The 2026-10-22 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with GPT-5.5 taking the top spot for the day at 96.1 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question check suited to short-term signals rather than full weekly ranking conclusions.
The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.
At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled their new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.
OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.
Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
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. Introducing: the Impossible issue We wanted our last print edition of 2026 to include a slate of stories that check in on impossible ideas. Why? Because it’s fun to dream about…
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used Claude to analyze 25 open-source projects totaling more than 5 million lines of code and identified 493 redundant reachable paths. The OpenSSH findings led to the removal of about one-fifth of the code that unauthenticated clients could reach.
Tenstorrent has raised $1.5 billion in Series E funding at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation after rejecting acquisition offers from Intel and Qualcomm, as its Galaxy Blackhole inference platform and licensable IP strategy attract backing from major institutional investors. The round highlights growing institutional confidence that AI inference infrastructure will support multiple suppliers beyond NVIDIA.
I’d wager everyone has a rehearsed response to what’s absolutely one of the world’s worst interview questions: “What’s your biggest weakness?” Whenever I’ve gotten it, I take a slow—even pensive—breath and rattle off my line: “I say no to myself too much.”  I won’t lie. It’s a bit shameless—a definite humblebrag. I’m a systems thinker:…
A plan to funnel the heat given off by data centers into nearby homes has run aground in Germany. Across Europe, policymakers are weighing AI ambitions against climate objectives.
Scrubbing Earth of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—a.k.a. PFAS or forever chemicals—could eliminate a list of woes for people and planet. Used for decades in everything from nonstick pans to firefighting foams, PFAS have been linked to increased risks of fertility challenges, developmental delays, cancer, and reduced immune response. They are known for a strong bond…
Humans are far from the only species with a gift for gab, and our furry, feathered, and finned friends could have a lot to tell us. Decoding how animals communicate with one another could offer a window into the inner lives of other species and help humans realize that “animals are sentient creatures who think,…
We all know exercise is good for us. It builds muscle, strengthens bones, lowers blood pressure, and boosts mood. By deciphering how movement benefits the body, researchers hope to develop medicines that can offer some of the same perks—without the workout. The idea isn’t to replace exercise but to bring its upsides to people who…
Just before the Artemis II crew began its historic slingshot around the moon this past April, NASA announced plans to build Space Reactor-1 Freedom. SR-1, the first-ever nuclear-reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft, is meant to fly an uncrewed mission to Mars by the end of 2028, arriving in 2029. A successful mission would herald a new era…
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework that powers its API services, under the Apache 2.0 license, with support for both NVIDIA SM100 Blackwell GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs.
Mistral AI has released Voxtral 3, a voice-agent SDK and model family spanning real-time recognition in 50+ languages, emotion-adaptive text-to-speech in 35+ languages and 50+ dialects, and in-call tool use. It combines tiered pricing with EU-hosted or self-hosted deployment, making European data sovereignty its main structural differentiator against OpenAI.
