Tech AI Latest: AI news from the primary source https://techailatest.news Daily AI news from primary sources: model releases, AI agents, automation, cybersecurity, chips, policy and funding. Every story links to the official announcement and to the living reference page for each model, company and tool. en Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:33:50 GMT https://techailatest.news/icon-512.pngTech AI Latest: AI news from the primary sourcehttps://techailatest.news Google brings its TPUs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with capacity from 2027https://techailatest.news/ai-chips/google-tpus-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-2027https://techailatest.news/ai-chips/google-tpus-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-2027Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Chips & InfrastructureGoogle and Oracle said on 27 October 2026 that Google TPUs will be offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with capacity deploying from calendar year 2027.Google and Oracle announced on 27 October 2026 that Google's Tensor Processing Units will be offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, making OCI the first hyperscaler outside Google to sell TPUs. Capacity will deploy starting in calendar year 2027. The post cites eighth-generation TPUs with up to 12.6 PFLOPS of FP4 compute per chip. Regions, prices, chip counts and the exact TPU generation for OCI are not stated.

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]]> Meta prices $25B stock sale and $12.5B convertible preferred, with NVIDIA investing $3Bhttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/meta-equity-offering-25-billion-nvidia-stakehttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/meta-equity-offering-25-billion-nvidia-stakeTue, 27 Oct 2026 13:30:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Business & FundingMeta priced $25 billion of Class A stock at $625 a share and $12.5 billion of mandatory convertible preferred shares, and NVIDIA says it will invest $3 billion.Meta Platforms priced two concurrent public offerings late on 26 October 2026: $25.0 billion of Class A common stock at $625.00 per share through forward sale agreements, upsized from $22.5 billion, and 250 million depositary shares of 6.50% mandatory convertible preferred stock at $50 each. Meta expects about $12.5 billion of net proceeds from the preferred now and about $24.9 billion from the stock by November 2027. NVIDIA says it will invest $3 billion in the offering.

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]]> AMD and Meta put Helios racks into testing as AMD invests $1 billion in Metahttps://techailatest.news/ai-chips/amd-meta-helios-racks-1-billion-equity-investmenthttps://techailatest.news/ai-chips/amd-meta-helios-racks-1-billion-equity-investmentTue, 27 Oct 2026 13:20:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Chips & InfrastructureAMD said on 27 October 2026 that Helios racks are being tested at Meta, Meta will deploy a custom Instinct GPU, and AMD will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity.AMD and Meta announced on 27 October 2026 an expanded partnership covering CPUs, GPUs, networking and software. Initial AMD Helios rack-scale systems are installed and being tested at Meta, Meta will deploy a custom Instinct GPU built for its workloads, and the companies are working on a future EPYC generation called Verano. AMD will also invest $1 billion in Meta's equity offering. No rack counts, gigawatt figures or dates are given.

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]]> Opera ships local AI models in Opera One with WebAI, free and opt-in for sites and extensionshttps://techailatest.news/ai-tools/opera-webai-local-ai-models-browserhttps://techailatest.news/ai-tools/opera-webai-local-ai-models-browserTue, 27 Oct 2026 13:01:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Tools & AppsOpera began shipping local AI models in its browsers on 27 October 2026. WebAI lets sites and extensions run Gemma and other models on the user's own PC.Opera began shipping local AI models on 27 October 2026 with WebAI, an opt-in early preview in Opera One. Websites and extensions can call Prompt, Decision and Semantic Embeddings APIs that run on the user's own computer, using open-weight models such as Google's Gemma or Apple's on-device model on Macs. Opera says there is no account, fee or API key. It works on 64-bit Windows PCs and Apple silicon Macs, with Opera GX and Opera Neon to follow.

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]]> n8n releases 3.0 beta with breaking changes and drops npm installs, stable due in Decemberhttps://techailatest.news/ai-automation/n8n-3-0-beta-breaking-changes-migration-reporthttps://techailatest.news/ai-automation/n8n-3-0-beta-breaking-changes-migration-reportTue, 27 Oct 2026 11:53:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Automationn8n released the 3.0.0 beta of its workflow platform on 27 October 2026, with safer defaults, Docker-only self-hosting and a stable build due in December.n8n released version 3.0.0 as a beta on 27 October 2026 and plans the stable release for early December. The major version collects breaking changes: legacy nodes are removed, security defaults are stricter, the default Code node timeout drops from 5 minutes to 1 minute, and self-hosted installs must run on Docker instead of npm. A Migration Report in version 2.39 and later lists affected workflows. The 2.x line gets security fixes for 12 months after the stable release.

