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Every year, IEEE recognizes individual researchers, innovators, and collaborative teams whose technical achievements and leadership have made a lasting impact on technology, engineering, and society worldwide with its Technical Field Awards . The honorees are selected by the IEEE Awards Board based on their extraordinary technical achievements, societal impact, and leadership in specialized engineering disciplines and are approved by the IEEE Board of Directors . “The 2027 IEEE Technical Field Award recipients embody the relentless spirit of innovation and ingenuity that defines our global community,” said Mary Ellen Randall , 2026 IEEE president and CEO in a news release . “Across microelectronics, artificial intelligence, medical robotics, wireless networks, energy conversion, and techni

This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears to have failed? As AI and robotics continue to advance at an unprecedented pace, modern robots perceive through multimodal sensors, interpret context using AI models, and translate those interpretations into physical action. As they move into dynamic environments, their safety increasingly depends on the integrity of the data guiding their decisions. That dependence creates risks that conventional safety assessments may not fully capture. Recent research has demonstrated that manipulating what a robot sees, hears,

We recently identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign designed to extract protected reasoning from our models, with the earliest observed activity occurring in the first week of July. This activity is consistent with adversarial distillation: the systematic and unauthorized use of one model’s outputs or reasoning to help train, reproduce, or improve another model. Protected reasoning is the model’s internal record for working through a task; extracting it can reveal information withheld from the final answer and help others reproduce the model’s capabilities. The operators did not break our encryption, compromise a database, or gain direct access to stored user conversations. Instead, they manipulated model interactions so that protected reasoning could be reproduced in forms visible

Small businesses are built on ambition: a craft you’ve perfected, a skill to share, a better way to serve a community. But turning that ambition and expertise into a business also means finding customers, managing finances, and handling marketing, often with a small team and little time to spare. AI can extend a team’s capacity, but figuring out where to start takes time too. A trusted advisor can make that first step easier. Today, OpenAI is announcing a partnership with [America’s SBDC⁠(opens in a new window)](https://americassbdc.org/)—the national network of small business development centers serving 1 million entrepreneurs each year—to help more small businesses use AI at work. In this initial phase, through [OpenAI Academy’s Community Trainer Program](https://openai.com/index/two-yea

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Financial markets have always relied on timely information, and the drive for timeliness has always adapted to the latest technology. From clipper ships transiting the oceans to telegraph wires connecting cities to fiber-optic cables conducting trades in microseconds , traders have embraced any advantage to get the most up-to-date information. Indeed, the history of finance is really a story about how fast you can move information and who controls the interface. It’s only natural that people also figured out a way to profit by supplying that market intel. In 1841, for example, the Mercantile Exchange (predecessor to Dun & Bradstreet) began selling proprietary business information to its U.S. clients. The following decade, Paul Julius Reuter began selling news services and stock price infor

Sep 02, 2026 | Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity. * * * Raluca Ada Popa Gemini Security Lead, Google DeepMind * * *  Building on the momentum of [3.7 Flash](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/) from three weeks ago and marking our third Flash release in only six weeks, today we’re introducing Gemini 3.8, our best reasoning and coding model yet, at the same speed and low cost of 3.7. Gemini 3.8 introduces 2 variants: * **Gemini 3.8 Flash:** our most intelligent work

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Pearson will acquire the AI skills platform Workera in H2 2026. * A recent Workera report in ZDNET indicated gaps in AI upskilling. * Together, the firms hope to develop the future of AI skills training. * * * [Pearson](https://www.pearson.com/en-us?), a global learning and assessment company, announced on Sept. 29 that it has agreed to acquire [Workera](https://www.workera.ai/), the AI-native skills platform used by organizations such as ServiceNow, Accenture, and the United States Space Force to verify what their employees can do and where they may need to improve. **Also: [73% of tech job listings require AI skills now: How to show off yours](https://www.zdnet.com/article/73-of-tech-job-listings-require-ai-skills-show-off-yours/)** The announcement comes less

Sep 30, 2026 | Gemini 4 Argon delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense. * * * * * *  In this article * [Introducing Gemini 4 Argon](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-4-argon-our-next-era-of-frontier-intelligence/#gemini4argon) * [Changing how we work and build at Google](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-4-argon-our-next-era-of-frontier-intelligence/#changing) * [Working harder on your most complex problems](https://deepmind.google/blo

September 30, 2026 Science Pushmeet Kohli, David Stutz, Ali Cowen-Rivers and Jeremy Ratcliff Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function. Today, we’re introducing SynthID Bio to bring watermarking technology to synthetic biology. SynthID Bio embeds an imperceptible signature directly into the biological code, ensuring the watermark is verifiable not just on a digital model but on the synthesized, physical protein itself – all while preserving its biological function in laboratory testing. Generative AI is helping scientists address critical biological challenges, from predicting the structure of proteins ([AlphaFold](https://deepmind.google/blog/alphafold-five-years-of-impact/)) to designing entirely new proteins ([AlphaProteo](https://deepm

