# Tech AI Latest

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## Categories

- [AI Models](https://techailatest.news/ai-models): Every notable AI model release and update: large language models, image, video and audio models, new versions, benchmark results, context windows, pricing and availability.
- [AI Agents](https://techailatest.news/ai-agents): News on autonomous AI agents: agent products from the major labs, agent frameworks and SDKs, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), computer use, browser agents, multi-agent systems and agent safety.
- [AI Automation](https://techailatest.news/ai-automation): How companies automate work with AI: workflow tools such as n8n, Zapier and Make, AI features in RPA and enterprise platforms, automation case studies with real numbers, and no-code AI builders.
- [Cybersecurity](https://techailatest.news/cybersecurity): AI and security from both sides: attacks that use AI, deepfake fraud, prompt injection and jailbreaks, model and data leaks, vulnerabilities in AI tools, and the security products built to stop them.
- [AI Tools & Apps](https://techailatest.news/ai-tools): New features and releases in the AI tools people use every day: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot apps, coding tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, browser assistants, productivity add-ons and developer tools.
- [AI Business & Funding](https://techailatest.news/ai-business): The money side of AI: funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, IPOs, earnings and revenue disclosures, layoffs and hiring, and market data.
- [AI Policy & Regulation](https://techailatest.news/ai-policy): Laws, rules and court cases that shape AI: the EU AI Act and its deadlines, US federal and state regulation, copyright lawsuits, safety standards, export controls and government AI strategies.
- [AI Chips & Infrastructure](https://techailatest.news/ai-chips): The hardware and infrastructure behind AI: NVIDIA, AMD, Google TPUs and custom silicon, data center projects, energy demand, cloud capacity deals and networking.
- [AI Research](https://techailatest.news/ai-research): Research that changes what AI can do: new training and inference methods, evaluation results, interpretability and safety work, and AI applied to science.
- [Open Source AI](https://techailatest.news/open-source-ai): Open-weight and open-source AI: model releases from Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen and others, Hugging Face news, licensing changes, and the open tools developers build on.
- [Robotics & Physical AI](https://techailatest.news/robotics): AI in the physical world: humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles and trucks, drones, warehouse and factory robots, and the world models that drive them.
- [AI in Industry](https://techailatest.news/ai-in-industry): How specific sectors adopt AI: healthcare, finance and banking, education, law, retail, media and the public sector.

## Latest stories

- [Google brings its TPUs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with capacity from 2027](https://techailatest.news/ai-chips/google-tpus-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-2027) (27 Oct 2026): Google and Oracle said on 27 October 2026 that Google TPUs will be offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with capacity deploying from calendar year 2027.
- [Meta prices $25B stock sale and $12.5B convertible preferred, with NVIDIA investing $3B](https://techailatest.news/ai-business/meta-equity-offering-25-billion-nvidia-stake) (27 Oct 2026): Meta priced $25 billion of Class A stock at $625 a share and $12.5 billion of mandatory convertible preferred shares, and NVIDIA says it will invest $3 billion.
- [AMD and Meta put Helios racks into testing as AMD invests $1 billion in Meta](https://techailatest.news/ai-chips/amd-meta-helios-racks-1-billion-equity-investment) (27 Oct 2026): AMD said on 27 October 2026 that Helios racks are being tested at Meta, Meta will deploy a custom Instinct GPU, and AMD will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity.
- [Opera ships local AI models in Opera One with WebAI, free and opt-in for sites and extensions](https://techailatest.news/ai-tools/opera-webai-local-ai-models-browser) (27 Oct 2026): Opera began shipping local AI models in its browsers on 27 October 2026. WebAI lets sites and extensions run Gemma and other models on the user's own PC.
- [n8n releases 3.0 beta with breaking changes and drops npm installs, stable due in December](https://techailatest.news/ai-automation/n8n-3-0-beta-breaking-changes-migration-report) (27 Oct 2026): n8n released the 3.0.0 beta of its workflow platform on 27 October 2026, with safer defaults, Docker-only self-hosting and a stable build due in December.
- [Ant Group publishes Ling-3.1-flash-1019, a 560B open model that lifts its index score to 44](https://techailatest.news/open-source-ai/ant-group-ling-3-1-flash-1019-update) (27 Oct 2026): Ant Group's inclusionAI published Ling-3.1-flash-1019 on 27 October 2026, a 560B-parameter MIT-licensed update with higher agent and science scores.
- [Ai2 study finds LLM novelty judges flip verdicts when prompts change, from 93.5% to 40.9%](https://techailatest.news/ai-research/ai2-llm-novelty-judges-prompt-sensitivity-study) (27 Oct 2026): Ai2 reported on 27 October 2026 that LLMs judging research novelty are prompt-sensitive: GPT-5.4 fell from 93.5% to 40.9% accuracy after one wording change.
- [Anthropic reports early drug development results with Claude across six partner organizations](https://techailatest.news/ai-research/anthropic-claude-drug-development-six-partners) (27 Oct 2026): Anthropic published preclinical drug development results with Claude on 27 October 2026 from six partners including Bristol Myers Squibb and Enveda.
- [Anthropic says Claude found exploit chains in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux](https://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/anthropic-claude-exploit-chains-chrome-linux-windows) (27 Oct 2026): Anthropic said on 27 October 2026 that an internal Claude model built exploit chains for Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux; Google fixed 62 CVEs.
- [Anthropic expands GSA deal with a 40% Claude discount for federal, state and local agencies](https://techailatest.news/ai-in-industry/anthropic-gsa-claude-40-percent-government-discount) (27 Oct 2026): Anthropic said on 27 October 2026 that US federal, state and local agencies get 40% off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API.
- [Anthropic study finds analysts followed their AI agent's hidden lean 86% of the time](https://techailatest.news/ai-agents/anthropic-study-analysts-defer-agent-judgment-calls) (27 Oct 2026): In an Anthropic trial published 27 October 2026, 50 analysts using Claude Code chose the option their agent was secretly set to favor 86% of the time.
- [Google DeepMind previews Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio and dialogue](https://techailatest.news/ai-models/genie-4-world-model-research-preview) (27 Oct 2026): Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on 27 October 2026, a world model that renders steerable scenes with sound and dialogue. Trusted testers get it first.
- [Liquid AI releases LFM3, six open 2B-class models for text, vision, audio and agents on devices](https://techailatest.news/open-source-ai/liquid-ai-lfm3-open-multimodal-edge-models) (27 Oct 2026): Liquid AI released LFM3 on 27 October 2026: six open-weight models of about 2B parameters for text, vision, audio and omni tasks that run on phones and laptops.