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]]> Ant Group publishes Ling-3.1-flash-1019, a 560B open model that lifts its index score to 44https://techailatest.news/open-source-ai/ant-group-ling-3-1-flash-1019-updatehttps://techailatest.news/open-source-ai/ant-group-ling-3-1-flash-1019-updateTue, 27 Oct 2026 10:46:00 GMTTech AI LatestOpen Source AIAnt Group's inclusionAI published Ling-3.1-flash-1019 on 27 October 2026, a 560B-parameter MIT-licensed update with higher agent and science scores.Ant Group's inclusionAI team published Ling-3.1-flash-1019 on Hugging Face on 27 October 2026. It is a post-trained update of Ling-3.1-flash, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 560 billion total and 25 billion active parameters and a 1M-token context. The team says its Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score rose from 41 to 44, with gains on agent and science benchmarks. The weights carry the MIT licence.

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]]> Ai2 study finds LLM novelty judges flip verdicts when prompts change, from 93.5% to 40.9%https://techailatest.news/ai-research/ai2-llm-novelty-judges-prompt-sensitivity-studyhttps://techailatest.news/ai-research/ai2-llm-novelty-judges-prompt-sensitivity-studyTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI ResearchAi2 reported on 27 October 2026 that LLMs judging research novelty are prompt-sensitive: GPT-5.4 fell from 93.5% to 40.9% accuracy after one wording change.The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) published a study on 27 October 2026 testing whether large language models can judge if a research idea is novel. Using ideas drawn from ICLR 2026 reviews, it found verdicts swing with small prompt changes: GPT-5.4's accuracy on human-versus-generated pairs fell from 93.5% to 40.9%. A simple Claude Opus 4.6 prompt beat purpose-built novelty checkers at a fraction of the cost. Data and code are open.

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]]> Anthropic reports early drug development results with Claude across six partner organizationshttps://techailatest.news/ai-research/anthropic-claude-drug-development-six-partnershttps://techailatest.news/ai-research/anthropic-claude-drug-development-six-partnersTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI ResearchAnthropic published preclinical drug development results with Claude on 27 October 2026 from six partners including Bristol Myers Squibb and Enveda.Anthropic published on 27 October 2026 early results from drug development work with six partner organizations and its own program. Reported outcomes include a CAR T genetic component about 70% shorter than the standard design, roughly 35,000 antibody designs generated in about a month, antibody variants that bound more than 10 times more tightly, and an 89% cut in human review time for regulatory documents. Anthropic says the work is preclinical and that it plans to expand it.

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]]> Anthropic says Claude found exploit chains in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linuxhttps://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/anthropic-claude-exploit-chains-chrome-linux-windowshttps://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/anthropic-claude-exploit-chains-chrome-linux-windowsTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestCybersecurityAnthropic said on 27 October 2026 that an internal Claude model built exploit chains for Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux; Google fixed 62 CVEs.Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reported on 27 October 2026 that an unreleased internal Claude model found and chained vulnerabilities in widely used software. The post describes a one-click Chrome remote code execution chain, a Safari same-origin bypass, a Pixel 9 lock screen bypass, a Windows kernel remote denial of service and a zero-click Linux root exploit. Google assigned 62 CVEs fixed in Chrome 156. All issues went through coordinated disclosure.

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]]> Anthropic expands GSA deal with a 40% Claude discount for federal, state and local agencieshttps://techailatest.news/ai-in-industry/anthropic-gsa-claude-40-percent-government-discounthttps://techailatest.news/ai-in-industry/anthropic-gsa-claude-40-percent-government-discountTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI in IndustryAnthropic said on 27 October 2026 that US federal, state and local agencies get 40% off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API.Anthropic announced on 27 October 2026 an expanded partnership with the US General Services Administration. Government partners get a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API, with no minimum spend. The discount also covers state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Anthropic says about 500 US public organizations use Claude and estimates the discounts will save the government $1 billion. A Utah pilot gave Claude Code to 34 developers across 10 agencies.

