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  1. heise online

    Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review: a high-end phone with three 200MP cameras

    The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is equipped with three 200MP sensors, used respectively for wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle and telephoto, which is a first among smartphones. It is powered by MediaTek's first 2nm chip, the Dimensity 9600 Pro, and features a 6.78-inch LTPO OLED display (1–120Hz, 3840Hz PWM dimming) and IP68/IP69 protection, with a starting price of 1599 euros. The review finds its camera, battery and build quality excellent, but the telephoto only supports 3x optical zoom, and the price is on the high side.

    The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is equipped with three 200MP sensors, used respectively for wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle and telephoto, which is a first among smartphones. It is powered by MediaTek's first 2nm chip, the Dimensity 9600 Pro, and features a 6.78-inch LTPO OLED display (1–120Hz, 3840Hz PWM dimming) and IP68/IP69 protection, with a starting price of 1599 euros. The review finds its camera, battery and build quality excellent, but the telephoto only supports 3x optical zoom, and the price i

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  2. Unite.AI

    Enact Intelligence Raises $30M Pre-Seed to Build Robot Dexterity With Force and Touch

    Zurich-based physical AI startup Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth on October 22, 2026, announcing $30 million in pre-seed funding to advance its approach to robot dexterity centered on force and touch. Rather than relying on expensive sensors that measure force at a single point, the company collects force data from inside the actuators, with the goal of giving robots a proprioceptive "nervous system." The funding will be used to grow the team fivefold by the end of 2027 and to drive the deployment of its first robots in industrial settings such as manufacturing, infrastructure, retail, and food processing.

    Zurich-based physical AI startup Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth on October 22, 2026, announcing $30 million in pre-seed funding to advance its approach to robot dexterity centered on force and touch. Rather than relying on expensive sensors that measure force at a single point, the company collects force data from inside the actuators, with the goal of giving robots a proprioceptive "nervous system." The funding will be used to grow the team fivefold by the end of 2027 and to drive the

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  3. Unite.AI

    New paper proposes BackUpper: making coding agents back up before they act

    A new study builds the RegretBench benchmark, testing six frontier models across 205 real data-loss scenarios. Results show agents complete tasks at an average rate of 86.1%, but back up before critical operations only 15.2% of the time—GPT-5.6-Terra at 4.4%, GPT-5.6-Sol at 5.9%, Gemini 3.7-Flash at 2.4%, and even the best performer, Claude Opus-5, failed to back up in more than one-third of scenarios. The authors' proposed BackUpper runs in parallel with the agent as an external plugin, using a four-tier strategy: replacing destructive commands, pairing backup commands, generating snapshots, or calling the GPT-5.6-Luna sub-model to determine which data needs saving. In testing it covered all critical operations, with recovered data averaging 92.2% similarity to the original state, at an additional cost of $0.014 per task. BackUpper already supports Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenHands, DeepSeek Harness, and OpenClaw, and its code and dataset have been open-sourced.

    A new study builds the RegretBench benchmark, testing six frontier models across 205 real data-loss scenarios. Results show agents complete tasks at an average rate of 86.1%, but back up before critical operations only 15.2% of the time—GPT-5.6-Terra at 4.4%, GPT-5.6-Sol at 5.9%, Gemini 3.7-Flash at 2.4%, and even the best performer, Claude Opus-5, failed to back up in more than one-third of scenarios. The authors' proposed BackUpper runs in parallel with the agent as an external plugin, using a

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  4. 9to5Google

    1Password Launches 1Password for Agents, Letting AI Agents Complete Logins Without Seeing Passwords

    1Password has launched 1Password for Agents, connecting its password vault to AI agents: when an agent reaches a login form, it authenticates to 1Password using a digital key; after the user confirms which credentials are needed and what they are for, 1Password fills in the form directly—credentials are never handed to the agent and are removed once login succeeds, so the agent cannot read or reuse them. The integration currently supports only Meta's Muse and Grok Bot, with OpenAI Dots and Anthropic Claude Duet to follow.