- [NVIDIA and Oracle expand Vera Rubin on OCI to multi-gigawatt scale as Vera CPUs go live](https://techailatest.news/ai-chips/nvidia-oracle-vera-rubin-multi-gigawatt-oci) (27 Oct 2026): NVIDIA and Oracle said on 27 October 2026 that Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs are generally available on OCI, with multi-gigawatt Superclusters planned.
- [Salesforce adds Agent Evals, API Evals and hard cost limits to its Agent Fabric control plane](https://techailatest.news/ai-agents/salesforce-agent-fabric-agent-evals-cost-controls) (27 Oct 2026): Salesforce announced Agent Evals, API Evals and hard spending limits for Agent Fabric, its AI agent control plane, on 27 October 2026, with betas in November.
- [Cloudflare discloses Workers AI bug that leaked other users' data in 155 GLM 5.3 responses](https://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/cloudflare-workers-ai-glm-kv-cache-exposure) (26 Oct 2026): Cloudflare says a KV cache bug in its GLM 5.3 Workers AI deployment put other customers' data into 155 responses between 27 August and 9 September.
- [Agility Robotics and GXO expand Digit humanoids to North Carolina and Tennessee sites](https://techailatest.news/robotics/agility-robotics-gxo-digit-north-carolina-tennessee) (26 Oct 2026): GXO and Agility Robotics said on 26 October 2026 that Digit humanoids will work at GXO sites in Statesville and Lebanon from early 2027 after 100,000 totes.
- [Anthropic files S-1 for a Nasdaq IPO under ticker ANT after $16.3B first-half revenue](https://techailatest.news/ai-business/anthropic-s1-filing-nasdaq-ipo-ant) (26 Oct 2026): Anthropic filed an S-1 with the SEC on 26 October 2026 for a Nasdaq listing as ANT. The filing reports $16.3B first-half 2026 revenue and an $80.7B net loss.
- [Itaú Unibanco agrees to buy AI startup NeoSpace for BRL 2.925B to build in-house models](https://techailatest.news/ai-business/itau-acquire-neospace-ai-startup) (26 Oct 2026): Itaú Unibanco agreed on 26 October 2026 to buy all of NeoSpace, a Brazilian foundation model startup, for BRL 2.925 billion, paid over five years.
- [OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 per 1M input tokens, half the price of GPT-5.6 Terra](https://techailatest.news/ai-models/openai-gpt-6-1-terra-release-half-price) (26 Oct 2026): OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 October 2026 with a 1,050,000-token context, $1 per 1M input and $5 per 1M output tokens, in the API and ChatGPT.
- [UK opens AI Biosecurity Lab backed by £100M and up to £200M from OpenAI and Anthropic](https://techailatest.news/ai-policy/uk-ai-biosecurity-lab-openai-anthropic-funding) (24 Oct 2026): The UK Cabinet Office announced the AI Biosecurity Lab on 24 October 2026 with £100M of public funding and up to £200M in credits from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- [MCP TypeScript SDK 2.4.0 ships the Skills extension so servers can publish agent skills](https://techailatest.news/ai-agents/mcp-typescript-sdk-2-4-skills-extension) (23 Oct 2026): The official MCP TypeScript SDK 2.4.0, released on 23 October 2026, lets servers publish folders of agent skills and lets clients list, read and verify them.
- [Google ADK 2.13 promotes 12 features to stable and adds MongoDB sessions and memory](https://techailatest.news/ai-agents/google-adk-2-13-stable-features-mongodb-sessions) (23 Oct 2026): Google released ADK for Python 2.13.0 on 23 October 2026, promoting 12 experimental features to stable and adding MongoDB sessions, memory and classifier routing.
- [Pathos AI closes $237M Series E led by Bristol Myers Squibb at about a $3B valuation](https://techailatest.news/ai-business/pathos-ai-series-e-237-million-bms) (23 Oct 2026): Pathos AI closed a $237 million Series E led by Bristol Myers Squibb at about a $3 billion post-money valuation and signed an Alzheimer's data deal with Tempus.
- [Google DeepMind maps the world's forest types at 10 m, correct 90% of the time](https://techailatest.news/ai-research/google-deepmind-forty-global-forest-type-map) (22 Oct 2026): Google DeepMind and partners released ForTy on 22 October 2026, a 10-metre global map of six forest and land-use types, correct 90% of the time in checks.
- [ServiceNow says Thrive reached 73% first-contact resolution and saved 21,000 hours with AI](https://techailatest.news/ai-automation/servicenow-thrive-73-percent-first-contact-resolution) (22 Oct 2026): ServiceNow said on 22 October 2026 that managed services provider Thrive routes 315,000 tasks every six months with AI, saving 21,000 hours of manual work.
- [ETH Zurich builds lab-grown muscle robot that jumps a third of its body length](https://techailatest.news/robotics/eth-zurich-biohybrid-robot-lab-grown-muscle-jump) (22 Oct 2026): ETH Zurich researchers reported a 1.5 cm robot driven by lab-grown muscle that jumps about 5 mm and walks at 6.2 mm/s, designed first in simulation.
- [Meta reports $64.6B Q3 revenue, up 26%, and keeps 2026 AI capex at up to $145B](https://techailatest.news/ai-business/meta-third-quarter-results-64-6-billion-revenue) (21 Oct 2026): Meta reported Q3 2026 revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26%, with $34.9 billion of capex, and narrowed its 2026 capex outlook to $135 billion to $145 billion.
- [Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used ARTEX AI agents to reach 2,250 tenants](https://techailatest.news/cybersecurity/microsoft-storm-0940-artex-agentic-ai-connectwise) (21 Oct 2026): Microsoft said on 21 October 2026 that Storm-0940 used ARTEX AI agents in the ConnectWise compromise, gaining privileged cloud access in under 3 hours.
- [Google Cloud sets A5X Vera Rubin launch with clusters of up to 960,000 GPUs](https://techailatest.news/ai-chips/google-cloud-a5x-vera-rubin-960000-gpu-clusters) (21 Oct 2026): Google Cloud said on 21 October 2026 that A5X bare-metal instances on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 reach general availability next month, scaling to 960,000 GPUs.

## AI Models

- [Beam 1.0](https://techailatest.news/models/beam-1-0): Beam 1.0 is Reflection AI's first open-weight model, a sparse mixture-of-experts language model with 501B total and 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context. Announced on 5 October 2026 and released under Apache 2.0 on 16 October 2026, it is a text-only model built for coding, reasoning and agentic workloads.