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]]> Anthropic study finds analysts followed their AI agent's hidden lean 86% of the timehttps://techailatest.news/ai-agents/anthropic-study-analysts-defer-agent-judgment-callshttps://techailatest.news/ai-agents/anthropic-study-analysts-defer-agent-judgment-callsTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI AgentsIn an Anthropic trial published 27 October 2026, 50 analysts using Claude Code chose the option their agent was secretly set to favor 86% of the time.Anthropic published a randomized study on 27 October 2026 in which 50 professional analysts did a causal analysis with Claude Code. Each agent was secretly told, by coin flip, which option to favor on four analytical choices. Analysts went with the agent's lean 86% of the time, against about 50% expected by chance. 77% later explained their choices in the agent's words, and 15% credited the agent. Analysts using the agent also made far fewer serious errors.

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]]> Google DeepMind previews Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio and dialoguehttps://techailatest.news/ai-models/genie-4-world-model-research-previewhttps://techailatest.news/ai-models/genie-4-world-model-research-previewTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI ModelsGoogle DeepMind announced Genie 4 on 27 October 2026, a world model that renders steerable scenes with sound and dialogue. Trusted testers get it first.Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on 27 October 2026. The world model generates interactive scenes in real time that users steer with keyboard controls and text prompts, and it is the first Genie model to generate audio natively, including dialogue. Gemini 3.8 Flash plans and checks each step in the loop. Genie 4 is a research preview for trusted testers, with Google AI Ultra subscribers and Gemini API partners next. No price was given.

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]]> Liquid AI releases LFM3, six open 2B-class models for text, vision, audio and agents on deviceshttps://techailatest.news/open-source-ai/liquid-ai-lfm3-open-multimodal-edge-modelshttps://techailatest.news/open-source-ai/liquid-ai-lfm3-open-multimodal-edge-modelsTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestOpen Source AILiquid AI released LFM3 on 27 October 2026: six open-weight models of about 2B parameters for text, vision, audio and omni tasks that run on phones and laptops.Liquid AI released LFM3 on 27 October 2026, a new generation of its Liquid Foundation Models. The first release has six open-weight models of about 2B parameters covering text, vision, audio, omni and decision tasks, all built on one LFM3-1.7B-Base backbone trained on 22T tokens. The text model has a 256K-token context and fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit precision. Commercial use is free for organisations under $10 million in annual revenue.

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]]> NVIDIA and Oracle expand Vera Rubin on OCI to multi-gigawatt scale as Vera CPUs go livehttps://techailatest.news/ai-chips/nvidia-oracle-vera-rubin-multi-gigawatt-ocihttps://techailatest.news/ai-chips/nvidia-oracle-vera-rubin-multi-gigawatt-ociTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Chips & InfrastructureNVIDIA and Oracle said on 27 October 2026 that Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs are generally available on OCI, with multi-gigawatt Superclusters planned.NVIDIA and Oracle announced on 27 October 2026 that NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and NVIDIA Vera CPUs are now generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and that OCI Superclusters will expand to multi-gigawatt scale. Each NVL72 rack links 72 GPUs over NVLink, and OCI's network scales across hundreds of thousands of GPUs. OpenAI is testing Vera CPUs on OCI and says it is bringing them into production.

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]]> Salesforce adds Agent Evals, API Evals and hard cost limits to its Agent Fabric control planehttps://techailatest.news/ai-agents/salesforce-agent-fabric-agent-evals-cost-controlshttps://techailatest.news/ai-agents/salesforce-agent-fabric-agent-evals-cost-controlsTue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI AgentsSalesforce announced Agent Evals, API Evals and hard spending limits for Agent Fabric, its AI agent control plane, on 27 October 2026, with betas in November.Salesforce announced on 27 October 2026 new evaluation and cost features for Agent Fabric, its agent control plane. Agent Evals generates tests before deployment and keeps checking agents, LLMs and MCP servers in production, with an Agent Kill Switch for failures. API Evals tests APIs from their specifications. A FinOps Dashboard, Model Wallet and Cost Optimization Policies set hard spending limits. Agent Evals and API Evals enter beta in November 2026 and reach general availability in January 2027.

