Anthropic has added OpenTelemetry trace export to the Claude Platform, announcing on October 14, 2026 that developers can now send traces from Claude Managed Agents, the Messages API, and Claude SDKs to any observability tool that accepts the standard, with the feature available in public beta. In Anthropic's announcement, the company said that adding a destination in the Claude Console sends every agent turn, model call, and tool use to the user's observability tool as a standard OpenTelemetry…

Two teams at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design published papers in Nature on October 14, 2026, reporting proteases designed from scratch with computational methods that hydrolyse the polypeptide backbone at chosen sequences, including sites in the human disease-associated proteins TDP-43, amyloid-β and serum amyloid A. The amide bonds linking amino acids along the peptide backbone are stable for hundreds of years in neutral aqueous solution because of the high energy…

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he would halt the supply of chips to a customer that was developing unsafe AI software, though he doesn’t believe that the current level of concern about the technology is warranted.

AMD introduces Helion, an open rack design for agentic AI. Explore CPU and GPU options, planned availability, and what IT teams should assess before deployment. The post AMD Introduces Helion Rack Design for Agentic AI Workloads appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google just released the new Gemini 4 Argon, which it claims can generate up to a million tokens in a single run, a big jump for long code migrations and multi-step agent work. Competitors top out around 128,000 output tokens per request, so based on that claim, Argon’s 1 million is roughly 8x higher.  Argon […] The post Gemini 4 Argon Arrives With Big Claims for AI Agents and Scientific Discovery appeared first on BigDATAwire.

A work conversation can contain everything needed to move a task forward and still leave someone copying its details into another system. Zenzap is betting that AI agents belong inside that conversation, alongside the people responsible for the work. The company emerged from stealth on October 14, announcing $44 million in total funding jointly led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with investment from The Garage. Zenzap plans to expand its development and sales…

Square launched the new Square Kiosk on October 14, 2026, which the company describes as its new flagship intelligent self-service kiosk for quick-service restaurants, built around an agentic, conversational voice layer that it says fully understands a seller's menu. The kiosk is available beginning the same day, priced at $1,999 plus a $99 monthly software fee per device. In its announcement, datelined Oakland, California, Square described the device as a pairing of AI-powered software, voice…

xAI announced Grok Voice 3.0 on October 14, 2026, making the speech-to-speech model available in its Voice Agent API at $0.08 per minute. The company described Grok Voice 3.0 as the world's most intelligent voice model and said it sets a new record for resolving customer support calls, with latency under one second and a lower running cost than other frontier models. According to xAI, Grok Voice powers millions of conversations a day across Tesla and SpaceX, and the new version launched at the…

Troy Morris, Co-Founder and CEO of KMI Space, leads the company’s strategy, operations, partnerships, and growth as it develops technologies for in-space mobility and orbital sustainability. A co-founder of the company since 2019, Morris initially served as Director of Operations before becoming CEO in 2023, helping KMI grow from a bootstrapped startup into a space technology company that has successfully demonstrated hardware aboard the International Space Station. Under his leadership, KMI’s…

NVIDIA on October 14, 2026, unveiled cuPotential, a new CUDA-X library that developers can use to build AI agents simulating how atoms and molecules interact, and detailed adoption of its CUDA-X libraries across chip design, manufacturing and testing by semiconductor leaders including Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, Lam Research, KLA and Applied Materials. cuPotential and the AI-Defined Fab NVIDIA describes AI-defined fabs as semiconductor factories where AI helps engineers optimize processes…

Waymo opened its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to the general public in San Antonio, San Diego, and Tampa on October 14, 2026, announcing that anyone in the three cities can download the Waymo app and hail a ride. The opening includes fully autonomous service at San Antonio International Airport. The company said it has welcomed hundreds of thousands of riders across the three cities since opening service there earlier in 2026, with trips ranging from the beach and hockey games to the…

<p><strong><a href="https://popcar.bearblog.dev/ai-is-mass-decompiling-games-thats-both-awesome-and-scary/">AI is mass decompiling games. That&#x27;s both awesome and scary.</a></strong></p> Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between existing games, and producing a boom in game preservation projects to get old games working on new hardware (often in a browser using WebAssembly).</p> <p>I like how this piece captures both the positives and the negatives of this new development:</p> <blockquote> <p>Most people already realized the scary part by now. If AI can decompile games and software, then the entire tech industry is about to explode. Anybody can decompile other software and use it any way they'd like, and nobody can stop them. Companies can steal from competitors. Your paid game or app can be open-sourced against your will. This isn't exclusive to old video games, we can apply this to <em>any</em> software. [...]</p> <p>This is also a big win for preservation. Old games can be ported, modified, enhanced, and made much more easily accessible than before. [...[</p> <p>With console makers going all in on digital and games becoming entirely unplayable due to servers shutting down, this is <em>fantastic</em> news. We could own software we bought regardless of what the company thinks.</p> </blockquote> <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088534">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/computer-history">computer-history</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/game-design">game-design</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webassembly">webassembly</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics">ai-ethics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents">coding-agents</a></p>

Livestreamers used a robot to harass a woman for social media clout on the street in Germany.

AI agents offer remarkable productivity gains in complex chip design workflows, but their tendency to generate plausible yet incorrect artifacts makes... AI agents offer remarkable productivity gains in complex chip design workflows, but their tendency to generate plausible yet incorrect artifacts makes reliability a major barrier to production adoption. In multistage engineering workflows, an undetected error early in setup can silently propagate through downstream stages and final artifact generation. Evaluating and refining these agents against… Source

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Reuters: Filing: OpenAI says a staffer who joined Apple sent 100+ files to a personal account and made a presentation about an unreleased product to Apple leadership  —  An OpenAI employee who left the ChatGPT maker for Apple sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account …

OpenEvidence and Johns Hopkins Medicine partner to develop AI tools for physician training and clinical care, with a focus on medical reasoning and patient safety. The post OpenEvidence, Johns Hopkins Partner to Bring AI Into Medical Training and Patient Care appeared first on TechRepublic.

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