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Canada’s national archive logged 899 automated search queries about century-old divorce records before anyone realized an autonomous AI agent, not a human researcher, was behind them. That detail, buried in a disclosure that nonprofit AI lab Transluce sent to the Canadian government on September 28, 2026, is now at the center of a cross-border security…
Sony flipped a switch on 60-plus million PS5 owners on October 1, 2026, and most of them didn’t need to buy anything to notice. Quick Spectral Super Resolution, or QSSR, is a new AI upscaling library that runs on the standard PlayStation 5 – not the $899.99 PS5 Pro – and it shipped the same…
NVIDIA kicked off October 2026 by confirming 25 games are joining GeForce NOW’s cloud library this month, with six titles playable the same week as the announcement. The headline additions, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered and Gears of War: E-Day, both lean on RTX 5080-class server hardware and DLSS 4.5 to push path…
A satellite containing several of the company’s AI chips launched into orbit.
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models that tap into the capabilities of the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, Ultrafast offers up to 8x faster token generation than the Astra Standard mode. For developers,…
Google’s prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, built in partnership with Planet, launched into orbit aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX.
Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone’s camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google’s AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around…
Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing. Yesterday, four of the six staffers on Android Central’s staff page posted publicly about the layoffs, including Shruti Shekar, Derrek Lee, Harish Jonnalagadda, and Nicholas Sutrich, and former…
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
Fervo Energy completed its first power plant in less than two years. The next phases promise to connect to the grid even quicker.
