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Oct 22, 2026
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Artificial IntelligenceBoth labs publicly backed evaluator independence last month, but sources told Reuters they sought strict editorial control as recently as Oct. 5.
SK hynix fell 10% and Samsung more than 7% after China's biggest DRAM maker said it will ship next-generation server memory by year-end, years ahead of rival roadmaps.
The new model series targets coding and personal agents that remember you. The top version is only for paying Muse Code subscribers, and the consumer rollout starts with subscribers too.
OpenAI posted 722 AI-generated math papers but left out the model name, prompts and most reasoning records that the mathematicians it consulted had asked labs to publish.
Broadcom's Hock Tan said many AI investors "have no clue what they are investing in," likening them to casino gamblers, Bloomberg reported. He still sees demand outrunning supply.
The reported price is roughly 75% above Decart's valuation in May and comes a month after Anthropic walked away from a deal at about $6 billion. Neither company has confirmed the talks.
Google's new Gemini work agent will run some jobs on Anthropic's Claude. In Google's words, "Gemini is the agent, and the model underneath it is a separate choice."
Meta and Sierra's open Personal Agent Protocol would let customers limit what AI agents can do with their accounts and let companies set the rules. OpenAI and Visa are among its design partners.
Google will pay for upgrades at 11 existing reactors under a 20-year deal and take another 2,700 MW under a 15-year contract, pitching it as a way to add data center demand without raising other customers' bills.
