https://ournews.ai/live/3e683464-4bf1-4034-b386-33aa199cbdc3ournews.aien2026-10-16T19:30:38.993405+00:00US markets: 15 Oct 2026 USD close — Microsoft $539.44 (+1.08%); Alphabet (GOOGL) $349.22 (+0.45%); Apple $342.00 (-0.28%); Amazon $254.76 (+0.27%); Meta $736.72 (-0.11%).https://ournews.ai/live/b1f12113-2784-40cc-9f8f-b16754ea8553ournews.aien2026-10-16T19:30:35.342181+00:00US markets: 15 Oct 2026 USD close — NVIDIA $217.23 (-1.84%); AMD $562.23 (-1.50%); Tesla $362.44 (-1.29%); Broadcom $344.33 (-0.55%); Palantir $200.50 (-0.23%).https://ournews.ai/live/867b5c79-f739-4c17-86dd-1a45919aa509ournews.aien2026-10-16T19:30:31.561137+00:00US markets: 15 Oct 2026 close — S&P 500 7,744.06 (+0.33%); Nasdaq Composite 26,713.03 (+0.08%); Dow Jones 52,177.69 (+1.08%).https://ournews.ai/live/4fc0946d-35a7-45f0-9d75-53750aae80c3ournews.aien2026-10-16T16:31:29.141583+00:00Waymo targets its first Toronto riders in 2028, with manually driven mapping vehicles arriving in the coming days and trained specialists supervising initial tests.https://ournews.ai/live/6127ba74-40dd-4ef0-81f4-75c0673de57dournews.aien2026-10-16T16:31:25.119871+00:00Slovakia recognizes provisional approval for Tesla FSD (Supervised); Tesla says rollout begins soon, with drivers remaining fully responsible.https://ournews.ai/live/70fc6777-4080-4212-abba-ba2a89fd8c9fournews.aien2026-10-16T13:33:13.986764+00:00Reflection releases Beam’s 501B-parameter model weights under Apache 2.0 in BF16, FP8 and NVFP4, alongside its open-source Mirror CLI coding harness.https://ournews.ai/live/59d8fb08-6814-4de8-9780-d90e475cda49ournews.aien2026-10-16T10:29:39.937170+00:00Volvo expands its NVIDIA partnership for future cars using Hyperion, Halos OS and Alpamayo Stack, with a gradual rollout of eyes-off and mind-off driving planned.https://ournews.ai/live/311e89b2-47dc-43c7-98bc-5fbf20833c49ournews.aien2026-10-16T10:29:35.848428+00:00Mercedes-Benz expands its NVIDIA partnership to develop new driver-assistance systems and future Level 4 applications using Hyperion, Alpamayo and Halos.https://ournews.ai/live/dfc6d800-8d95-44ee-abed-b148f35bd821ournews.aien2026-10-16T07:40:44.839571+00:00G7 finance leaders agree to tabletop exercises testing responses to AI-enabled cyberattacks, Japan’s finance minister Satsuki Katayama tells Reuters.https://ournews.ai/live/772ece51-abad-4e04-bbb8-b307f5359b17ournews.aien2026-10-16T01:29:24.882758+00:00NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 120B total and 12B active parameters, combining reasoning and tool use with image, document and video understanding; NVFP4 weights are available.https://ournews.ai/live/5d2a6853-75b2-4688-a907-c446df81ffecournews.aien2026-10-16T01:29:20.967910+00:00Muse Spark Open releases with 816B total and 42B active parameters, a 1M-token context and MLX support for clustered M5 Ultra Mac Studios; weights carry Meta’s limited-commercial licence.https://ournews.ai/live/af809f1e-8472-4aa5-8752-602872fe6a28ournews.aien2026-10-15T22:32:32.429295+00:00GPT-Rosalind’s Academic Plan offers eligible US university labs up to 30 free seats for up to 12 months, subject to trusted-access approval; API access is excluded.https://ournews.ai/live/82673f19-8983-4d46-b28e-8429378b866dournews.aien2026-10-15T19:39:10.035749+00:00US markets: 14 Oct 2026 USD close — AMD $570.82 (-5.73%); NVIDIA $221.30 (-3.16%); Broadcom $346.25 (-3.10%); Tesla $367.16 (-2.15%); Palantir $200.97 (-3.69%).https://ournews.ai/live/2ee68c54-725d-4b96-b203-f49bc6d5b39dournews.aien2026-10-15T19:39:06.630244+00:00US markets: 14 Oct 2026 USD close — Meta $737.54 (-3.27%); Microsoft $533.69 (-1.80%); Amazon $254.08 (-1.74%); Alphabet (GOOGL) $347.64 (-1.74%); Apple $342.96 (+0.50%).https://ournews.ai/live/a34b50b8-30af-45e4-8de7-8d01b1aea575ournews.aien2026-10-15T19:39:02.836677+00:00US markets: 14 Oct 2026 close — S&P 500 7,718.94 (-1.11%); Nasdaq Composite 26,692.87 (-1.88%); Dow Jones 51,621.48 (-0.09%).https://ournews.ai/live/18a85a2a-8b2d-4d8b-a456-4e5d16578d3bournews.aien2026-10-15T19:32:38.373507+00:00Anthropic gives six METR evaluators employee-like internal access and publication rights; it says it cannot veto their findings but can require narrowly defined redactions.https://ournews.ai/live/a7a51f50-d2a0-4082-9e30-0a5b5cb9bf02ournews.aien2026-10-15T16:32:30.374255+00:00GitHub