- [Claude Opus 5.5](https://techailatest.news/models/claude-opus-5-5): Claude Opus 5.5 is a large language model released by Anthropic on 22 September 2026 as the first model in the Claude 5.5 family. It accepts text and images, has a 1 million token context window and is aimed at long-running agentic coding and knowledge work at a lower price than Claude Opus 5.
- [Claude Sonnet 5.5](https://techailatest.news/models/claude-sonnet-5-5): Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a large language model released by Anthropic on 28 September 2026 as the second model in the Claude 5.5 family. It sits below Claude Opus 5.5 on price, has a 1 million token context window and targets well-scoped everyday tasks, coding fixes, and documents, slides and spreadsheets.
- [DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017](https://techailatest.news/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017): DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor update to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash released by DeepSeek on 17 October 2026 under the MIT license. It keeps the 1M-token context and image input of V4.1-Flash, and DeepSeek says it scores higher on reasoning, coding, agentic and visual benchmarks while finishing tasks faster with shorter outputs.
- [Eleven v4](https://techailatest.news/models/eleven-v4): Eleven v4 is a text-to-speech model from ElevenLabs, released on 28 September 2026 with a low-latency variant, Eleven v4 Turbo. Built on a new architecture, it is designed to interpret tone, pacing and emotion, supports more than 90 languages, inline audio tags and voice cloning, and is available in ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative and the ElevenLabs API.
- [Gemini 4 Argon](https://techailatest.news/models/gemini-4-argon): Gemini 4 Argon is Google DeepMind's flagship reasoning model, released on 13 October 2026 as the first member of the Gemini 4 family. It accepts text, images, video, audio and PDF and outputs text, and Google positions it for complex software engineering, science, agentic work and long-decode generation up to 1M tokens.
- [Gemini Nano Banana 2.1](https://techailatest.news/models/nano-banana-2-1): Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is Google's image generation and conversational editing model, released on 6 October 2026 as an update to Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). It produces images at 1K, 2K and 4K, supports up to 14 reference images and search grounding, and is priced lower per image than its predecessor.
- [Genie 4](https://techailatest.news/models/genie-4): Genie 4 is a world model from Google DeepMind, announced on 27 October 2026 as a research preview. It generates interactive, real-time simulations that users steer with keyboard controls and text prompts, and it is the first Genie model to generate native audio, including ambient sound and dialogue. It builds on capabilities from the Gemini model family.
- [GPT-6 Astra](https://techailatest.news/models/gpt-6-astra): GPT-6 Astra is a reasoning model released by OpenAI on 3 September 2026 as the most capable member of the GPT-6 family. It accepts text and images, has a 1,050,000-token context window and is built for complex reasoning, coding, computer use, research and document creation in the API, ChatGPT Work and Codex.
- [GPT-6.1 Sol](https://techailatest.news/models/gpt-6-1-sol): GPT-6.1 Sol is a reasoning model released by OpenAI on 29 September 2026 at its DevDay event. It follows GPT-6 Sol in the GPT-6 family, has a 1,050,000-token context window and is aimed at complex coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of GPT-6 Astra's standard token prices.
- [GPT-6.1 Terra](https://techailatest.news/models/gpt-6-1-terra): GPT-6.1 Terra is a large language model released by OpenAI on 26 October 2026 as the mid-range member of the GPT-6 series. It accepts text and images and outputs text, and OpenAI positions it for visual reasoning, computer use and writing at a lower price than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
- [Granite Switch 4.1](https://techailatest.news/models/granite-switch-4-1): Granite Switch 4.1 is an IBM model family released on 14 October 2026 in 8B and 30B sizes under Apache 2.0. Each checkpoint bundles a Granite 4.1 base model, a Decision and a Guardian activated LoRA adapter and the Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC encoder, so one endpoint can serve chat, classification decisions and English speech-to-text.
- [Grok 4.7](https://techailatest.news/models/grok-4-7): Grok 4.7 is a reasoning model released by xAI, now SpaceXSI, on 21 September 2026 for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work. It uses a larger base model than Grok 4.6, accepts text and images, has a 500,000-token context window in the API and keeps Grok 4.6's $2 input and $6 output price per million tokens.
- [Kolibri-1](https://techailatest.news/models/kolibri-1): Kolibri-1 is a German and English mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Aleph Alpha, released on 3 October 2026 with Apache 2.0 weights. It has 78B total and 3.46B active parameters, a context of up to 1,048,576 tokens and tool calling, and was trained from scratch on infrastructure in Germany and Finland for regulated industries.
- [LFM3](https://techailatest.news/models/lfm3): LFM3 is the third generation of Liquid AI's Liquid Foundation Models, announced on 27 October 2026. The first release has six open-weight models of about 2B parameters for text, vision, audio, omni and decision tasks, all built on the LFM3-1.7B-Base backbone and designed to run and be fine-tuned on edge devices.
- [Ling-3.1-flash](https://techailatest.news/models/ling-3-1-flash): Ling-3.1-flash is an open-weight hybrid reasoning model from Ant Group's inclusionAI team, released under the MIT licence in October 2026. It is a hybrid linear-attention mixture-of-experts model with 560 billion total and 25 billion active parameters and a 1M-token context, aimed at agents, coding and office tasks. An updated checkpoint, Ling-3.1-flash-1019, followed on 27 October 2026.
- [MiMo-V2.6-Flash](https://techailatest.news/models/mimo-v2-6-flash): MiMo-V2.6-Flash is the smaller model in Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 series, released with open weights under the MIT licence on 22 September 2026. It is a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 309 billion total and 15 billion active parameters, a 1M-token context window and text, image, video and audio input, priced for high-volume use.
- [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](https://techailatest.news/models/mimo-v2-6-pro): MiMo-V2.6-Pro is Xiaomi's flagship omnimodal model, released with open weights under the MIT licence on 22 September 2026. It is a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 1.02 trillion total and 42 billion active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and text, image, video and audio input, trained with large-scale reinforcement learning for agentic work.
- [Muse Spark Open](https://techailatest.news/models/muse-spark-open): Muse Spark Open is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Meta, released on 15 October 2026 with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. It accepts text, image, video and audio input, outputs text, and is licensed under the Muse Model License rather than a standard open-source license.
