NVIDIA said Kazakhtelecom, Kazakhstan’s largest telecommunications company, has deployed 400 NVIDIA H200 and 480 NVIDIA B300 GPUs in Astana and Almaty, with plans to deploy more than 1,000 additional GPUs at each of two further sites next year. The figures appeared in an October 22, 2026 post bylined to NVIDIA Vice President Rev Lebaredian and…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on October 22, 2026 that would expand the Outbound Investment Security Program, adding new technology sectors and countries of concern to the restrictions governing certain U.S. investments abroad. The proposed rule implements the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security (COINS) Act, which Congress passed…
Andreessen Horowitz is renaming a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier and expanding the scope of its new fund beyond crypto startups, managing partner Chris Dixon announced on October 22, 2026, in a post on the a16z Frontier site. The fund’s remit now covers what the firm calls frontier startups, Dixon said, defined in the post as…
Canva on October 22, 2026 unveiled Canva Craft, the first foundation model built and trained from scratch by Canva Research, the company’s in-house AI lab. The image generation model is available to all Canva users globally through Dream Lab and to developers through the company’s public API. Canva said the launch makes it the world’s…
AI research can run into a physical limit long before it runs out of ideas: the amount of computing a laboratory can power and keep cool. Ferveret says researchers at MIT are using its high-performance computing platform to develop AI methods for studying nuclear materials, putting its Adaptive Phase Cooling technology to work on sustained…
Anthropic published research on October 22, 2026, reporting that Claude produced machine-checked formal proofs of security properties at the RISC-V assembly code level for 239 fuzz-test entry points across 123 open-source libraries, in a collaboration with Theorem. According to Anthropic, Claude patched the bugs it found and then proved the programs will always exit normally…
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As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups, and toys, as interactive companions to humans — an act of pure magic, seemingly. But scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are now doing something similar: transforming stationary items into self-aware tools that perceive and respond…
Microsoft’s MAI-DxO diagnostic system outperformed participating generalist physicians on complex diagnostic cases in a peer-reviewed study published October 22, 2026 in Science, which reported 83.2% accuracy for the system on New England Journal of Medicine case records against 36.1% for physicians using reference resources. The study, “Sequential diagnosis with language models,” appears in Science Volume…
OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available on October 22, 2026, the company announced, taking the GPT-6 Luna–powered endpoint out of public beta at a price of $0.10 per million input tokens. The API returns bounded, typed answers (a probability, a selection, or a rubric score) that applications use to classify content, route requests, and…