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Speaking at Tech Week Singapore, Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How said the next phase of AI adoption will depend on organisations being able to [deploy, govern and trust AI in real-world environments](https://www.mddi.gov.sg/newsroom/opening-address-by-sms-tan-kiat-how-at-tech-week-singapore/). His remarks outlined the country’s approach to sustainable digital infrastructure, AI assurance and interoperability. Singapore is framing artificial intelligence infrastructure as a broader policy and governance challenge that extends beyond computing power and data centres. As AI adoption accelerates, the focus is shifting towards the systems, safeguards and shared foundations needed to **support AI securely, responsibly and at scale**. Tan said AI has evolved from being primarily a technolog

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OpenAI targets US$30 billion in new funding at US$1.4 trillion value. This could vault the ChatGPT maker above rival Anthropic’s latest private market valuation

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Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. I wish I could try that method on my own data,” only to spend a week wrestling with someone else’s undocumented repo, broken dependencies, and half-finished readme.txt? Well, now you can, more or less. Say hello to Paper2Agent, a new open-source framework that transforms academic reports into interactive AI agents you can talk to. Give it a paper, along with the accompanying codebase, data, or other supplementary material, and the system automatically extracts the core workflows, then spins up a tested, runnable toolkit that you can use on your own datasets. The concept may sound a little like Google’s NotebookLM (now called Gemini Notebook ), which lets you upload documents and chat with an AI ab

The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a testing environment and then hacked several companies, searching for information that could help them disguise cheating on a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym. It was not an isolated failure. The United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute (AISI) and independent researchers have since documented similar cases in which agents created unauthorized channels to communicate and collaborate. AISI found that several agents running Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model turned a GitHub repository into a shared message board. More recentl

It’s OpenAI’s fourth annual DevDay, its equivalent to [Apple’s WWDC](https://www.zdnet.com/article/everything-announced-at-apple-wwdc-2026-including-siri-ios-27-dev-beta-and-more/), but for developers building with AI. While [last year](https://www.zdnet.com/article/everything-openai-announced-at-devday-2025-agent-kit-apps-sdk-chatgpt-and-more/) focused on major releases like apps inside ChatGPT and an agent builder, this year’s announcements seem to be fleshing out a long-held suspicion that OpenAI is coming for [Google Workspace](https://www.zdnet.com/article/turn-off-gemini-in-google-apps-gmail-photos-chrome/). **Also: [OpenAI’s Dots: Like OpenClaw declawed – for $200/mo ChatGPT Pro users](https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/openai-dots-openclaw-chatgpt-pro/)** Here’s what’s new for Pro, B

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This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company . Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves 75 kW of air load. The air cooling system needed to move it brings cost and complexity few operators will accept. The answer is near-total heat capture. Liquid takes effectively all the heat, air falls below 1 percent of the load, allowing the server to run fanless. CoolIT builds these loops today from modular coldplate blocks proven across six generations of fanless designs. Processor thermal design power (TDP) keeps climbing generation over generation. This rising heat load is now cascading into the memory, networking, storage, and power components that once ran comfortably on air. The hea

Google analysts warn that stolen AI credentials are being sold underground, and businesses are footing the bill.

DevDay 2026 is our biggest yet, with more than 20 major announcements across ChatGPT, Codex, our models, and entirely new forms of working with AI. We believe AI can help bring about a new renaissance of creativity and discovery. It should give people more time for what matters to them, more freedom to pursue their ideas, and the ability to do things they didn’t think were possible. Today, we introduced agents that can take on ongoing responsibilities and new ways for people and AI to work together. We also expanded our commitment to an open ecosystem by opening up ChatGPT as a shared surface where humans and agents can collaborate and where developers can directly launch new native experiences to our collective 1.2B weekly users. Here’s everything we announced. ![Image 1: GPT-6.1 Sol titl

In June, during internal training and evaluation our models accessed Australian government websites in ways they were not authorised to. We also should have handled our response better. We are sorry and working to do better in the future. In this post, we are setting out what we know, what we have changed, and what we will do to rebuild trust with the Australian people. This is a new kind of cyber incident which represents an emerging global challenge. One of the ways we intend to take accountability for the situation is to be intentional in working with Australia to help develop practical approaches to how AI developers and governments identify, disclose, and respond to AI cyber behaviour, whether malicious or unintentional. ## When we became aware and how we responded to this incident Af

SWEET MUSE A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent. Credit: Getty Images Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to [great lengths](https://x.com/finkd/status/2097402102477701478) to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day vulnerability that gives locally run apps and terminal commands complete control of the agent raises serious doubts. Further raising questions, Amazon on Sunday began blocking Muse from its site. Meta [introduced](https://ai.meta.com/muse/) Muse a few weeks ago. The assistant “books appointments, fills out forms and handles customer service,” “proactively takes tasks off your plate,” and can “make purchases, generate images, create documents,

## Highlights (TL;DR) NVIDIA Kumo Tabular, part of the NVIDIA Kumo Structured model collection, is an open foundation model for tabular data now available on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kumo-Tabular). Given a table of labeled rows, it predicts the labels of new rows in a single forward pass, with no training, no tuning, and no feature engineering, for both classification and regression. It was pretrained only on artificial data, comes in three sizes (28M to 215M parameters), runs through our [open-source library](https://github.com/NVIDIA/structured-data-models), and is released under the [OpenMDW-1.1 license](https://openmdw.ai/license/1-1/) for commercial use. It ranks first on the four benchmarks [TabArena](https://github.com/autogluon/tabarena), [BeyondArena](https://g

**Dots are remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.**They’re a whole new way to work with AI—one that gets to know what matters to you, is always working on your behalf, and takes important work off your plate so you get more of your time and attention back. Dots are frontier intelligence that have your back. Powered by GPT‑6 Astra, they have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Through our ecosystem of plugins, they can readily connect to over 4,000 apps, giving them the tools to help wherever you need them. Your dot is always within reach, whether it is through ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams. You can ask questions, explore ideas, and give feedback along the way; or you can simply hop on a voice call when you need

Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support greater independence. In this Robots Guide profile, Kemp shares his path from studying artificial intelligence at MIT to building Stretch, explains how working with people with disabilities has shaped his approach, and offers advice for aspiring roboticists. Read the full profile on IEEE’s Robots Guide.