    1Password has launched 1Password for Agents, connecting its password vault to AI agents: when an agent reaches a login form, it authenticates to 1Password using a digital key; after the user confirms which credentials are needed and what they are for, 1Password fills in the form directly—credentials are never handed to the agent and are removed once login succeeds, so the agent cannot read or reuse them. The integration currently supports only Meta's Muse and Grok Bot, with OpenAI Dots and Anthr

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  5. Latent Space

    A Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders: Anekha Sokhal on Moshi

    Moshi CEO Anekha Sokhal said on the Latent Space podcast that Moshi is a recommendation engine for commodity traders that connects market data with the information traders actually care about in their positions. She described Moshi as a combination of Bloomberg, Claude, and Netflix: market data, an actionable interface, and recommendations tailored to traders. She also discussed trusted sources, document extraction (using Reducto), building versus buying models, and the pressure on AI engineers who are asked to "be the entire team."

    Moshi CEO Anekha Sokhal said on the Latent Space podcast that Moshi is a recommendation engine for commodity traders that connects market data with the information traders actually care about in their positions. She described Moshi as a combination of Bloomberg, Claude, and Netflix: market data, an actionable interface, and recommendations tailored to traders. She also discussed trusted sources, document extraction (using Reducto), building versus buying models, and the pressure on AI engineers

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  6. The Verge AI

    Bill Gates: Prepare for roughly 20 years of "turbulent" AI disruption

    In an interview on the Decoder podcast, Bill Gates said people need to prepare for roughly 20 years of AI disruption, a period that could be so painful that society splits into two parts: those close to the technological frontier and those who reject it. In an article in late August, he previously said that even under the best-case scenario, the transition to a new AI era will be one of the most turbulent periods in human history, and he believes current policy responses and industry coordination are insufficient to address the risks. He also pointed out that the biggest near-term risk comes from models whose safeguards can all be removed.

    In an interview on the Decoder podcast, Bill Gates said people need to prepare for roughly 20 years of AI disruption, a period that could be so painful that society splits into two parts: those close to the technological frontier and those who reject it. In an article in late August, he previously said that even under the best-case scenario, the transition to a new AI era will be one of the most turbulent periods in human history, and he believes current policy responses and industry coordinatio

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  7. Wired AI

    OKA launches Mori, a mushroom-shaped robot: not a voice assistant, just companionship

    OKA has launched Mori, a $649 mushroom-shaped home robot lamp with a built-in camera and microphone that can follow users around, play nature sounds, and guide breathing relaxation, but it does not support voice commands to control smart home devices or check the weather. Mori is powered by multiple local large language models and can judge when to interact and when to stay quiet; images and audio are discarded immediately after local processing, and facial data is stored encrypted and never uploaded. The founder's edition is limited to a few hundred units, while the standard edition costs $799 and does not include subscription features.

    OKA has launched Mori, a $649 mushroom-shaped home robot lamp with a built-in camera and microphone that can follow users around, play nature sounds, and guide breathing relaxation, but it does not support voice commands to control smart home devices or check the weather. Mori is powered by multiple local large language models and can judge when to interact and when to stay quiet; images and audio are discarded immediately after local processing, and facial data is stored encrypted and never upl

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  8. Gary Marcus:The Road to AI We Can Trust

    Gary Marcus: US Banks Are Under Attack by AI Agents

    Gary Marcus, citing an Axios report, said that US banks are tightening system access permissions due to AI agent attacks, and that bank executives are alarmed by these findings. He also mentioned that the attack on France's refrigeration system on October 11 may have been facilitated by agents, as well as the continuously increasing cybersecurity attacks in Japan. He believes that attackers do not need the most advanced frontier models to cause damage, and therefore regulation should not focus only on frontier models and future risks.