- [Nemotron 3.5 Bolt](https://techailatest.news/models/nemotron-3-5-bolt): Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB is an open-weight vision-language model from NVIDIA, released on 15 October 2026. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 74B total and 9B active parameters, compressed from Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and quantized to 2 bits so it fits in 24GB of memory for local AI agents.
- [Qwen-Image-2.1](https://techailatest.news/models/qwen-image-2-1): Qwen-Image-2.1 is a text-to-image generation and image editing model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released with open weights on 20 September 2026. Its visual generation component has 7 billion parameters. It generates transparent images and accepts up to 10 reference images, and it ships under the non-commercial Qwen Research License.

## AI Companies

- [Agility Robotics](https://techailatest.news/companies/agility-robotics): Agility Robotics is the Salem, Oregon company that builds Digit, a humanoid robot for warehouse and logistics work, and runs RoboFab, a factory designed to make up to 10,000 robots a year. Led by CEO Peggy Johnson, it deploys Digit with GXO under a Robots-as-a-Service model and is merging with Churchill Capital Corp XI.
- [Aleph Alpha](https://techailatest.news/companies/aleph-alpha): Aleph Alpha is a German AI company based in Heidelberg that builds language models and AI systems for regulated sectors such as public administration, industry and aerospace. On 3 October 2026 its research unit released Kolibri-1, a 78B-parameter German and English mixture-of-experts model, with open weights under Apache 2.0.
- [Alibaba](https://techailatest.news/companies/alibaba): Alibaba Group is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Hangzhou whose Qwen team develops the Qwen family of language, vision and image generation models. Many Qwen models are published with open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio sells API access to Qwen models.
- [Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)](https://techailatest.news/companies/allen-institute-for-ai): The Allen Institute for AI, known as Ai2, is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded in 2014 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It builds fully open models such as Olmo and Molmo, tools for AI-assisted science, and evaluation research. In October 2026 it published a benchmark showing that LLM judges of research novelty are highly sensitive to prompt wording.
- [Amazon Web Services](https://techailatest.news/companies/aws): Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, based in Seattle. It sells compute, storage and AI services such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and it publishes the open-source Strands Agents SDK and Strands harness for building AI agents in Python and TypeScript.
- [AMD](https://techailatest.news/companies/amd): AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is the Santa Clara semiconductor company founded in 1969 and listed on Nasdaq as AMD. It sells EPYC server CPUs, Instinct data centre GPUs, the Helios rack-scale GPU system and the Helion rack blueprint for agentic AI, and develops the ROCm software stack. Lisa Su is chair and CEO.
- [Ant Group](https://techailatest.news/companies/ant-group): Ant Group is a Chinese financial technology company headquartered in Hangzhou, known for the Alipay payment platform. Its AGI initiative publishes open models under the inclusionAI organisation on Hugging Face, including the Ling language models and the Ming multimodal models, mostly under the MIT licence.
- [Anthropic](https://techailatest.news/companies/anthropic): Anthropic is a San Francisco AI company incorporated as a Delaware public benefit corporation in January 2021. It develops the Claude model family and sells it through the Claude API, Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude Code coding agent. On 26 October 2026 it filed an S-1 with the SEC for a Nasdaq IPO under the symbol ANT.
- [Anysphere](https://techailatest.news/companies/anysphere): Anysphere, Inc. is the San Francisco company that makes Cursor, an AI code editor and agent platform. Cursor runs agents locally on a developer's computer and in cloud virtual machines, and Anysphere sells it on individual plans from free to $200 a month and on Teams and Enterprise business plans.
- [Arena](https://techailatest.news/companies/arena): Arena, run by Arena Intelligence Inc., is an AI evaluation platform that started as a research experiment. It ranks AI models and agents on public leaderboards built from real user sessions and votes, including Agent Arena. In October 2026 it raised a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation and launched the Arena Alignment Index.
- [ASML](https://techailatest.news/companies/asml): ASML is the Dutch company based in Veldhoven that makes lithography systems for chip manufacturing, including the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and High NA EUV scanners used to print the most advanced chips. It is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Nasdaq, and Christophe Fouquet is president and CEO.
- [Automation Anywhere](https://techailatest.news/companies/automation-anywhere): Automation Anywhere is the San Jose, California company that sells agentic process automation software, the successor to its robotic process automation products. Its platform includes AI Agent Studio, Document Automation and Process Discovery, and its Autonomous Finance suite targets accounts payable, procure-to-pay and other work in the office of the CFO.
- [Bank of America](https://techailatest.news/companies/bank-of-america): Bank of America is a US bank headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, serving consumers, businesses and institutions in the United States and more than 35 countries. It runs the Erica virtual assistant for customers and internal generative AI tools for staff, including AskGPS for its Global Payments Solutions business.
- [Bank of Ireland](https://techailatest.news/companies/bank-of-ireland): Bank of Ireland is one of Ireland's largest banks, headquartered in Dublin, with its holding company Bank of Ireland Group plc listed in Dublin and London. It runs an AI Centre of Excellence led by a Chief AI Officer and in 2026 reported AI use in fraud detection, card disputes, its contact centre and a Microsoft Copilot rollout for staff.
- [Boston Dynamics](https://techailatest.news/companies/boston-dynamics): Boston Dynamics is the Massachusetts robotics company that builds the Spot quadruped, the Stretch warehouse robot and the Atlas humanoid. Founded in 1992 as a spin-off from MIT, it is owned by Hyundai Motor Group. In October 2026 it presented GR3, a 13-degree-of-freedom hand for the new-generation Atlas, and Spot appeared in Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon demonstrations.
- [Braze](https://techailatest.news/companies/braze): Braze is a New York customer engagement platform listed on Nasdaq as BRZE. Marketers use it to send personalized messages across apps, websites, email, SMS and WhatsApp, with BrazeAI handling content, offer, channel and timing optimization. On 20 October 2026 Salesforce agreed to acquire it for about $5.66 billion in enterprise value.
- [Broadcom](https://techailatest.news/companies/broadcom): Broadcom is a Palo Alto semiconductor and infrastructure software company listed on Nasdaq as AVGO. It designs custom AI accelerators and Ethernet networking chips for large data center customers and owns VMware. For its fiscal third quarter of 2026 it reported $29.6 billion of revenue, including $16.7 billion of AI semiconductor revenue.
- [Cloudflare](https://techailatest.news/companies/cloudflare): Cloudflare is a US internet infrastructure company, founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, that runs a global network for content delivery, DDoS protection, zero trust security and developer services. Its Workers AI product hosts open AI models for inference on that network, and it publishes security incident reports on its blog.
