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Anthropic establishes a public benefit fund and allocates a progressive share of its equity for societal good

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has announced the creation of a public benefit fund and the initial allocation of 5% of its shares to it, with a mechanism to increase the share proportionally as the company's financial valuation grows.

2026-10-18

Opinions and Analysis

Can SpaceX Turn Starlink into the Fourth Major Mobile Carrier in the United States?

The Verge examines SpaceX’s plan to use low-band spectrum and the Starlink satellite network to build a mobile communications business that competes with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. The discussion concludes that the project has clear differentiators, but requires massive investments, a terrestrial network, and roaming or wholesale agreements that have yet to be clarified.

2026-10-17

Electric Cars

Mercedes-AMG Reveals Its First Ground-Up Electric SUV with 1,153 Horsepower

Mercedes-AMG has revealed the 2028 electric GT SUV, the first full-size SUV developed from the ground up internally by the performance division, with three axial-flux motors, up to 1,153 horsepower, and 710-kilowatt charging. The vehicle will arrive in the United States next summer, while the company has not yet announced its price.

2026-10-17

Artificial intelligence

Replit Makes OpenAI the Default Provider for AI Models Instead of Anthropic

Replit’s CEO said the company chose OpenAI to power Replit Agent based on performance, cost, and the partnership, while Anthropic models remain available to users. The decision reveals a shift in the commercial relationship between Replit and Anthropic, despite indications that some cooperation continues.

2026-10-17

Robotics and Automation

OpenAI Is Developing a Humanoid Robot and Believes Its “Mind” Is the Biggest Challenge

Sam Altman confirmed that OpenAI is working on a humanoid robot, with a primary focus on developing the intelligence that enables it to understand its environment, perform tasks, and correct its mistakes. The company expects to present a demonstration in 2027, but it is still far from launching a commercial product.

2026-10-17

Cybersecurity

ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack Breaches Microsoft 365 Tenants

ConnectWise suspended customer access to its Cloud Backup service after application identities were exploited to gain unauthorized access to Microsoft 365 tenants. Huntress identified at least 162 affected tenants, while Microsoft warned that the risks from planted credentials and existing tokens may persist.

2026-10-17

Energy and Green Technologies

Small-Scale Solar Power Generation in the United States More Than Quadruples Over a Decade

The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that generation from small-scale solar systems, including residential panels, increased from 18,812 to 92,979 gigawatt-hours over a decade. California led the growth, while government incentives and improving technologies helped expand the market beyond the areas with the greatest solar exposure.

2026-10-16

Technologies

Nine Improvements Reach Windows 11 Preview Builds in October 2026

Microsoft is testing a range of improvements in Windows 11, including a new search experience, a tool for monitoring device batteries, data recovery and secure erasure options, as well as updates to file management and accessibility.

2026-10-16

Artificial intelligence

Meta Launches Muse Spark Open Model with 816 Billion Parameters That Runs Locally on Two Mac Studio Devices

Meta has launched the open-weight Muse Spark Open artificial intelligence model, designed for coding and long-running agentic tasks, which can run locally on two Mac Studio devices equipped with M5 Ultra processors and a combined 1 terabyte of unified memory. Although its weights are available for download, the model is subject to Meta’s license, which imposes commercial restrictions on certain uses.

2026-10-16

Programming and Software Development

Cloudflare Opens Void Source for Managing AI-Built Employee Applications

Cloudflare has launched the open-source version of Void, a toolkit that allows companies to self-host and manage Vite applications, with control over deployment, access, logs, and resource consumption. The platform targets the problem of employees creating AI-built applications outside IT teams’ oversight, but it does not require a security review before launch.

2026-10-16

Artificial intelligence

Elorian Launches Glimpse Model for Iterative Visual Reasoning on Images and Video

The startup Elorian has launched the Glimpse model as a research release with a chat interface and API. During inference, it returns to images and video clips to crop regions, analyze frames, and run code. The company says the model outperforms GPT-6 Astra in its evaluations on scientific diagram reasoning and short-video description, despite being smaller and less expensive than leading models.

2026-10-16

Artificial intelligence

American Medical Association Introduces Framework for Governing Artificial Intelligence Agents in Healthcare

The American Medical Association issued a framework defining four questions for governing artificial intelligence agents used in clinical tasks, from the permitted function to the party responsible for risks and outcomes. This comes as use of these tools expands and comprehensive federal regulation of artificial intelligence in healthcare remains absent.

2026-10-16

Startups

U.S. Startup Funding Declines in Size as Modal Labs Leads With $750M Round

U.S. startups included in the 10 largest funding rounds during the week of October 10–16, 2026, raised billions of dollars, but the number of rounds exceeding hundreds of millions fell to just two. Modal Labs topped the list with a $750 million Series D round, followed by Icon with $200 million in funding.

2026-10-16

Robotics and Automation

Cloudflare Launches a System to Monitor Verified Bot Behavior Over Time

Cloudflare is introducing a system that measures whether verified bots respect site preferences, such as robots.txt and HTTP 429 responses, rather than merely verifying their identity. The company will turn these observations into a trust range that could eventually be used to make decisions about allowing automated visits.

2026-10-16

Space and Space Technologies

The Space Launch Race Accelerates as Neutron Is Delayed and the Ceiling for Potential Starship Flights Is Raised

The space launch sector is seeing mixed developments, from delaying Neutron’s first flight until 2027 and shipping the reusable Nova stage for testing, to an FAA study on allowing hundreds of annual flights from Starbase. Reflect Orbital has also contracted with India’s Skyroot, while SpaceX has launched new military and commercial missions.

2026-10-16

Reviews & Buying Guides

Surface Laptop Ultra Review: Powerful ARM Hardware Outruns Its Software

Microsoft and NVIDIA introduce the Surface Laptop Ultra with an RTX Spark N1X processor, up to 64 GB of unified memory, and notable capabilities for running AAA games and large local AI models. However, application compatibility, Copilot+ support, and AI tools remain incomplete, making the device more promising than ready for everyone.

2026-10-16

Privacy and Technology Policies

Meta’s New Commercial Terms May Give It Broader Authority to Use Company Website Content for AI Training

Meta plans to implement an update to its commercial terms on October 30 that would allow it to use content from websites linked to business accounts for access, indexing, analysis, and training, without a clear opt-out option. While the company says the change is limited to consolidating provisions and does not alter how it crawls the web, legal experts warn that it could expand its authority over publishers and web content.

2026-10-16

Privacy and Technology Policies

U.S. Bill Seeks to Grant Video Game Buyers Real “Ownership” Instead of Revocable Licenses

U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres introduced the Power to Players Act to require game companies to grant buyers broader rights to own, operate, and transfer games, while providing an offline mode when servers are shut down. However, the bill’s full text has not yet been published, and implementing this obligation could require major technical changes to games originally designed to operate online.

2026-10-16