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]]> Cloudflare discloses Workers AI bug that leaked other users' data in 155 GLM 5.3 responseshttps://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/cloudflare-workers-ai-glm-kv-cache-exposurehttps://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/cloudflare-workers-ai-glm-kv-cache-exposureMon, 26 Oct 2026 22:01:23 GMTTech AI LatestCybersecurityCloudflare says a KV cache bug in its GLM 5.3 Workers AI deployment put other customers' data into 155 responses between 27 August and 9 September.Cloudflare disclosed on 26 October 2026 that its GLM 5.3 model on Workers AI leaked data across customers. Between 27 August and 9 September, 155 responses to prompts longer than 681,280 tokens contained text from other users' recent requests. A researcher reported it through HackerOne on 8 September. Cloudflare pulled the model the next day, fixed its configuration and the SGLang inference engine, and says it found no evidence of deliberate exploitation.

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]]> Agility Robotics and GXO expand Digit humanoids to North Carolina and Tennessee siteshttps://techailatest.news/robotics/agility-robotics-gxo-digit-north-carolina-tennesseehttps://techailatest.news/robotics/agility-robotics-gxo-digit-north-carolina-tennesseeMon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestRobotics & Physical AIGXO and Agility Robotics said on 26 October 2026 that Digit humanoids will work at GXO sites in Statesville and Lebanon from early 2027 after 100,000 totes.GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics announced on 26 October 2026 that Digit humanoid robots will expand to GXO e-commerce sites in Statesville and Lebanon, in North Carolina and Tennessee. Deployments are expected to start in early 2027 with Digit 4 and move to Digit 5 once it is commercially available. At GXO's Flowery Branch, Georgia site, Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes. Robot numbers and contract terms are not stated.

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]]> Anthropic files S-1 for a Nasdaq IPO under ticker ANT after $16.3B first-half revenuehttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/anthropic-s1-filing-nasdaq-ipo-anthttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/anthropic-s1-filing-nasdaq-ipo-antMon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Business & FundingAnthropic filed an S-1 with the SEC on 26 October 2026 for a Nasdaq listing as ANT. The filing reports $16.3B first-half 2026 revenue and an $80.7B net loss.Anthropic filed a Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 26 October 2026 for a proposed initial public offering of Class A common stock. It has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. The filing reports revenue of $4.6 billion for 2025 and $16.3 billion for the first six months of 2026, with a net loss of $80.7 billion in that period. Share count and price range are not yet set.

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]]> Itaú Unibanco agrees to buy AI startup NeoSpace for BRL 2.925B to build in-house modelshttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/itau-acquire-neospace-ai-startuphttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/itau-acquire-neospace-ai-startupMon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Business & FundingItaú Unibanco agreed on 26 October 2026 to buy all of NeoSpace, a Brazilian foundation model startup, for BRL 2.925 billion, paid over five years.Brazilian banking group Itaú Unibanco disclosed on 26 October 2026 that it has signed a share purchase agreement to buy all of NeoSpace A.I. Technologies for BRL 2.925 billion. NeoSpace builds foundation models trained on large datasets and has spent nearly two years building models on Itaú's own data. Part of the price is paid at closing and the rest over five years. The deal needs approval from CADE and the Central Bank of Brazil.

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]]> OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 per 1M input tokens, half the price of GPT-5.6 Terrahttps://techailatest.news/ai-models/openai-gpt-6-1-terra-release-half-pricehttps://techailatest.news/ai-models/openai-gpt-6-1-terra-release-half-priceMon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI ModelsOpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 October 2026 with a 1,050,000-token context, $1 per 1M input and $5 per 1M output tokens, in the API and ChatGPT.OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 October 2026. The model is built for visual reasoning, computer use and writing. It costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, which OpenAI says is 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra. It has a 1,050,000-token context window and 128,000 max output tokens. It is available in the API as gpt-6.1-terra and to Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex.

