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About four days ago, I interviewed for a frontend developer role at a startup. Sharing my experience in case it helps others preparing. The interview started with an AI-Powered Screening being the first round. This round was fully AI-driven, with no human interviewer present. It covered a few basic

Every solo founder knows the drill: you're building the product, answering support emails, jumping on sales calls, all while you're supposed to be "creating content" every single day. Hire an agency? That's $2,000+ a month most of us don't have. Post randomly when you remember? That's how social acc

When you create an account, submit a contact form, reset a password, or complete another online action, you may be asked to prove that you are human. CAPTCHA is designed for this purpose. It helps websites distinguish normal human activity from automated software and can reduce unwanted automated ac

A Humanoid Walked Into a Furnace: What Figure's F.02 Send-Off Really Says Most robots end their working life in a storage room or a skip. This one ended it in a 75-ton electric arc furnace in Finland, on purpose, after being trained to jump into it. Figure, the humanoid robotics company, retired mos

When shipping a new side-project, most developers remember meta tags and sitemaps, but completely forget two silent killers: AI Crawler Directives (robots.txt): Search engines are evolving into AI-first answers (SearchGPT, Claude, Perplexity). If your robots.txt does not explicitly handle bots like

Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 wrapped its first day with 32 zero-days popped across smart home hubs, printers, and a handful of AI systems. Researchers walked away with over $388,000. That's a normal Pwn2Own headline. What's not normal is the line buried a few paragraphs in: a single argument-injection bug w

Skills de agentes de código parecem documentação útil: pastas com Markdown, instruções em linguagem natural e, às vezes, scripts de setup. O time instala para o agente aprender a configurar ambiente, publicar pacote, rodar teste ou revisar segurança. O paper Towards a Risk Assessment of Malicious Sk

Looking for the best negative prompts for anime AI art? We tested Tsubaki.3 on unwanted text, busy backgrounds, and extra characters to see what helps. Disclosure: This article was written in collaboration with PixAI. It contains no affiliate links, and all tests and results are my own. Suppose you'

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch. Much of it comes from the i

Agentic AI security protects systems in which models can plan, call tools, retain state, and cause changes across digital or physical environments. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.

A new poll of 945 CIOs and CTOs points to aging infrastructure, bubble fears, and government uncertainty as brakes on corporate AI. Legacy systems and old applications are forcing large companies to abandon AI projects at a striking rate, according to a new survey from GFT Technologies, a firm that

Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task. The article Claude Haiku 5.5 ar

This week, we released our 2026 version of our Climate Tech Companies to Watch list. It’s an annual project that the MIT Technology Review team puts together. Our goal is to highlight some of the promising, interesting advances and firms we think are worth paying attention to in the world of climate

A 16-year-old planned his hiking route on Crown Mountain near Vancouver using Anthropic's Claude and had to be airlifted off a steep rock face. The chatbot had sent him down a route that requires climbing gear. Bryce doesn't blame the AI but says he'll never use it for route planning again. The arti

The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.

According to CrowdStrike, a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker hacked multiple South Korean financial institutions. At Shinhan Bank alone, more than 25,000 customer records were stolen. The attacker used ARTEX, an open-source tool that uses AI models like DeepSeek and GLM-5.3 for automated penetrat

The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we live. A robot shaped like a human—white with a black head and torso—has been popping up on video feeds.

Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for every request. Liquid Inference is an LLM inference marketplace from Architect where providers bid to serve each prompt. The buyer pays the lowest offer that meets its rules. For developers, it

XPENG on October 8, 2026 officially named its Robotaxi business "XPENG YOYO" and opened autonomous-driving online registration to the public in China, according to the company's announcement. Registration is being handled through invitation codes, and a dedicated page carrying the YOYO name is

NVIDIA researchers introduced PivotOPD, an on-policy distillation method that trains multi-turn LLM agents to avoid early pivotal mistakes and recover from them, posting the best average against 13 baselines on 3 agent benchmarks. The post NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From

Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to automate more complex tasks across industrial environments. But unlike AI that operates purely in the

Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-late comes in 2 sizes: a 0.6B model built to run on edge devices, and a 9B model for building high-quality indexes. Its best score is 92.4% on MADQA, and its weakest is 61.2% on ViDoRe v3 Markdown. Both are MIT-licensed and ready to self-host. The post Perplexity AI Releas

arXiv:2610.06910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in web front-end execution, with browser-based game generation emerging as a particularly prominent frontier. While previous efforts frequently rely on complex mu

arXiv:2610.06914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text2Dashboard is a DataBrain-specific prototype that turns natural-language analytic requests into inspectable dashboards. An installable Codex plugin and standalone Agent Runtime combine schema-constrained model decisions with typed tools, persistent

arXiv:2610.06917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prefill-decode disaggregation is becoming a common architecture for LLM serving because it separates two phases with distinct execution patterns and SLO objectives. Existing systems typically combine a fixed prefill/decode worker ratio with request rou

arXiv:2610.06919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper concerns how semantic context determines geometry in learned vector representations. Similarity is typically measured using cosine similarity, which provides a single fixed geometry. Semantic similarity, however, is inherently context depend

arXiv:2610.06923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence has advanced individual radiotherapy tasks, yet these capabilities remain separated across clinical stages, software environments and data modalities. This fragmentation contrasts with the longitudinal radiotherapy workflow from

arXiv:2610.06928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how Vision Transformers ground abstract concepts (e.g., angry) when training data provide limited direct referential evidence. We hypothesize a metonymic grounding mechanism in which abstract predictions are driven by concrete, interpretable a

arXiv:2610.06964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in interactive environments, yet their ability to continually evolve from experience remains limited. Although fine-tuning enables adaptation, its dependence on parameter access an

arXiv:2610.06971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional data pipelines are notoriously brittle, often failing due to upstream schema drift, API contract changes, or website DOM modifications. Present observability tools only raise alerts but for human engineers, resulting in a high Mean Time to

Unsloth's October 6 security overview explains how Studio checks code, weights, packages and tools before anything runs. Custom model code is scanned and approval is bound to its fingerprint. Flagged weight files are blocked in the load path, package-content findings fail CI, and tools run in probed

Mecka, a company building data infrastructure for robot learning, announced on October 7, 2026, that it has raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital. New investors in the round include NVIDIA, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung and M12, Microsoft's venture fund, the company said, with conti

Nuix on October 7, 2026 announced the Nuix Neo Generative AI (Gen AI) Framework, a governed orchestration layer for putting generative AI to work on organizations' structured and unstructured data. Nuix said the framework addresses the governance, confidence and auditability concerns that have

The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10 per million input tokens, keeps 1M context, scores 72.4% on OSWorld. The post Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: A Small Model With 1M Context Priced at $0.10 per Million Input Tokens appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Sierra launched fleming-1 on October 7, 2026, a model designed to detect when the caller on a phone call is another AI agent. The company described the release as an update to the constellation of models behind agents built on its platform. Sierra said the question companies face when the phone ring

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

Duke Energy's two North Carolina utilities, Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress, reached a settlement with the North Carolina Public Staff — joined by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other parties — that would expand requirements intended to keep the costs of serving data centers

Anthropic on October 7, 2026, lowered the price of cache reads on Claude Sonnet 5.5 by 50%, from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens, effective immediately. The company also introduced a monthly Claude Platform API credit for Max and Team subscribers: $100 per month for Max 5x, $200 per month for Max

OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the ability to combine a text response with diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons, a

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with "Intelligent UI," a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can now respond while still thinking, cutting wait times by 44 percent. Paying customers get GPT-6 Sol, free users get GPT-6 Luna. The article ChatGP

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a confi

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.

Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family. d1-3B reads text and images. d1-omni-600M reads text with an image, or text with audio. Neither model writes text. Each returns calibrated, typed answers in one forward pass with zero output tokens. Th

ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.

At today's Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It's part of an idea Microsoft is calling "Hybrid Intelligence," where apps and tools rely on a mix of [&#8

OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the US Department of Energy are funding data, lab equipment, and compute. A first datas