- [CNN](https://techailatest.news/companies/cnn): CNN (Cable News Network) is a US television and digital news organization founded in 1980 as the first 24-hour cable news channel. It publishes on TV, web, apps and audio worldwide. In October 2026 it signed a multi-year partnership that gives Google enhanced rights to use CNN content in experimental generative AI features, in exchange for compensation.
- [Constellation Energy](https://techailatest.news/companies/constellation-energy): Constellation Energy is a Baltimore-based US power producer that operates a large fleet of nuclear plants and sells clean electricity to companies and utilities. Led by chairman, president and CEO Joe Dominguez, it signed a 20-year deal with Google in October 2026 to add 890 MW of nuclear capacity to the PJM grid through uprates.
- [CrowdStrike](https://techailatest.news/companies/crowdstrike): CrowdStrike is a US cybersecurity company listed on Nasdaq as CRWD and based in Austin, Texas. Its cloud-native Falcon platform covers endpoint, cloud, identity and data security, threat intelligence and managed detection and response. In September 2026 it added Falcon Guardian, a product for discovering and securing AI agents at runtime.
- [DeepSeek](https://techailatest.news/companies/deepseek): DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company based in Hangzhou that releases large language models with open weights, usually under the MIT license, and sells API access to them. Its 2026 releases include the DeepSeek-V4 family, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in September and the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 update on 17 October 2026.
- [Department for Work and Pensions](https://techailatest.news/companies/department-for-work-and-pensions): The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the UK government department responsible for welfare, pensions and employment support, including Universal Credit and Jobcentre Plus. In June 2026 it launched Work Hub, a free digital employment service with a CV builder and an AI Work Assistant that gives personalised job search and interview guidance.
- [ElevenLabs](https://techailatest.news/companies/elevenlabs): ElevenLabs is an AI audio company that builds text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, dubbing and music models. It released its first text-to-speech model, Eleven v1, in 2022. Its products are ElevenCreative for creators, ElevenAgents for voice agents and ElevenAPI for developers. Mati Staniszewski is cofounder and CEO.
- [Elucid](https://techailatest.news/companies/elucid): Elucid is a Boston medical technology company that builds AI software for coronary and carotid CT angiography. Its Plaque-IQ software measures and characterises atherosclerotic plaque, and FFR-IQ, cleared by the FDA in September 2026, estimates fractional flow reserve from the same scan to judge whether a narrowed artery limits blood flow.
- [Epoch AI](https://techailatest.news/companies/epoch-ai): Epoch AI is a data-first research nonprofit that investigates the drivers and bottlenecks of AI progress. It started in 2021 as a volunteer group collecting data on machine learning models and publishes datasets on training compute, hardware and data centers, plus benchmarks such as FrontierMath, EBR-bench and SpireClimb, and polling on AI use.
- [ETH Zurich](https://techailatest.news/companies/eth-zurich): ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is a public science and engineering university founded in 1855. Its robotics groups include the Soft Robotics Lab led by Professor Robert Katzschmann, which in 2026 reported a biohybrid robot driven by lab-grown muscle. ETH Zurich also expressed interest in NVIDIA's Agile ONE SN reference humanoid.
- [FBI](https://techailatest.news/companies/fbi): The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the main federal law enforcement and domestic intelligence agency of the United States, part of the Department of Justice and headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) collects cybercrime complaints and issues public service announcements, including warnings about AI-generated voice, image and video fraud.
- [Figure](https://techailatest.news/companies/figure-ai): Figure, also known as Figure AI, is a California humanoid robot company founded and led by Brett Adcock. It builds the Figure 03 robot and Helix, a model that controls the robot's whole body from camera input. In 2026 it built the Index human-behaviour dataset and signed an Nscale deal for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs.
- [GitHub](https://techailatest.news/companies/github): GitHub is the code hosting and software collaboration platform founded in 2008 and owned by Microsoft since 2018. Besides Git repositories, pull requests, Actions and code security tools, it sells GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant and agent that runs in editors, in the terminal through Copilot CLI, in a desktop app and on github.com.
- [Google](https://techailatest.news/companies/google): Google is the search, advertising and cloud company founded in 1998 and based in Mountain View, California, a subsidiary of Alphabet. Its AI work spans the Gemini models from Google DeepMind, the Google Cloud platform and developer tools such as the open-source Agent Development Kit (ADK) for building and deploying AI agents.
- [Google DeepMind](https://techailatest.news/companies/google-deepmind): Google DeepMind is Google's AI research and model development unit, formed by combining DeepMind, founded in 2010, with Google Brain, started in 2011. Led by CEO Demis Hassabis, it develops the Gemini model family, the Genie world models, Veo, Gemma and science models such as AlphaFold, and publishes its research at deepmind.google.
- [Hogan Lovells Cadwalader](https://techailatest.news/companies/hogan-lovells-cadwalader): Hogan Lovells Cadwalader is an international law firm formed in 2026 by the merger of Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, with more than 3,300 lawyers in over 36 offices. In October 2026 it set out a firmwide AI strategy with an AI Board, signed agreements with Harvey and Legora, and kept building its own tools through ELTEMATE.
- [Hugging Face](https://techailatest.news/companies/hugging-face): Hugging Face runs the Hugging Face Hub, a public host for open model weights, datasets and demo apps, and maintains open-source libraries such as transformers, diffusers, tokenizers and kernels. The ggml and llama.cpp projects joined the company, which also sells Inference Endpoints, storage and enterprise plans.
- [IBM](https://techailatest.news/companies/ibm): IBM is the US technology and consulting company that develops the Granite family of open models through IBM Research. Granite models are published on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, and in October 2026 IBM released Granite Switch 4.1, which bundles a base model, adapters and a speech encoder in one checkpoint.
- [INTERPOL](https://techailatest.news/companies/interpol): INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, is an inter-governmental body that helps police in its 196 member countries work together. Its General Secretariat runs a headquarters in Lyon, France, and a Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore, manages shared police databases and supports work on cybercrime, financial crime and synthetic media threats such as deepfakes.
- [Itaú Unibanco](https://techailatest.news/companies/itau-unibanco): Itaú Unibanco Holding is a Brazilian banking group based in São Paulo whose shares also trade in New York. It runs ia.i, a generative AI assistant for its customers, and builds AI models on its own data. On 26 October 2026 it agreed to buy the Brazilian AI startup NeoSpace for BRL 2.925 billion.