    Gary Marcus, citing an Axios report, said that US banks are tightening system access permissions due to AI agent attacks, and that bank executives are alarmed by these findings. He also mentioned that the attack on France's refrigeration system on October 11 may have been facilitated by agents, as well as the continuously increasing cybersecurity attacks in Japan. He believes that attackers do not need the most advanced frontier models to cause damage, and therefore regulation should not focus o

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  9. Leiphone

    "2026 Qianchuan Chengfang Advertising Guidebook" Released to Help Merchants Prepare for Double 11

    The "2026 Qianchuan Chengfang Advertising Guidebook" has officially been released. Centered on the Qianchuan Chengfang system, it outlines practical pathways from advertising upgrades and creative supply to influencer marketing and conversion efficiency, covering daily operations, new product cold starts, and major promotion peak periods. Chengfang incorporates influencer commissions, creative production, and marketing benefits into its accounting, and all-domain advertising plans can be upgraded with one click while retaining existing model capabilities. Smart coupons offer a maximum subsidy of 400 yuan per coupon for products with a unit price above 400 yuan, and are expected to drive a 5%-10% increase in GMV.

    The "2026 Qianchuan Chengfang Advertising Guidebook" has officially been released. Centered on the Qianchuan Chengfang system, it outlines practical pathways from advertising upgrades and creative supply to influencer marketing and conversion efficiency, covering daily operations, new product cold starts, and major promotion peak periods. Chengfang incorporates influencer commissions, creative production, and marketing benefits into its accounting, and all-domain advertising plans can be upgrade

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  10. CTech

    Modelyo raises $17 million to let enterprises use AI without exposing confidential data

    Israeli cybersecurity startup Modelyo has completed a funding round of approximately $17 million, led by US-based OlivTree, with the funds to be used for R&D on its "sovereign confidential cloud" platform and for international expansion. The platform combines confidential computing, hardware encryption, continuous verification and zero-trust architecture, enabling enterprises to retain control of their data and encryption keys while running AI and managed services on third-party clouds, and to cryptographically prove that data is protected. Founded in 2024, the company currently has 30 employees, and its technology is backed by more than 20 patents and applications. Target customers include government, defense, banking, healthcare and critical infrastructure operators.

    Israeli cybersecurity startup Modelyo has completed a funding round of approximately $17 million, led by US-based OlivTree, with the funds to be used for R&D on its "sovereign confidential cloud" platform and for international expansion. The platform combines confidential computing, hardware encryption, continuous verification and zero-trust architecture, enabling enterprises to retain control of their data and encryption keys while running AI and managed services on third-party clouds, and to c

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  11. Fortune Tech

    Merck Animal Health Senior Vice President: To promote human health, we must invest in protecting animals

    Robert Kelly, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Operations at Merck Animal Health, called for greater investment in animal health: zoonotic infectious diseases account for about three-quarters of human infectious diseases and destroy more than 20% of global livestock production each year, yet less than 1% of global health spending goes to animal health. He cited technologies such as CRISPR gene editing, mRNA vaccines and AI smart collars that can be used simultaneously for animal disease prevention and early disease monitoring.

    Robert Kelly, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Operations at Merck Animal Health, called for greater investment in animal health: zoonotic infectious diseases account for about three-quarters of human infectious diseases and destroy more than 20% of global livestock production each year, yet less than 1% of global health spending goes to animal health. He cited technologies such as CRISPR gene editing, mRNA vaccines and AI smart collars that can be used simultaneously for animal dis

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  12. Fortune AI

    New York spends $10 million to establish an AI jobs institute in Queens, aiming to train 40,000 people by 2032

    New York State and New York City are investing $10 million to establish the AI Jobs Institute in Long Island City, Queens, designed and operated by the nonprofit organization Pursuit, with the goal of training up to 40,000 low-income New Yorkers for AI-related jobs by 2032. The curriculum starts with the basics of tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, then teaches students to build AI agents that handle everyday business tasks. A CBRE report shows that from 2022 to 2025, the New York metropolitan area added 30,640 tech workers, bringing the total to 394,300, surpassing the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time.

