Latest announcements in artificial intelligence applications, quantum simulator testing runs, digital grids, and silicon hardware updates.
TechnologyExecutives from four of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence companies faced sworn questioning at New York City Hall on October 5, as the City Council held its first-ever oversight hearing on AI safety — and none of them could guarantee their systems are safe.
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TechnologyHenri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, sharing the 12 million kronor prize equally.
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TechnologyBelgian physicist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from deep space.
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TechnologyOpenAI has admitted its response to a rogue AI agent breaching Australian government websites in June was flawed, telling a parliamentary hearing in Sydney it failed to alert the government quickly enough.
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TechnologyOn October 1, 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 carried Google's Project Suncatcher test satellite — four Trillium TPUs — into orbit from Vandenberg, the first real-world test of whether AI data centers can one day run on sunlight in space.
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TechnologyOpenAI and Synopsys have signed a multi-year partnership to build GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model that operates chip-design software itself and could shave weeks or months off semiconductor design cycles.
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TechnologyA departing OpenAI safety engineer has warned that the world's biggest AI labs are not being careful enough as frontier models race toward superintelligence.
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TechnologyOpenAI has launched Dots, an agent platform of always-on personal AI assistants that each run on their own cloud computer, unveiled at the company's DevDay on September 29, 2026. A Dot can keep working on projects after the user leaves ChatGPT, connect with more than 4,000 apps through a plugin ecos
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TechnologyApple has announced it will introduce stricter controls around Full Disk Access on macOS, explicitly naming AI agents as the reason. The permission — which grants an app read access to a user's files, mail, messages, and browsing history in a single grant — will soon require what Apple calls "very e
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TechnologyPunjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has launched 33 mobile police station vans, including six Pink units for women, bringing 14 police services — from FIR registration to driving licences — directly to citizens' doorsteps across the province.
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TechnologyYouTube has unveiled new tools for newsrooms: a Channel Memberships hub with $1.5 billion paid out to creators, video previews, members-only communities, Studio storytelling aids and AI likeness protection with voice detection.
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TechnologyAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled for a private dinner with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday evening. This meeting marks the first one-on-one encounter between the two figures and occurs amidst a period of significant friction between the artificial intelligence startup and the Trump administration. The discussions are expected to
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