September 23, 2026 Responsibility & Safety Google Private AI Compute Team A technical update on our Private AI Compute architecture, which will enable persistent, cross-device AI memory with on-device privacy standards. AI is becoming more capable and intuitive — remembering what matters, understanding the world around you, and acting at your direction. Privacy and trust are core to making that possible, ensuring your data stays private and protected as AI systems evolve to provide more continuous assistance across your devices. Today, we are sharing how we will bring private, server-side memory to our [Private AI Compute](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/google-private-ai-compute/) platform. This breakthrough resolves a longstanding dilemma in modern AI: how to give an assis

Sep 23, 2026 | Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet. Generate custom character voices and direct scene dialogue across Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Notebook, and Google Vids. * * * Leland Rechis Group Product Manager Alan Cowen Director, Research Science, on Behalf of the Gemini Audio Team * * *  Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio. These models enable creators,

Sep 02, 2026 | Today, we’re launching our Fairwind Program, a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our most advanced cyber defense capabilities. * * * Four Flynn Vice President - Security and Privacy * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86130_umbriel_2026_09_02_20_40_39.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Defenders wanting to use advanced AI have faced a difficult dilemma: adopt enormous frontier models that could be expensive to deploy and difficult to control across

Aug 26, 2026 | Our latest speech-to-text model designed for precise and intelligent real-time transcription. * * * Diego Melendo Casado Senior Director, Engineering, Gemini Audio Luke Leonhard Chief of Staff, Gemini Audio, on behalf of Gemini Audio Team * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86035_umbriel_2026_08_27_14_23_14.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, our most precise speech-to-text model yet, designed for

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Apple has unveiled a new security option called Impersonation Risk Detection. * Added in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, this tries to protect you from social engineering scams. * Apps that support the feature will warn you of a potential threat. * * * Social engineering scams often succeed because they evade traditional security protections to trick you into doing something that puts you at risk. Now, Apple has created a new defense designed to protect iPhone and iPad users from these types of scams: [Impersonation Risk Detection](https://cc.zdnet.com/v1/otc/00hQi47eqnEWQ6T9d4QLBUc?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fen-us%2F127906&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Ftech%2Fios-27-impersonation-risk-detection-security-feature%2F) **Also: [A stranger can learn a lot about y

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * openSUSE Leap is getting an immutable mode. * openSUSE already includes plenty of security features. * This addition should make Leap one of the most secure distros. I’ve been a fan of [SUSE](https://www.suse.com/) and [openSUSE](https://www.opensuse.org/) for a long time. I actually remember SUSE Linux before it was SUSE Enterprise Linux or SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop. Even back then, the distribution was a power user’s dream come true. One reason for this was its security. openSUSE has been, for a very long time, one of the more secure of the “mainstream” Linux distributions. And in German-speaking countries, openSUSE is [quite popular](https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/16dduy9/opensuse_you_should_try_it/) due to its ties to the German company SUSE.

A ZDNET editor used Claude to turn a 30‑year‑old icon library into a Mac app without writing any code, issuing 502 directives and launching the app on the App Store in just over a week.

Meta introduced Meta One, a subscription service that adds parental supervision and extra AI features across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI worldwide, with plans starting at S$1.99 in Singapore.

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AI coding agents have moved quickly from novelty to daily tool inside Southeast Asian engineering teams. Across Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City, developers are no longer just asking AI to complete a line of code or explain an error message. They are using agents to plan tasks, refactor repositories, generate tests and […] The post Southeast Asian tech leaders are learning to trust AI agents, but not with production appeared first on e27 .

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There are interconnected and concentrated risks in power, construction, operations, cybersecurity and downtime [SINGAPORE] Insuring the Asia-Pacific’s rapidly expanding data-centre sector is becoming increasingly challenging. Global insurance broker Howden identifies the wide range of interconnected and concentrated risks in power, construction, operations and cybersecurity, with downtime being a significant business exposure. The expansion is being driven in part by rising investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The world is on track to spend roughly US$7 trillion on the physical infrastructure underpinning AI by 2030, reported global underwriter Advanced Technology Assurance, using 2026 data. That sum exceeds the GDP of every country except the US and China. The scale of i

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Some Japanese words resist translation. Take rōrō kaigo (老老介護). The character rō means “elderly”, and repeating it describes an elderly person caring for another elderly person, such as an 80-year-old husband looking after his equally frail wife on his own. That is the reality the word captures. Then there is the darker ninnin kaigo (認認介護). […] The post When the carer has dementia too: Japan turns to physical AI to rescue eldercare appeared first on e27 .

Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

SINGAPORE – Local government agencies have not received reports of attacks on their systems by unsupervised artificial intelligence agents, said Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo in a written parliamentary reply on Oct 6. Even so, firms should not passively wait to be informed about risks and breaches, Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Tan Kiat How told Parliament on Oct 7. “We cannot just wait for other people to tell us that they are hacking us. The onus is on Singapore and our organisations, especially those running critical information infrastructure, to take the necessary safeguards,” he said. Workers’ Party MP Fadli Fawzi had asked if public agencies have robust safeguards against potential breaches by AI agents, and if any

_This article is part of our new series, [The Backstory](https://www.techinasia.com/tag/the-backstory), where we sit down with founders, operators, investors, and community builders who are doing something out of the box. The goal is to uncover how they’re thinking about and solving real-world problems, and how they got there._ Maxify AI and Sunnystep founder Mao Ting. Photo credit: Mao Ting When [Mao Ting](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maotingsg/) couldn’t find shoes that supported her body after a spinal injury, she put on her data scientist hat and began problem-solving. The former Grab executive ended up creating her own footwear brand: [Sunnystep](https://sunnystep.com/). As the firm scaled to three markets, growth brought its own problems as headcount outpaced sales and decision-making

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Asia’s AI founders are increasingly facing a split-screen reality. Investor interest is high, but building at the frontier of artificial intelligence still requires more than a seed cheque. Startups need access to large models, cloud infrastructure, technical feedback, distribution channels and patient capital, all while competing with better-funded peers in the US and China. Granite […] The post Granite Asia, Google AI Futures Fund team up to back Asia’s AI founders appeared first on e27 .

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_Welcome to The Prompt, your guide to the biggest issues and developments shaping AI, with Asia front and center. Want full access to all our AI reporting? Subscribe [here](https://www.techinasia.com/subscription)._ * * * Hello reader, In 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman [called](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVRHTWWEIz4) the combination of ads and AI “uniquely unsettling.” Advertising, he said, would be a “last resort” for the company, adding that paying users would subsidize free access for those who could not afford it. Two years later, OpenAI is turning to those free users for advertising revenue. After starting a pilot in the US in February, it launched ChatGPT ads [across several Asian markets](https://www.techinasia.com/news/openai-roll-chatgpt-ads-7-asian-markets) in September. The ad

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For the past two years, the story engineering teams told about AI was simple: it writes code faster, so teams ship faster. That story is only half true. Code does get written faster. But Google’s 2025 DORA report, based on analysis of over 1,100 open-ended responses from Google software engineers, found that higher AI adoption […] The post The new engineering bottleneck isn’t writing code, it’s trusting it appeared first on e27 .

Concierge medicine is expensive for a simple reason: physician attention is scarce. A typical primary-care doctor may be responsible for 2,000 or more patients, while concierge practices generally restrict panels to 400 or fewer to 600. Patients pay annual retainers ranging from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands for longer appointments and faster […] The post AI could turn concierge medicine into the future interface to healthcare appeared first on e27 .

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[**Follow our live coverage here.**](https://www.straitstimes.com/live-singapore-parliament-october-2026?ref=inline-article) SINGAPORE - Large data centres that underpin critical digital services in Singapore will need to account for a range of risks from physical and operational continuity to cyber security with the passing of a new Bill and amendments to an existing law. The [Digital Infrastructure Bill,](https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/major-data-centres-cloud-providers-could-be-fined-up-to-1m-under-proposed-digital-infrastructure?ref=inline-article) passed in Parliament on Oct 7, seeks to ensure energy efficiency and operational resilience - including physical security and recovery from system misconfiguration, fire, flood and power supply cuts - through licensing. Amendments to the

The Taiex and Kospi have traded places at the top of the global leaderboard in 2026 Published Wed, Oct 7, 2026 · 11:25 AM [SINGAPORE] As equity investors enter the final stretch of a pivotal year that has propelled South Korea and Taiwan to the forefront of the global artificial intelligence trade, Taiwan is emerging as the stronger bet. The Taiex Index beat the Kospi by about 23 percentage points last quarter, the widest margin since the turn of the century. Earnings upgrades also outpaced those for its Korean peer for the first time since March 2025. About 40 per cent of the fund managers surveyed by Bank of America in September said they were overweight on Taiwan, versus 25 per cent for South Korea. ## Taiwan offers “broader and deeper” opportunity Driving the optimism are Taiwan’s deep

OpenAI posted AI math benchmark results on GitHub, noting that the model’s performance required roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro compute time.

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The Pentagon’s Tradewinds program lets defense contractors submit short videos to fast‑track AI purchases, using “post‑competitive” status to bypass normal procurement delays.

Healthleap, a South African startup, raised $38 million to expand its AI platform that scans hospital records and flags patients at risk of conditions like malnutrition and delirium, helping doctors catch problems earlier.

Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, as reported by Reuters. The funding is part of a $1.8 billion initiative to build AI datasets that could allow researchers to "ask, predict, […]

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Anthropic is expanding its Cyber Verification Program, giving more security professionals access to Claude models with fewer safety restrictions for penetration testing, malware analysis, and vulnerability research. Anthropic says partners in its predecessor program found at least 129,000 confirmed vulnerabilities from April through July 2026, including more than 33,000 rated high-severity or critical. The article Anthropic gives more security teams access to Claude with fewer safety restrictions appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI's teen safety features for ChatGPT failed an independent audit. After more than 4,000 test prompts, the Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute rated the service an "unacceptable risk" for minors. Conversations about suicide and self-harm on test accounts never triggered a parental alert. The institute wants teenagers locked out until safety can be independently verified. The article ChatGPT rated "unacceptable risk" for teens after parental alerts failed during suicide conversations appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI has published 372 AI-generated mathematical results on GitHub, including Lean formalizations for machine verification. Each result consumed about three hours of ChatGPT Pro compute on average. But 25 Fields Medal winners warn that mass-producing mathematical truths could destroy fertile ground rather than bring new ideas to life. The article OpenAI dumps 372 AI-generated math proofs on GitHub, telling the academic world to keep up appeared first on The Decoder .

Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this morning to reveal what's coming next for Windows and Surface and a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." That conversation will include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri. I'm expecting to hear […]

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This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning. It also shows how policies trained on the dataset transfer to a real humanoid robot. What you will learn about: Why humanoid robot learning, a central problem in embodied AI and Physical AI, needs data that internet video and existing motion capture datasets cannot provide. How FrameNet , a linguistic framework for human action, can guide motion capture collection to systematically cover a broad range of whole-body motion. Why synchronized object trajectories and meshes make human-object interaction data useful for teaching robots real-world tasks such as carrying, pushing, and pulling. How reinforcement learning pol

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk." ChatGPT for Teens, introduced in August, has guardrails for teens and is designed to help students learn, but Common Sense Media says that the teen […]

OpenAI's new Decisions API classifies text and images about ten times faster than the Responses API, returning yes/no probabilities, category picks, or scale ratings for $0.10 per million input tokens. The company also cut its paid API tiers from five to three. The article OpenAI launches Decisions API that reduces complex evaluations to yes, no, or pick one appeared first on The Decoder .

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Meta's Muse AI agent app now supports the iPad, letting users run the tool on a larger screen after its initial iPhone launch.

Since we introduced [ChatGPT for Teens](https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-teens/)—the default experience automatically applied to accounts identified as under 18—we’ve seen young people use it to learn, explore ideas and solve everyday problems. Today, we’re sharing early progress on ChatGPT for Teens, including how teens are using its learning tools, along with new ways for teens to study and prepare for college. ChatGPT’s 1.2 billion users span many countries, communities and backgrounds. That reach makes it especially important to build tools that help young people with different resources and opportunities learn and prepare for their futures. ## What we’re seeing so far ChatGPT for Teens is designed to help young people learn, think critically and deepen their understanding. As Chat

When Tony Fadell takes the stage at the inaugural [MIT Future Fest](https://mitfuturefest.org/), he projects a slide with three images of once-hyped AI devices that have already been discontinued: the Rabbit R1, the Humane AI pin, and the Limitless pendant. “These were kind of the ‘Gen 1’ AI products, and because of my background, these companies called me and asked me to help them,” Fadell said. “I didn’t.” It’s no surprise that these companies want Fadell’s advice. He’s credited as the “father of the iPod,” a co-creator of the iPhone, and the founder of Nest, the smart thermostat company acquired by Google. “You have to really understand what you’re trying to do, what pain you’re trying to solve,” he said. “In each of these cases, each one of them didn’t meet any kind of need — it was ju

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Update on One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion in revenue. A 10-person startup called Bites is a blip in comparison: It has just around 300 restaurants signed up in the Bay Area, where it’s operating as a pre-seed startup. But this summer, Bites caught DoorDash’s attention. In August, a slew of restaurants in the Bay Area received a strange email from DoorDash, warning businesses that they may be listed without their consent on Bites. The form letter, copies of which were seen by _The Verge_, said that DoorDash had heard from “several partners” that were added to the third-party platform without their knowledge. DoorDash warned restaurants that they may not have agreed to Bites’ “terms, pricing structures, or

When Justin Kosmides co-founded Bloom in 2023, his goal was to create a [savior for the mobility industry](https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/bloom-is-reinventing-how-e-bikes-are-made-in-the-us/). He had seen many e-bike and e-scooter companies fail because of an inability — or an unwillingness — to outsource some of the hardest problems, like logistics, manufacturing, or building a supply chain. He wanted to convince survivors and new entrants to let Bloom handle that work for them. Then Donald Trump got re-elected and started shotgun-blasting tariffs on dozens of countries, partially to jump-start U.S. manufacturing. This accelerated a hardware scene that was already heating up in this country and, suddenly, it was more than just mobility companies looking to beef up their domestic supply

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Travelers increasingly turn to AI to decide where to stay, often shortlisting hotels or building an entire itinerary before they ever visit a hotel website. Through its partnership with Accenture Song, Radisson Hotel Group is using OpenAI technology to reach guests earlier in that planning journey. The [Radisson Hotels ChatGPT plugin⁠(opens in a new window)](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a9a8d3450b88191835993047364a53b) helps travelers compare hotels and explore travel options through an interactive experience, and early results show booking conversion approximately 1.5 times that of Radisson’s organic search. Alongside the plugin, Radisson is among the hospitality pioneers running [sponsored advertising in ChatGPT⁠(opens in a new window)](https://ads.openai.com/), bringing

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

_[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

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 .