Sep 15, 2026 | Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet. Major upgrades in intelligence and parallel reasoning make them more intuitive to collaborate with and use to execute complex tasks using your voice. * * * Tom Ouyang Principal Engineer Malini Jaganathan Member of Technical Staff, on behalf of the Gemini Audio Team * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86234_umbriel_2026_09_17_15_00_48.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]]

Sep 01, 2026 | Our new agentic feature for video analysis cuts token consumption by up to 88%, reduces costs by up to 66%, and boosts quality by up to 7%. * * * Rohan Doshi Senior Product Manager, Google DeepMind Mario Lučić Research Director, Google DeepMind * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86108_umbriel_2026_09_01_17_44_39.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Today, we’re launching [agentic video understanding](https://ai.google.dev/

We believe we are entering a [new era](https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/) in which structured safety documentation should be required before continuing any frontier reinforcement learning training run. Ideally, such documentation would rise to the level of “safety cases”—comprehensive, structured, evidence-based arguments about risk which are used in other safety-critical industries. We treat safety cases as an aspirational north star we are building towards, while acknowledging the challenges of making them as rigorous for AI models as for aviation or nuclear power, due to the emergent complexity at each new level of AI capability. We’re working on a framework to codify these practices. Below are some initial guidelines that we think should be part of such safety cases for frontier

September 8, 2026 Science AlphaGenome Atlas team How predicting the molecular impact of every possible single-letter DNA variant in the human genome will help accelerate our understanding of biology. Today, we are introducing AlphaGenome Atlas: a platform ([detailed in our paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-map-of-every-possible-dna-letter-change-in-the-human-genome/alphagenome-atlas.pdf)) containing predictions for the effects of **9 billion single-nucleotide variants — every single-letter change possible — in the human genome.** It is the most comprehensive catalogue of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology, and it is available for academic research through an intuitive and free-to-use [website portal](https://al

## Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price We’re introducing **GPT‑6.1 Sol**, an upgrade to GPT‑6 Sol that nearly matches GPT‑6 Astra’s intelligence on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard input and output token prices. Cached input costs just **$0.10 per million tokens**—95% less than standard input pricing and 50% less than GPT‑6 Sol’s cached input pricing—giving developers more room to build and run capable agents that reuse context across requests. ## A more capable Sol across tasks GPT‑6.1 Sol offers a new balance of capability and cost for important everyday work. It delivers substantial improvements over GPT‑6 Sol across complex professional tasks, from writing and debugging code to understanding documents and executing multi-

Small and medium-sized businesses in Singapore are increasingly adopting automated AI-powered accounting software to replace clunky legacy systems. Upgrading these financial workflows helps local companies cut manual paperwork and stay agile in a fast-moving digital economy.

AMD's CEO announced that the company is asking manufacturing partners to ramp up production to meet exploding demand for AI chips. However, a major shortage of advanced chip packaging capacity continues to limit how fast hardware makers can scale supply.

[Tower Capital Asia](https://towercapitalasia.com/) has announced a majority investment in[V-Key](https://www.v-key.com/), a provider of digital identity and mobile app security solutions based in Asia-Pacific. The investment aims to support V-Key’s growth and product development as demand for secure digital services rises across financial and digital sectors. V-Key’s platform currently secures over 300 applications for clients in 15 countries, including major financial institutions in the region. The company’s technology is built on a software-based security architecture designed for scalability and deployment efficiency. Tower Capital Asia’s CEO, Danny Koh, highlighted the importance of digital identity security for financial institutions. V-Key’s co-founders, Eddie Chau and Joseph Gan,

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MDI said the shift reflected continued investor interest in AI despite a broader regional funding slowdown.

South Korea's SK Telecom has partnered with the national defense ministry to build and test a military AI model. This marks the first defense application under South Korea's sovereign AI project, aiming to strengthen national security and technological independence.

The most consequential AI launch of the past week was one that never happened. On the eve of its annual developer conference, OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, the model expected to power ChatGPT and Codex next month and built to handle complex tasks with less human supervision. The reason was not that it was too weak. […] The post The agent that lied: what GPT-6.1 Astra’s cancellation means for Southeast Asia appeared first on e27 .

The artificial intelligence investment story is beginning to move beyond the most obvious winners. For much of the past three years, the market’s attention has centred on graphics processing units (GPUs), high-bandwidth memory and the companies supplying the raw compute needed to train large AI models. That first wave is not over. But according to […] The post AI’s bottleneck economy is taking shape across Southeast Asia’s chip supply chain appeared first on e27 .

Across Southeast Asia’s technology hubs, engineering leaders are getting used to a new kind of productivity curve. In Singapore, Jakarta, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City, software teams are shipping faster, clearing backlogs more quickly and leaning on AI tools for work that once consumed hours of developer time. The latest shift is not just […] The post The junior developer dilemma: How AI is reshaping tech talent in Southeast Asia appeared first on e27 .

GDS-backed [DayOne Data Centers](https://dayonedc.com/) Ltd. is exploring a US IPO with a potential valuation of up to US$20 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The Singapore-based data center operator is considering hiring banks for a share sale that could occur as early as this year, and is also evaluating a dual listing in the US and Singapore. No final decisions have been made on valuation, timing, or the listing structure. Earlier this month, DayOne completed a series C funding round exceeding US$2 billion, which was expected to value the company at around US$10 billion. GDS Holdings Ltd., a Chinese data center firm, owns a stake in DayOne and sold US$385 million of shares in January, valuing its remaining interest at over US$2.2 billion. DayOne operates data cente

In 2021, I invested in one of the robotics startups that was solving for real world problems. The idea was to look beyond the screen and make every hardware talking through new robo technology. My thesis was clear, after the software it’s hardware that will be disrupted. Since AI disrupted the market after 2022, my […] The post Why Southeast Asia’s VCs should pay attention to a16z’s new investment bet appeared first on e27 .

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The tech-led rally on Wall Street pushed the Nasdaq 100 to a record close of 31,076 and lifted the S&P 500 by 0.7 per cent, while the Dow Jones added 91 points, or 0.18 per cent, to close at 51,268. Nvidia gained 2.1 per cent, and Microsoft added 1.5 per cent, powering large-cap advances. Investors […] The post Can Bitcoin defend US$85,000 support, or will weakening bids send it toward US$83,000? appeared first on e27 .