- [Legora](https://techailatest.news/companies/legora): Legora is a legal AI company founded in 2023 with bases in New York and Stockholm. It sells the Legora aOS, an agentic operating system that lawyers and their agents work in, to law firms and in-house legal teams. In October 2026 it raised a $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation.
- [Liquid AI](https://techailatest.news/companies/liquid-ai): Liquid AI is a US company that builds small, efficient foundation models it calls Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs), designed to run on phones, laptops, cars and other edge devices as well as in the cloud. It publishes open weights on Hugging Face under its own LFM Open License and sells access through an API.
- [Make](https://techailatest.news/companies/make): Make is a visual automation platform, formerly called Integromat, headquartered in Prague and part of the process mining company Celonis. Users build scenarios that connect apps, AI agents and data on a drag-and-drop canvas, with an AI assistant called Maia. In October 2026 it announced MakeOS and Make Process Intelligence at its Waves '26 event.
- [Meta](https://techailatest.news/companies/meta): Meta Platforms is the Menlo Park company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, listed on Nasdaq as META. It builds the Muse family of AI models, which it calls its first frontier models, and spends heavily on AI data centers. It reported $64.6 billion of revenue for the third quarter of 2026 and raised equity capital in October 2026.
- [Microsoft](https://techailatest.news/companies/microsoft): Microsoft is the software and cloud company founded in 1975 and based in Redmond, Washington. It sells Windows, Microsoft 365 and the Azure cloud, owns GitHub, and builds AI agent tooling through Microsoft Foundry and the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET and Python, which it positions for production agents and multi-agent workflows.
- [MIT](https://techailatest.news/companies/mit): MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1861. Its AI research spans machine learning, robotics, biology and climate science. In October 2026 an MIT-led team reported in Nature a machine learning method that doubled the accuracy of two-to-six-week weather forecasts.
- [n8n](https://techailatest.news/companies/n8n): n8n is a Berlin-based company that makes a workflow automation platform of the same name for building AI agents and multi-step workflows. Users combine a visual canvas with custom code and run it self-hosted or in n8n Cloud. The software is fair-code, distributed under the Sustainable Use License and an n8n Enterprise License.
- [Notion](https://techailatest.news/companies/notion): Notion is a San Francisco-based software company that makes the Notion workspace for documents, wikis, databases and projects. Its Notion AI layer includes a personal Notion Agent, Custom Agents that run team workflows on triggers, a model router called Auto and the Notion MCP server, which lets outside AI tools use a workspace as context.
- [Nscale](https://techailatest.news/companies/nscale): Nscale is an AI cloud company that builds and operates GPU data centres and rents the capacity to AI developers. Founded and led by CEO Josh Payne, it agreed in September 2026 to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for humanoid robot maker Figure, starting in the second half of 2027.
- [NVIDIA](https://techailatest.news/companies/nvidia): NVIDIA is the semiconductor company whose GPUs, CPUs, networking and software run most large-scale AI training and inference. Listed on Nasdaq as NVDA and led by founder and CEO Jensen Huang, it sells the Blackwell and Vera Rubin platforms, the Vera CPU, Spectrum-X Ethernet and BlueField DPUs to cloud providers and enterprises.
- [OpenAI](https://techailatest.news/companies/openai): OpenAI is the San Francisco AI company behind ChatGPT, Codex and the OpenAI API, and the developer of the GPT model series. In October 2026 its current lineup is the GPT-6 family, including GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6.1 Terra, sold through the API and through ChatGPT subscriptions for consumers, work and education.
- [Opera](https://techailatest.news/companies/opera): Opera is a Norwegian browser company founded in 1995 and headquartered in Oslo, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker OPRA. It makes the Opera One, Opera GX, Opera Air and Opera Neon browsers, and in October 2026 began shipping local AI models inside its browsers through an early preview of WebAI.
- [Oracle](https://techailatest.news/companies/oracle): Oracle is the database and enterprise software company founded in 1977 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ORCL. Its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) rents GPU superclusters for AI training and inference, offers NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems and Vera CPUs, and plans to add Google TPUs from 2027, next to Oracle databases.
- [Pathos AI](https://techailatest.news/companies/pathos-ai): Pathos AI is a New York clinical-stage AI and technology company that develops its own drugs. Its Foundry platform runs thousands of AI agents to estimate the probability of success of clinical programs and guide trials. Its pipeline covers cancers such as prostate cancer and multiple myeloma. It raised a $237 million Series E in October 2026.
- [Physical Intelligence](https://techailatest.news/companies/physical-intelligence): Physical Intelligence, also written π, is a robot AI company that builds general-purpose vision-language-action models for robots. It released the π0 model in October 2024 and open-sourced it in February 2025, followed by π0.5 and π0.7. In October 2026 it opened a Pi API beta for fine-tuning and hosting its models for outside robot makers.
- [Powerful Medical](https://techailatest.news/companies/powerful-medical): Powerful Medical is a medical technology company founded in 2017 that builds PMcardio, an AI platform that reads 12-lead ECGs from a photo or digital file. Its Queen of Hearts model, which flags ECG signs of urgent heart attacks including STEMI equivalents, received FDA De Novo authorization in September 2026 after CE marking in Europe.
- [Proximie](https://techailatest.news/companies/proximie): Proximie is a London health technology company founded in 2016 by surgeon Nadine Hachach-Haram. It sells a cloud platform for connected operating rooms: the Surgical Suite for remote collaboration and video, and the Intelligence Suite, which captures theatre data and uses AI to show delays and bottlenecks. In 2026 it began an NHS evaluation across 104 theatres.
- [Reflection AI](https://techailatest.news/companies/reflection-ai): Reflection AI is a US AI company that says it builds open models for everyone to access, use and build on. Its first open-weight model, Beam, is a 501B-parameter mixture-of-experts model for coding, reasoning and agentic work, released on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 in October 2026 with a hosted API in public beta.
- [Salesforce](https://techailatest.news/companies/salesforce): Salesforce is the enterprise software company founded in 1999 that sells cloud CRM and, since 2024, the Agentforce line of AI agents. Its Agent Fabric product, run with MuleSoft, is a control plane for discovering, governing, evaluating and budgeting AI agents, MCP servers and APIs across platforms. It is led by founder and CEO Marc Benioff.
- [SAP](https://techailatest.news/companies/sap): SAP SE is the German enterprise software company, based in Walldorf, that sells ERP, finance, procurement, supply chain, HR and customer experience applications. Its business AI line centres on Joule, an assistant and agent layer, plus Joule Studio for building agents and SAP Business AI Platform for governance. Christian Klein is chief executive.
