“Is this AI?” my girlfriend will ask me, pointing to a post on TikTok or Instagram. If you’re online, you ask this question every single day. As the years have gone on…
Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs’ cheap prices are “irrational”
Comcast reportedly plans significant job cuts in its cable division as the firm continues to lose residential broadband and TV customers. Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in Q3 2026, up from…
The Indian workers filming their work to train AI
“Every robotics company, every frontier AI lab, has a specific kind of data they want: industrial tasks, agriculture, household chores, small business work like pottery, garment-making, embroidery, candle-making. We go wherever the…
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale \ Anthropic
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Etsy bans AI-generated recipes, patterns from its online marketplace
Etsy said Thursday it will no longer allow merchants to sell AI-generated recipes and patterns on its online marketplace, as part of a wider push to set firmer rules around the use…
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13…
The biggest-ever internet security threat has been known for 22 years. AI made it a crisis in 2 days
In July 2004, security researcher Stefan Esser sent a warning. A critical flaw in PHP, the programming language that powers 70% of the world’s websites, could allow an attacker to do some…
Jensen Huang, robot ducks and neocloud distress
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. Jensen Huang has been busy. Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin was the grand finale of a…
CNBC Daily Open: AI spending fears haunt markets before Halloween
Good morning. This is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore. Markets open and close every day. Today, Daily Open will close for the final time. Thank you for making us part…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang visits Kazakhstan, the next AI hub?
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the launch of the Sferical One AI supercomputer in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. Erik Flyg | Bloomberg | Getty Images…