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 […]

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Concierge medicine is expensive for a simple reason: physician attention is scarce. A typical primary-care doctor may be responsible for 2,000 or more patients, while concierge practices generally restrict panels to 400 or fewer to 600. Patients pay annual retainers ranging from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands for longer appointments and faster […] The post AI could turn concierge medicine into the future interface to healthcare appeared first on e27 .

Meta introduced Meta One, a subscription service that adds parental supervision and extra AI features across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI worldwide, with plans starting at S$1.99 in Singapore.

OpenAI posted AI math benchmark results on GitHub, noting that the model’s performance required roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro compute time.

Asia’s AI founders are increasingly facing a split-screen reality. Investor interest is high, but building at the frontier of artificial intelligence still requires more than a seed cheque. Startups need access to large models, cloud infrastructure, technical feedback, distribution channels and patient capital, all while competing with better-funded peers in the US and China. Granite […] The post Granite Asia, Google AI Futures Fund team up to back Asia’s AI founders appeared first on e27 .

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For the past two years, the story engineering teams told about AI was simple: it writes code faster, so teams ship faster. That story is only half true. Code does get written faster. But Google’s 2025 DORA report, based on analysis of over 1,100 open-ended responses from Google software engineers, found that higher AI adoption […] The post The new engineering bottleneck isn’t writing code, it’s trusting it appeared first on e27 .

The Taiex and Kospi have traded places at the top of the global leaderboard in 2026 Published Wed, Oct 7, 2026 · 11:25 AM [SINGAPORE] As equity investors enter the final stretch of a pivotal year that has propelled South Korea and Taiwan to the forefront of the global artificial intelligence trade, Taiwan is emerging as the stronger bet. The Taiex Index beat the Kospi by about 23 percentage points last quarter, the widest margin since the turn of the century. Earnings upgrades also outpaced those for its Korean peer for the first time since March 2025. About 40 per cent of the fund managers surveyed by Bank of America in September said they were overweight on Taiwan, versus 25 per cent for South Korea. ## Taiwan offers “broader and deeper” opportunity Driving the optimism are Taiwan’s deep

AI coding agents have moved quickly from novelty to daily tool inside Southeast Asian engineering teams. Across Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City, developers are no longer just asking AI to complete a line of code or explain an error message. They are using agents to plan tasks, refactor repositories, generate tests and […] The post Southeast Asian tech leaders are learning to trust AI agents, but not with production appeared first on e27 .

Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

Some Japanese words resist translation. Take rōrō kaigo (老老介護). The character rō means “elderly”, and repeating it describes an elderly person caring for another elderly person, such as an 80-year-old husband looking after his equally frail wife on his own. That is the reality the word captures. Then there is the darker ninnin kaigo (認認介護). […] The post When the carer has dementia too: Japan turns to physical AI to rescue eldercare appeared first on e27 .

SINGAPORE – Local government agencies have not received reports of attacks on their systems by unsupervised artificial intelligence agents, said Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo in a written parliamentary reply on Oct 6. Even so, firms should not passively wait to be informed about risks and breaches, Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Tan Kiat How told Parliament on Oct 7. “We cannot just wait for other people to tell us that they are hacking us. The onus is on Singapore and our organisations, especially those running critical information infrastructure, to take the necessary safeguards,” he said. Workers’ Party MP Fadli Fawzi had asked if public agencies have robust safeguards against potential breaches by AI agents, and if any

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[**Follow our live coverage here.**](https://www.straitstimes.com/live-singapore-parliament-october-2026?ref=inline-article) SINGAPORE - Large data centres that underpin critical digital services in Singapore will need to account for a range of risks from physical and operational continuity to cyber security with the passing of a new Bill and amendments to an existing law. The [Digital Infrastructure Bill,](https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/major-data-centres-cloud-providers-could-be-fined-up-to-1m-under-proposed-digital-infrastructure?ref=inline-article) passed in Parliament on Oct 7, seeks to ensure energy efficiency and operational resilience - including physical security and recovery from system misconfiguration, fire, flood and power supply cuts - through licensing. Amendments to the

Travelers increasingly turn to AI to decide where to stay, often shortlisting hotels or building an entire itinerary before they ever visit a hotel website. Through its partnership with Accenture Song, Radisson Hotel Group is using OpenAI technology to reach guests earlier in that planning journey. The [Radisson Hotels ChatGPT plugin⁠(opens in a new window)](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a9a8d3450b88191835993047364a53b) helps travelers compare hotels and explore travel options through an interactive experience, and early results show booking conversion approximately 1.5 times that of Radisson’s organic search. Alongside the plugin, Radisson is among the hospitality pioneers running [sponsored advertising in ChatGPT⁠(opens in a new window)](https://ads.openai.com/), bringing

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Broadcom is arranging more than $50 billion in financing to develop custom AI chips for OpenAI, involving lenders like Apollo and Blackstone to fund the soaring cost of AI infrastructure.

