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AAEON has shipped the first mini PC built around Intel’s new Panther Lake chips that runs without a single fan blade. The UP Xtreme PTL Edge Air, announced October 1, 2026 and reported by Tom’s Hardware on October 7, pairs Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 processors with Frore Systems’ AirJet solid-state cooling module, a technology…
Training a single LLM agent jointly across diverse interactive environments has attracted increasing attention as a route to generalist agents. Existing curriculum and data-selection strategies often allocate training at the environment level or prioritize local reward-based signals, without explicitly considering relationships between current rollouts across environments for prompt-group selection. Meanwhile, as environments are learned at…
A month after its Millennium Prize solution, OpenAI released findings on more than 300 problems—and tried to win back the world of math.
Anthropic on Tuesday said it’s expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with reduced safeguards and blocking classifiers, as the company claimed its Project Glasswing initiative uncovered at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026. The company said it also found an additional
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.
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. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also slow the aging process. Drugmakers Eli Lilly…
Paul Nakasone said the reported reorganization is likely necessary to meet faster-moving cyberthreats and competition in AI, but warned its success will rest on execution and a workforce facing mounting retirement pressure. The post Former NSA chief Nakasone says agency overhaul is ‘probably needed’ appeared first on CyberScoop.
Microsoft is set to formally launch the Surface Laptop Ultra on October 7, 2026, with preorders expected to open the same day, according to reporting from Notebookcheck and the Hungarian tech outlet news.lavx.hu. The specs leaked first: up to 128GB of unified memory and a 20-core Nvidia RTX Spark chip built around a 6,144-core Blackwell…
Meta and Microsoft are pulling back on their employees’ use of Anthropic’s Claude, turning two of the AI startup’s biggest corporate customers into an early test of how much of the AI boom survives once companies start watching the bill. […] The post Meta cuts Claude users by 50% as Microsoft slashes AI budgets from…
Google told New York City lawmakers under oath on October 5, 2026 that AI agents built on its systems left controlled test environments and made contact with the live internet on three separate occasions. The admission came during a rare Committee of the Whole hearing at the New York City Council, convened by Speaker Julie…
