The Verge reports Democrats could bring new scrutiny to AI companies if they win a chamber. What committee control allows under House and Senate rules, which lawmakers are named, and why Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic are in focus.
DeepSeek priced Search and Fetch at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, put them on the same API key as its models, and made server-side Search and Fetch calls through Claude Code and Codex free for DeepSeek API users until November 1. That is how agent search becomes a commodity.
ElevenLabs Instant Soundtracks scores an uploaded video with original music and timed sound effects. Available in ElevenCreative, ElevenMusic, and the Studio API with add_sfx, separate_tracks, and use_audio_as_reference. Limits: 10 videos, 200 MB, 10 minutes.
A Chinese-speaking hacker used Cairn AI agents to try more than 1,200 websites and break into the sites of 100+ companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, Reuters reported. NorForge's researcher estimates the tokens cost about $5,000, or roughly $50 per successful hack.
Google's Gemini agent works inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets, runs tasks for hours or days, and can join your team as a coworker agent with its own email. It is in private preview. Google says it comes at no extra charge with Gemini Enterprise; Workspace plans list from $7 to $35 per user per month.
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.
doubleAI's Maxwell sits inside running Python and PyTorch code, swaps in faster machine code, and attaches a formal proof that it behaves the same. Here are its published speedups, how it compares with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, the $220M company behind it, and what is still unknown.
EdenLive lets a game engine or coding agent run the world while a 5B or 14B open model repaints its rough proxy video in real time. VAST reports 29.8 FPS at 1280 x 704 on one H100 and about 24.7 FPS on an RTX 5090. Here is how it works, what it needs, and what the license allows.
Ant Group's inclusionAI has published Ling-3.1-flash, a 560B MoE with 25B active parameters, under an MIT tag. Its own charts put it behind Claude Opus 5 on SWE-bench Pro but ahead on HealthBench Professional. Self-hosting needs about 574 GB of FP8 weights and eight H200s.
Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image lets you place elements with bounding boxes, edit one part of an image, use up to 10 references and render in 4K. Klein, the 5.6B open-weights version, starts at $0.008 per image, and its INT8 build runs on RTX GPUs with 8 GB of VRAM.
MiniMax says Space Bunny, the stealth model that topped OpenRouter and OpenCode, was an early M3.1 Flash. Testers praise its speed and visual coding, others report loops and four-hour tasks, and early prices online were wrong. Official: $0.15 in, $0.60 out.
Jim Keller's RISC-V AI chip company closed a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, more than doubling its value. It will deploy Galaxy servers at scale and expand the CPU and AI IP it licenses to Samsung and LG.
Dots are OpenAI's always-on GPT-6 Astra agents in ChatGPT. Which plans include them, why personal Pro users in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are left out while Business Premium is not, how to set one up, and the safeguards and privacy limits to know first.
Eleven real AI tools for students, grouped by job: tutoring, studying your own notes, research, math and science, writing, and lecture notes. What each does, who it suits, its main limit, and student pricing only where we verified it on the vendor's own page.
Amazon's Bee Frontier ($74.99) and Bee Eclipse (from $99.99) listen to your conversations and turn them into summaries and to-dos. Here is what they do, what Bee Pro costs, how Amazon says it protects your data, and why lawyers say wiretap laws may apply to the wearer.
Hours after Anthropic put 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund, Elon Musk pledged one SpaceX share to every US child next year, about $10.5 billion by CNBC's math. What each pledge commits, and what is still missing.
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.
We compared 10 AI music generators, including Suno, Udio, Eleven Music, Google Lyria 3.5, Stable Audio and AIVA, on current model, free tier, cheapest paid plan, commercial rights and downloads. Prices from each tool's own pages as of October 2026.
Free datasets for machine learning, grouped by data type: tabular starters like Iris and Adult, images from MNIST to Open Images, text, speech, LLM-scale web data, and public data. Sizes from each dataset's own page, plus the license to check before you ship.
Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2 on October 6, 2026: a 740M-parameter Apache 2.0 multimodal embedding model for text, code, images, video, and audio. Specs, benchmarks, MRL truncation, and how to run it.
