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Thursday, October 1, 2026

Every story published that day — lead first, then grouped by section.

News

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Illustration for: DoorDash puts its own drone on the menu
News

Robotics DoorDash puts its own drone on the menu Good morning, robotics enthusiasts. DoorDash wants to fly your next takeout order straight to your backyard, and it just pulled the cover off the aircraft behind DoorDash Air.

The Rundown AI5 min
Illustration for: Argon aims to return Google to the frontier
News

AI Argon aims to return Google to the frontier PLUS: How (and why) to set up Meta’s Muse Desktop Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 5,879 new readers who joined us yesterday.

The Rundown AI8 min

Models & Research

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Illustration for: Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve cli
Models & Research

Barclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience Barclays, the British universal bank, is expanding its strategic collaboration with Anthropic to integrate secure, enterprise-grade AI systems across its global operations. Barclays is extending Claude across the bank to accelerate software development, modernize legacy systems, and improve operational efficiency.

Anthropic News3 min
Illustration for: Claude-shaped science - Anthropic
Models & Research

Summary: In this guest post, Prof. Matthew Schwartz returns to describe a new approach to AI-accelerated science. In Vibe Physics , Schwartz discussed similarities in capability between Claude and a physics graduate student.

Anthropic News21 min
Illustration for: Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron for Saudi Arabic Dialects, with
Models & Research

Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron for Saudi Arabic Dialects, with a Path to Other Languages | NVIDIA Technical Blog Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron for Saudi Arabic Dialects, with a Path to Other Languages By Imane Khaouja , Amine El Khair , Meshari Alaeena , Zahra Al-Kaf and Abdulrahman Alkhamees NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 ASR supports multilingual streaming transcription across 40 language-locales, but deployment-specific dialects...

NVIDIA Developer Blog14 min

Products & Tools

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Illustration for: How Genie One reshapes work for finance teams
Products & Tools

• Give finance professionals an AI coworker grounded in their business context to accelerate decision-making • Enable teams to analyze performance, model scenarios, investigate variances, and speed up forecasting and financial reporting • Apply consistent guardrails across data access, actions, and AI usage, so every...

Databricks Blog5 min
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Products & Tools

Build Applications on NVIDIA BlueField Faster with NVIDIA DOCA Agent Skills | NVIDIA Technical Blog Build Applications on NVIDIA BlueField Faster with NVIDIA DOCA Agent Skills By Claudia Martinez , Matan Raz and Tamir Tevet NVIDIA DOCA AI agent skills provide verified API signatures, hardware capability requirements, and build constraints so agents can reason like experienced DOCA developers.

NVIDIA Developer Blog9 min
Illustration for: Introducing Extract v2.5 - LlamaIndex
Products & Tools

Today we’re introducing Extract v2.5, a new generation of our schema-based document extraction agents. This release brings accuracy improvements across all tiers as well as enhanced grounding capabilities to our highest tiers, Agentic and Agentic Plus.

LlamaIndex6 min
Illustration for: OpenAI DevDay 2026
Products & Tools

Hi folks,I’m in sf till Sunday. I wanna meet folks talk about ai with non-technical adoptionbuilders doing fun shitfounders working on dev…

Ben's Bites4 min
Illustration for: Modal Clusters are generally available
Products & Tools

Organizations need to own their intelligence to be successful. Training and serving that intelligence at scale, however, requires petaFLOP/s of compute and terabit/s of networking, spread across many nodes.

Modal Blog6 min
Illustration for: Sidecars: A low-latency trust boundary for Sandboxes
Products & Tools

At Modal, our customers rely on Sandboxes to execute untrusted code written by their downstream users or, almost exclusively now, by agents. Running untrusted code isn’t a new problem: every cloud provider has to do this from day 1 to isolate their platform from their user and their users from each other.

Modal Blog6 min

Guides

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Open Source

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Illustration for: Build Local AI Apps with C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT RTX Samples
Open Source

Build Local AI Apps with C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT RTX Samples | NVIDIA Technical Blog Build Local AI Apps with C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT RTX Samples Do Inference Now (DIN) Deploy provides open-source C++ samples that combine ONNX Runtime with the NVIDIA TensorRT RTX execution provider to accelerate local AI inference on Windows and Linux.

NVIDIA Developer Blog4 min

Policy & Ethics

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Illustration for: Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Policy & Ethics

Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts , which by then had been around for several years.

WIRED AI4 min