The last 24 hours in AI & technologyCompiled by Abdullah Al-Hakimi
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OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and…
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the…
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Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). "It's an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find…
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Google shared a closeup of its upcoming fitness tracker. | Image: Google It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to…
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Tesla’s driver-assistance package is now called “Tesla Assisted Driving” in Europe. The company’s German website no longer mentions “Full Self-Driving,” and the old address now redirects to a new “Tesla Assisted Driving” page…
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Today in numbers
302 stories from 37 newsrooms in the past 24 hours
Models, labs & research
84 stories
The original first place video used AI in post-processing. | Image: Dr. Ning Xu Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding…
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<p><strong><a href="https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare">Deno is joining Cloudflare</a></strong></p> The Deno team released the first version of <a href="https://github.com/denoland/celld">celld</a> back in August - their open…
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Questions raised over AI growth as ChatGPT maker forecasts this year’s revenue at $50bn, way below the $70bn signalled before Business live – latest updates OpenAI has revealed that it is making about $20bn less in projected…
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Anthropic wants to stop “sustained and needless” cruelty toward its chatbot. But does that imply AI has feelings?
<blockquote cite="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/technology/anthropic-rogue-ai-agents.html"><p>Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in <a…
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. In recent years, being gobsmacked by AI’s ever-expanding capabilities has become my new normal. More importantly, I’ve found the technology increasingly essential to my…
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As announced last week, Google is rolling out a big change to the Gemini app experience for users on the free plan. Additionally, everyone is getting access to thinking or “effort” levels. more…
Business, policy & big tech
84 stories
FCC chairman Brendan Carr said he will defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on whether TV networks can air the planned execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad. The Pentagon has said the…
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Mike Flanagan's Stephen King series just dropped on Prime Video, but he's already teasing a very terrifying return to the big screen.
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It turns out that the gander is not actually super keen on what's good for the goose.
A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The…
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The 50th anniversary of 'A New Hope' and 'Star Wars: Starfighter' are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Shiona McCallum visits Cairngorms National Park to see tech monitor wildfire damage.
Adult Swim's trippy animated thriller has announced a date for its second season.
Elon Musk has accused Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of blocking competition.
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
Devices, chips & EVs
83 stories
SpaceX has revealed its plans to become a major mobile carrier.
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The company is reportedly rebooting its smart home ambitions with a smart display and a whole bunch of other accessories.
If you guessed the RAMpocalypse is involved...
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A 450-megawatt (MW) solar farm with a massive battery system is now under construction in Arizona – and Tesla has already lined up about 90% of its expected electricity output. more…
TrendForce projects that global notebook shipments could decline by a high-single-digit percentage in 2027, depending on how manufacturers respond to rising component costs. Here are the details. more…
Google Health 5.10 is rolling out as a smaller update this week with a trio of new features across the app. more…
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, iPhone Duo buyers who purchase their device at an Apple Store in the US will be treated to a nice little surprise when they turn it on for the first time. Here are the details. more…
NHTSA blames current vehicle standards for making it hard for carmakers to use the latest headlight tech.
Morale at one of the most reviled companies in America appears to be at an all time low.
Breaches, exploits & privacy
33 stories
Citrix has released patches for yet another critical security flaw impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that could result in remote code execution or denial-of-service (DoS) under certain conditions. "CVE-2026-107406 is…
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The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and…
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Threat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. Details of the flaws are below …
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DoJ) have announced the disruption of malicious tools used by a China-linked advanced persistent threat group known as Flax Typhoon. To that end, the…
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Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of…
The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network.
Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.
Worse than Godzilla.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the…
Code, tools & open source
18 stories
Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluation, and…
Shopify has updated its Checkout Blocks app, transitioning five high-traffic checkout UI extensions to remote-dom using Preact and Polaris web components. The rewrite, which involved moving to TypeScript and a new API version…
CircleCI has made its Machine Runner Orchestrator 1.0.0 generally available, providing automated scaling of self-hosted machine runner virtual machines according to CI workload demand. By Craig Risi
Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva share how Netflix tackles observability across 38M events/sec. They discuss replacing reactive monitoring with an AI-driven operational ontology and agentic workflows using Claude and…