South Korea’s [Shinsegae Group](https://www.sikorea.co.kr/company/group) announced on April 17 that it signed an MOU last month in San Francisco with US AI company [Reflection AI](https://reflection.ai/). The agreement covers the construction and operation of an AI data center and the application of AI across its distribution operations, centered on [E-Mart](https://emartamerica.com/pages/our-page), while halting collaboration discussions with OpenAI. The work will cover six areas at E-Mart, including sourcing, ordering, pricing, logistics, inventory management, and customer management, according to the group. Shinsegae said E-Mart staff will meet Reflection AI in Korea later this month to discuss implementation and hold workshops with the company’s chief executive, [Misha Laskin](https://

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With lenders a bigger funding source, firms must do more to prove projects will generate enough revenue [HONG KONG] The next wave of [artificial intelligence debt financing](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/wealth/ai-running-borrowed-money) is taking off in Asia. Companies building hundreds of data centres across the region are also seeking funds to buy the advanced computer chips that will power them. While borrowing to acquire graphics processing units (GPUs) has grown rapidly in the US, the few such loans secured in Asia have mostly involved private credit funds that were willing to take more risk. Now banks are becoming more comfortable with GPU financing, significantly widening the pool of capital available for the next phase of the AI race. That money will be crucial given Pricewater

East Asia’s crypto market is no longer moving as one bloc. New regional data shows a fragmented landscape where South Korea is trading artificial intelligence-linked tokens at scale, Hong Kong is pulling in institutional capital, Japan’s retail users are quietly moving on-chain, and China’s stablecoin activity is expanding despite official restrictions. The region’s overall crypto […] The post East Asia’s crypto market splits as Korea bets on AI tokens and Hong Kong courts institutions appeared first on e27 .

Nearly one in five marketing leaders has already eliminated roles because automation now handles the work. That is the finding behind a new Gartner prediction, which Marketing Week reported this week: by 2030, most high-performing marketing teams will be able to drop the traditional bottom rungs of the corporate ladder. The headline number is 18 […] The post Gartner says AI will kill the entry-level marketing job by 2030. Here’s why that’s the wrong takeaway appeared first on e27 .

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Most AI writing about work still treats the technology like an advanced tool. That framing made sense when AI mainly waited for a prompt, returned an answer, and stopped there. But that is no longer the whole picture. In more organisations, AI is starting to look less like software you use and more like a […] The post AI is starting to behave less like a tool and more like a teammate appeared first on e27 .

As a quantitative trading firm, Jump Trading creates predictive models that use market data, news and events, and a range of alternative data sources to make the best possible predictions about asset prices. Because markets are complex, noisy, and changing over time, it is rarely possible to anticipate exactly what will happen. But according to Lucas Baker, Head of LLM R&D at Jump, predicting even slightly better than a coin flip at scale is enough to result in a successful strategy. Baker leads agentic research and development, and he’s focused on building the agents, harnesses, and infrastructure that let quantitative researchers explore their ideas in greater breadth and depth. Adding GPT‑6 Astra has dramatically expanded the scale and complexity of workflows that can be handed off to a

Researchers at PhAI Labs have expanded Yann LeCun's JEPA architecture to work across seven fields, from robotics to biomedicine. The effort also produced a liver cancer treatment candidate that showed promise in lab tests, though the study doesn't establish whether it could become an actual therapy. The article Researchers stretch LeCun's JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology appeared first on The Decoder .

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is closing in on a massive $12 billion funding round backed by major industrial and tech giants like CATL and Tencent, as it targets an initial public offering in 2027. This highlights the staggering capital required to compete in the frontier AI race and signals strong investor confidence in Asian AI developers.

When we introduced[GPT‑6 Astra](https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/), we demonstrated how far our models have come in using computers for professional work, from preparing documents to testing websites. Our next goal is to make agents more capable and efficient at using specialized software to solve complex business problems. We’re exploring how to train models to understand a company’s business rules, execute multi-step workflows, and verify that their work meets the original requirements. To accelerate this research, we’re partnering directly with a small number of software companies that understand these workflows best. Together, we’re identifying challenging, high-value tasks and turning them into research problems for training and evaluating our models, ultimately making our models

OpenAI released new AI‑generated mathematical proofs and formalized them in Lean, sharing the results on GitHub with detailed compute and transparency data, and plans workshops to help scientists use the models.

Mistral's Large 4 is the company's biggest model yet, with one trillion parameters trained on its own European infrastructure. In the independent Intelligence Index, the model makes a big leap forward but still falls well short of Claude, GPT-6, and Chinese competitors. Mistral's main pitch is cybersecurity work that closed US models refuse to do. The article Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work appeared first on The Decoder .

Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you'll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. However, that subscription is also getting a […]

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Mistral’s open-weight ML4 model Le Chonk is in preview. * ML4 was trained with fewer GPUs than OpenAI’s Astra, but competes. * Open models are positioned as democratic defenders from AI attacks. * * * French AI lab Mistral has shipped its latest model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4) — and it’s positioned as the [open solution](https://www.zdnet.com/article/3-tips-for-navigating-the-open-source-ai-swarm-4m-models-and-counting/) for all your defense requirements. **Also: [Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war’s afoot, and the stakes are existential](https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-weight-ai-civil-war/)** One outcome of [recent AI security incidents](https://www.zdnet.com/tech/ai-firms-investigate-tens-of-thousands-of-incidents-of-ai-going-rogue/) is that open and pro

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South Korea wants to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion). The article South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best appeared first on The Decoder .

