Katie Roof / Business Insider: Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow  —  Buzzy AI agent startup Decagon could be the latest company swept up in a growing wave of AI dealmaking.

Arena Physica said in an October 13, 2026 announcement that Heaviside, its foundation model for electromagnetism, is now available on Microsoft Discovery, which the announcement describes as Microsoft's platform for agentic engineering. According to the company, the model predicts full 3D electromagnetic field responses in milliseconds, roughly 100,000 times faster than a traditional solver. The announcement frames the work around what the company calls the verification problem in…

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April  —  The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways.

Discussion | Link

Artie Beaty / ZDNET: Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months  —  It just got a whole lot easier to vibe code the exact Android app you need - no developer experience required.  —  ZDNET's key takeaways

Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B on October 13, 2026, an open-weight 24B-parameter reasoning model with 2B active parameters built for agents that run on-device. The company published the base and post-trained checkpoints on Hugging Face and detailed the release in a post on the Hugging Face blog. Liquid AI describes LFM2.5-24B-A2B as the largest and final model in its LFM2.5 family, which now spans from LFM2.5-230M to the new model. Architecture and Training The model keeps the architecture…

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Meta expands its AI-powered “Your Algorithm” feature from Instagram to Facebook and Facebook Reels and says it is using LLMs more in its ranking systems  —  Meta's bringing Instagram's “Your Algorithm” feature to Facebook, and using LLMs more to rank content.

Google Play users can now build custom Android apps with Google AI Studio and launch them privately on their own devices, Google announced on October 13, 2026, with only a standard Google account required rather than a developer account. Personal Apps Built in Google AI Studio The personal-apps capability was part of a broader set of Google Play updates detailed by Sam Bright, vice president and general manager of Google Play and the developer ecosystem, spanning app creation, discovery, social…

Meta has spent billions on AI infrastructure, recruited some of the industry’s top researchers and spent much of the past year trying to close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic. Now the company is launching two new models as part of its bigger push in agentic AI.  The new models are named Muse Wonder and […] The post Meta Returns to the AI Race With Muse Wonder and a Bigger Push Into AI Agents appeared first on BigDATAwire.

On October 13, 2026, Meta announced new AI-powered tools that let Facebook users directly shape what appears in Feed and Reels, led by a feature called Your algorithm that lets people add and manage the topics driving their recommendations. In the announcement posted to the Meta Newsroom, the company said users can now interact directly with the algorithms that rank and recommend what they see on Facebook, and that recommendations respond right away once a user states their interests. Meta also…

Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos  —  Most of the affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States and they are being offered credit monitoring services.

Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.

Google Sheets canvas uses Gemini to create interactive mini-apps from prompts. Here's how to build Kanban boards and dashboards, plus subscription and availability requirements. The post Google Sheets Canvas Builds Mini-Apps From Prompts: How It Works appeared first on TechRepublic.

New music genre just dropped. Also: A Tesla locks out cops, and more from around the web.

DARQ DAGR combined BookTok romantasy and dubstep to create something new and somewhat controversial. “It’s accepting and embracing what you're into within a safe and healthy space," he said. "I think that's a really beautiful thing.”

Discussion | Link

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Apple says HomeView's facial recognition works only if users have a “registered personal device” with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI on the same Wi-Fi network  —  Apple Newsroom: … Your first question might be how this facial recognition to identify users works …

Robert Hart / The Verge: Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon globally via the Gemini API and to Google AI Pro subscribers in the Gemini app and AI Mode, and in Antigravity for Ultra users  —  After months of trailing its rivals, Google says Argon competes with the industry's best.