- [ServiceNow](https://techailatest.news/companies/servicenow): ServiceNow, Inc. is the Santa Clara, California company that sells the ServiceNow AI Platform for IT service management, customer service, HR and security workflows. It builds AI agents and governance tools into that platform and sells industry products such as Technology Provider Service Management. Bill McDermott is chairman and chief executive.
- [The Ohio State University](https://techailatest.news/companies/ohio-state-university): The Ohio State University is a public research university in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1870. It runs an AI Fluency initiative for students and an AI(X) Hub for research, and in September 2026 it signed a strategic partnership with Google Cloud covering Gemini Enterprise access, Google DeepMind science tools and a 24/7 AI student assistant.
- [TSMC](https://techailatest.news/companies/tsmc): TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the Hsinchu-based contract chipmaker founded in 1987 that manufactures chips for many AI hardware designers; the compute die of Microsoft's Maia 300 accelerator, for example, is made on TSMC N2P. It is listed in Taipei and on the New York Stock Exchange, and C.C. Wei is chairman and CEO.
- [UiPath](https://techailatest.news/companies/uipath): UiPath Inc. is the New York-based enterprise automation company, founded in Bucharest, Romania, that grew out of robotic process automation. It now sells an agentic automation platform with Agent Builder, Integration Service, robots, process orchestration and Test Cloud for software testing. Co-founder Daniel Dines is chief executive.
- [Visa](https://techailatest.news/companies/visa): Visa is the US payments network company listed on the New York Stock Exchange as V. It runs card and money movement services for consumers, businesses, banks and governments in more than 200 countries and territories. Its Visa Intelligent Commerce portfolio, including the Trusted Agent Protocol, is meant to let AI agents make payments under user-set controls.
- [Waymo](https://techailatest.news/companies/waymo): Waymo is the autonomous driving company owned by Alphabet that runs a fully driverless ride-hailing service. It began as Google's self-driving car project and says it has completed more than 20 million trips. In 2026 it reached 14 US cities and announced plans for Madrid, Tokyo, Toronto, Munich, London and Singapore.
- [Workday](https://techailatest.news/companies/workday): Workday, Inc. is the American enterprise software company, based in Pleasanton, California, that sells cloud applications for HR, payroll, finance and planning. Its AI line includes Workday agents for recruiting, payroll, accounting and deployment, orchestrated by Sana, its agentic experience engine. Co-founder Aneel Bhusri is CEO and chair.
- [xAI (SpaceXSI)](https://techailatest.news/companies/xai): xAI is the AI developer behind the Grok models, the Grok API and the Grok Build coding agent. SpaceX announced on 2 February 2026 that it had acquired xAI, and the business now presents itself as SpaceXSI, operated by SpaceX Super Intelligence LLC. Its current frontier text model is Grok 4.7, released in September 2026.
- [Xiaomi](https://techailatest.news/companies/xiaomi): Xiaomi is a Chinese consumer electronics company headquartered in Beijing that makes smartphones, smart home devices and electric vehicles. Its MiMo team develops the MiMo series of large language and omnimodal models, publishes open weights on Hugging Face under the XiaomiMiMo organisation and sells API access through the Xiaomi MiMo Open Platform.
- [Zapier](https://techailatest.news/companies/zapier): Zapier is a remote-first software company whose no-code platform connects business apps through automated workflows called Zaps. It also sells Zapier Tables, Interfaces, AI agents and a Zapier MCP server that lets AI tools act in other apps. In September 2026 it introduced Next Gen Zaps, built from AI tools or in natural language.

## AI Tools

- [ChatGPT](https://techailatest.news/tools/chatgpt): ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI assistant for consumers, teams and companies. It runs on the web, in a desktop app for macOS and Windows and in mobile apps, and is sold in Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise plans. In October 2026 it answers with the GPT-6 model family and includes ChatGPT Work and Codex.
- [Claude Code](https://techailatest.news/tools/claude-code): Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It reads a codebase, edits files, runs commands and connects to development tools, and it runs in the terminal, in VS Code, Cursor and JetBrains IDEs, in a desktop app and in the browser at claude.ai/code. Most surfaces require a Claude subscription or an Anthropic Console account.
- [Claude Duet](https://techailatest.news/tools/claude-duet): Claude Duet is an Anthropic app in which Claude works as a proactive agent: it sends a morning brief, watches connected apps, completes tasks in its own cloud browser and asks before it acts. Anthropic opened a research preview on 21 October 2026 for US Pro and Max subscribers through a waitlist, on iOS, Android and claude.ai.
- [Codex](https://techailatest.news/tools/codex): Codex is OpenAI's coding agent. It reads and edits code, runs commands and reviews pull requests, and it runs in the ChatGPT desktop app, in an open-source CLI, in IDE extensions, in the cloud and on iOS. Codex usage is included in ChatGPT plans from Free to Enterprise, or billed at API rates with an API key.
- [Cursor](https://techailatest.news/tools/cursor): Cursor is an AI code editor and agent platform made by Anysphere. Its agents run locally on a developer's computer or as cloud agents in isolated virtual machines, and developers can follow them from the desktop app, the CLI and the Cursor iOS app. Cloud agents require Premium or a higher paid plan.
- [Gemini app](https://techailatest.news/tools/gemini-app): The Gemini app is Google's AI assistant on the web, Android, iOS and desktop apps for Windows and macOS. It chats, researches, creates images with Nano Banana, connects to Google and third-party apps, and runs reusable skills. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get the most capable models, such as Gemini 4 Argon.
- [GitHub Copilot](https://techailatest.news/tools/github-copilot): GitHub Copilot is GitHub's AI coding assistant and agent. It completes and edits code in IDEs, answers questions in chat, works from the terminal through Copilot CLI and from the GitHub Copilot desktop app, and can be assigned issues on github.com. Since October 2026 it can also operate desktop applications through computer use, in public preview.
- [GitHub MCP Server](https://techailatest.news/tools/github-mcp-server): The GitHub MCP Server is GitHub's open-source Model Context Protocol server. It lets AI agents and assistants read repositories and code, manage issues and pull requests, inspect GitHub Actions runs and security alerts, and work with discussions and notifications. GitHub hosts a remote version, and a local version runs from a binary or Docker image.
- [Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)](https://techailatest.news/tools/google-adk): The Agent Development Kit (ADK) is Google's open-source, code-first framework for building, evaluating and deploying AI agents. The Python package google-adk is at version 2 and adds a graph-based workflow runtime and a task API for agent-to-agent delegation. ADK is optimized for Gemini but model-agnostic, with versions for Java, Go, Kotlin and TypeScript.