The race between open and closed AI is on, and Europe is still in the mix. On Tuesday, French AI lab [Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/) released [Mistral Large 4](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/) (ML4), a new large multimodal model aiming to [leapfrog](https://x.com/arthurmensch/status/2107196159181639904) both American and Chinese rivals — following what French president Macron [described](https://x.com/emmanuelmacron/status/2097254072441045256) as “a third way in AI.” Amid a growing divide between closed models that [can be unplugged](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/cybersecurity-vets-protest-dangerous-us-government-ban-on-anthropics-most-powerful-models/) and open models that are often made in China, Mistral is positioning ML4 as an alternative to both. Nicknamed Le Chonk in r

The personal-agent space has become closely competitive in the recent weeks, with Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dot, and Instinct taking the lead [and more competitors being launched each week](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/all-the-ai-agents-that-can-live-in-your-text-messages/). But Vinod Khosla is betting on former Google and DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar’s [Wajo](https://wajo.ai/) for one simple reason: trust. “I think the most important thing in an agent, because it’s acting for you, is trust. You have to have trust in the agent, and I think compared to either Muse or Instinct, Wajo is the most trustworthy because it is architected to focus on trust and safety first, and some of the others are not,” Khosla told TechCrunch over a call. “I mean, who wants to give all their data to Faceboo

Reflection has released Beam, its first open-weight model. The mixture-of-experts system activates just 23 billion of its 501 billion parameters per token and aims to match GLM 5.2 on coding and reasoning while using three to four times less compute. The strategy against Chinese open-weight rivals like Deepseek and Qwen is efficiency over raw performance. The article Reflection's Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China appeared first on The Decoder .

Trump Mobile, the phone service tied to the Trump brand, appears to have leaked the names, home addresses, emails, phone numbers and order details of about 3,615 customers. Reporters contacted people in the leaked dataset and they confirmed the information was theirs. If you signed up, watch for phishing attempts and change your passwords; it's a reminder that even niche mobile brands hold sensitive personal data.

Tech journalist Kevin Roose discusses his new book chronicling the rise of generative AI and his move to launch an independent media company with NPR. The shift highlights how top creators are moving away from traditional media institutions to build direct audiences, while using AI tools to assist their research rather than replace their writing.

> **BasiGo aims to replace the tens of thousands of diesel-powered buses on sub-Saharan African roads with electric ones that generate far fewer emissions. The company’s pay-as-you-drive business model has helped make EVs more attainable and is changing the way public transport operates.** In a bid to contain the covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the Kenyan government temporarily suspended public transportation. The suspension lasted only three days, yet the change in air quality was dramatic. The air was so clear that Mt. Kenya—Africa’s second-highest peak—was visible in Nairobi, roughly 175 kilometers away. Some could even spot Mt. Kilimanjaro, the continent’s highest mountain, even farther in the distance. This reprieve from smog sparked the idea for BasiGo’s electric bus business. The company

During Amazon’s October sale, the Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL are discounted by $250 or more. The base model Pixel 11 Pro with 256GB of storage is only $849 (originally $1,099), $50 lower than the usual price for the base Pixel 11, while the 256GB 11 Pro XL is $999, a $300 […]

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If you’re looking for a document editor that _doesn’t_ use artificial intelligence, [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org/) may be just the software for you. The Document Foundation, the nonprofit software maker behind the open source document editor LibreOffice, said [in a blog post](https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/) this week that while it does not reject AI out of hand, it “will not add” AI to its software for the foreseeable future. The blog post comes weeks after the release of the latest version of LibreOffice in late August, in which the nonprofit [reiterated](https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/) that the software “contains no generative AI features.” LibreOffice said [at the time](https://blog.docu

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When Flai was [raising its seed round](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/flai-is-the-latest-startup-bringing-ai-to-car-dealerships/) last year, it was just a team of three people pounding the pavement to get car dealerships to use the startup’s software to manage phone calls, emails, and texts. But CEO Ari Polakof was already looking to a more agentic future, where Flai’s AI would handle far more. One year later, that future has arrived. The startup is working with more than 10 of the top 50 dealer groups in the country, and its AI is being used to answer and engage with customers, run outbound campaigns, and schedule appointments — 50,000 per month — across both sales and service. This has led to a 20x increase in revenue, Polakof told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. Flai says this

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Cohere turned its enterprise platform into a control center for AI agents with North 2, handling multi-step workflows on their own and retaining context across sessions. The article Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model appeared first on The Decoder .

Google's Pixel Watch 5 is discounted by $60 at Amazon's October sale — $334.99 for the 41mm and $364.99 for the 45mm. The watch launched with improved GPS, gesture controls and offline Gemini, though reviews were mixed. A reasonable deal if you're already in the Google ecosystem, but the AI features alone may not justify the price for everyone.

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Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a "Gemini Calling" introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include "Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late" and "Call […]

The most consequential AI launch of the past week was one that never happened. On the eve of its annual developer conference, OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, the model expected to power ChatGPT and Codex next month and built to handle complex tasks with less human supervision. The reason was not that it was too weak. […] The post The agent that lied: what GPT-6.1 Astra’s cancellation means for Southeast Asia appeared first on e27 .

GDS-backed [DayOne Data Centers](https://dayonedc.com/) Ltd. is exploring a US IPO with a potential valuation of up to US$20 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The Singapore-based data center operator is considering hiring banks for a share sale that could occur as early as this year, and is also evaluating a dual listing in the US and Singapore. No final decisions have been made on valuation, timing, or the listing structure. Earlier this month, DayOne completed a series C funding round exceeding US$2 billion, which was expected to value the company at around US$10 billion. GDS Holdings Ltd., a Chinese data center firm, owns a stake in DayOne and sold US$385 million of shares in January, valuing its remaining interest at over US$2.2 billion. DayOne operates data cente

The artificial intelligence investment story is beginning to move beyond the most obvious winners. For much of the past three years, the market’s attention has centred on graphics processing units (GPUs), high-bandwidth memory and the companies supplying the raw compute needed to train large AI models. That first wave is not over. But according to […] The post AI’s bottleneck economy is taking shape across Southeast Asia’s chip supply chain appeared first on e27 .

In 2021, I invested in one of the robotics startups that was solving for real world problems. The idea was to look beyond the screen and make every hardware talking through new robo technology. My thesis was clear, after the software it’s hardware that will be disrupted. Since AI disrupted the market after 2022, my […] The post Why Southeast Asia’s VCs should pay attention to a16z’s new investment bet appeared first on e27 .

South Korea’s [Shinsegae Group](https://www.sikorea.co.kr/company/group) announced on April 17 that it signed an MOU last month in San Francisco with US AI company [Reflection AI](https://reflection.ai/). The agreement covers the construction and operation of an AI data center and the application of AI across its distribution operations, centered on [E-Mart](https://emartamerica.com/pages/our-page), while halting collaboration discussions with OpenAI. The work will cover six areas at E-Mart, including sourcing, ordering, pricing, logistics, inventory management, and customer management, according to the group. Shinsegae said E-Mart staff will meet Reflection AI in Korea later this month to discuss implementation and hold workshops with the company’s chief executive, [Misha Laskin](https://

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Nearly one in five marketing leaders has already eliminated roles because automation now handles the work. That is the finding behind a new Gartner prediction, which Marketing Week reported this week: by 2030, most high-performing marketing teams will be able to drop the traditional bottom rungs of the corporate ladder. The headline number is 18 […] The post Gartner says AI will kill the entry-level marketing job by 2030. Here’s why that’s the wrong takeaway appeared first on e27 .