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]]> UK opens AI Biosecurity Lab backed by £100M and up to £200M from OpenAI and Anthropichttps://techailatest.news/ai-policy/uk-ai-biosecurity-lab-openai-anthropic-fundinghttps://techailatest.news/ai-policy/uk-ai-biosecurity-lab-openai-anthropic-fundingSat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Policy & RegulationThe UK Cabinet Office announced the AI Biosecurity Lab on 24 October 2026 with £100M of public funding and up to £200M in credits from OpenAI and Anthropic.The UK Cabinet Office announced the AI Biosecurity Lab on 24 October 2026, calling it the world's first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation. The government is putting in £100 million. OpenAI commits £100 million in compute and model credits, and Anthropic up to £100 million in model credits, both with trusted model access. Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research join as research partners. The lab will focus first on early detection of biological threats and faster vaccines and treatments.

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]]> MCP TypeScript SDK 2.4.0 ships the Skills extension so servers can publish agent skillshttps://techailatest.news/ai-agents/mcp-typescript-sdk-2-4-skills-extensionhttps://techailatest.news/ai-agents/mcp-typescript-sdk-2-4-skills-extensionFri, 23 Oct 2026 18:32:25 GMTTech AI LatestAI AgentsThe official MCP TypeScript SDK 2.4.0, released on 23 October 2026, lets servers publish folders of agent skills and lets clients list, read and verify them.The Model Context Protocol maintainers released version 2.4.0 of the official TypeScript SDK on 23 October 2026. Its main addition is the Skills extension from SEP-2640: a server can publish a folder of agent skills, and a client can list, read and verify them by size and digest. The release also adds an opt-in OAuth scope on token refresh for Microsoft Entra ID and tightens three behaviours that developers should check before upgrading.

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]]> Google ADK 2.13 promotes 12 features to stable and adds MongoDB sessions and memoryhttps://techailatest.news/ai-agents/google-adk-2-13-stable-features-mongodb-sessionshttps://techailatest.news/ai-agents/google-adk-2-13-stable-features-mongodb-sessionsFri, 23 Oct 2026 18:08:23 GMTTech AI LatestAI AgentsGoogle released ADK for Python 2.13.0 on 23 October 2026, promoting 12 experimental features to stable and adding MongoDB sessions, memory and classifier routing.Google published version 2.13.0 of its Agent Development Kit for Python on 23 October 2026. The release promotes 12 experimental features to stable, adds MongoDB-backed session and memory services, introduces classifier nodes for routing workflows, adds barge-in to live voice agents and claims up to 8x faster execution turns. It also switches telemetry to the OpenTelemetry GenAI v2 conventions by default, a breaking change for teams with dashboards built on the old spans.

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]]> Pathos AI closes $237M Series E led by Bristol Myers Squibb at about a $3B valuationhttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/pathos-ai-series-e-237-million-bmshttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/pathos-ai-series-e-237-million-bmsFri, 23 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Business & FundingPathos AI closed a $237 million Series E led by Bristol Myers Squibb at about a $3 billion post-money valuation and signed an Alzheimer's data deal with Tempus.Pathos AI, a New York company that uses AI agents to develop its own drugs, closed a $237 million Series E on 23 October 2026 at a post-money valuation of approximately $3 billion. Bristol Myers Squibb led the round with existing investors. In a parallel deal, BMS gains access to Pathos's Foundry platform and Pathos will license a neurology dataset from Tempus AI for $55 million over five years, starting with Alzheimer's disease.

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]]> Google DeepMind maps the world's forest types at 10 m, correct 90% of the timehttps://techailatest.news/ai-research/google-deepmind-forty-global-forest-type-maphttps://techailatest.news/ai-research/google-deepmind-forty-global-forest-type-mapThu, 22 Oct 2026 14:30:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI ResearchGoogle DeepMind and partners released ForTy on 22 October 2026, a 10-metre global map of six forest and land-use types, correct 90% of the time in checks.Google DeepMind and Google Research, with the World Resources Institute and IIASA, released ForTy on 22 October 2026: a global map that sorts every 10-by-10-metre patch of land into six forest and land-use types for 2020, plus an early yearly series from 2017 to 2025. Checked at more than 9,000 random sites, it named the correct forest type 90% of the time. The map is free on Google Earth Engine and published in Scientific Data.