makes AI Scan for pull requests and agentic autofix generally available; AI Scan stays advisory, while autofix validates fixes with CodeQL and opens draft PRs. Both consume AI credits.https://ournews.ai/live/9c20919f-911c-4d13-bdfb-52e6903a9b18ournews.aien2026-10-15T16:32:26.615627+00:00Microsoft completes pre-training MAI-Base-2: 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, trained on 16,000 GB200 GPUs over 38 days; post-training is still underway.https://ournews.ai/live/00744c41-278b-40a9-8717-d26697d716d0ournews.aien2026-10-15T13:52:22.100648+00:00Elon Musk floats an Amazon rival after a user reports Amazon blocking Grok Bot orders; no launch plan was announced.https://ournews.ai/live/0a0babb4-8eb0-43c0-94df-0fff04c50bbdournews.aien2026-10-15T13:35:32.018143+00:00Anthropic opens STEM and Conceptual Reasoning Fellowships: four months from January 2027 to improve Claude’s reasoning; applications close October 28, with US work authorization required.https://ournews.ai/live/d2ff1145-5fe4-4c47-b364-d5e1c766c9d3ournews.aien2026-10-15T13:35:28.262600+00:00US Treasury is seeking “super intelligence” wording in an IMF steering-committee statement, Undersecretary Erin Browne tells Reuters; negotiations remain ongoing.https://ournews.ai/live/7bcabfe9-104b-4b63-ae9f-fada083a44a1ournews.aien2026-10-15T10:29:00.434484+00:00NVIDIA launches free, openly licensed AI and accelerated-computing course materials, with no enrolment required; educators can adapt and redistribute them, while compute may cost extra.https://ournews.ai/live/1f0d3de7-a008-47fa-9ed3-68947f7ae286ournews.aien2026-10-15T07:36:09.445992+00:00More than 450 scientists, including Hinton and Bengio, urge default internet isolation for cyber-capable AI, an international containment standards body, and public reporting of containment failures.https://ournews.ai/live/8870b9b5-2dec-4e03-926c-6ea3280864d3ournews.aien2026-10-15T07:36:05.617606+00:00Ultramarine 1 Flash launches for professional knowledge work, built on GLM-5.3 Flash; Paper Instruments is admitting API users from a waitlist and promises model weights within two weeks.https://ournews.ai/live/4058f1c0-ac77-4908-b364-cb22eea9f2c6ournews.aien2026-10-15T04:31:54.973388+00:00NVIDIA releases cuPotential in early access for atomic-scale simulations used by AI agents, reporting an extra 2–3× speedup over already GPU-optimized workflows in early tests.https://ournews.ai/live/2067528e-1e83-40c5-97a9-7be682211e1cournews.aien2026-10-15T04:31:51.370785+00:00GitHub adds HydraFusion Max for deeper multi-model reasoning in Copilot’s VS Code, app and CLI research preview, available on Pro, Pro+, Business and Enterprise with preview features enabled.https://ournews.ai/live/c1c3ae86-7b6a-4e6e-85cc-c1d875b02545ournews.aien2026-10-15T04:31:47.415322+00:00Tinker adds experimental Dimuon for LoRA fine-tuning across all its models; Thinking Machines says it reached lower loss in fewer steps than AdamW in some supervised tests.https://ournews.ai/live/9eb09afd-81ec-4887-85cf-322543b314fbournews.aien2026-10-15T01:34:21.663627+00:00Claude.ai will add state-specific US voting information from Democracy Works later in October and show official results on election night, Anthropic says.https://ournews.ai/live/c25199bc-a65c-4bdf-8e16-9c046e081f36ournews.aien2026-10-15T01:33:38.080219+00:00New York City awards $29.2m to NYU’s QFab quantum lab, due in 2030, for three advisory seats and 15% of NYU central administration’s proceeds from IP created with city-funded tools.https://ournews.ai/live/7bd26cec-f41b-4988-bddb-b968c34be365ournews.aien2026-10-15T01:33:33.732607+00:00Anthropic told investors Q3 revenue reached $16.8bn, up 45% from Q2, and it was profitable on an adjusted basis, Reuters reports, citing meeting attendees.https://ournews.ai/live/f0e23ee7-5617-4ac9-94d5-719b68beab12ournews.aien2026-10-14T22:28:09.679135+00:00Gemini 4 Argon rolls out globally in the Gemini app for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers; Antigravity coding is also built into the Gemini macOS app.https://ournews.ai/live/e47c0414-2399-4f3c-8cca-fcdfc28aff88ournews.aien2026-10-14T22:28:05.705959+00:0053% of men and 40% of women surveyed claimed to recognize each of two fictional AI leaders, Harvard’s Shorenstein Center finds in a US survey conducted July 10–16.