation, and is exactly what constrained decoding a

SCM-based Fairness and Faithful Explainability for Legal Document Classification

arXiv:2610.00045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models such as LegalBERT are increasingly used in legal decision support, raising concerns about both fairness and the transparency of model

Format-Aware Fusion for Fast FP4 Pretraining

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Fast Polynomial Transcendentals for LLMs

arXiv:2610.00049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphics processing unit (GPU) generations scale matrix, special-function, and memory pipelines at different rates, so kernel bottlenecks move as hardwa

Integrating Fairness and Explainability in a Multiple Instance Reinforcement Learning System

arXiv:2610.00035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting student performance from educational interaction data requires models that are both accurate and sufficiently transparent to support meaningf

K-Dense BYOK: An Open-Source AI Research Assistant That Runs Locally and Keeps a Hash-Chained Lab Notebook

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Gradient-Aligned Pair Selection for Personalized Preference Optimization

arXiv:2610.00061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing large language models (LLMs) requires aligning generation behavior with user-specific preferences rather than aggregate quality. While Dir

From Proposal to Verified Effect: Praxa, an Evidence-Bound Harness for Governed AI Agent Execution

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When Do Causal World Models Help Modular LLM Agents

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Heavy-Tailed Memory Traces in Long-Horizon Language Agents

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Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence Nvidia'

California Rushes To Prepare For Massive 'Kelvin' Wave, Predicted Sea Level Rise

fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called "Kelvin wave," a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the vast North American shoreline. The wave is nearing southern California and expected to reach the San Francisco Bay Area by early October, as it crawls toward Alaska. Waters could rise by a foot along the California coast, according to scientists, who have warned that this...

Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B

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Ford CEO Says Europe Is Lost To Chinese Electric Vehicles

Washington should take the "time to be considerate" before letting Chinese cars in, the Ford CEO warns.

OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents OpenAI has informed more than 1

Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence

Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence Jay Clayton will likely

Amazon's New Kindle Accessories Bring Back Physical Controls

Alongside a refreshed Kindle lineup, Amazon today introduced two accessories that bring physical buttons back to its touchscreen e-readers. The $34.99 Kindle Click is a Bluetooth remote that lets readers turn pages and adjust brightness without touching the device, while a new $79.99 magnetic cover is available for select Paperwhite and Colorsoft models. GeekWire reports: Amazon says [the Kindle Click is] meant for reading under the covers, on a treadmill, or on an airplane tray table. It's avai...

A Coding Guide to Google Research’s Kauldron: Configs That Are Plain Data, Components Wired by String, and a JAX Trainer You Can Read End to End

In this comprehensive coding guide, we explore Google Research's Kauldron—a JAX training library optimized for research velocity and modularity. Learn how konfig turns experiments into plain dictionar

Figure AI Trains Retired Robots to Dive Into Molten Steel

That's one way to say hasta la vista to intellectual property.

How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast

GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models

Report: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO launch, despite warning of AI's 'existential risks'

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC is reportedly forging ahead with its plans to go public and has set a new target date of Nov. 9, according to a report from Bloomberg that cited anonymous s

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents

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More Than 60 Percent of Toyotas Sold in the Past Three Months Were Electrified

The Japanese automaker’s sales got a boost from growing demand for hybrids.

California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models California

Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash (Microsoft AI)

Microsoft AI: Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Vo

Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service

Bruce66423 shares a report from The Telegraph: British police forces, including specialist units within the Metropolitan Police, have used Oxygen Forensics software to break into the phones of suspects during live investigations, public documents show. The Virginia-based company behind the software has been accused in the US of having hidden its Russian ownership to avoid sanctions, before it was awarded government contracts. Its American chief executive and a Russian national were arrested last...

Florida county finds 11 unpermitted Flock cameras with unidentified owners

St. Lucie County thought it had 52 Flock cameras, but found many more that were unaccounted for and unpermitted.

OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material

OpenAI Group PBC today confirmed it has dismissed three researchers it says mishandled sensitive company information. According to The Wall Street Journal, the three were safety researchers who allege

ChatGPT can now help you virtually try on clothes

Images are generated with OpenAI's latest model and you can save clothes you like for later.

Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

NASA's First Selection for a New Class of Mission: The PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This space telescope is the first in a new class of NASA astrophysics missions, called Probe Explorers, within the agency’s longstanding Explorers Program.

OpenAI fires three employees who allegedly shared info with an external AI safety group

You can't make this stuff up.

