On the morning of October 6, ASOS app users in the UK and several other markets received a push notification from the retailer they normally hear from about new arrivals and discount codes. This one read “ASOS HACKED.” It was addressed to the company’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) and IT team, claimed the attackers had…
NVIDIA announced Kumo Forecast on October 21, 2026, an open multivariate time-series forecasting model that combines a pretrained MOMENT-1-large Transformer backbone with optional retrieval over historical data and a model-agnostic interpretability framework. The model, formerly known as NV-Tesseract Forecasting, is available under the Apache 2.0 license, and NVIDIA detailed it in an official post on…
OpenAI is extending ChatGPT Ads to 26 additional countries, bringing the advertising platform’s availability to 89 countries worldwide, the company said in an October 21, 2026 announcement. OpenAI also reported that more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns on ChatGPT since ads launched just over eight months earlier. New Markets in Latin America, Europe, the…
NVIDIA announced at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, that European automakers and mobility providers including Bolt with Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Einride are showcasing autonomous-mobility use cases on the NVIDIA Hyperion computing platform, demonstrating potential applications for level 3 and level 4 vehicles and future robotaxi fleets. Volvo Cars is adopting Hyperion…
Distributed AI training coordinates data, parameters, activations, gradients, and optimizer state across many accelerators so models or batches larger than one device can be trained. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
At NVIDIA’s GTC Berlin conference on October 21, 2026, Porsche, Volkswagen Group brands, and CARIAD announced they are jointly building a shared data flywheel for autonomous-vehicle development, with Porsche leading the initial implementation and ecosystem integration together with Voxel51, NVIDIA, and Microsoft. The Volkswagen Group is leading development of a physical AI stack that links…
Databricks on October 21, 2026, announced the general availability of AI Runtime (AIR), a fully managed, serverless GPU platform built into the Databricks Lakehouse for training and fine-tuning deep learning models on enterprise data. Databricks said hundreds of companies, including Robinhood, PicPay, Merck, Flo Health, TinyFish, and FactSet, already use AIR to train and ship…
Microsoft Corp. announced on October 21, 2026, that Volkswagen Group has equipped more than 330,000 employees across the company with Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft said the deployment is meant to help the automaker’s workforce raise productivity, make decisions faster and improve knowledge-based processes across the organization. Sophie Vassarotti, Head of Group Data and AI at Volkswagen…
Google Cloud is launching OpenAI’s models in its model garden, the company said in an October 21, 2026 announcement, adding GPT-Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna to its enterprise AI platform. The three models began rolling out in private preview to select enterprise customers the same day. Michael Gerstenhaber, vice president of product management for…
Oracle on October 21, 2026, announced Oracle AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications, a no-code and low-code environment for creating, testing, orchestrating, deploying, and managing AI agents and workflows for industry-specific business processes. The offering builds on Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. Oracle said it enables customers and partners to build and extend…