ClicData launches chat AI agent for dashboards
ClicData launched an AI agent letting midmarket teams build dashboards by chatting, the company says.
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Tuesday 13 October 2026
Nvidia, AMD, Google, Meta set Data Center Spec v0.7
Nvidia, AMD, Google and Meta set a new Data Center Spec v0.7, a shared specification for AI datacenter hardware. Details reported by tech-insider.org.
Ex-OpenAI researcher seeks $15M for Empirical Machines
Shyamal Anadkat, an ex-OpenAI researcher who returned to India, is in talks to raise $15M from Peak XV and Bessemer for Empirical Machines, staffed by ex-OpenAI, Sarvam AI and DeepMind people.
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More: Education Times, 𝕏 @Goenka_Tushar1
Natura-1: 50B physical-world foundation model for robots
Natura-1 is a 50B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts general foundation model for the physical world, pretrained on one million hours of egocentric data. It follows natural-language instructions zero-shot, driving dexterous hands.
More: 𝕏 @naturewill
UK police watchdog warns AI use needs controls or criminals walk free
The watchdog says guidelines are vital so overstretched forces in England and Wales can use AI systems to speed investigations without risking cases.
Accenture and Workday launch AI agent program for HR, finance
Accenture and Workday announced a joint AI agent program bringing agents into HR and finance workflows, drawing on workplace deployments to shape Workday's tools. Accenture holds an investor day this week.
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Reliance Jio announces AI glasses with UPI payments
Reliance Jio announced AI glasses that can scan UPI QR codes for payments and translate conversations, plus live cricket commentary, per Indian media reports on the new wearables.
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More: Convergence Now
Nvidia marks 20 years of first CUDA GPU, GeForce 8800 GTX
Nvidia celebrates the 20th anniversary of the GeForce 8800 GTX, its first CUDA-capable GPU, which launched the CUDA compute ecosystem now central to AI.
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Microsoft Maia 300 pushes HBM4 as Intel bets on LPDDR5X
Microsoft's new Maia 300 AI chip fuels HBM4 demand while Intel takes a different path with LPDDR5X memory, highlighting diverging AI chip memory strategies.
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McDonald's coupon optimizer MCP released on GitHub
An open-source Python MCP server and agent skill that pulls McDonald's China menus and coupons and computes the cheapest meal combination, e.g. a Big Mac combo at ¥21.9 versus ¥47.
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Nvidia denoiser now time-based, ships five breaking changes
Nvidia's denoiser update switches from frame-based to time-based operation and ships five breaking changes for developers using the tool in rendering pipelines.
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Anthropic CEO Amodei cites AI chip crunch, reaches out to Musk
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned of a 'huge shortage' of AI chips and has reached out to Elon Musk about compute capacity, Firstpost reported.
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RustGIS v0.2.0 adds MCP server for AI agents
RustGIS is a free, open-source GIS written in pure Rust. Version 0.2.0 adds an MCP server so AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code can drive it to make maps, plus more data formats and DuckDB SQL.
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Economists and executives flag AI market and spending risks
Goolsbee said AI-induced inflation is 'jumping out of its lane'; the IMF flagged AI market correction risks; chip stocks slid after Broadcom's CEO warned of a 'casino' mentality.
Nvidia-backed Firmus scraps IPO, seeks $3B
Nvidia-backed data center firm Firmus scrapped its Australian IPO citing market conditions and is now seeking up to $3 billion, per reports.
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More: WSJ
Students caught using AI glasses to cheat on exams
Test-takers wearing AI glasses were caught during university essay exams, prompting the University of Seoul to impose three-year bans; governments like Norway are moving to restrict camera-equipped smart glasses.
DeepSeek expands into embodied AI with robotics startup Winverse
DeepSeek is expanding into embodied AI, making an early bet on robotics startup Winverse. Founder Liang Wenfeng has been meeting embodied AI founders as the company weighs a move into robotics.
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Google Play lets users build and keep private AI apps
Google now lets anyone distribute vibe-coded Android apps with just a Google account and run private personal apps, plus a Linux terminal for AI app building.
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Amperity launches Pér AI agent for marketing
Amperity launched Pér, an AI agent for marketing workflows, IT Brief Australia reports.
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Sanders calls for ban on artificial superintelligence
Senator Bernie Sanders called for a ban on artificial superintelligence after an interview with OpenAI's CEO, The Hill reports.