    New York State and New York City are investing $10 million to establish the AI Jobs Institute in Long Island City, Queens, designed and operated by the nonprofit organization Pursuit, with the goal of training up to 40,000 low-income New Yorkers for AI-related jobs by 2032. The curriculum starts with the basics of tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, then teaches students to build AI agents that handle everyday business tasks. A CBRE report shows that from 2022 to 2025, the New Yo

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  13. Fortune Tech

    Musk's merger dream is a nightmare for SpaceX shareholders

    SpaceX and Tesla have each established special committees composed of independent directors to explore a merger between the two companies; after the news was announced, Tesla's stock rose 3.4% and SpaceX rose 7.8%, adding $155 billion in market value. At a 30% premium, SpaceX would need to pay about $1.98 trillion to acquire Tesla and issue new shares equivalent to 92% of its existing share capital, increasing its shares from 13.1 billion to 25 billion. Tesla's GAAP net profit over the past four quarters was only $3.28 billion, while SpaceX lost $1.5 billion over the same period; after the merger, SpaceX shareholders would give up nearly half of future earnings.

    SpaceX and Tesla have each established special committees composed of independent directors to explore a merger between the two companies; after the news was announced, Tesla's stock rose 3.4% and SpaceX rose 7.8%, adding $155 billion in market value. At a 30% premium, SpaceX would need to pay about $1.98 trillion to acquire Tesla and issue new shares equivalent to 92% of its existing share capital, increasing its shares from 13.1 billion to 25 billion. Tesla's GAAP net profit over the past four

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  14. Phoenix Tech

    Google CEO Pichai: The advantage of AI agents is that they work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai has handed off information gathering to AI agents, which compile developments from the past 24 hours, summarize progress on Google's AI model research and compute resource usage, and follow up on discussions across multiple internal chat groups. He said AI agents work continuously in the cloud 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, can understand prior work progress, and pick up where they left off. The report also noted that an engineering director at Cisco who manages more than 10 AI agents said supervising these agents requires constant task switching, and working hours have not been shortened.

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai has handed off information gathering to AI agents, which compile developments from the past 24 hours, summarize progress on Google's AI model research and compute resource usage, and follow up on discussions across multiple internal chat groups. He said AI agents work continuously in the cloud 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, can understand prior work progress, and pick up where they left off. The report also noted that an engineering director at Cisco who manages more tha

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  15. Business Insider Tech

    Anthropic releases personal agent Claude Duet, built on the Opus 5.5 model

    Anthropic has released a personal agent app called Claude Duet, positioned as a "proactive agent" that can run in the background and proactively push tasks to users; it is currently in research preview with a waitlist. The tool is built on the flagship Opus 5.5 model released at the end of September, and it pushes a daily morning briefing from connected apps, notifies users when something needs attention, and requires user approval for some tasks. Mike Krieger, co-lead of the Anthropic Labs team, says it can judge when to act proactively; Karan Ahuja, who leads Duet development, previously headed product management at Meta Superintelligence Labs.

    Anthropic has released a personal agent app called Claude Duet, positioned as a "proactive agent" that can run in the background and proactively push tasks to users; it is currently in research preview with a waitlist. The tool is built on the flagship Opus 5.5 model released at the end of September, and it pushes a daily morning briefing from connected apps, notifies users when something needs attention, and requires user approval for some tasks. Mike Krieger, co-lead of the Anthropic Labs team

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  16. TechCrunch AI

    Recursive releases laptop-class coding model Flint, says it was built mainly with AI involvement

    AI startup Recursive has released its first model, Flint, a coding model that runs offline on a laptop and is freely downloadable on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license; the company says its development process was mainly carried out with the involvement of its in-house Eureka Machine. Flint is an MoE model that activates only 2.5B of its 40B parameters at a time, generates at about 131 tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro, and outperforms other models under 50B parameters on SWE-Bench Verified. Recursive says Flint requires more guidance than large paid coding assistants and recommends breaking large tasks into small steps.