Nous Research raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation and began offering its Hermes AI agent to enterprises, letting companies deploy private, multi‑step AI workflows.

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Google's AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google's AI or partners like OpenAI and Nvidia. More than 180 billion pieces of content already carry the watermark, but the tool only identifies SynthID-tagged content, not AI-generated media in general. The article Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public appeared first on The Decoder .

By 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will be used frequently to treat a variety of diseases, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, according to the recently released 2030 Technology Megatrends Report from IEEE. “We are seeing a fundamental shift in how technology evolves,” says IEEE Fellow Dejan Milojicic , chair of the IEEE Future Directions Committee ’s Industry Advisory Board, the group responsible for the report. “ Artificial intelligence is no longer operating in a vacuum; it is now deeply connected to our energy, infrastructure, and physical systems.” Milojicic, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow, is a vice president at HPE Labs in Milpitas, Calif. AI underpins many of the report’s 30 technologies and five “megatrends,” which are technology shifts with the potentia

Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about [the Surface Laptop Ultra](https://www.theverge.com/news/1006378/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-pricing-release-date), its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage, and it will be released on October 16th. The laptop also has [built-in magnetic USB-C charging](https://www.theverge.com/news/1006445/microsofts-surface-laptop-ultra-has-built-in-magnetic-usb-c-charging) instead of the proprietary Surface Connect magnetic charging port. _The Verge_’s Tom Warren published [a deep dive all about the new laptop](https://ww

Microsoft unveiled new Surface Laptop Ultra and a developer workstation powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, priced from $2,600 to $5,900, with revamped Windows 11 that adds Execution Containers for sandboxing AI agents.

Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the US Department of Energy are funding data, lab equipment, and compute. A first dataset should be ready in about a year. The article Zuckerberg's Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with "Intelligent UI," a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can now respond while still thinking, cutting wait times by 44 percent. Paying customers get GPT-6 Sol, free users get GPT-6 Luna. The article ChatGPT with GPT-6 ditches mostly text output for interactive UI with charts, buttons, and mini apps appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task. The article Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over appeared first on The Decoder .

The first array of laptops powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip are designed to compete with high-end MacBook Pros - and they've got some high-end prices to match. The flagship Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark laptops from Dell, Lenovo, MSI, HP, and Asus start as low as $2,599 for configurations with an 18-core […]

We're in San Francisco today to hear what's next for Windows and Surface. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri will all be holding a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." Microsoft and Nvidia have been working together on the […]

If there’s any doubt about how seriously Meta is taking AI, here’s a new signal: the company on Wednesday [announced](https://www.threads.com/@ivanbruel/post/DeMmSGWDijd) that its Muse assistant is now available in a dedicated [iPad app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601). That’s a milestone [it took Instagram some 15 years](https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/instagram-is-finally-launching-an-ipad-app/) to reach, despite constant user demand. Muse, meanwhile, hit the iPad just a month after launching on iPhone. (To be fair, it may not be as difficult to bring something like Muse to iPad, given its text-heavy interface, where image and video resolution and formatting matter less.) Since launching on iOS and Android on September 8, Muse has topped 6.6 million installs,

Months after revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000 […]

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A survey shows 78% of managers use AI to draft or summarize performance reviews, speeding up prep but causing mixed employee reactions, with some finding reviews more specific and others more generic.

Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now directly, and slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It's pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing due to shortages of RAM and other components. The Dev Box's flat, 3D-printed anodized […]

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OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process. "College Planner brings together application requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps for schools on a student's list in one plan," OpenAI says. "Students applying to several […]

Meta [announced](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/measures-weve-put-in-place-to-fight-child-exploitation/) Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026.At the same time, the company is rolling out new AI tools to find ads and accounts that may be used to secretly direct people to illegal child abuse material. More than 97% of the content Meta acted on was found by its systems before users reported it, the company said. In India, Meta acted on 5.3 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content during the same period, with more than 98% detected before users reported it. Meta said its latest AI tools are aimed at people using ads that look harmless to send users to illegal content outs

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of media and tech for families, has labeled ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk.” The rating comes as chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been accused of following the [same playbook as social media](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/meta-settles-for-18-billion-in-lawsuit-brought-by-29-states-over-social-media-harms-to-children/) companies: designing products that keep users engaged, even when that engagement can become harmful. In chatbots, engagement is often won by behaviors like sycophancy and sometimes leads to catastrophic consequences. In [response](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/openai-adds-new-teen-safety-rules-to-models-as-lawmakers-weigh-ai-standards-for-minors/) to a wave of[teen suicides](https:

