How AI is used across sectors such as healthcare, law, science, finance, robotics and transport. It also covers the business of AI: funding rounds, deals and earnings.
OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research say GPT-Rosalind agents, one per gene disruption, worked through a whole-brain mouse CRISPR atlas in 32 minutes. Experts preferred their reports 75% of the time. The leads on Tsc2 and DCTN1 are hypotheses that still need lab tests.
Radical Numerics says phages designed by its Omnii-1 model were administered to a patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection under compassionate use. The company is not disclosing the clinical outcome, the report is not peer reviewed, and one case cannot establish safety or efficacy.
Walmart is letting AI shopping agents in through an MCP-based Agent Gateway, with a separate Agent Profile per agent, spending limits such as $50, $100 or $200, approval on by default and no card data for agents. Here is how it works and what is still unknown.
Emirates NBD says it will deploy OpenAI's GPT models on in-country inference in the UAE, a first for a MENA bank. Here is what the bank plans, what OpenAI's inference residency keeps in the UAE, what may still run outside, and what the deal leaves out.
Twelve ways hospitals, health plans and drug developers use AI today, each tied to a named deployment or study: ambient notes at Kaiser, Aidoc at Advocate Health, the MASAI mammography trial, TREWS sepsis alerts, coding at Cleveland Clinic and more, plus the limits.
Siemens showed two AI tools built with NVIDIA at its Erlangen plant: inspection trained on digital twins before prototypes exist, and an AI planning agent. Siemens claims up to 85% less engineering effort and up to 20% cost savings. Here is how they work and what is missing.
World launched World ID for banking and finance at Money20/20: a Zoom Human Badge that matches an Orb image, a selfie and the live video, three levels of proof, and beta tools that let a verified person delegate proofs to an AI agent. Bain Capital and VanEck Funds are design partners.
Huntington Bank launched The 1866 Studio, an AI system built on Google Cloud's Gemini platform that helps small business owners launch, market and get loan ready. Here is what it does, how it is built, and how it compares with banks blocking outside agents.
Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires as agent hours grew. What the report found, what other labor data shows for young workers, what hiring managers now screen for, and practical steps for anyone trying to land a first job in AI.
Santander's AI Lab says smaller, specialized models cut serving costs from around €5 to about €0.03 per interaction in selected experiments. Here is what it built with NVIDIA, what the three-year deal covers, and what the numbers do not show.
MiniMax says the anonymous Space Bunny model was an early version of M3.1 Flash. It has 1M context, always-on thinking, and a flat $0.15 input and $0.60 output price per million tokens. Here are MiniMax's benchmarks, how the price compares with DeepSeek, and what is still missing.
NOAA expects a strong-to-very strong El Niño through early 2027. Here is how AI weather models like GraphCast, AIFS and WeatherNext 3 work, who runs them, and why record-breaking conditions outside their training data are the real test.
Suno and Udio cost about the same, but they now differ on what you can do with a song. Suno v6 keeps metered downloads with commercial rights on paid plans. Udio has disabled downloads while it builds a licensed fan app. Here are models, prices, rights and legal status as of October 2026.
CyberSN counted 235,786 US cybersecurity job postings from January to September 2026, a four-year low, while AI Security Engineer postings rose 268.3% to 2,409. What the role involves, the skills it asks for, and verified resources to get there.
In a Financial Times poll of 94 economists, 54% expect AI to bring significant gains to many or nearly all G20 countries over the next decade, while 32 warned that weak infrastructure puts African economies at risk of falling behind.
A SenseNova-led report tests GPT-6-Astra as a robot brain. With demo-based in-context learning and up to 10x steps, it beats prior bests on most of 12 benchmarks. On eight real robots, cost, hour-long trials, and safety stops limit it.
Google paid Character.AI $2.7 billion in 2024. Disney is paying the bankrupt company $20 million while budgeting about $180 million for its staff. The reverse acqui-hire works for buyers and hires, and leaves users and creditors with the shell.
GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2.1, Midjourney V8.2, Ideogram 4.5, Recraft V4.1, FLUX 3 Image Klein, Krea 3 and more: what each image generator is built for and what vendors publish about price, as of October 2026.
Apple HomeView is a $299, 7-inch smart display with Siri AI that recognizes up to six people by face. Here is what it does, what the AI features need, the privacy claims, and what to check before it ships on November 13.
OpenAI's Dean Ball now thinks distillation explains about 50% of how close Chinese models are to US ones, up from his earlier 30% guess. Here is the public evidence, from Anthropic's February report to the NSA, CISA and FBI advisory, and China's response.