    AI startup Recursive has released its first model, Flint, a coding model that runs offline on a laptop and is freely downloadable on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license; the company says its development process was mainly carried out with the involvement of its in-house Eureka Machine. Flint is an MoE model that activates only 2.5B of its 40B parameters at a time, generates at about 131 tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro, and outperforms other models under 50B parameters on SWE-Ben

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  17. AWS Machine Learning

    How U.S. Hunger Uses Amazon Quick to Connect Leadership with Data

    The U.S. nonprofit organization U.S. Hunger uses Amazon Quick to let leadership directly explore organizational data and share KPI definitions and financial documents through Quick Spaces; 17 colleagues currently have access. Its data comes from its own platform Impact Manager, refreshed nightly at 2 AM ET from SQL Server into the in-memory engine SPICE. The organization has delivered more than 250 million meals in total, growing about 500% over four years while staff headcount grew only 15–20%.

    Current architecture: SQL Server data refreshes into SPICE at 2 AM ET each night for analysis in Amazon Quick.

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Wednesday

  1. Sina Tech

    Michele Wucker, author of "The Gray Rhino": The more you use AI, the more forgetful you become, and your brain will degrade

    Michele Wucker, author of "The Gray Rhino," warned at the 2026 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference that AI consumes far more energy than the human brain, and cited MIT Media Lab research saying that after people use ChatGPT they become more forgetful and their brains tend to weaken. She also noted that U.S. data centers already account for about 5% of the power grid's electricity consumption, and cited a survey saying that of more than 6,000 executives interviewed, only 7% thought AI was helpful, while about 70% thought it was not.

    Michele Wucker, author of "The Gray Rhino," warned at the 2026 Sustainable Global Leaders Conference that AI consumes far more energy than the human brain, and cited MIT Media Lab research saying that after people use ChatGPT they become more forgetful and their brains tend to weaken. She also noted that U.S. data centers already account for about 5% of the power grid's electricity consumption, and cited a survey saying that of more than 6,000 executives interviewed, only 7% thought AI was helpf

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  2. Fortune AI

    Gartner says AI infrastructure will need $8.5 trillion in revenue by 2030, with a gap of nearly $4.9 trillion

    Gartner estimates that data center owners will need to generate a cumulative $8.5 trillion in revenue by 2030 to cover announced capital expenditures and financing costs and achieve a 12% return on investment, but over the same period, enterprise and consumer AI revenue attributable to these data centers will not exceed $3.6 trillion, leaving a gap of about $4.9 trillion. Gartner expects AI infrastructure spending to approach $1 trillion in 2026, with another $6 trillion invested from 2027 to 2030. If the current pace continues, more than $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could face impairment by 2030. Gartner also predicts that by 2030, cost pressures and the lack of differentiated business models will force more than 80% of neocloud providers to cease independent operations.

    Gartner estimates that data center owners will need to generate a cumulative $8.5 trillion in revenue by 2030 to cover announced capital expenditures and financing costs and achieve a 12% return on investment, but over the same period, enterprise and consumer AI revenue attributable to these data centers will not exceed $3.6 trillion, leaving a gap of about $4.9 trillion. Gartner expects AI infrastructure spending to approach $1 trillion in 2026, with another $6 trillion invested from 2027 to 20

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Tuesday

  1. CNBC Technology

    Former OpenAI research lead founds Arda at a $1.5 billion valuation

    Arda, founded by former OpenAI research lead Bob McGrew, has raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Altimeter Capital, Accel, and Khosla Ventures. Arda develops AI software for automated manufacturing, and its models have already been deployed at defense technology company Anduril. McGrew describes the product as an agent for manufacturing engineers that can significantly speed up the setup of assembly lines; the next item on its roadmap is robotics.

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