The 2026-10-21 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 taking first place for the day at 84.9 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to spotting short-term signals, and it is not equivalent to the conclusions of the weekly Full leaderboard.
Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.
Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.
TikTok and other sites were told to curb protest footage and AI-altered images, while online retailers like Vinted and eBay reportedly signed an agreement stop looted goods from flooding resale sites.
The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.
Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “can we use it?” to “how efficiently are we using it?”…
Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.
The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption–tech is just the first industry in line. As generative AI and automation tools mature, the shifts currently reshaping software engineering and product management will inevitably…
Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data
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. “We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world “I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of…
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Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.
Andrew Haverdink, a tall grad student in a rain bib and rubber boots, wrenched a double-handed drill from the frozen soil that underlies much of Alaska’s Denali National Park and then unclipped the hollow barrel from the end of the bit.  He knelt in front of a blue tarp, lined the barrel up with a…
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation. […]
In the fall of 2025, Jeff Dodge set up a six-foot folding table in the cafeteria of Cane Bay High School in Summerville, South Carolina, to conduct a taste test. When the first rush of about 150 hungry students hit, he was waiting with slow cookers filled with steaming marinara sauce and meatballs.  Kids love…
Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Three fabs already operate around the clock, and a fourth is coming online. Construction…
OpenAI's latest model update focuses on strengthening low-resource programming languages, and Winzheng's targeted 18-question test shows GPT-5.5 scoring 84.2 overall with 98.3 execution.
