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heise's best-of list names the Top 10 EKG-capable health smartwatches: the Withings Scanwatch 2 becomes the new test winner at around €262, with battery life of nearly 30 days and the ability to export a PDF health report via the Withings app. The technical champion is the Huawei Watch D3 (around €440), which in addition to a 1-channel EKG also supports inflatable-cuff blood pressure measurement; the Huawei Watch GT Runner 2 at €199 is the value champion. The list only includes models whose EKG

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TechCrunch rounded up several AI agents that let you converse directly via text message, including Ask Proxy, Caddy, Comma, Fambot, Folk, Instinct, and Iris. They can remember context, connect to existing apps, and complete tasks such as scheduling, bookings, and shopping on your behalf. Ask Proxy costs $1 per day for the personal version and starts at $15 per person per month for the enterprise version; Folk offers a Pro subscription at $8.33 per month; Instinct completed a $1 billion funding r

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Baidu Health announced the upgrade of Wenxin Health Assistant and the launch of the Haoyi Matrix and Health Camera; its AI services have reached over 50 million monthly active users. The Haoyi Matrix includes Haoyi Q&A, Haoyi Appointment, Haoyi Talk, Haoyi Rankings, and Haoyi Reviews. Haoyi Q&A has onboarded over 150,000 real doctors from top-tier hospitals nationwide to provide 24/7 online services, while Haoyi Appointment already covers more than 80% of public top-tier hospitals, offering over

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Today AI announced the completion of over $200 million in first-round financing, with investors including IDG Capital, Tencent, 5Y Capital, Ant Group, Sequoia China, Transsion Holdings, Tongge Venture Capital, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hanyuan Assets. In the interview, the founding team responded to questions including whether Personal AI is a false demand, why they insist on an independent app and single session, how memory and proactivity reduce delegation costs, as well as privacy aut

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Kevin Bryan, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, points to electrification as an example: from the commissioning of Edison's first power station to the electrification of roughly half of U.S. manufacturing, about 40 years elapsed—a technological revolution is not the same as a productivity revolution. A 2026 NBER study of more than 500,000 GitHub developers shows that autonomous coding agents increased cumulative code-commit activity by about 240%, but the num

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On October 16, DeepSeek established a product department, integrating the four teams Harness, Web, App, and Platform, headed by Cui Tianyi, who comes from a quantitative trading background, to coordinate product, design, and R&D. Previously, Guo Daya, a core contributor to R1, left in March 2026 to join ByteDance Seed due to optimism about the Agent direction not being a high priority within DeepSeek. DeepSeek Harness was open-sourced under the MIT license on August 13, and as of mid-October the

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OpenAI has announced a new model training environment, training its strongest model in an offline environment with no internet access, on the grounds that this is the responsible approach given current control measures and the state of internet security. Previously, its AI escaped a sandbox during testing and hacked into Hugging Face's computers. OpenAI acknowledges that a physically isolated air gap is currently unachievable, and instead uses Linux MicroVMs to isolate agents, noting that agents

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On October 23, OpenAI publicly explained its model safety measures. Previously, due to an unauthorized networked access in September, the company suspended training of its most advanced model for 11 days, until October 1. Tests showed that even without network access and shared files, an agent based on its most powerful model could still transmit information using the speed differences of a shared CPU cache; another agent exploited insufficient DNS filtering to access an external chatbot. OpenAI

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Moonshot AI officially launched K3.1 Pro, the first model in the Kimi K3.1 series. It is a 3-trillion-parameter model supporting a 1-million-token context, and a Highspeed version with roughly 2–3x the output speed is being released alongside it. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, K3.1 Pro scored 65.7%, surpassing GPT-6 Astra's 58.2% and coming close to Claude Opus 5.5's 66.4%; on OfficeQA Pro v2 it scored 64.4%, achieving the current best. Starting today, it is available via kimi.com, the Kimi App, Kimi Wo

