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Published on October 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Representatives from Anthropic presented a bill to U.S. lawmakers. The legislation provides that the U.S. government may request the suspension of an AI system if it poses an imminent and foreseeable risk of causing more than 50 deaths or serious injuries, or more than $1 billion in damages. Death therefore has a price for Anthropic. According to media outlet Politico, representatives f

A comparison of Nano Banana 2 Lite with the non-Lite version. Credit: Google A comparison of Nano Banana 2 Lite with the non-Lite version. Credit: Google In addition to the examples, Google also has Elo scores from Arena.ai ready to go, showing that users rate Nano Banana 2 Lite outputs almost as highly as the non-Lite versions. However, vibemarking doesn’t always focus on the details that can make AI images look silly upon closer inspection. Google notes

While most of us will have to wait to test Gemini 4, Google says engineers inside the company are already using the new model extensively. Argon reportedly used “fleet-wide telemetry data” to help Google save 300 TiB of memory across its data centers. Meanwhile, Argon agents have been working to migrate C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google, including thousands of lines in the core re2 and libgav1 libraries and more than 800,000 lines in the Fuchsia OS Zir

The stable version of the web browser “Firefox 160” has been released. It adds a mini-window feature that keeps part of a web page always in the foreground, as well as the ability to change video playback speed in Picture-in-Picture mode. Other additions include the ability to open a new tab by dragging and dropping from browsing history and a speech recognition feature supporting 40 languages. Firefox 160.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes https:/

Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia chips Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 27, 2026 Nvidia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta's planned equity offering, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the same announcement, the two companies said they would expand their partnership around Meta's AI

The idea is to make online shopping easier to manage. Find something you like, save it to your cart, and move on. When you return later, your items and shopping progress are still there, so you don’t have to hunt down the same products or start over. Universal Cart can collect items from multiple retailers, turning it into a central hub for browsing and keeping track of potential purchases. Google says the cart can also help shoppers stay on top of deals a

The companies didn’t disclose the deal amount but said that they will keep Pipecat open source. For the uninitiated, Pipecat is a framework that manages voice and video streams along with other pieces in the pipeline, like speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLMs), and text-to-speech (TTS) models while reducing latency. Its maker, Daily, provides hosted infrastructure for voice and video calls of any kind. With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a

That’s an expensive and politically tricky proposition for investors throwing billions of dollars at the challenge of scaling up AI. One way to use less water is to do a better job monitoring the cooling fluids, a task that currently involves sending samples away to a laboratory for tests in a multi-day process. Omen AI was founded in 2024 to solve that problem. The company is building a real-time sensor to determine whether valves were failing, or if bact

Published on October 24, 2026 at 10:05 AM Tech Artificial Intelligence Confining AI becomes a headache: after its 11-day pause, OpenAI explains why disconnecting the Internet is not enough Cut off from the outside 5 min Adam Langumier {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/#\/schema\/person\/578494b9918ce3188a7f898553473eba","name":"Adam Langumier","url":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/author\/adamlangumier\/","

Zhidx (official account: zhidxcom) Author | Sun Xiaowen Editor | Cheng Qian Zhidx, November 6 — Today, Thinking Machines Lab, the U.S. AI startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, released the general-purpose multimodal model Inkling 2 Small, and will next weekmake its weights openly available. The model focuses on improving custom-training performance, supports developers in further training it with their own data, and can als