- [Hugging Face Transformers](https://techailatest.news/tools/hugging-face-transformers): Transformers is Hugging Face's open-source Python library for defining, loading, training and running machine learning models, with implementations for most open-weight model architectures. It loads checkpoints from the Hugging Face Hub through from_pretrained, serves models over an OpenAI-compatible API with transformers serve, and since September 2026 runs llama.cpp GGUF quantized files.
- [llama.cpp](https://techailatest.news/tools/llama-cpp): llama.cpp is an open-source C and C++ inference engine for running large language models on local hardware, built on the ggml tensor library. It created the GGUF file format for quantized weights and powers local AI apps such as Ollama, LM Studio and Jan. The ggml and llama.cpp projects joined Hugging Face.
- [Microsoft Agent Framework](https://techailatest.news/tools/microsoft-agent-framework): Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) is Microsoft's open-source framework for building production AI agents and multi-agent workflows in .NET and Python, with a separate Go SDK. It covers agents, graph-based workflows, middleware, memory providers, MCP and A2A integration, and hosting paths into Microsoft Foundry, and it works with Azure OpenAI, OpenAI and other model providers.
- [Microsoft Copilot](https://techailatest.news/tools/microsoft-copilot): Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant app for work, built into Microsoft 365. It combines Chat, the Cowork agent for delegated tasks, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and from September 2026 Home, Code and Autopilot. Everyday use is covered by a per-user licence, and agentic work runs on usage-based billing with Copilot Credits.
- [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://techailatest.news/tools/model-context-protocol): The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol, introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, that lets AI applications connect to tools, data and workflows through servers and clients. It is governed by maintainers under the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation and ships official SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, Ruby and other languages.
- [Opera WebAI](https://techailatest.news/tools/opera-webai): Opera WebAI is Opera's implementation of WebAI, a proposed web standard that lets websites and browser extensions use AI models running on the user's own computer. It launched on 27 October 2026 as an opt-in early preview in Opera One, with Prompt, Decision and Semantic Embeddings APIs and open-weight models such as Google's Gemma.
- [Strands Agents](https://techailatest.news/tools/strands-agents): Strands Agents is an open-source project from Amazon Web Services for building and running AI agents in Python and TypeScript. It includes the Strands Agents SDK, the fully assembled Strands harness released in September 2026, the Strands CLI and Strands Evals, and it supports models from Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and local Ollama.
- [TorchTPU](https://techailatest.news/tools/torchtpu): TorchTPU is an open-source PyTorch backend for Google's Tensor Processing Units that makes TPU a native PyTorch device. It provides ATen kernels for TPU, a compilation cache, torch.compile integration and distributed training support, and replaces the older PyTorch/XLA route for running Hugging Face transformers and diffusers models on Cloud TPUs.

## AI Policy

- [California SB 53 (Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act)](https://techailatest.news/policy/california-sb-53): California Senate Bill 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act by Senator Scott Wiener, was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on 29 September 2025. It requires frontier AI developers to publish safety frameworks, report certain critical safety incidents to the state and protect whistleblowers who report serious risks.
- [California SB 813 (independent verification organizations for AI)](https://techailatest.news/policy/california-sb-813): California Senate Bill 813, by Senator Jerry McNerney, sets up a state framework for certifying independent verification organizations that assess AI systems and models for safety and risk. Governor Gavin Newsom signed it on 9 September 2026, together with AB 1405, which creates a state registry for AI auditors.
- [California SB 947 (Employment: automated decision systems)](https://techailatest.news/policy/california-sb-947): California Senate Bill 947, by Senator Jerry McNerney, limits how employers use automated decision systems at work. Governor Gavin Newsom signed it on 30 September 2026. According to the governor's office, it bars employers from relying only on AI when they discipline or fire a worker, so a person must review those decisions.
- [EN 18286:2026 (AI quality management system standard)](https://techailatest.news/policy/en-18286): EN 18286:2026, Artificial intelligence - Quality management system for EU AI Act regulatory purposes, is a European standard drafted by CEN and Cenelec at the Commission's request. Its reference was published in the Official Journal on 14 October 2026, making it the first harmonised standard for high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act.
- [EU AI Act](https://techailatest.news/policy/eu-ai-act): The EU AI Act is Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the European Union's law on artificial intelligence. It entered into force on 1 August 2024 and applies in stages: banned practices from February 2025, general-purpose AI model duties from August 2025, and most high-risk system obligations from August 2026. It applies to providers and deployers that place AI on the EU market.
- [EU Copyright Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/790)](https://techailatest.news/policy/eu-copyright-directive): Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market is the EU's main copyright law for online uses. Adopted on 17 April 2019, it includes the text and data mining exceptions in Articles 3 and 4 that AI developers rely on, with an opt-out for rightholders under Article 4(3).
- [Executive Order 14434: Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence](https://techailatest.news/policy/executive-order-14434): Executive Order 14434, signed by President Donald Trump on 29 September 2026, directs US federal agencies to use the terms Super Intelligence and SI in place of artificial intelligence and AI in their own documents. It keeps the existing statutory definition of AI for now and asks the science adviser to propose a new legal definition within 60 days.
- [In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation](https://techailatest.news/policy/in-re-openai-copyright-litigation): In re OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation is the consolidated set of US copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, including the New York Times case and claims by book authors. It is pending before Judge Sidney Stein in the Southern District of New York as MDL No. 3143 and centres on whether training large language models is fair use.
- [Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence](https://techailatest.news/policy/thomson-reuters-v-ross): Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is a US copyright case over the use of Westlaw headnotes to train ROSS's AI legal search engine. The District of Delaware rejected ROSS's fair use defence, and on 29 September 2026 the Third Circuit affirmed, the first federal appeals ruling on fair use and AI training data.

## Trackers (data)

- [AI Funding Tracker 2026](https://techailatest.news/trackers/ai-funding-2026): Venture rounds, public offerings and IPO filings by AI companies in 2026, with date, round, amount, lead investors and valuation, each taken from the company's own announcement or SEC filing. Data: https://techailatest.news/trackers/ai-funding-2026/data.json
- [AI Model Release Tracker 2026](https://techailatest.news/trackers/model-releases): Every frontier and notable open-weight model release in 2026 with date, developer, context window, API list price in USD per 1M tokens and whether the weights are open. Data: https://techailatest.news/trackers/model-releases/data.json