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Anthropic’s offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get “thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost.” That could mean open-source projects get alerted about possible security issues sooner, but the trade-off is that OSS Scanner’s…
Nvidia spent the past 48 hours doing something it rarely does: giving away the playbook. On October 8, 2026, longtime AI analyst Michael Parekh used his daily newsletter AI: Reset to Zero to lay out what he calls Nvidia’s open-source “AI Factory” push, detailing how the chipmaker is funding rivals, buying distribution, and publishing its…
Nvidia spent the past 48 hours doing something it rarely does: giving away the playbook. On October 8, 2026, longtime AI analyst Michael Parekh used his daily newsletter AI: Reset to Zero to lay out what he calls Nvidia’s open-source “AI Factory” push, detailing how the chipmaker is funding rivals, buying distribution, and publishing its…
It’s Thursday, October 8, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. The AI race is entering a new phase, and the biggest developments are no longer […] The post Top Tech News Today, October 8, 2026: Adobe, Google, Manus, Microsoft, Nvidia,…
OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
Google Cloud’s new Gemini agent automates workflows by connecting to your business systems. See how it streamlines enterprise tasks in one prompt.
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…
