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In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X.

Salesforce’s Agentic CX Vision: 8 Dreamforce Announcements CX Leaders Need to Act On Dreamforce 2026: Eight Salesforce announcements CX leaders need to know, from AI agents and CCaaS to Koa, governance, and human handoffs. Standing in the Dreamforce keynote audience, the scale of Salesforce’s ambition was hard to miss.

To the music industry, Sean Parker has been many things. As co-founder of Napster, he was first an “outlaw renegade,” as he himself puts it.

Seventy years ago last summer, a group of scientists met at Dartmouth College to discuss a wild idea—that machines might one day be capable of humanlike thought processes. One of those scientists, John McCarthy, had suggested a name for the new field: artificial intelligence .

PLUS: Telecom giants team up to kill dead zones Good morning, tech enthusiasts. Apple's next big device could be something closer to home: a security camera that never records a frame of video.

Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls.

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Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security.

Over the past four months, Amber Retzloff, a critical care nurse in Florida, requested to work 50 specific 12-hour shifts. But over half the time, she says her hospital’s Palantir -powered scheduling software assigned her to different shifts, often putting her on back-to-back-to-back days and leaving her mentally drained.

AI Tavus' AI looks, listens, and talks back live PLUS: Is ChatGPT “Dots” worth upgrading to Pro for? Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 6,908 new readers.

Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap The first-of-its-kind Academy trains Frontier Deployed Engineers using the same standard of skills as Anthropic’s own engineers, starting with cohorts from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and others.

Faced with growing opposition to datacenters from residents who don't want the bit barns in their backyards, Amazon plans to invest more than $1 billion over…

Runway said it is testing Praxis-1 on a variety of embodiments and environments to identify and close potential gaps before moving to general availability. | Source: Runway Runway AI Inc.

arXiv, the preprint paper repository, is seeing so many low-quality submissions, with AI tools helping drive the surge, that it has imposed a hard limit of…

Some big AI companies seem to think that the best way to keep models from becoming too chaotic or too mischievous is to keep them locked inside of labs. If only a chosen few can access them, the thinking goes, they can do less damage in the real world while researchers try to understand what they’re capable of.

Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock provides powerful AI assistance, but without integrated web search, responses are limited to the model’s training knowledge…

Search agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are transforming how enterprises retrieve information.

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Toward provably private learning from federated data Toward provably private learning from federated data Katharine Daly, Software Engineer, and Daniel Ramage, Research Director, Google Research We announce a new Federated Learning system that provides externally verifiable privacy guarantees while shifting computation to the server to improve training speed, accuracy, and device coverage.

Last call for regular tickets for AI Engineer NYC! As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can take a 30% off code if it helps - for…

Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models - Apple Machine Learning Research research area Speech and Natural Language Processing content type paper published October 2026 Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models Authors Maureen de Seyssel, Jie Chi*, Zakaria Aldeneh* Multilingual self-supervised speech models can benefit from sharing information across languages, but under a matched total...

Limits of Confidence in Diffusion - Apple Machine Learning Research research area Methods and Algorithms content type paper published October 2026 Authors Russ Webb, Amitis Shidani, Alice Bizeul, Dan Busbridge Discrete diffusion, including remasking and uniform-state samplers, generate a sequence by writing multiple token positions per step, drawing each from a per-position distribution and choosing which positions to write from...

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 10: Entrepreneur Sean Parker speaks on stage at the Philly Fights Cancer: Round 4 at The Philadelphia Navy Yard on November 10, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch.

After evolving from an Apple-made, client-side language and years of false starts, Swift could finally make it on the server.

The US has arrested another suspect accused of smuggling high-end computer servers containing export-controlled Nvidia chips into China.

New helpful little guy just dropped. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full…

Databricks Genie One is a data-smart AI coworker for asset management finance that grounds every answer in a governed business ontology, with backend agents handling NAV reconciliation and fund data ingestion.

In 2026, it will not be a light task to choose an AI video generator and turn a text prompt into a video clip. Creators can now access animation tools, product videos, social content, storytelling, avatars, and professional marketing content, and various platforms specialize in various workflows.

The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it's getting more…

Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to…

A complete reference architecture for building a multi-stage recommendation and ranking engine on Databricks — from clickstream ingestion to real-time personalized serving — replacing fragmented ML infrastructure with a single unified platform.

Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and scammers . But a recently patched vulnerability in the macOS version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT underscores the potential value to attackers of compromising AI software itself as these apps proliferate more and more.

AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words The new Speech feature provides synthetic voiceovers embellished with AI background music. The new Speech feature provides synthetic voiceovers embellished with AI background music.

Last call for regular tickets for AI Engineer NYC! See you in 2 weeks!As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can take a 30% off…

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On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers.

As far back as she can remember, Cathy Wu ’12, MNG ’13 wanted to find ways to solve problems to improve people’s lives.

Despite the “dot-com crash” in 2000, the tech industry remained an attractive career destination for many who believed technology represented the future.

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AI is changing how developers work and apply their skills. Writing code is still essential, but developers increasingly need to know how to direct AI,…

Prior to joining Airbnb as CTO in January, Ahmad Al-Dahle was head of generative AI at Meta and led the launch of its open source Llama models over 2023-2025.

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The book “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” by Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the Ethernet Inventors…

Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced.

OpenAI's agents have repeatedly strayed beyond their intended scope. Two separate reports detail the activity, including one from Sam Altman’s company saying…

Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta Language models can already help researchers search the literature, synthesize evidence, and work through complex questions.

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Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories.

Voting machines fill the floor for early voting at State Farm arena in Atlanta on 12 October 2020. Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP Voting machines fill the floor for early voting at State Farm arena in Atlanta on 12 October 2020.

Debt financing for data centers and related infrastructure has grown rapidly enough that it’s become its own category these days—credit analysts are breaking…

Checking tens of thousands of apartment leases against constantly changing state landlord-tenant laws, and proving you actually checked all of them, has been…