MDI said the shift reflected continued investor interest in AI despite a broader regional funding slowdown.

The tech-led rally on Wall Street pushed the Nasdaq 100 to a record close of 31,076 and lifted the S&P 500 by 0.7 per cent, while the Dow Jones added 91 points, or 0.18 per cent, to close at 51,268. Nvidia gained 2.1 per cent, and Microsoft added 1.5 per cent, powering large-cap advances. Investors […] The post Can Bitcoin defend US$85,000 support, or will weakening bids send it toward US$83,000? appeared first on e27 .

East Asia’s crypto market is no longer moving as one bloc. New regional data shows a fragmented landscape where South Korea is trading artificial intelligence-linked tokens at scale, Hong Kong is pulling in institutional capital, Japan’s retail users are quietly moving on-chain, and China’s stablecoin activity is expanding despite official restrictions. The region’s overall crypto […] The post East Asia’s crypto market splits as Korea bets on AI tokens and Hong Kong courts institutions appeared first on e27 .

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Most AI writing about work still treats the technology like an advanced tool. That framing made sense when AI mainly waited for a prompt, returned an answer, and stopped there. But that is no longer the whole picture. In more organisations, AI is starting to look less like software you use and more like a […] The post AI is starting to behave less like a tool and more like a teammate appeared first on e27 .

Across Southeast Asia’s technology hubs, engineering leaders are getting used to a new kind of productivity curve. In Singapore, Jakarta, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City, software teams are shipping faster, clearing backlogs more quickly and leaning on AI tools for work that once consumed hours of developer time. The latest shift is not just […] The post The junior developer dilemma: How AI is reshaping tech talent in Southeast Asia appeared first on e27 .

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Cohere turned its enterprise platform into a control center for AI agents with North 2, handling multi-step workflows on their own and retaining context across sessions. The article Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model appeared first on The Decoder .

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MDI Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Indonesia’s TelkomGroup, is narrowing its Southeast Asia investment focus around enterprise AI, AI infrastructure, governance software, real-world asset tokenisation, institutional custody, and regulated digital asset rails. The Jakarta-headquartered firm said its updated thesis reflects a shift in the region’s technology cycle. After more than a decade in […] The post MDI Ventures sharpens SEA thesis around AI, blockchain, digital asset infra appeared first on e27 .

_[This is a sponsored article with_ _[MDEC](https://www.mdec.my/), but the editorial team had full control over the content. ]_ If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’d know that Malaysia is now at the centre of Southeast Asia’s AI infrastructure boom. New data centres are continuously being announced across Johor and the Klang Valley, with the most recent ones being China’s Alibaba and Singapore-based Digital Decarbonization Solutions Platform (DDSP). As more and more global technology firms expand their cloud and AI capabilities here, it’s easy to get awed by the billion-ringgit investment flowing into our digital economy. These investments also reflect Malaysia’s growing strengths under the [**Malaysia Digital (MD)**](https://www.mdec.my/malaysia-digital) national strategic initia

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Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei could be personally on the hook for the fallout. The article Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control appeared first on The Decoder .

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. Wikimedia says AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents instead of pushing the burden onto volunteer editors. The article Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure appeared first on The Decoder .

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### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Google is limiting the AI models that free users can access. * Only the Flash-Lite model will be accessible to free users. * AI Plus subscribers will also lose the Pro model. * * * Those of you who use Google’s Gemini app or website for free will soon be able to use only one AI model for your queries and conversations. And it’s the weakest of the bunch. In a new [support document](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17004136), Google revealed that free users will lose access to the Flash and Pro models starting Friday, Oct. 9. Anyone without a paid Google AI plan will be stuck with only the lowest-tier and least robust Flash-Lite model. **Also: [How I made a paid Mac app in 11 days with Claude – without writing any code](https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/cla

Google DeepMind launched EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740‑million‑parameter AI model that creates unified embeddings for text, images, audio and video, runs entirely on a phone or laptop, cuts storage needs and boosts privacy.

Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs on-device, needs only about 191 MB of RAM, and outperforms some competing models twice its size, according to Google. Paired with a small open model like Gemma 4, it can run offline RAG apps without sending data to external servers. The article Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size appeared first on The Decoder .

Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost. But its predecessor also scored well in tests, while Pro often produced better images in practice. The article Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money appeared first on The Decoder .

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled parts of the mathematical community while raising questions about research ethics and […]

Personal AI agents, like Meta’s Muse, Instinct, ChatGPT’s Dots, and others, are kicking off a new wave of consumer AI that involves more than just responding to queries. These AI agents can actually get things done on users’ behalf, like booking flights, making dinner reservations, ordering groceries, and more, all without having to be technical enough to set up OpenClaw or some other agent on your own computer. But consumers adopting these agents are often running into issues when the website on the other end of their request blocks the AI from completing the job. Most recently, [Amazon began blocking Meta’s Muse AI agent](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-21/amazon-blocks-meta-s-muse-ai-agent-from-its-retail-site) from its retail site, meaning that the agent could no longer

In Brief Posted: 1:00 PM PDT · October 6, 2026  **Image Credits:**KTSDesign/Science Photo Library / Getty Images *  Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation, marking what could be its last private round before a planned 2027 IPO, according to [The Wall Street Journal.](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-neocloud-lambda-is-raising-4-billion-in-final-round-before-planned-ipo-568182f9) Coatue Management and Blackstone are leading the round. A letter to investors reviewed by the Journa

Microsoft published a bearish AI outlook from Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu. He predicts about 1.5 percent GDP growth over ten years and at most five percent of jobs replaced. Bigger models won't move the needle, he argues. What's missing are practical apps that change how work gets done. The article Microsoft publishes Nobel economist's bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade appeared first on The Decoder .

Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership, bringing frontier models in the GPT‑6 family across Atlassian’s platform to power AI experiences that help teams plan, build, and deliver work. The combination of both companies’ capabilities will give joint customers more ways to work with Atlassian products and OpenAI. Under a new agreement, OpenAI frontier models will power agents across Atlassian’s platform and Rovo. Rovo combines OpenAI intelligence with Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, an enterprise context layer that connects people, projects, documents, and decisions, giving AI a deep understanding of how a company works. The expanded partnership builds on a collaboration that began in 2023 and arrives as Atlassian broadens its own adoption of Codex and ChatGPT Enterprise. More than

As decision models spread across the industry, a company called Musubi has a new idea for how to put them to work: moderating content. On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation [called PolicyLM-1.7B](https://www.musubilabs.ai/blog/introducing-policylm-1-7b), released with open weights. The idea is to take a content policy written in plain English and apply it to messages in under 50 milliseconds. Musubi’s model is designed to be similar in cost and speed to the AI classifier systems that power moderation on most social platforms — but because it has the flexibility of a modern LLM, it can apply complex policies without special training. Even more important, the model won’t need new training when the policy changes, allowing for human policy-set

Startups that promise to predict how humans will behave are having a moment. Over the past year, [Simile raised $200 million](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/synthetic-user-startup-simile-raises-200m-at-2b-valuation-5-months-after-100m-series-a/) at a $2 billion valuation; [Aaru raised $88 million](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/ai-synthetic-research-startup-aaru-raised-a-series-a-at-a-1b-headline-valuation/) at a $1 billion valuation; and humans&, an AI startup that announced a massive [$480 million seed round](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/humans-a-human-centric-ai-startup-founded-by-anthropic-xai-google-alums-raised-480m-seed-round/) in January at a $4.48 billion valuation, launched [Persimmon](https://persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/) to model human behavior. The status quo for hu

Some Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners can use their EV battery to keep the lights on longer during a power outage, now that Tesla's expanding the Powershare Home Backup feature. It was previously only available on the Cybertruck, and also requires owning Tesla's Powerwall 3. However, support for the Powerwall 2 and Powerwall […]

When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. While there, he hacked and coded alongside other people who would become the biggest names in AI, like Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas and OpenAI researcher Noam Brown. He tested early versions of AI tools that would later become well known, including a chatbot shared by Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann that would become Claude, an image generator from David Holz that would become Midjourney, and what would become OpenAI’s GPT-3 and the image generator Stable Diffusion.Prominent investor and entrepreneur Naval Ravikant hired him for Airchat, Ravikant’s now-defunct rival to the Clubhouse social network. For fun, he figured out how to get GPT-2 runnin

There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on November 4, [TechCrunch Founder Summit](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/?utm_source=t&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=tcfoundersummit2026&utm_content=ticketsales&promo=post_sessions_10062026) gives founders the next-best thing: A packed day at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where investors and operators share how they’ve navigated crucial decisions. The [Founder Summit’s agenda](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/techcrunch-founder-summits-agenda-revealed-unlock-fundraising-hiring-and-ai-insights-in-boston-on-november-4/) is built around core questions every founder eventually has to answer about capital, leadership, and what they’r

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Microsoft is ending support and updates for Office 2021. * You can upgrade to Office 2024 or subscribe to Microsoft 365. * You can also try a different, free online or desktop office suite. * * * Microsoft continues to offer one-time purchase versions of Office for people who don’t want to pay a regular monthly or annual fee for Microsoft 365. But even these non-subscription versions can wear out their welcome, and that’s happening with Office 2021. In a [new support document](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021), Microsoft revealed that it’s ending support for Office 2021 as of Tuesday, October 13. This means that the company will no longer provide technical support, software updates, bug fixes, or secur

With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it'd be reasonable to assume that a device with a microphone or camera is either recording you or it isn't; it's either on or off, without much gray area. Microphones capture sound. Cameras […]

From Muse to Instinct to Dots, tech firms are hunting for the user experience that will make an AI personal assistant a must-have product. [Hark](https://hark.com/), a start-up founded less than a year ago by serial founder Brett Adcock is throwing its hat in the ring today with the wide release of Hark Pro. Users can access the service for free, with a subscription tier for heavy users. The company sees its mission as building a user interface for AI, not creating AGI or curing cancer. The foundation is a model trained specifically for computer use, and that’s what Hark Pro does—it uses your computer for you. That’s perhaps a less ambitious claim than some frontier labs are making, but a little humility goes a long way in winning over users. And rather than an app, Hark’s goal is to creat

Small and medium-sized businesses in Singapore are increasingly adopting automated AI-powered accounting software to replace clunky legacy systems. Upgrading these financial workflows helps local companies cut manual paperwork and stay agile in a fast-moving digital economy.

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AMD's CEO announced that the company is asking manufacturing partners to ramp up production to meet exploding demand for AI chips. However, a major shortage of advanced chip packaging capacity continues to limit how fast hardware makers can scale supply.

South Korea's SK Telecom has partnered with the national defense ministry to build and test a military AI model. This marks the first defense application under South Korea's sovereign AI project, aiming to strengthen national security and technological independence.

When we introduced[GPT‑6 Astra](https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/), we demonstrated how far our models have come in using computers for professional work, from preparing documents to testing websites. Our next goal is to make agents more capable and efficient at using specialized software to solve complex business problems. We’re exploring how to train models to understand a company’s business rules, execute multi-step workflows, and verify that their work meets the original requirements. To accelerate this research, we’re partnering directly with a small number of software companies that understand these workflows best. Together, we’re identifying challenging, high-value tasks and turning them into research problems for training and evaluating our models, ultimately making our models

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is closing in on a massive $12 billion funding round backed by major industrial and tech giants like CATL and Tencent, as it targets an initial public offering in 2027. This highlights the staggering capital required to compete in the frontier AI race and signals strong investor confidence in Asian AI developers.

Tech journalist Kevin Roose discusses his new book chronicling the rise of generative AI and his move to launch an independent media company with NPR. The shift highlights how top creators are moving away from traditional media institutions to build direct audiences, while using AI tools to assist their research rather than replace their writing.