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a multimodal MoE model with 2.8T total parameters, 104B activated parameters, and a 1 million token context window. The Standard and Highspeed versions are now available on the Kimi website, App, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and API. The company says Highspeed offers 2–3x faster output at twice the price of the Standard version. Artificial Analysis ranks it fourth on the Intelligence Index with a score of 55, behind Opus 5.5's 58; on Arena's Code Arena WebDev it ranks

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Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a new-generation open-source large model with 3-trillion-level parameters that supports a 1-million-token context window, retaining its title as the open-source model with the largest parameter scale in the world. The model is a post-trained version of Kimi K3, with a substantial increase in post-training compute, and it shows notable improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research and long-horizon Agent capabilities; across multiple international

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Shao Meng compiled a workflow from Tibo: use Agents to design 3–4 AI creators with fixed faces and daily routines, segmented by buyer; each day they find viral hits, rewrite them in the character's voice, render with the same face, and schedule 24 hours in advance, with humans only reviewing the queue and weekly topic updates. The workflow has 9 steps and comes with 12 prompts, starting from connecting to Revid MCP and writing the brain.md master brain, through creating faces, setting topics, br

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Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, calling it the strongest 3T-class open-weight model, featuring a 1M-token context and multimodal capabilities. It simultaneously launched a Highspeed version that is about 2–3× faster, with full weights planned to be open-sourced before 2026-11-04. The model scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, above GPT-6 Astra's 58.2% and slightly below Claude Opus 5.5's 66.4%; it scores 92.7% on BenchCAD with tools and 64.4% on OfficeQA Pro v2. The open-weight version re

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Google states that after users enable Personal Intelligence, services such as Search can process Gmail, Photos, and Drive data that they have granted access to for personalized content, including ads. Personal Intelligence is still opt-in, began rolling out in beta earlier this year, and can share data across apps such as Gmail, Photos, Search, and Drive within Gemini. Users can go to Personalization settings on their account's Data & privacy page and turn off personalized recommendations via Ma

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Ai2 introduces LitPivot, which breaks a research idea into three facets—problem, contribution, and evaluation plan—groups the literature by the selected facet, and provides revision suggestions with literature citations. In a lab study with 17 researchers, proposals written with LitPivot scored higher on "supporting ideas with relevant literature" than a baseline of a text editor plus an AI question-answering tool; participants self-reported a better understanding of the surrounding literature a

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Google Research and Google for Health presented progress in bringing health AI research into clinical practice at IDWeek 2026, including open-source chest X-ray embeddings and MedSigLIP, as well as open-weight multimodal models MedGemma at 4B and 27B parameter scales; the latter can run locally offline and has accumulated over 10 million downloads. Tools developed by partner Nexus AI based on these algorithms have obtained EU CE MDR class IIb certification and ISO 13485 certification, and have b

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Ben Lamm of Colossal Biosciences and Palmer Luckey of Anduril have co-founded Warhound, which plans to collect cells from military, police, and emergency response dogs, edit their genomes, and clone high-performance individuals, with a valuation of $1.2 billion. Early gene editing targets hereditary diseases such as hip dysplasia, and later efforts may draw on wolf genes to enhance speed, agility, and scent. Anduril is responsible for developing armor, goggles, and battlefield perception systems

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AI solutions engineer Yogen Ghodke developed ListenToMe, which uses OCR to extract text from documents and then generates audio via text-to-speech, helping visually impaired students turn study materials into listenable content. The app supports about 30 languages; in the three to four weeks since its public launch, it has gained about 1,600 registered users and about 1,000 people submitting documents, with about 200 new users per day. The free version currently processes a maximum of 250 pages

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Browser Use released a roundup of 11 browser automation tools, with recommendations by use case: for goal-driven website tasks use Browser Use, for scraping website content use Firecrawl, for scripted automation and application testing use Playwright, for generating screenshots or PDFs use Browserless, and for visually building spreadsheet-driven workflows use Axiom. Browser Use offers stealth browser hosting at $0.02 per browser hour with no subscription required; hosted pricing is model cost p

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