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SpaceX has launched Grok Bot, an AI customer-support platform that routes requests through Claude Opus 5.5 for reasoning, Midjourney for image generation and Suno for audio output. Announced by Elon Musk on X on 6 October 2026, the system is available for Starlink subscribers, SpaceX customers and enterprise users of xAI services. The pitch is … Read more
Nous Research, the lab behind the open-source Hermes agent, has closed a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation — a final figure that landed above the roughly $75 million discussed while negotiations were still in progress. Announced on October 7, 2026, the round was led by Robot Ventures, with Nvidia, Union Square … Read more
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on 7 October that Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. The award crowns a body of work that finally answers a question chemists have wrestled with for more … Read more
Finland’s environmental licensing authority has ordered Google’s Finnish subsidiary to immediately suspend environmentally significant site preparation at two planned data center locations after contractors cleared hundreds of hectares of forest before mandatory environmental reviews were finished. The affected sites are Muhos and Kajaani, both part of a broader €13 billion Finnish buildout that the company … Read more
OpenAI has released the largest publicly available corpus of AI-generated mathematical research to date: 722 manuscripts organised into 372 families of results, produced by an internal frontier model that the company has not yet made public. The GitHub repository, live since early October 2026, pairs many of the papers with formalisations written in Lean, the … Read more
Honda R&D, together with construction group Taisei Corporation and its road-building subsidiary Taisei Rotec, is taking wireless EV charging out of the lab and onto public asphalt. The partners plan to demonstrate dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) on a 300-metre stretch of the Tateyama Expressway in Chiba Prefecture, outside Tokyo, from fiscal 2027. The system … Read more
A cross-sector coalition led by Biohub, Google DeepMind, Meta and Isomorphic Labs — with backing from two US federal agencies — has committed roughly $1.8 billion to build the first predictive “virtual cell”: an AI model engineered to simulate how living cells behave, sicken and respond to treatment. Announced on October 7, 2026 under the … Read more
Meta has deployed a new layer of artificial intelligence aimed at a stubborn loophole in its advertising machine: campaigns that look entirely harmless but exist only to funnel users toward child sexual abuse material hosted off its platforms. Instead of hunting explicit imagery — a job its hash-matching systems have handled since 2011 — the … Read more
Google has opened SynthID Detector to the public worldwide, turning a tool that spent more than a year gated behind a waitlist for journalists, media professionals and researchers into open verification infrastructure. From today, anyone can visit synthid.com, upload an image, a video or an audio clip, and learn within seconds whether it carries an … Read more
Google DeepMind has launched EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter multimodal embedding model engineered to run entirely on the device rather than in the cloud. The model maps text, code, images, video and audio into a single 768-dimensional vector space, so an application can compare a voice memo against a video clip or a written query against … Read more