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…
Smarter supply chains could hold the key to reducing the environmental impact of the AI boom Sustainability leaders across the globe are debating the paradox of AI. On one side, AI’s environmental footprint is growing. But on the other side, AI is actively helping solve some of the most challenging real-world sustainability problems. AI’s benefits…
Quantinuum has reported a quantum error-correction result that brings a central requirement of useful quantum computing into sharper focus: keeping quantum information intact long enough to do something valuable with it. On its Helios trapped-ion computer, the company measured logical memory fidelity of 99.9995% per error-checking cycle—equivalent to about five logical failures per million cycles….
MiniMax on October 19, 2026, officially rolled out MiniMax M3.1 Flash, confirming in its launch post that Space Bunny, an anonymous model that processed more than 200 trillion tokens while operating in stealth, was an early version of the new release. MiniMax’s announcement describes M3.1 Flash as a next-generation Flash model that delivers what the…
Alon Noy, CEO and Co-Founder of Astelia, is a cybersecurity leader with more than 15 years of experience spanning offensive and defensive security. He previously served in Israel’s Unit 8200 and went on to lead the Israeli National Cybersecurity Red Team, where his work included stress-testing critical infrastructure and collaborating with security teams on identifying…
Microsoft on October 19, 2026, announced new security capabilities in Project Perception and Microsoft 365 E7 that treat enterprise AI agents as potential insider threats, introducing Guardian Agents that supervise agent actions continuously and policy controls that adjust what each agent is allowed to do as its risk changes. Nadim Abdo, corporate vice president for…
Sales teams can lose an interested customer in the gap between an inquiry and a return call. Harmony, a voice AI platform built by monday.com, is launching with a system designed to handle those conversations using a collection of smaller, task-specific language models. Announced on October 19, the platform targets mid-market and enterprise sales teams…
Security research firm NorForge on October 19, 2026 published Inside Cairn, an investigation that identified more than 20 publicly exposed control panels for the Cairn AI problem-solving harness as likely associated with malicious, financially motivated intrusion activity. The exposed panels provide a detailed view of how threat actors choose targets, task autonomous agents, exploit vulnerabilities,…
The American Institute of CPAs and the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company on October 19, 2026 announced a joint assurance certification that combines a SOC 2 report with AIUC-1 certification, delivered as a single report from one CPA-led engagement covering AI systems and agents. The organizations described the certification as the first comprehensive, independent review of…
If you consume any news media, it is hard to ignore the rising alarmism surrounding the AI industry and doomsday warnings. The narrative, which warns of the ‘existential risk’ AI systems pose to humanity, has made it all too easy for cybersecurity firms to jump on the bandwagon and let fear do the selling. However,…