Computer-using agents operate software through screens, cursors, and keyboards much like people do. That generality is powerful, but visual uncertainty, long task horizons, and broad permissions make careful controls essential.
IBM said in an IBM Research blog post published October 26, 2026 that software updates delivered across the PyTorch ecosystem in the second half of 2026 have made its Spyre dataflow accelerator a first-class PyTorch backend, delivering on a plan IBM and the PyTorch Foundation outlined in October 2025. IBM describes Spyre as its dataflow…
Recent headlines of developers using AI tools to clone popular paid software – most notably Adobe – has sparked mixed reactions – from accusations of theft to welcoming free open-source tools. But what does it mean for the tech companies who own the original software – or those who pay costly subscriptions to use it?…
I have spent much of my career building technology where getting things wrong has consequences. In financial markets, safety comes with access limits, in addition to the fact that we have someone accountable for whatever the software does. That background probably explains why I find myself struggling with the news that Anthropic now conducts retirement…
GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics on October 26, 2026 announced an expansion of their partnership that will deploy Agility’s Digit humanoid robots to GXO logistics sites in North Carolina and Tennessee, with deployments expected to begin in early 2027. The Expanded Agreement Under the expanded agreement, Digit will take on e-commerce fulfillment work at GXO’s…
SWI Compute, a new AI infrastructure company within Euronext Amsterdam-listed SWI Group, emerged from stealth on October 26, 2026, announcing plans to build and operate NVIDIA AI factories starting in Europe, backed by 3.6 gigawatts of power capacity and approximately $1 billion in NVIDIA systems orders. The company became a Preferred NVIDIA Cloud Partner in…
Cognizant announced on October 26, 2026 that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has selected it as a strategic partner under a five-year framework supporting the Bank’s Tech Blueprint technology transformation programme. The programme’s stated focus is efficiency, effectiveness and innovation, pursued through digitally enabled processes powered by AI, data and intelligent automation. Cognizant…
Data poisoning manipulates training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or retrieval data so an AI system learns corrupted behavior or produces attacker-chosen outcomes. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
AI21 Labs released LIFT-Bench on October 25, 2026, an instruction-following benchmark in which every constraint is scoped to one section of a document and the task content itself is scored, alongside LIFT-Train, a 34,258-task training counterpart, and the open pipeline that generated both. A companion paper, “LIFT: Scoped Constraints for Evaluating and Training Instruction Following”…
Anthropic opened an investigation into elevated errors affecting five Claude models on October 25, 2026, posting an incident on the Claude Status page at 06:14 UTC that lists claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork as affected services. Incident Scope and Status The incident, titled “Elevated errors for multiple models,” was published in…