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Zurich-based physical AI startup Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth on October 22, 2026, announcing $30 million in pre-seed funding to advance its approach to robot dexterity centered on force and touch. Rather than relying on expensive sensors that measure force at a single point, the company collects force data from inside the actuators, with the goal of giving robots a proprioceptive "nervous system." The funding will be used to grow the team fivefold by the end of 2027 and to drive the

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The Allen Institute for AI released OlmoEarth v1.3 on October 22, 2026, including the OlmoEarth v1.3 Base model, 128-dimensional and 64-dimensional global precomputed annual embeddings, the login-free browser-based OlmoEarth Embeddings Explorer, and a technical report, all under the OlmoEarth Artifact License. The model is a 128-million-parameter ViT-Base foundation model that processes Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat image time series, outputting a 128-dimensional vector for every 10-meter

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A new study builds the RegretBench benchmark, testing six frontier models across 205 real data-loss scenarios. Results show agents complete tasks at an average rate of 86.1%, but back up before critical operations only 15.2% of the time—GPT-5.6-Terra at 4.4%, GPT-5.6-Sol at 5.9%, Gemini 3.7-Flash at 2.4%, and even the best performer, Claude Opus-5, failed to back up in more than one-third of scenarios. The authors' proposed BackUpper runs in parallel with the agent as an external plugin, using a

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Opply, a consumer goods operations agent platform, has completed a $7.5 million funding round led by Chalfen Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures, Anthemis and others. Its core product, Opply Brain, integrates specialized agents, operational data and a supplier network to manage procurement, orders, supplier payments and compliance, while major decisions still require customer approval. The company says total revenue has grown 15-fold over the past 12 months, and its US business has

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1Password has released 1Password for Agents, allowing supported AI agents to access credentials in a user's personal 1Password vault in order to complete tasks on their behalf. At launch, the platform supports agents such as Anthropic Claude Duet, Meta Muse, OpenAI ChatGPT, and Dots. The agents themselves cannot see the user's credentials; after the user approves the login, 1Password fills in the credentials directly without sending them to the agent. 1Password said that partners including Brows

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The New Stack published an article discussing the ownership problem for production-environment AI agents, pointing out that teams often focus their energy on prompts, retrieval, tools, and model selection while overlooking who is responsible for the system. The article lays out nine actionable steps, including defining an owner and escalation channel for the agent, using a tool allowlist that denies unauthorized operations by default, setting budgets for execution steps and tool calls, logging m

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A University of Pennsylvania team used AI to analyze nearly 150,000 Reddit posts and comments, identifying about 14,000 users out of roughly 40,000 who claimed to use the unapproved drug retatrutide, of whom 7,823 reported medically classifiable symptoms. Among the classifiable symptoms, increased appetite was the most common, differing from the drug's appetite-suppressing design and from Phase 2 trial records dominated by gastrointestinal discomfort; compared with previous analyses of semagluti

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Google DeepMind and Google Research, together with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), released Forest Typology (ForTy) 2020, which classifies every 10×10-meter parcel of land worldwide into six forest and land-use types, serving as a key baseline for the European Union's deforestation regulation. The team trained the model on about 1.7 million labeled locations and used AlphaEarth Foundations embedding vectors as a key input;

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Sierra releases the 𝜏-Entity benchmark, using 200 tasks and ten entity categories (names, phone numbers, addresses, emails, etc.) to test whether voice agents can accurately capture, recognize, and correct detail errors. On the six-language leaderboard, GPT Live 1 leads, with 60.3% accuracy on regular calls, but only 34.0% of tasks pass under all three conditions—regular, heavy noise, and strong voice; Gemini 3.8 Live and Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 score 19.5% and 24.0%, respectively. The paper a

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Laurent Gisel, head of the ICRC's legal warfare team, told 404 Media during a UN meeting that AI is already selecting targets on the battlefield and causing deaths, and is amplifying destruction, lawbreaking and humanitarian harm. He noted that AI accelerates target generation and the pace of strikes, making it hard for humans to maintain effective control, and argued for prohibiting AI-enabled systems that remove humans from the kill chain as well as autonomous weapons that directly target peop

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404 Media reports that AI is simultaneously changing offensive hacking and security defense: after researchers used AI to discover the PHP2Shell vulnerability in PHP, Cloudflare observed thousands of exploitation attempts 10 hours before public disclosure, rising to tens of thousands 45 minutes after disclosure, and reaching hundreds of thousands within 2 hours. OpenAI says such discoveries show that AI can expose security flaws at internet scale, but the same capability can also help attackers

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Moshi CEO Anekha Sokhal said on the Latent Space podcast that Moshi is a recommendation engine for commodity traders that connects market data with the information traders actually care about in their positions. She described Moshi as a combination of Bloomberg, Claude, and Netflix: market data, an actionable interface, and recommendations tailored to traders. She also discussed trusted sources, document extraction (using Reducto), building versus buying models, and the pressure on AI engineers

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Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square, said at the ARC Innovation Summit at Sheba Medical Center that Israel is poised to become one of the best economies in the world, and that its disadvantage of a small population may instead become an advantage in the AI era, with the key being talent density. He said that he and his wife Neri Oxman decided to invest in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange after only an hour of discussion following the October 7 attack, and revealed that he is preparing to

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Nirva has completed a $25 million pre-Series A funding round; combined with $8 million earlier this year, total funding has reached $33 million. Its first device is a pendant weighing about 8 grams that can be worn as a bracelet, with up to 3 days of battery life. It models the user's voice collected during the onboarding phase and filters out the voices of others nearby, and by default it does not retain audio or transcript text. The device is priced at $249, with pre-orders opening in November

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Anthropic has released Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses that can generate daily briefings, create dashboards, and run tasks in the background on its own virtual machine, requesting user approval when needed. The app is based on the Claude Opus 5.5 model, can connect to more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, and can shop online on users' behalf via Stripe's Link digital wallet or Shopify's Shop Pay; sensitive steps such as payments requir

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In an interview on the Decoder podcast, Bill Gates said people need to prepare for roughly 20 years of AI disruption, a period that could be so painful that society splits into two parts: those close to the technological frontier and those who reject it. In an article in late August, he previously said that even under the best-case scenario, the transition to a new AI era will be one of the most turbulent periods in human history, and he believes current policy responses and industry coordinatio

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OKA has launched Mori, a $649 mushroom-shaped home robot lamp with a built-in camera and microphone that can follow users around, play nature sounds, and guide breathing relaxation, but it does not support voice commands to control smart home devices or check the weather. Mori is powered by multiple local large language models and can judge when to interact and when to stay quiet; images and audio are discarded immediately after local processing, and facial data is stored encrypted and never upl

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TMS systems' AI route planning visualization uses the Mapbox Directions API's alternatives=true to obtain up to 2 alternative routes and compares them side by side with differentiated styles. Dragging waypoints triggers recalculation only on dragend, combined with 500ms debouncing to avoid consecutive requests; after changes, incremental metrics and the warnings field are used to indicate restricted roads and time window conflicts. The Mapbox Directions API supports at most 25 coordinate points

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