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]]> ServiceNow says Thrive reached 73% first-contact resolution and saved 21,000 hours with AIhttps://techailatest.news/ai-automation/servicenow-thrive-73-percent-first-contact-resolutionhttps://techailatest.news/ai-automation/servicenow-thrive-73-percent-first-contact-resolutionThu, 22 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI AutomationServiceNow said on 22 October 2026 that managed services provider Thrive routes 315,000 tasks every six months with AI, saving 21,000 hours of manual work.ServiceNow published a customer release on 22 October 2026 about Thrive, a managed services provider for small and mid-sized businesses. Thrive runs support on ServiceNow Technology Provider Service Management with AI agents. The release reports a 73% first-contact resolution rate, a 63% cut in time to resolution, 99.2% customer satisfaction, and more than 315,000 tasks routed every six months, saving 21,000 hours of manual work. Costs and the measurement period are not stated.

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]]> ETH Zurich builds lab-grown muscle robot that jumps a third of its body lengthhttps://techailatest.news/robotics/eth-zurich-biohybrid-robot-lab-grown-muscle-jumphttps://techailatest.news/robotics/eth-zurich-biohybrid-robot-lab-grown-muscle-jumpThu, 22 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestRobotics & Physical AIETH Zurich researchers reported a 1.5 cm robot driven by lab-grown muscle that jumps about 5 mm and walks at 6.2 mm/s, designed first in simulation.Researchers at ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab reported in Nature Communications a biohybrid robot powered by lab-grown mouse muscle tissue on a 3D-printed hydrogel scaffold. The 1.5 cm actuator lifts about 5 mm off the dish in one contraction, about a third of its body length, and a walking version reaches 6.2 mm/s. The team designed muscle and scaffold together in simulation. ETH announced the work on 22 October 2026.

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]]> Meta reports $64.6B Q3 revenue, up 26%, and keeps 2026 AI capex at up to $145Bhttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/meta-third-quarter-results-64-6-billion-revenuehttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/meta-third-quarter-results-64-6-billion-revenueWed, 21 Oct 2026 20:01:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Business & FundingMeta reported Q3 2026 revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26%, with $34.9 billion of capex, and narrowed its 2026 capex outlook to $135 billion to $145 billion.Meta Platforms reported third quarter 2026 revenue of $64.60 billion on 21 October, up 26% from a year earlier. Capital expenditures were $34.91 billion and free cash flow was negative $2.12 billion. A $9.89 billion legal charge cut operating income to $12.99 billion. Meta narrowed its 2026 capex outlook to $135 billion to $145 billion and said it will keep investing aggressively in AI in 2027. It also approved a new non-voting Class C stock.

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]]> Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used ARTEX AI agents to reach 2,250 tenantshttps://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/microsoft-storm-0940-artex-agentic-ai-connectwisehttps://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/microsoft-storm-0940-artex-agentic-ai-connectwiseWed, 21 Oct 2026 18:23:55 GMTTech AI LatestCybersecurityMicrosoft said on 21 October 2026 that Storm-0940 used ARTEX AI agents in the ConnectWise compromise, gaining privileged cloud access in under 3 hours.Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported on 21 October 2026 that Storm-0940, a China-state aligned actor, has used the open-source agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX since September 2026 against hundreds of organisations. Microsoft assesses the group was behind the ConnectWise supply chain compromise, after which its agents tried to sign in to more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants. In several cases, the time from targeting to privileged cloud access was under three hours.

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]]> Google Cloud sets A5X Vera Rubin launch with clusters of up to 960,000 GPUshttps://techailatest.news/ai-chips/google-cloud-a5x-vera-rubin-960000-gpu-clustershttps://techailatest.news/ai-chips/google-cloud-a5x-vera-rubin-960000-gpu-clustersWed, 21 Oct 2026 11:30:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Chips & InfrastructureGoogle Cloud said on 21 October 2026 that A5X bare-metal instances on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 reach general availability next month, scaling to 960,000 GPUs.Google Cloud announced at NVIDIA GTC Berlin on 21 October 2026 that A5X bare-metal instances built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 will be generally available next month. Its Virgo Network lets clusters grow to 80,000 Rubin GPUs on one site and up to 960,000 across several sites. Google also made Confidential G4 instances with Blackwell GPUs generally available and put NVIDIA HGX B300 on Google Distributed Cloud.

