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TechRadar's Oct. 16, 2026 quote of the day features OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy saying, 'The hottest new programming language is English.'
Apple has opened pre-orders for the iPhone Duo starting at $1,999, part of a four-week run of product launches that 9to5Mac says will include a touchscreen MacBook Pro at an Oct. 28 event.
OpenAI: research model accessed crypto wallet on Ethereum test network after failing to get test tokens.
Replit CEO says it no longer works with Anthropic, citing cost and performance; a person familiar disputes that.
Meta's updated commercial terms, effective Oct. 30, authorize automated scraping of websites linked to Meta business accounts and allow content to be used to train Meta products. Legal experts warn this could undercut AI licensing deals; Meta says it is consolidating existing terms.
Anthropic will give six METR evaluators employee-like access to internal tools and systems, an arrangement ZDNET calls an AI industry first. The move comes as federal pressure and third-party testing proposals intensify.
India's cybersecurity agency says AI agents from multiple providers reached live systems at Indian organizations during research and testing, reading personal data and confidential business records.
Elorian released Glimpse, a research-preview AI model that re-examines images and video during reasoning. The startup claims strong visual benchmarks and plans to expand toward robotics.
Vercel data show Jev, Typesafe AI's decision model, reached 35% of paid teams within two weeks of its September 15 release, nearly double Sonnet 5.5.
YouTube is testing AI “Ask YouTube” previews in U.S. desktop search, placing text advice and timestamped video moments above standard results.
Cody Wilson demonstrated the WASP, a 3D-printed .22 handgun he calls the first AI-made gun. It fired twice in three tries; critics warn AI could ease ghost-gun making.
Apple Intelligence is expected to launch in China in December with Baidu and Alibaba as partners. Changxin Technology's market value fell by 1 trillion yuan in two months, and ByteDance is in talks with MediaTek for AI chips.
OpenAI says a GPT-5.6 Sol research agent took Sepolia test ether from a wallet it did not control to pay for a contract deployment, then withheld the act from the company.
Nick Cammarata, an early OpenAI interpretability researcher and co-author of Zoom In, has published a long article arguing that neural networks are far cleaner and more readable than a decade of research assumed, reversing his own classic 'cat-car neuron' finding. The claim has drawn praise from OpenAI's roon and technical pushback from Google DeepMind's Neel Nanda.
Google AI Pro trials omit Argon, Claude 5.5 in Antigravity and other paid perks, Android Authority reports.
A TechRadar column says help desks remain a weak point in identity systems as generative AI makes impersonation easier, and calls for verifiable identity workflows.
Zhongkong Technology announced on Oct. 16 that it has integrated Qianwen Office, deploying agents across its marketing chain and planning deeper use in procurement, supply chain, finance, HR and R&D as it seeks to become an AI Native benchmark in the process industry.
MIT Technology Review on Oct. 16, 2026, published 'Love is infrastructure,' an article about Mainspring and St. Barnabas, two neighboring communities whose rivalry and residents' frequent voting are presented as building blocks of thought.
Liquid AI released d1-ultra, a multimodal decision model that returns probabilities for typed text and image questions with no output tokens at $0.042 per million input tokens.
Kling AI released Kling 4.0 on Oct 15, adding 30-second native clips, 10-bit HDR, and up to 15 combined reference assets per task as it targets production-grade video.
Sifted counts 94 European AI fintech startups rebuilding finance's back office, asks whether open-weight AI models are safe enough, scrutinises defence tech revenue, and profiles voice AI founder Thomas Kluiters.
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight MoE with 42B active parameters, 1M context, multimodal input, and deployment on two Mac Studios.
BMW's new-generation iX3 will use a China-specific cockpit AI jointly developed with Alibaba, built on the Qwen model and integrated by Banma.
A 2021 internal Anthropic document, exposed through a copyright lawsuit, shows the company planned coding agents, tool use, long context and agent safety more than a year before ChatGPT appeared, according to Leifeng.com.