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Nvidia will give UK researchers $50 million in computing annually, part of a $250 million five-year commitment, as European cities deploy Nvidia-powered AI agents for urban operations.
Nvidia and ChipAgents released a benchmark measuring how AI models perform at chip design tasks. Anthropic's Fable 5.1 powered the best agent, scoring only 16.6%.
ASML raised its full-year sales outlook and forecast Q4 revenue above expectations as AI-driven chip demand surges, but warned it will be unable to meet customer demand in 2027 and 2028.
OpenAI named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses, while VP of compute strategy Sachin Katti leaves next month, per WSJ and Bloomberg.
Grok Voice 3.0 is a speech-to-speech model for building voice agents. It launches with unchanged API pricing and auto-migration for existing users.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he would halt chip supply to a customer developing unsafe AI software, while adding he does not believe current concern about the technology is warranted and that AI doomers should stop working on it.
Danaher is collaborating with Nvidia to integrate AI into scientific instruments, with initial work focused on select instruments to advance autonomous science and AI-supported research.
Coinbase's x402 protocol lets AI agents pay in stablecoins; agents have moved over 200 million payments, though one report says half may be fake.
German robotics unicorn NEURA Robotics introduced Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model that gives robots perception and memory for physical AI and humanoid applications.
Chinese regulators cleared Alibaba's Qwen AI models for use in Apple Intelligence on iPhones, arriving just ahead of the iPhone Duo launch.
Grok Voice 3.0 is a speech-to-speech model for building voice agents. It launches with unchanged API pricing and auto-migration for existing users.
Chinese regulators cleared Alibaba's Qwen AI models for use in Apple Intelligence on iPhones, arriving just ahead of the iPhone Duo launch.
Android is rolling out scam defense features, including an enhanced protection setting that uses Gemini to warn users about scammy messages in Google Messages and on calls. The feature rolls out as opt-in protection.
New releases: Visual Studio Code 1.141.1, an open-source code editor for macOS, Windows and Linux; plus Cursor 3.24.18, Zed 1.23.3, Warp 0.2026.09.30.08.29.stable_01, Kiro 1.3.0 and Trae 2.3.61406.
Apigee hybrid 1.17.0 adds native Model Context Protocol support, letting the MCP data plane run inside a user's own Kubernetes cluster so AI agent traffic and tool execution stay on their infrastructure.
Google Play Store now supports creating apps without developer fees, AI app comparisons and personalized game discovery, letting users vibe-code private apps.
Square launched the Square Kiosk, a large pill-shaped touchscreen ordering device with an agentic conversational voice layer that understands a seller's menu and listens to orders.
AQuA is a reference implementation that runs beside your production agent on Google Cloud, sweeping logs and traces to catch silent quality regressions. The same roundup covers EmbeddingGemma 2 developer guides, edge multimodal search and TPU video-diffusion kernels.