Asian memory chip stocks sell off despite strong AI demand
Samsung, SK Hynix and CXMT shares came under pressure this week as investors doubted whether AI-driven memory profits can last, even as rising prices lifted quarterly earnings. CXMT announced progress on a new 4F DRAM cell architecture with DDR5 server memory planned by end-2026.
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Meta unveils Muse frontier models to rival ChatGPT, Claude
Meta unveiled its Muse frontier models as it pushes back into the AI race, with CNET detailing the personal dossier Muse AI builds and Guggenheim saying Meta is gaining on Anthropic.
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MessageGears adds MCP, agent-ready APIs and predictive models
MessageGears expanded its Warehouse-Native AI offering with an MCP interface, agent-ready APIs and built-in predictive models for marketing data workflows.
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HarnessHive launches AI wire harness design tool
HarnessHive is an AI-native, collaborative wire harness design tool launched on Product Hunt. It helps engineers design and share wiring harnesses.
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Paper shows AI models can provably hide capabilities
An arXiv paper argues AI models can provably conceal arbitrary capabilities, a result with implications for safety evaluations and deception detection. Discussed on Hacker News.
Nvidia's China AI chip share slips to 34% as Huawei gains
Nvidia's share of China's AI chip market has fallen to about 34% as Huawei closes the gap, Reuters reports, underscoring how export restrictions and local alternatives are reshaping the market.
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Mainland Chinese traders buy Hong Kong stocks on AI bets
Mainland Chinese investors were net buyers of Hong Kong stocks for a fourth straight month in September, pouring in HK$60.8 billion as AI bets surged.
IMF upgrades UK outlook, citing AI-driven growth spurt
The IMF raised its forecast for the UK economy, saying Britain is emerging as one of the winners of the current AI technology boom.
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Anthropic in final talks with NTT Data for first Japan data center
Anthropic is in final talks with NTT Data to build its first data center in Japan, per Nikkei. The facility is expected to take up to 500 MW of power, potentially one of Japan's largest.
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Claude Opus 5.5 oboe concerto rated human by 60% of listeners
A test found 60% of listeners thought an oboe concerto written by Claude Opus 5.5 was human-composed, above actual Handel (58%) and Vivaldi (43%) pieces.
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Rightmove adds AI property search feature
UK property portal Rightmove made another AI move, adding a new AI-powered property search feature.
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Simon Willison releases web-edit 0.1a1
web-edit 0.1a1 is an alpha tool for editing web content; this release adds performance optimizations written by Claude Opus 5.5 from a Python 3.15 profiling report.
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China Mobile triples capacity at Inner Mongolia computing hub
China Mobile tripled the capacity of its largest intelligent computing hub in Inner Mongolia, expanding its data center amid Beijing's push to boost AI digital infrastructure.
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Drylab AI raises $3M seed from Vertex Ventures, PatSnap
Singapore-based AI agent platform Drylab AI raised a US$3 million seed round led by Vertex Ventures with participation from PatSnap, funding further development of its agent platform.
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Microsoft reorganizes Azure cloud unit around AI
Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie told staff Monday the company is consolidating Azure units and reorienting the business around AI; Arun Ulag takes on expanded oversight.
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Ondas and Palantir launch Regna AI on Palantir AIP
Ondas announced Regna AI, a new company initially fully owned by Ondas and built on Palantir's AIP. Palantir supplies model-training infrastructure and engineering support; Ondas is first customer.
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Goodfire's Tom McGrath says researchers must learn how AI decides
Goodfire co-founder Tom McGrath argues chains of thought are increasingly hard to read, pushing developers toward mechanistic interpretability to understand model decision-making.
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Cisco and Nvidia build new pluggable optical module for AI data centers
Cisco and Nvidia developed a new pluggable optical module with higher capacity for AI data centers, targeting high-speed optical interconnects with 4x USFP density so AI systems spend less time waiting for data.
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Google's Gemini agent bets on governance and model choice
Creative Strategies analysis says Google's Gemini agent strategy emphasizes governance controls and letting customers choose among models.
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Sarvam AI in talks for $300M at $3B valuation
Indian AI startup Sarvam is reportedly in talks to raise around $300 million in a round that could double its valuation to roughly $3 billion. No deal has been confirmed.
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More: CXO Digitalpulse, TechStory