Aston Martin Puts Back-End AI to Work While Keeping Agents Off Its Website
Aston Martin runs back-end AI on Infor software but keeps AI agents off its customer website, CIO Steve O'Connor says.
Aston Martin runs back-end AI on Infor software but keeps AI agents off its customer website, CIO Steve O'Connor says.
Le Monde reported on 7 October 2026 that French scientist Henri Kagan has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, an award the paper described as long awaited. The accessible version of the report contained no further details on the citation.
President Trump will award science and technology medals to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella and other tech executives Thursday, as SpaceX seeks $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips and Samsung commits $1 billion to a data-center venture with Nvidia and KKR.
Googlebook keyboards now use F1-F3 keys for Android’s classic triangle, circle and square navigation buttons, The Verge reports.
OpenAI published 722 math papers from an unreleased AI model, spanning about 20 subfields and including a proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis.
Nous Research raised a $90M Series B at a $1.5B valuation and launched Hermes for Businesses, moving its open-source AI agent into the enterprise.
Code found in iOS 27.2 lists a Schneider-branded thermostat and a temperature/humidity sensor as 'second-party' HomeKit devices, suggesting Apple's co-development push extends beyond its reported work with LG.
OpenAI is rolling out new GPT-6 models in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, which lets the chatbot combine text, graphics, buttons, forms, charts, and interactive tools in responses. Paid users get access first, with Free and Go users following on October 8.
A mammal fossil from China's Inner Mongolia region preserves rare evidence that the animal could chew and swallow food and suckle milk, pushing both traits back to at least the middle Jurassic, according to a study in Nature.
Arista unveiled an open Ethernet rack-scale portfolio for AI scale-up and scale-out fabrics, led by Etherlink SU-144, which connects up to 144 XPUs in one hop and 1,024 across racks.
The US Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment built and flew an armed drone with a 3D-printed explosive casing during a live-fire exercise in Germany, conducting a kinetic strike without contractor support, TechRadar reported.
Microsoft unveiled Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface PCs, including a $6,000 developer workstation and a laptop starting at $2,600, plus Windows 11 tools for sandboxing AI agents.
Spotify is expanding audiobooks to over 180 markets, with 350,000 titles in 120 languages and new subscription access.
Roku’s first OLED TVs are on sale for the final day of October Prime Day, with the 55-inch Pro Series at $699.99 and the 65-inch model at $799.99 on Amazon.
Newegg's Hasee X5, a Core i7-13620H laptop with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD, is selling for $549 — $350 off — according to TechRadar.
Amazon fall Prime Day: AirPods Pro 3 at $179, AirPods Max 2 at $429, with the Pro deal near its lowest Amazon price.
Midwest Wheel Companies is working toward agentic AI that can fix operational problems, not just flag them, while tying new capabilities to a single Infor system, Senior Vice President Steve McEnany said at Infor Velocity Week. The century-old truck parts distributor has added AI features for order entry and invoice processing, with human oversight for cash-related tasks.
TechRadar reports that Sony's Inzone H6 Air, a five-star open-back gaming headset, has dropped to its lowest-ever Amazon Prime Day prices: $168 in the US and £139 in the UK.
CNBC's Investing Club said Morgan Stanley survey data reinforced its confidence in TJX Companies, pointing to macro pressure rather than structural weakness. Microsoft and Nvidia also introduced the Surface Laptop Ultra, a Windows PC for personal AI agents, starting at nearly $2,600.
Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal decision models that return calibrated typed answers with zero output tokens. d1-3B and d1-omni-600M are on Hugging Face and target real-time decisions on NVIDIA hardware.
TechRadar reports Huawei and DeepSeek have released open source AI tools aimed at reducing reliance on Nvidia, while asking whether programmers will switch. The report provides no further details.
Google Photos now offers one-tap video editing from the share preview, an option previously limited to photos.
Meta launched Muse on iPad a month after its iPhone debut, with 6.6 million installs since September 8 and new connectors.
Analysts and executives from Cisco, Zoom, Five9 and other vendors told theCUBE's AI ROI in Contact Center Summit that AI's value in customer service should be judged by whether problems get resolved, not by how quickly calls end.