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]]> Elucid wins FDA 510(k) clearance for FFR-IQ, an AI FFR-CT tool with 92.2% sensitivityhttps://techailatest.news/ai-in-industry/elucid-ffr-iq-fda-clearance-ai-ffr-cthttps://techailatest.news/ai-in-industry/elucid-ffr-iq-fda-clearance-ai-ffr-ctWed, 21 Oct 2026 11:08:09 GMTTech AI LatestAI in IndustryElucid said on 21 October 2026 that the FDA cleared FFR-IQ, AI software that estimates coronary blood flow from CT scans and adds plaque data to the estimate.Elucid announced on 21 October 2026 that the FDA cleared FFR-IQ under 510(k) number K262015. The software estimates fractional flow reserve, a measure of whether a narrowed coronary artery limits blood flow, from a coronary CT angiography scan. It adds plaque composition to the estimate. Elucid reports 92.2% sensitivity and 93.1% specificity in its ELUCIDATE FFR-CT study. The FDA decision is dated 29 September 2026, and the product is now commercially available.

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]]> NVIDIA plans 2.5x substrate capacity and doubled chip testing with six supply partnershttps://techailatest.news/ai-chips/nvidia-supply-chain-substrate-testing-capacity-expansionhttps://techailatest.news/ai-chips/nvidia-supply-chain-substrate-testing-capacity-expansionWed, 21 Oct 2026 10:33:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Chips & InfrastructureNVIDIA said at GTC Berlin on 21 October 2026 it will raise substrate capacity 2.5x in three years and double testing capacity with six supply chain partners.NVIDIA announced at GTC Berlin on 21 October 2026 that it plans to increase substrate capacity for its products by 2.5x over the next three years and expects semiconductor testing capacity to double from 2026 to 2027. Six partners are named: Amkor, IBIDEN, KYEC, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, SPIL and Unimicron. NVIDIA is paying capacity reservation advances, including $1.1 billion to KYEC for new US test facilities.

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]]> NVIDIA adds Agile ONE SN reference humanoid and Isaac Lab 3.0 to its robotics platformhttps://techailatest.news/robotics/nvidia-isaac-agile-one-reference-humanoid-lab-3https://techailatest.news/robotics/nvidia-isaac-agile-one-reference-humanoid-lab-3Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:20:00 GMTTech AI LatestRobotics & Physical AINVIDIA said on 21 October 2026 that Agile Robots will build a Jetson Thor reference humanoid for early 2027, and released Isaac Lab 3.0 and Isaac OS.NVIDIA expanded its Isaac robotics platform at GTC Berlin on 21 October 2026. Agile Robots will build the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid on Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor, due in early 2027, with Stanford and ETH Zurich interested. NVIDIA also made Isaac Lab 3.0 generally available, released the open-source Isaac OS runtime, and put more than 2,000 simulation-ready assets and a human activity dataset on Hugging Face.

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]]> Bank of Ireland says AI screens 2.9 million transactions a day as Copilot reaches 7,000 staffhttps://techailatest.news/ai-in-industry/bank-of-ireland-ai-fraud-copilot-rollouthttps://techailatest.news/ai-in-industry/bank-of-ireland-ai-fraud-copilot-rolloutWed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI in IndustryBank of Ireland said on 21 October 2026 that AI checks about 2.9 million transactions a day for fraud and that almost 7,000 staff have Copilot training.Bank of Ireland said on 21 October 2026 that it is scaling AI across the group. AI scam detection now checks about 2.9 million customer transactions every day. Almost 7,000 colleagues have completed Microsoft Copilot training, and the bank says users save about 30 minutes a day. AI also closes over four in five card chargeback cases within three days, cut contact centre call transfers by more than 40%, and helped customers find EUR 55m in potential tax refunds.

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]]> Claude Duet opens as a proactive agent app for US Pro and Max subscribers by waitlisthttps://techailatest.news/ai-tools/claude-duet-research-preview-proactive-agent-apphttps://techailatest.news/ai-tools/claude-duet-research-preview-proactive-agent-appWed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Tools & AppsAnthropic opened a Claude Duet research preview on 21 October 2026: an app where Claude briefs you and works in the background, for US Pro and Max users.Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet on 21 October 2026. It is a separate app on iOS, Android and claude.ai in which Claude acts as a proactive agent: it sends a morning brief, checks connected apps every few hours, runs tasks in its own cloud browser and asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes. Access starts with US Pro and Max subscribers through a waitlist, with no extra charge, and Duet shares the plan's usage limits.

