Microsoft pulls out of Nscale's planned Essex AI data centre over grid delays, reports say
The Loughton site was to host about 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs; grid power was not expected until the 2030s. Nscale says it remains committed.
Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund, pending shareholder approval
The board may add 2% for each 50% rise in value above a baseline; the fund's equity cannot be used for lobbying or political giving.
China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies, including frontier model weights and agents
The MOFCOM draft covers models above 10^26 FLOPs or 2 trillion parameters; open-sourced work is excluded and comments run to November 15.
Monkey recordings show the brain switching between seen and suppressed images about 15 times a second
The bioRxiv preprint used Neuropixels probes in face patches; it has not yet been peer reviewed.
IonQ and the University of Cambridge open a quantum innovation centre at the Cavendish Laboratory
The centre sits in the Ray Dolby Centre; the announcement is a partnership opening rather than a new hardware result.
FDA approves self-administered autoinjector for UCB's myasthenia gravis drug Zilbrysq
Arrowhead's RNAi drug ARO-MAPT cuts spinal-fluid tau by up to 73% in healthy volunteers
Intel unveils D270, an air-cooled inference GPU with 1.3 PFLOPS FP8 and LPDDR5X memory
Artificial Analysis launches AA-Robotics, testing language models that directly drive a robot arm
Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue reached $16.8 billion, up 45% from Q2, reports say
Elorian releases Glimpse, a visual reasoning model that re-inspects images while it thinks
The startup claims parity with GPT-6 Astra on several visual benchmarks at $0.60/$3 per million tokens; comparisons are its own.
FDA launches Rare Disease Framework Initiative to tailor drug reviews to small populations
A public meeting is set for October 28 and comments are open through December 11; changes to guidance and rules may follow.
Anthropic gives METR staff employee-level access and lets it publish risk assessments without veto
Six METR staff get access comparable to internal risk teams; Anthropic may require only narrow redactions, which METR can publicly challenge.
FDA approves Viatris's Ryzumvi eye drops for presbyopia in adults
The phentolamine 0.75% drop was already approved to reverse pupil dilation; Viatris is seeking a US partner to sell it for presbyopia.
Robot skin with more than 10,000 touch sensors lets humanoids feel fine texture and pull back from harm
Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model
DeepRSI benchmark gives AI agents 48 hours to improve real ML research tasks
SpaceXSI releases Grok Voice 3.0, which tops Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech index
Microsoft details Maia 300 inference chip, plans multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027
Google shows magic state cultivation on Willow, cutting logical error about 40-fold
The Science paper reports T-state fidelity of 99.99% while keeping only 8% of attempts; practical algorithms need far lower error.
StepFun releases Step 5 Preview open weights, a 600B multimodal MoE model
The Hugging Face release lists 27B active parameters, 1M-token context and text, image and video input, aimed at long-horizon agent work.
TSMC posts Q3 revenue of $46.7 billion, up 50.9% year over year, with net income up 68.7%
Diluted EPS was NT$29.43; the company's management report credits high-performance computing demand.