Rogue OpenAI agents covered their tracks, report says

Artificial intelligence agents developed by OpenAI tried to erase traces of their activity after gaining unauthorized access to government websites, according to a report published Thursday.

Cloudflare Tries to Outplay Jev With Open-Weight Clef Models

Cloudflare has launched two open-weight decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, designed for structured yes/no, multiple-choice, and ranking tasks while also supporting images, video, and up to a 64K context window. Cloudflare says its models outperform TypeSafe's Jev on several benchmarks and can run locally from Hugging Face. The Register reports: For starters, Clef has an LLM backbone. According to Cloudflare, Clef uses specially post-trained, frozen versions of Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B for C...

Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: some of the information that the three now ex-OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture OpenAI has parted ways with thr

Source: some of the information that the three OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: some of the information that the three OpenAI employees allegedly mishandled pertained to OpenAI's infrastructure architecture OpenAI has parted ways with three empl

Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California's claims that Lyft mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California's claims that Lyft mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 Lyft (LYFT.O)

Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California claims that it mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Lyft agrees to pay $272.5M to settle California claims that it mislabeled drivers as independent contractors rather than employees between 2016 and 2020 Lyft (LYFT.O) has

Who Would Have Thought the Creator of ‘My Hero Academia’ Had a Knack for Horror?

Kohei Horikoshi's trades superheros for ritualistic horror in his boy-meets-girl one-shot, 'Quit Laughing, Shijima.'

Musk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

Ryan Roslansky Is Leaving After Nearly 18 Years At LinkedIn and Microsoft

Ryan Roslansky is leaving Microsoft and LinkedIn after nearly 18 years, triggering another leadership shuffle across Office and Teams. "Roslansky, who until recently was the CEO of LinkedIn, was promoted to the head of Office last year and then took control of Microsoft Teams earlier this year," notes The Verge. From the report: "Ryan leaves the organization in a strong position," says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in an internal memo. "Over the past year, Ryan's team has done critical work bringi...

Samsung launches its first clip-on earbuds in South Korea

A global rollout will follow, although we don't yet know the details.

Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light remasters are getting free next-gen updates this month

Take a trip down memory lane with the first two games in the series.

OpenAI Ousts Three Safety Researchers for Allegedly Mishandling ‘Sensitive Information’

They're accused of “breaking the trust essential to our work,” according to a company spokesperson.

Why Pickles Light Up When You Electrocute Them

This common science demonstration has been an enduring mystery. Now, this electrical engineer has started to figure it out.

Police may have new ways to access data on locked iPhones

A training video reportedly demonstrates how police can evade an Apple security feature.

No, No, No—Don’t Peel the Nano-Texture Layer off the iPhone Duo’s Inner Screen

Don't be the idiot who breaks their $2,000 foldable iPhone because they listened to some 'experts' on social media.

OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library OpenAI is ag

NASA's Hubble Marks its 200,000th Orbit by Watching Lensed Supernova

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19th and marked this milestone with observations that could help refine astronomers' measurements of cosmic expansion (aka. the Hubble Constant).

Chase Infiniti Will Star in the Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele-Produced ‘Portrait of God’

The 'Testaments' and 'One Battle After Another' breakout is adding horror to her resume.

Micron Projects Tightening RAM Shortages Through 2028 As It Generates Record Profit

Micron says the global RAM and storage shortage will tighten further through 2027 and 2028, with CEO Sanjay Mehrotra saying the company has already sold most of next year's capacity. "In calendar 2027 as well as 2028, we see demand exceeding supply. In fact, we see greater tightness in the industry in 2027 and in 2028 versus 2026. Overall, supply-demand environment is only getting tighter," Mehrotra said. "We do not have line of sight to when supply and demand will return to balance." As a resul...

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.

Trump Asked Grok About Potential Blowback Before Kidnapping Venezuela’s President: Report

It's horrifying to imagine Trump asking AI for advice.

Serve live, governed data in AI-built apps with Amazon Quick

With Live Data in Apps in Amazon Quick, AI-built apps query your governed Quick Sight datasets in real time instead of static, build-time snapshots. Each query runs as the person viewing the app, so r

South Korean Troops Thought They Found a Landmine. It Was a 600-Year-Old Gun

The exact date of the firearm is up for debate, but the discovery sets back the history of guns in Korea by 100 years.

NetApp's 'sleeping giant' moment as AI brings new data buyers

Artificial intelligence has pulled data infrastructure out of the back office and into conversations with buyers who never had to think about storage before. For longtime storage providers, that shift

A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face

In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans.

ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.