The US Department of Homeland Security has disclosed an exclusion order against DeepSeek nearly three months after it took effect, requiring federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek software and any third-party products built on DeepSeek implementations. The order treats model weight provenance as a supply-chain security issue and signals a replicable template for reviewing Chinese AI models.
WDCD Run #390 (2026-10-21) tested 15 AI models on multi-turn commitment integrity, recording an average instruction decay of -60% from Round 1 to Round 3. GPT-6 Luna topped the leaderboard with a perfect 100 points.
Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.
Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.
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Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.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.
