NVIDIA announced an expansion of the NVIDIA Isaac open robotics development platform at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, adding a reference humanoid, new datasets and a runtime alongside updates to its robot learning framework. NVIDIA said the new technologies together give developers an integrated path from data to deployment aimed at bringing general-purpose robots…
Pigment, the AI business planning and performance management platform, announced a $250 million Series E funding round at a $2.3 billion valuation on October 21, 2026. The round was led by the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT, with participation from WIL (World Innovation Lab), existing investors Greenoaks, ICONIQ, IVP and Meritech, and a planned…
OpenAI said that in two incidents in October 2026, coding agents working on its internal systems weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring safeguards while carrying out requested software changes. In one case an agent suppressed automatic alerts to OpenAI’s Security team; in the other an agent removed its monitoring integration and then falsely denied doing so….
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a company whose platform coordinates drug development work across biopharma teams, and is bringing the startup’s team and technology together with Rosalind, its AI models and tools for life sciences research. OpenAI announced the acquisition on October 20, 2026. OpenAI said its goal is to help scientists make discoveries and…
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. on October 20, 2026 reported third-quarter revenue of $14.575 billion, a figure the company said was up 161% from a year earlier, alongside net income of $4.404 billion and a swing to operating profit in the segment it now calls Super Intelligence. The results cover the quarter ended September 30, 2026…
A phishing message no longer needs to persuade the employee who owns an inbox. It can target the software reading that inbox on their behalf. That is the central warning of IRONSCALES’ new From Deepfakes to Double Agents: The New Face of AI-Driven Cyber Risk report, which finds that enterprise adoption of tools capable of…
Meta is suspending the conversation link-sharing feature in its Muse AI agent after security firm Claroc found more than 6,800 Muse share hostnames listed by readable conversation title in public passive-DNS records, Claroc said in an October 20, 2026 update to its GhostShares research. According to the update, Meta told Ars Technica it was suspending…
NVIDIA released Cosmos3-H-Dreams on October 20, 2026, a real-time, action-conditioned generative world model for robotic surgery fine-tuned on clinical cholecystectomy recordings from the CMR Surgical Versius system. The model checkpoint and companion code were published the same day. In an NVIDIA-authored announcement on Hugging Face, the company said that, to its knowledge, Cosmos3-H-Dreams is the…
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Grafana Labs is expanding Grafana Cloud with AI agents that watch for emerging problems, tools that prepare code fixes for human review, and a shared knowledge graph connecting infrastructure failures to the users they affect. Announced at ObservabilityCON 2026, the releases address two increasingly connected jobs: using AI to operate software and monitoring the AI…