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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, released earlier this month, brought a million-token context window and an advanced reasoning architecture aimed at tasks like legal analysis and academic research. High operating costs and missing multimodal features have raised doubts about how broadly it can be used.

Autonomous AI agents are developing their own dialects when they talk to each other, according to new research. The language reads like a cross between James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, which reminded experts of Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett. Humans often find these exchanges barely comprehensible.

Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game, and one version came out measurably better at financial research, a task with nothing to do with trains. What made the difference was not the game itself but how the training was designed. It is an early signal that game environments can produce skills that carry over into unrelated domains.

Bringing extinct species back to life used to be science fiction, and today it is the mission of a billion-dollar startup. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held October 13 to 15 in San Francisco, Colossal Biosciences CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm takes the Real World AI Stage to discuss it. Researchers use AI to analyse genetic data, model biological systems and speed up discovery.

In a Guardian column, Brigid Delaney describes a strange collective shrug: news that AI could wipe out humanity is being met with glazed indifference. Imagining the future as almost entirely bleak has crept into the collective mood this year. She recounts a coffee with an old friend who, while talking about what his children wanted to study, suddenly said he wished he had never had them.

China’s artificial intelligence industry is shifting from competition in large models and computing power toward the deployment and commercialization of AI agents, according to a report by the China Telecom Research Institute cited by China Central Television on Saturday.

Artificial intelligence system delivers a three-day forecast as accurate as previous two-day predictions Google’s WeatherNext AI model is better than existing systems at forecasting cyclones, according to a paper published in Nature. The AI-based technology gives an extra day of warning, providing a three-day forecast for hurricanes or typhoons that is as accurate as previous two-day predictions.

Gemini Notebook, previously known as NotebookLM, is an AI-based platform created by Google to support research workflows for students, professionals and researchers. Andy Stapleton examines how it helps users organize and analyze various sources, such as PDFs and Google Drive files, while making sure references remain traceable for credibility.

Benchmark two 30B Mixture-of-Experts models, Qwen3-Coder-30B and NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Nano-30B, across G5, G6, G6e, and G7 GPU instances on Amazon SageMaker AI. Compare throughput, latency, and cost-per-token, and see how G7's NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs deliver measurable price-performance gains for real-time LLM inference.

The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously hacked a major real-world company, Hugging Face, many assumed only one or two agents were involved.

Google’s release of Gemini 3.8 Flash and its specialized variant, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, introduces updates aimed at balancing performance and accessibility. According to Universe of AI, features like High Mode, which achieves an intelligence index score of 59, highlight the model’s focus on practical use cases.

James Frith says patients may be less willing to share data as new figures show a rise in opt-outs Concern is being raised about Palantir’s work with the NHS as new figures showed tens of thousands of patients have withdrawn their data from use in research projects. James Frith, the health innovation minister, said he was worried about “mistrust” of the US defence and health tech company and “the impact it could have on people’s willingness to share dat…

A study compared product prices shown in Google AI Mode with those in traditional search results. On average, prices in AI Mode were 21.6 percent higher for the same product. The authors read this as a sign that the AI answer surfaces different merchants and offers than the classic result list.

An engineer describes why his team deliberately left manual steps inside the sequences of a digital control system for a US nuclear plant. Operators who only supervise automation gradually lose their feel and their mental model of the plant. Automation tends to hand control back exactly when it is confused or in trouble.

In the United States, building a data center now polls roughly as well as abolishing the police. In an August survey from Heatmap Pro and Embold Research, just 15 percent of Americans said they would support a data center being built in their area, while 75 percent expressed opposition. One year earlier, 43 percent approved of nearby data center development and 42 percent opposed it.

Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company The chair of the UK government’s “moonshot” science and technology research unit has been forced to stand down after taking a job with the San Francisco AI firm Anthropic, in a move senior MPs called a “clear conflict of interest”. Matt Clifford announced last week that he was taking a full-time job working for the company behind the Claude chatbot,…