The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has formally barred DeepSeek from federal procurement, requiring civilian agencies to immediately remove the model and related third-party products. The order cites supply chain and intelligence risks and builds on prior state and federal restrictions.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.
China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology have proposed adding 23 AI technologies to the export control catalogue, restricting outbound transfers of large-model weights above 2 trillion parameters while exempting API services, open-source models, and published research.
AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are complicated and still maturing, said Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, during a discussion at TechCrunch […]
In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.
US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.
Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Mistral has released Timestral, its first time-series foundation model family, with the largest version at only 209M parameters ranking first simultaneously on three major public benchmarks. This marks Mistral's first systematic entry into a vertical-domain foundation model track since it started with large language models.
CERN and Mistral AI have signed a strategic collaboration letter of intent to develop a Large Physics Model, a pretrained foundation model for collider physics. The long-term framework has no disclosed budget or timeline, but aims to replace CERN’s specialized algorithm chain with a single model as data volumes surge.
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After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
Qwen3 Max scored zero across all five dimensions in today's Smoke evaluation due to an API failure, with no main leaderboard record and exclusion from this period's rankings.
In today's Smoke evaluation, GPT-6 Astra's main leaderboard score fell from 82.33 to 71.01, with the code execution dimension dropping from 97.00 to 72.00. The 25-point drop in code execution drove an 11.3-point decline in the weighted main leaderboard score.
The 2026-10-20 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with GPT-o3 ranking first for the day at 97.83. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suitable for observing short-term signals and is not equivalent to conclusions from the weekly Full leaderboard.
University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 13-15 in San Francisco.