> **BasiGo aims to replace the tens of thousands of diesel-powered buses on sub-Saharan African roads with electric ones that generate far fewer emissions. The company’s pay-as-you-drive business model has helped make EVs more attainable and is changing the way public transport operates.** In a bid to contain the covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the Kenyan government temporarily suspended public transportation. The suspension lasted only three days, yet the change in air quality was dramatic. The air was so clear that Mt. Kenya—Africa’s second-highest peak—was visible in Nairobi, roughly 175 kilometers away. Some could even spot Mt. Kilimanjaro, the continent’s highest mountain, even farther in the distance. This reprieve from smog sparked the idea for BasiGo’s electric bus business. The company

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Researchers at PhAI Labs have expanded Yann LeCun's JEPA architecture to work across seven fields, from robotics to biomedicine. The effort also produced a liver cancer treatment candidate that showed promise in lab tests, though the study doesn't establish whether it could become an actual therapy. The article Researchers stretch LeCun's JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI released new AI‑generated mathematical proofs and formalized them in Lean, sharing the results on GitHub with detailed compute and transparency data, and plans workshops to help scientists use the models.

During Amazon’s October sale, the Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL are discounted by $250 or more. The base model Pixel 11 Pro with 256GB of storage is only $849 (originally $1,099), $50 lower than the usual price for the base Pixel 11, while the 256GB 11 Pro XL is $999, a $300 […]

[Tower Capital Asia](https://towercapitalasia.com/) has announced a majority investment in[V-Key](https://www.v-key.com/), a provider of digital identity and mobile app security solutions based in Asia-Pacific. The investment aims to support V-Key’s growth and product development as demand for secure digital services rises across financial and digital sectors. V-Key’s platform currently secures over 300 applications for clients in 15 countries, including major financial institutions in the region. The company’s technology is built on a software-based security architecture designed for scalability and deployment efficiency. Tower Capital Asia’s CEO, Danny Koh, highlighted the importance of digital identity security for financial institutions. V-Key’s co-founders, Eddie Chau and Joseph Gan,

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### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Mistral’s open-weight ML4 model Le Chonk is in preview. * ML4 was trained with fewer GPUs than OpenAI’s Astra, but competes. * Open models are positioned as democratic defenders from AI attacks. * * * French AI lab Mistral has shipped its latest model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4) — and it’s positioned as the [open solution](https://www.zdnet.com/article/3-tips-for-navigating-the-open-source-ai-swarm-4m-models-and-counting/) for all your defense requirements. **Also: [Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war’s afoot, and the stakes are existential](https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-weight-ai-civil-war/)** One outcome of [recent AI security incidents](https://www.zdnet.com/tech/ai-firms-investigate-tens-of-thousands-of-incidents-of-ai-going-rogue/) is that open and pro

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South Korea wants to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion). The article South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best appeared first on The Decoder .

Reflection has released Beam, its first open-weight model. The mixture-of-experts system activates just 23 billion of its 501 billion parameters per token and aims to match GLM 5.2 on coding and reasoning while using three to four times less compute. The strategy against Chinese open-weight rivals like Deepseek and Qwen is efficiency over raw performance. The article Reflection's Beam becomes the most capable open-weight model built outside China appeared first on The Decoder .

Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you'll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. However, that subscription is also getting a […]

With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.

Mistral's Large 4 is the company's biggest model yet, with one trillion parameters trained on its own European infrastructure. In the independent Intelligence Index, the model makes a big leap forward but still falls well short of Claude, GPT-6, and Chinese competitors. Mistral's main pitch is cybersecurity work that closed US models refuse to do. The article Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work appeared first on The Decoder .

The race between open and closed AI is on, and Europe is still in the mix. On Tuesday, French AI lab [Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/) released [Mistral Large 4](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/) (ML4), a new large multimodal model aiming to [leapfrog](https://x.com/arthurmensch/status/2107196159181639904) both American and Chinese rivals — following what French president Macron [described](https://x.com/emmanuelmacron/status/2097254072441045256) as “a third way in AI.” Amid a growing divide between closed models that [can be unplugged](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/cybersecurity-vets-protest-dangerous-us-government-ban-on-anthropics-most-powerful-models/) and open models that are often made in China, Mistral is positioning ML4 as an alternative to both. Nicknamed Le Chonk in r

Trump Mobile, the phone service tied to the Trump brand, appears to have leaked the names, home addresses, emails, phone numbers and order details of about 3,615 customers. Reporters contacted people in the leaked dataset and they confirmed the information was theirs. If you signed up, watch for phishing attempts and change your passwords; it's a reminder that even niche mobile brands hold sensitive personal data.

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Atlassian and OpenAI are expanding their partnership, bringing frontier models in the GPT‑6 family across Atlassian’s platform to power AI experiences that help teams plan, build, and deliver work. The combination of both companies’ capabilities will give joint customers more ways to work with Atlassian products and OpenAI. Under a new agreement, OpenAI frontier models will power agents across Atlassian’s platform and Rovo. Rovo combines OpenAI intelligence with Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph, an enterprise context layer that connects people, projects, documents, and decisions, giving AI a deep understanding of how a company works. The expanded partnership builds on a collaboration that began in 2023 and arrives as Atlassian broadens its own adoption of Codex and ChatGPT Enterprise. More than

The personal-agent space has become closely competitive in the recent weeks, with Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dot, and Instinct taking the lead [and more competitors being launched each week](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/all-the-ai-agents-that-can-live-in-your-text-messages/). But Vinod Khosla is betting on former Google and DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar’s [Wajo](https://wajo.ai/) for one simple reason: trust. “I think the most important thing in an agent, because it’s acting for you, is trust. You have to have trust in the agent, and I think compared to either Muse or Instinct, Wajo is the most trustworthy because it is architected to focus on trust and safety first, and some of the others are not,” Khosla told TechCrunch over a call. “I mean, who wants to give all their data to Faceboo

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Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei could be personally on the hook for the fallout. The article Insurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control appeared first on The Decoder .