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! When I changed careers at 30 to become a software engineer, I expected it to be hard. I expected to struggle to fit in, and I expected to bomb a lot of interviews (I did). What I didn’t expect was how few people would support me. As a parent, I get it now. A career change is a risk, and the people who care about you tend to project their fears onto you. They don’t want to watch you struggle or fail, so they discourage you or just don’t offer much enthusiasm. Right now is a strange time to be in engineering, or knowledge work in general. Plenty

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OpenAI has published 372 AI-generated mathematical results on GitHub, including Lean formalizations for machine verification. Each result consumed about three hours of ChatGPT Pro compute on average. But 25 Fields Medal winners warn that mass-producing mathematical truths could destroy fertile ground rather than bring new ideas to life. The article OpenAI dumps 372 AI-generated math proofs on GitHub, telling the academic world to keep up appeared first on The Decoder .

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk." ChatGPT for Teens, introduced in August, has guardrails for teens and is designed to help students learn, but Common Sense Media says that the teen […]

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There are interconnected and concentrated risks in power, construction, operations, cybersecurity and downtime [SINGAPORE] Insuring the Asia-Pacific’s rapidly expanding data-centre sector is becoming increasingly challenging. Global insurance broker Howden identifies the wide range of interconnected and concentrated risks in power, construction, operations and cybersecurity, with downtime being a significant business exposure. The expansion is being driven in part by rising investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure. The world is on track to spend roughly US$7 trillion on the physical infrastructure underpinning AI by 2030, reported global underwriter Advanced Technology Assurance, using 2026 data. That sum exceeds the GDP of every country except the US and China. The scale of i

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Since we introduced [ChatGPT for Teens](https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-teens/)—the default experience automatically applied to accounts identified as under 18—we’ve seen young people use it to learn, explore ideas and solve everyday problems. Today, we’re sharing early progress on ChatGPT for Teens, including how teens are using its learning tools, along with new ways for teens to study and prepare for college. ChatGPT’s 1.2 billion users span many countries, communities and backgrounds. That reach makes it especially important to build tools that help young people with different resources and opportunities learn and prepare for their futures. ## What we’re seeing so far ChatGPT for Teens is designed to help young people learn, think critically and deepen their understanding. As Chat

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Anthropic is expanding its Cyber Verification Program, giving more security professionals access to Claude models with fewer safety restrictions for penetration testing, malware analysis, and vulnerability research. Anthropic says partners in its predecessor program found at least 129,000 confirmed vulnerabilities from April through July 2026, including more than 33,000 rated high-severity or critical. The article Anthropic gives more security teams access to Claude with fewer safety restrictions appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI's teen safety features for ChatGPT failed an independent audit. After more than 4,000 test prompts, the Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute rated the service an "unacceptable risk" for minors. Conversations about suicide and self-harm on test accounts never triggered a parental alert. The institute wants teenagers locked out until safety can be independently verified. The article ChatGPT rated "unacceptable risk" for teens after parental alerts failed during suicide conversations appeared first on The Decoder .

Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, as reported by Reuters. The funding is part of a $1.8 billion initiative to build AI datasets that could allow researchers to "ask, predict, […]

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OpenAI just made one of its biggest bets yet on what comes after the chatbot. Now, the person leading that product is coming to [**TechCrunch Disrupt 2026**](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-disrupt/?utm_source=tc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=disrupt2026&utm_content=agenda&promo=post_alexanderembiricos_10072026&display=), happening October 13-15. [Alexander Embiricos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/embirico/?isSelfProfile=false), product lead for Dots at OpenAI, will join us at Moscone West in San Francisco just days after the company unveiled its new always-on personal AI agent. [](https://techcrunch.com/events/techcrunch-di

When Tony Fadell takes the stage at the inaugural [MIT Future Fest](https://mitfuturefest.org/), he projects a slide with three images of once-hyped AI devices that have already been discontinued: the Rabbit R1, the Humane AI pin, and the Limitless pendant. “These were kind of the ‘Gen 1’ AI products, and because of my background, these companies called me and asked me to help them,” Fadell said. “I didn’t.” It’s no surprise that these companies want Fadell’s advice. He’s credited as the “father of the iPod,” a co-creator of the iPhone, and the founder of Nest, the smart thermostat company acquired by Google. “You have to really understand what you’re trying to do, what pain you’re trying to solve,” he said. “In each of these cases, each one of them didn’t meet any kind of need — it was ju

The Pentagon’s Tradewinds program lets defense contractors submit short videos to fast‑track AI purchases, using “post‑competitive” status to bypass normal procurement delays.

Healthleap, a South African startup, raised $38 million to expand its AI platform that scans hospital records and flags patients at risk of conditions like malnutrition and delirium, helping doctors catch problems earlier.

OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process. "College Planner brings together application requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps for schools on a student's list in one plan," OpenAI says. "Students applying to several […]

OpenAI's new Decisions API classifies text and images about ten times faster than the Responses API, returning yes/no probabilities, category picks, or scale ratings for $0.10 per million input tokens. The company also cut its paid API tiers from five to three. The article OpenAI launches Decisions API that reduces complex evaluations to yes, no, or pick one appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta's Muse AI agent app now supports the iPad, letting users run the tool on a larger screen after its initial iPhone launch.

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We're in San Francisco today to hear what's next for Windows and Surface. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri will all be holding a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." Microsoft and Nvidia have been working together on the […]

Meta [announced](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/measures-weve-put-in-place-to-fight-child-exploitation/) Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026.At the same time, the company is rolling out new AI tools to find ads and accounts that may be used to secretly direct people to illegal child abuse material. More than 97% of the content Meta acted on was found by its systems before users reported it, the company said. In India, Meta acted on 5.3 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content during the same period, with more than 98% detected before users reported it. Meta said its latest AI tools are aimed at people using ads that look harmless to send users to illegal content outs

Google's AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google's AI or partners like OpenAI and Nvidia. More than 180 billion pieces of content already carry the watermark, but the tool only identifies SynthID-tagged content, not AI-generated media in general. The article Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public appeared first on The Decoder .

By 2028, genetic engineering and gene therapy will be used frequently to treat a variety of diseases, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, according to the recently released 2030 Technology Megatrends Report from IEEE. “We are seeing a fundamental shift in how technology evolves,” says IEEE Fellow Dejan Milojicic , chair of the IEEE Future Directions Committee ’s Industry Advisory Board, the group responsible for the report. “ Artificial intelligence is no longer operating in a vacuum; it is now deeply connected to our energy, infrastructure, and physical systems.” Milojicic, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow, is a vice president at HPE Labs in Milpitas, Calif. AI underpins many of the report’s 30 technologies and five “megatrends,” which are technology shifts with the potentia

Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the US Department of Energy are funding data, lab equipment, and compute. A first dataset should be ready in about a year. The article Zuckerberg's Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior appeared first on The Decoder .

Months after revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000 […]

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Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now directly, and slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It's pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing due to shortages of RAM and other components. The Dev Box's flat, 3D-printed anodized […]

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Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about [the Surface Laptop Ultra](https://www.theverge.com/news/1006378/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-pricing-release-date), its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage, and it will be released on October 16th. The laptop also has [built-in magnetic USB-C charging](https://www.theverge.com/news/1006445/microsofts-surface-laptop-ultra-has-built-in-magnetic-usb-c-charging) instead of the proprietary Surface Connect magnetic charging port. _The Verge_’s Tom Warren published [a deep dive all about the new laptop](https://ww

Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task. The article Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over appeared first on The Decoder .

If there’s any doubt about how seriously Meta is taking AI, here’s a new signal: the company on Wednesday [announced](https://www.threads.com/@ivanbruel/post/DeMmSGWDijd) that its Muse assistant is now available in a dedicated [iPad app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601). That’s a milestone [it took Instagram some 15 years](https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/instagram-is-finally-launching-an-ipad-app/) to reach, despite constant user demand. Muse, meanwhile, hit the iPad just a month after launching on iPhone. (To be fair, it may not be as difficult to bring something like Muse to iPad, given its text-heavy interface, where image and video resolution and formatting matter less.) Since launching on iOS and Android on September 8, Muse has topped 6.6 million installs,

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides age-based ratings and reviews of media and tech for families, has labeled ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk.” The rating comes as chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been accused of following the [same playbook as social media](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/meta-settles-for-18-billion-in-lawsuit-brought-by-29-states-over-social-media-harms-to-children/) companies: designing products that keep users engaged, even when that engagement can become harmful. In chatbots, engagement is often won by behaviors like sycophancy and sometimes leads to catastrophic consequences. In [response](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/openai-adds-new-teen-safety-rules-to-models-as-lawmakers-weigh-ai-standards-for-minors/) to a wave of[teen suicides](https:

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with "Intelligent UI," a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can now respond while still thinking, cutting wait times by 44 percent. Paying customers get GPT-6 Sol, free users get GPT-6 Luna. The article ChatGPT with GPT-6 ditches mostly text output for interactive UI with charts, buttons, and mini apps appeared first on The Decoder .

The first array of laptops powered by Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip are designed to compete with high-end MacBook Pros - and they've got some high-end prices to match. The flagship Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark laptops from Dell, Lenovo, MSI, HP, and Asus start as low as $2,599 for configurations with an 18-core […]

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A survey shows 78% of managers use AI to draft or summarize performance reviews, speeding up prep but causing mixed employee reactions, with some finding reviews more specific and others more generic.

Broadcom is arranging more than $50 billion in financing to develop custom AI chips for OpenAI, involving lenders like Apollo and Blackstone to fund the soaring cost of AI infrastructure.