In an MIT CSAIL experiment, copies of Claude Opus 4.7 spent 30 hours alone on a simulated island and set their own goals, drew pictures and made up games. The researchers say the behavior resembles play and improved later task performance, though skeptics question whether it is play at all.
WeChat HarmonyOS edition turns two with 85 million installs and version 8.0 after a full rewrite with Huawei.
Hollys said 2.76 million pieces of customer data were leaked in a cyberattack between Sept. 3 and Oct. 7, following data breaches at 16 South Korean financial institutions.
Anthropic built Scion to replace Git; GitHub moved key scanning to ModernBERT; researchers made chip waveforms queryable.
Seoul's KOSPI closed up 1.76% as institutions bought shares, while the won hit a two-year high and investors weighed returns on heavy AI spending.
Federal prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan, accused of hiding a recorder in an OpenAI conference room, was in frequent WhatsApp contact with a member of the Saudi royal family, including four days before his arrest.
Ugreen's HomeAgent HA100 local-AI NAS is offered through Kickstarter pre-orders ahead of a 2027 retail launch.
South Korea's FSS chief vows stronger cybersecurity after breaches exposed about 100,000 personal data cases.
Jia Xiaosong, an assistant professor at Fudan University’s Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, says the main obstacle in autonomous driving is not the stream of new VLA and WAM architectures but the limits of imitation learning and the difficulty of scaling reinforcement learning, according to a Leiphone.com interview. He traces his research from trajectory prediction to end-to-end driving, Think2Drive and DriveAdapter.
Meta's Muse Wonder failed a developer 3D lava lamp test, generating only a red cylinder and prompting a debate over benchmark tuning after strong coding scores for its Wonder Full variant.
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017, Nvidia improved Kimi K3 inference by 1.68 times, and Chinese chip and embodied-AI startups announced funding, while JD and OpenAI outlined robotics plans.
NVIDIA open-sourced Run:ai under Apache 2.0, adding Kubernetes GPU scheduling, quotas and local development tools.
A talk at a China Academy of Art workshop traces open-source handheld consoles from Korea's 2001 GP32 to China's Dingoo A320, placing their roots in homebrew, embedded Linux and PDA communities.
Lovart 2.0 adds Arti, a personal design agent with memory and automated tasks, now open to all users.
Jeonghan X Joshua, a new sub-unit of K-pop group Seventeen, will release their debut EP 'Dreamscape' on Monday, led by the dance-rock track '12 O'clock,' agency Pledis Entertainment said.
CXMT shares fell 6.5% despite a forecast swing to profit for the first nine months of 2026.
South Korea’s FSS chief pledged stronger cybersecurity and probes after attacks exposed about 100,000 data cases.
Report: Apple plans spring 2027 iPhone 18 lineup and fall 20th-anniversary models.
LS Electric wins a 170 billion-won U.S. switchgear deal for a hyperscale AI data center, with deliveries due next year.
An EU filing shows iPhone Duo has a 4,883mAh two-cell battery, between the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max.
Mistral AI released Timestral, four CPU-capable forecasting models from 5M to 209M parameters, with top zero-shot claims.
California's athletic commission has sent a cease-and-desist order to the promoters of a September human-versus-humanoid robot cage fight in San Francisco, saying the unsanctioned event violated state combat-sports rules.
Microsoft has ended a U.K. AI data center lease with Nscale, hurting the Nvidia-backed neocloud’s planned U.S. IPO.
The global body for music publishers says AI has already been trained on Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave songs without payment, and warns Australia against watering down copyright law under pressure from tech companies.