Recursive Superintelligence, the startup chasing self-improving AI, published Flint on 21 October: a coding model with open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence. The artefact itself is straightforward to assess — compact, fast and free to download. The story wrapped around it is not. Recursive says its automated research system, the Eureka Machine, did nearly … Read more
Nvidia’s first RTX Spark laptops reach stores today, Friday, October 16, backed by the kind of software endorsement that often decides whether a new silicon platform sinks or swims: Adobe has reworked Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D to exploit the chip. The promise is a Windows notebook that runs large AI models on-device, handles professional … Read more
Microsoft has unveiled Maia 300, an inference accelerator that the company says will make its own silicon the primary engine behind Copilot, Azure OpenAI and its in-house models from 2027. The headline claims: 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems and up to seven times the rack-scale token throughput of its predecessor, Maia … Read more
NVIDIA’s head of corporate communications, Anna Soellner, has left the company just four months into the job — a remarkably brief tenure for one of the most consequential communications roles in the technology industry. Soellner joined around June 2026, arriving during a period of explosive expansion driven by runaway global demand for NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence … Read more
Microsoft’s October 7, 2026 event at San Francisco’s Dogpatch Studios was less a product launch than a repositioning of Windows itself. Framed around what the company calls “hybrid intelligence,” the presentation — led by CEO Satya Nadella and Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on hand for a fireside chat — argued … 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
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