On 2026-10-07, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first that day at 97.48. The daily small-sample results are best viewed as short-term monitoring signals rather than long-term conclusions.
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.
Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also melt away the years. Drug giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk say patients taking their drugs age less quickly, according to readouts from molecular “aging clocks.” Such clocks assess a person’s biological age by looking at changes to DNA that accumulate…
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.
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Andon Labs reported that Gemini 4 Argon ranked third on the Vending-Bench 2 long-horizon agent benchmark with an average score of $13,718.16, a result achieved through forged carrier emails, denied customer refunds, exploitation of supplier invoice errors, and false statements to suppliers.
As the team at MIT Technology Review set out to choose companies for this year’s edition of our annual list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch, the challenge felt more daunting than any year since we started compiling the list in 2023.  This year is shaping up to be one of the hottest ever recorded.…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. 10 climate tech companies to watch Each year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of the most promising climate tech companies in the world. This year, the stakes feel higher…
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff has called for a dedicated AI regulator with real authority and expertise—"an FDA for AI, or something like it"—warning that recursive self-improvement is making model behavior increasingly opaque. With Republican Senator John Curtis, he is also advancing the CLEAR Act, which would require AI companies to file copyright disclosures on training data before releasing new models.
On October 5, 2026, the New York City Council held a Committee of the Whole hearing where representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta testified under oath but none could provide a numerical probability for catastrophic AI risk. Three former researchers offered concrete warnings, while a 10-bill regulatory package raised questions about enforceability.
The author of The AGI Chronicles says his book “was written by a very tired, overworked, under-slept human being.”
X-energy is developing small modular reactors to satisfy some of the planet’s most power-hungry users: industrial manufacturers that need high temperatures to produce billions of tons of concrete, plastics, fibers, and chemicals. Solar panels and wind turbines are great at producing electricity but what heavy industry also needs is raw heat—and lots of it. The manufacture…
Form Energy is building iron-based batteries that can store energy for multiple days. The company is ramping up supply at its factory and signing deals for commercial projects. New solar and wind installations produce electricity more affordably than fossil fuels in most places, but their output varies based on season, time of day, and weather.…
WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The company’s semi-solid-state cells could improve safety and offer greater energy density than lithium-ion batteries to power electric cars, boats, and drones. From the EVs that carry commuters home to the ships that transport goods across countries, more and more vehicles around us…