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]]> Legora raises $550M Series E at an $8.8B valuation as legal AI ARR passes $200Mhttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/legora-series-e-550-million-legal-aihttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/legora-series-e-550-million-legal-aiWed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Business & FundingLegal AI company Legora raised a $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation, led by Atreides Management, and says ARR tops $200 million.Legora, which sells an agentic operating system for lawyers, announced a $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation on 21 October 2026. Atreides Management led the round, joined by new investors including Fidelity, Capital Group and J.P. Morgan and every major existing backer. Legora says its ARR is now above $200 million. Its valuation at the previous round was $5.6 billion. The money funds expansion and new products.

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]]> Microsoft Research mathematicians prove the 31-year-old KLS conjecture with AI agent helphttps://techailatest.news/ai-research/microsoft-research-kls-conjecture-proof-ai-agentshttps://techailatest.news/ai-research/microsoft-research-kls-conjecture-proof-ai-agentsWed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI ResearchMicrosoft researchers said on 21 October 2026 that they proved the 1995 KLS conjecture in convex geometry, using AI agents to explore about 100 research paths.Two Microsoft researchers, Xinzhi Zhang and Zhao Song, say they have proved the Kannan, Lovász and Simonovits (KLS) conjecture from 1995, showing a bound that does not depend on dimension. Microsoft Research described the result on 21 October 2026. The authors used parallel AI agents to explore about 100 research paths, while choosing the direction and verifying the proof themselves. The preprints are on arXiv and have not been peer reviewed.

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]]> NVIDIA expands Cosmos world models with Data Factory blueprints and training frameworkhttps://techailatest.news/robotics/nvidia-cosmos-data-factory-world-model-toolshttps://techailatest.news/robotics/nvidia-cosmos-data-factory-world-model-toolsWed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestRobotics & Physical AINVIDIA said on 21 October 2026 that Cosmos gains five Data Factory blueprints, a robot model training framework and Cosmos 3 NIM with faster inference.NVIDIA expanded its Cosmos world model platform on 21 October 2026 with Cosmos Data Factory, five cloud blueprints for generating and curating training data, and a Cosmos Framework for fine-tuning and deploying robot and driving models such as GR00T, Alpamayo and Pi0.5. Updated Cosmos 3 NIM microservices give up to 2x faster inference, NVIDIA says. Porsche, ANYbotics, MicroAGI and ADNOC are named as users. Licence terms are not stated.

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]]> Google adds a small business hub and saved brand styles to the Gemini app for all usershttps://techailatest.news/ai-tools/gemini-app-small-business-hub-brand-styleshttps://techailatest.news/ai-tools/gemini-app-small-business-hub-brand-stylesTue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Tools & AppsGoogle added a business landing page, saved brand styles, finance tools and apps such as Shopify and Xero to the Gemini app on 20 October 2026, for all users.Google announced Gemini app tools for small business owners on 20 October 2026. A business landing page gathers branding, finance and customer insight work in one place. Owners can save a brand style from their website, fonts or colours and generate matching images with Nano Banana 2.1. Gemini can turn spreadsheets and receipts into financial charts. New connected apps include Adobe, Canva, Dropbox, Shopify, Wix, Zoho and Xero. Google says the tools roll out globally to all Gemini app users.

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]]> Salesforce agrees to buy Braze for $5.66B, or $47.50 a share in cash, to add AI marketinghttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/salesforce-acquire-braze-5-66-billionhttps://techailatest.news/ai-business/salesforce-acquire-braze-5-66-billionTue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTTech AI LatestAI Business & FundingSalesforce agreed on 20 October 2026 to acquire Braze for about $5.66 billion in enterprise value, paying $47.50 a share in cash, to add real-time AI marketing.Salesforce signed a definitive agreement on 20 October 2026 to acquire Braze, the Nasdaq-listed customer engagement platform, for about $5.66 billion in enterprise value. Braze Class A holders will receive $47.50 in cash per share. Salesforce plans to combine Braze's real-time messaging and BrazeAI decisioning with Marketing Cloud, Data 360 and Agentforce. The deal needs Braze shareholder and regulatory approval and is expected to close in Salesforce's fiscal year 2028.

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