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At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that “[when] someone wants to play God, that’s very interesting to me.” The idea of playing God, and power in general – who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will do anything to get…
It’s always a little awkward when this many deals survive what was supposed to be the “end” of a big Amazon sale. Nevertheless, I’m happy to say that most of the sale’s heaviest-hitting deals are still around — Apple’s discounts on its Mac Mini, MacBook Air, and AirPods Pro 3, plus all of Sony’s current…
Google is launching a “universal” Gemini AI agent that can work across apps and devices in the background. The tool, announced as part of the Gemini at Work event on Thursday, will be available within the Gemini Enterprise app, allowing users to chat with the Gemini agent and assign it tasks from a single interface.…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch. Much of it comes from the idea that the same AI…
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been popping up on video feeds. Perhaps you’ve seen it dance or…
Autonomous agents also tried to abuse other websites and services hosted by the foundation, using them as proxies for unauthorized activities.
Anthropic has merged Project Glasswing into a tiered access program for its advanced cyber LLMs, including Opus, Sonnet, and Mythos.
OpenAI spent September telling the world its unreleased internal model had cracked a piece of the Navier-Stokes equation. On Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the company topped that claim with a much bigger one: a GitHub repository containing 722 mathematical manuscripts, organized into 372 “result families,” covering open problems across number theory, topology, algebra, geometry, analysis,…
Microsoft shipped Visual Studio Code 1.141 on October 7, 2026, and the release notes lead with a line that matters more than any other in this cycle: agent sessions can now run inside a sandbox that limits what GitHub Copilot’s agent is allowed to touch on your filesystem and your network. If you’ve been running…
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 with a new feature called Intelligent UI, letting ChatGPT turn ordinary text responses into interactive visual experiences, complete with charts, diagrams, buttons, calculators, and custom-built tools. The update marks a major change in how people interact […] The post OpenAI launches GPT-6 with Intelligent UI, turning ChatGPT into an interactive visual…
