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Inception introduced Mercury 3 on October 19, 2026, describing the model as the most capable diffusion-based large language model released to date, with launch pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens. The company said Mercury 3 outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 across a range of benchmarks while…

NVIDIA announced on October 19, 2026, what it described as a record-breaking quantum computing simulation on JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer: a 104-qubit run executed on 8,192 NVIDIA GH200 GPUs at Jülich Supercomputing Centre that models how a realistic quantum processor performs fault-tolerant computation. What NVIDIA Says the Run Validates NVIDIA describes the 104-qubit simulation…

Town, the company behind an AI work assistant it calls a Townie, announced a $108 million Series B on October 19, 2026, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures at a $1 billion valuation. Series B Terms and Investors Town’s announcement, datelined San Francisco and published October 19, 2026, was authored by co-founders Tony Vincent…

Meta’s engineering team on October 19, 2026 published a detailed technical account of Prometheus, the company’s gigawatt-scale AI supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, confirming its completed first phase trained the Muse foundational models and that Meta plans to scale the system to roughly 1 million GPUs. In a post on Meta’s engineering blog, Kevin Lee,…

Despite millions of years of evolution, the development of the human fetus remains a complex process that is vulnerable to genetic, environmental, and metabolic disruptions. These disruptions could result in developmental abnormalities, starting with one of the first organs to begin developing in the fetus that continues to develop after birth: the brain. In a…

Together AI on October 19, 2026, launched Together Post-Training, a service for building custom models through user-defined reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning loops, with introductory pricing of $9 per GPU-hour of B200 usage for the first six weeks. Launch Models, Pricing, and Early Access The service is designed for building custom models both from environment…

Modal said in a company blog post on October 19, 2026 that it plans to roll out support for NVIDIA’s Arm-based Vera CPU to power Modal Sandboxes, the company’s first departure from an all-x86 fleet, after benchmark results it published showed up to double the task throughput of an equivalent x86 machine under load. NVIDIA…

Cognizant and Google Cloud on October 19, 2026, announced an expansion of their alliance to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic AI, establishing a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group backed by more than 18,000 dedicated Cognizant associates. The group brings together a dedicated global workforce that pairs Google’s full-stack, enterprise-ready AI platform with Cognizant’s domain, industry…

You don’t really need scientists to know that personal attractiveness opens doors, since you’ve likely been the victim or the beneficiary of this to some extent in your life; nor to discover that AI-generated faces tend to be more attractive than real people (for a variety of reasons, many involving human-made preferences and processes). Nonetheless,…

Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO of 0G, is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive focused on building decentralized infrastructure for artificial intelligence. At 0G, he is leading the development of infrastructure designed to make AI more open, verifiable, and accessible. Heinrich also serves as Executive Chairman of ZeroStack Corp. and has been an instructor…