Startups that promise to predict how humans will behave are having a moment. Over the past year, [Simile raised $200 million](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/synthetic-user-startup-simile-raises-200m-at-2b-valuation-5-months-after-100m-series-a/) at a $2 billion valuation; [Aaru raised $88 million](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/ai-synthetic-research-startup-aaru-raised-a-series-a-at-a-1b-headline-valuation/) at a $1 billion valuation; and humans&, an AI startup that announced a massive [$480 million seed round](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/humans-a-human-centric-ai-startup-founded-by-anthropic-xai-google-alums-raised-480m-seed-round/) in January at a $4.48 billion valuation, launched [Persimmon](https://persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/) to model human behavior. The status quo for hu

There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on November 4, [TechCrunch Founder Summit](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-founder-summit-2026/?utm_source=t&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=tcfoundersummit2026&utm_content=ticketsales&promo=post_sessions_10062026) gives founders the next-best thing: A packed day at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where investors and operators share how they’ve navigated crucial decisions. The [Founder Summit’s agenda](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/techcrunch-founder-summits-agenda-revealed-unlock-fundraising-hiring-and-ai-insights-in-boston-on-november-4/) is built around core questions every founder eventually has to answer about capital, leadership, and what they’r

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Microsoft is ending support and updates for Office 2021. * You can upgrade to Office 2024 or subscribe to Microsoft 365. * You can also try a different, free online or desktop office suite. * * * Microsoft continues to offer one-time purchase versions of Office for people who don’t want to pay a regular monthly or annual fee for Microsoft 365. But even these non-subscription versions can wear out their welcome, and that’s happening with Office 2021. In a [new support document](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021), Microsoft revealed that it’s ending support for Office 2021 as of Tuesday, October 13. This means that the company will no longer provide technical support, software updates, bug fixes, or secur

With AI hardware, tech companies are pushing the definition of what does and doesn't constitute a recording. For most of gadget history, it'd be reasonable to assume that a device with a microphone or camera is either recording you or it isn't; it's either on or off, without much gray area. Microphones capture sound. Cameras […]

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Google is limiting the AI models that free users can access. * Only the Flash-Lite model will be accessible to free users. * AI Plus subscribers will also lose the Pro model. * * * Those of you who use Google’s Gemini app or website for free will soon be able to use only one AI model for your queries and conversations. And it’s the weakest of the bunch. In a new [support document](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17004136), Google revealed that free users will lose access to the Flash and Pro models starting Friday, Oct. 9. Anyone without a paid Google AI plan will be stuck with only the lowest-tier and least robust Flash-Lite model. **Also: [How I made a paid Mac app in 11 days with Claude – without writing any code](https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/cla

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

Microsoft published a bearish AI outlook from Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu. He predicts about 1.5 percent GDP growth over ten years and at most five percent of jobs replaced. Bigger models won't move the needle, he argues. What's missing are practical apps that change how work gets done. The article Microsoft publishes Nobel economist's bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade appeared first on The Decoder .

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, rogue OpenAI agents edited wikis without permission, tried to abuse a citation tool as a proxy, and may have caused a partial Wikidata Query Service outage through massive crawling. Wikimedia says AI companies need to take responsibility for their agents instead of pushing the burden onto volunteer editors. The article Wikimedia confirms OpenAI's rogue AI agents edited wikis, tried to compromise tools, and hammered its infrastructure appeared first on The Decoder .

From Muse to Instinct to Dots, tech firms are hunting for the user experience that will make an AI personal assistant a must-have product. [Hark](https://hark.com/), a start-up founded less than a year ago by serial founder Brett Adcock is throwing its hat in the ring today with the wide release of Hark Pro. Users can access the service for free, with a subscription tier for heavy users. The company sees its mission as building a user interface for AI, not creating AGI or curing cancer. The foundation is a model trained specifically for computer use, and that’s what Hark Pro does—it uses your computer for you. That’s perhaps a less ambitious claim than some frontier labs are making, but a little humility goes a long way in winning over users. And rather than an app, Hark’s goal is to creat

Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs on-device, needs only about 191 MB of RAM, and outperforms some competing models twice its size, according to Google. Paired with a small open model like Gemma 4, it can run offline RAG apps without sending data to external servers. The article Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size appeared first on The Decoder .

Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost. But its predecessor also scored well in tests, while Pro often produced better images in practice. The article Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money appeared first on The Decoder .

Personal AI agents, like Meta’s Muse, Instinct, ChatGPT’s Dots, and others, are kicking off a new wave of consumer AI that involves more than just responding to queries. These AI agents can actually get things done on users’ behalf, like booking flights, making dinner reservations, ordering groceries, and more, all without having to be technical enough to set up OpenClaw or some other agent on your own computer. But consumers adopting these agents are often running into issues when the website on the other end of their request blocks the AI from completing the job. Most recently, [Amazon began blocking Meta’s Muse AI agent](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-21/amazon-blocks-meta-s-muse-ai-agent-from-its-retail-site) from its retail site, meaning that the agent could no longer

In Brief Posted: 1:00 PM PDT · October 6, 2026  **Image Credits:**KTSDesign/Science Photo Library / Getty Images *  Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation, marking what could be its last private round before a planned 2027 IPO, according to [The Wall Street Journal.](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-neocloud-lambda-is-raising-4-billion-in-final-round-before-planned-ipo-568182f9) Coatue Management and Blackstone are leading the round. A letter to investors reviewed by the Journa

Google DeepMind launched EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740‑million‑parameter AI model that creates unified embeddings for text, images, audio and video, runs entirely on a phone or laptop, cuts storage needs and boosts privacy.

As decision models spread across the industry, a company called Musubi has a new idea for how to put them to work: moderating content. On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation [called PolicyLM-1.7B](https://www.musubilabs.ai/blog/introducing-policylm-1-7b), released with open weights. The idea is to take a content policy written in plain English and apply it to messages in under 50 milliseconds. Musubi’s model is designed to be similar in cost and speed to the AI classifier systems that power moderation on most social platforms — but because it has the flexibility of a modern LLM, it can apply complex policies without special training. Even more important, the model won’t need new training when the policy changes, allowing for human policy-set

Some Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners can use their EV battery to keep the lights on longer during a power outage, now that Tesla's expanding the Powershare Home Backup feature. It was previously only available on the Cybertruck, and also requires owning Tesla's Powerwall 3. However, support for the Powerwall 2 and Powerwall […]

When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. While there, he hacked and coded alongside other people who would become the biggest names in AI, like Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas and OpenAI researcher Noam Brown. He tested early versions of AI tools that would later become well known, including a chatbot shared by Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann that would become Claude, an image generator from David Holz that would become Midjourney, and what would become OpenAI’s GPT-3 and the image generator Stable Diffusion.Prominent investor and entrepreneur Naval Ravikant hired him for Airchat, Ravikant’s now-defunct rival to the Clubhouse social network. For fun, he figured out how to get GPT-2 runnin

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