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Artificial intelligence is no longer just answering questions. AI agents can now make decisions, take action, and find their own ways to accomplish tasks. And as humanoid robots become more advanced, experts are warning about what could happen when humans are no longer in control.

Design platform Figma announced a new Markdown-based editor to help define a company’s design, bring in design and code libraries, and integrate with the Payload headless content management system during the company’s first Config event in India. Through some of these features, the company aims to provide a definition for its own and third-party agents…

Ricursive Intelligence founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini believe more efficient AI chip design could help solve the compute crisis. The founders took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday to detail how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of…

xAI announced Grok Voice 3.0 on October 14, 2026, making the speech-to-speech model available in its Voice Agent API at $0.08 per minute. The company described Grok Voice 3.0 as the world’s most intelligent voice model and said it sets a new record for resolving customer support calls, with latency under one second and a…

Square launched the new Square Kiosk on October 14, 2026, which the company describes as its new flagship intelligent self-service kiosk for quick-service restaurants, built around an agentic, conversational voice layer that it says fully understands a seller’s menu. The kiosk is available beginning the same day, priced at $1,999 plus a $99 monthly software…

A work conversation can contain everything needed to move a task forward and still leave someone copying its details into another system. Zenzap is betting that AI agents belong inside that conversation, alongside the people responsible for the work.

Two teams at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design published papers in Nature on October 14, 2026, reporting proteases designed from scratch with computational methods that hydrolyse the polypeptide backbone at chosen sequences, including sites in the human disease-associated proteins TDP-43, amyloid-β and serum amyloid A.

Anthropic has added OpenTelemetry trace export to the Claude Platform, announcing on October 14, 2026 that developers can now send traces from Claude Managed Agents, the Messages API, and Claude SDKs to any observability tool that accepts the standard, with the feature available in public beta.

Sachin Katti, OpenAI’s vice president of compute strategy and GPT-Infra, said on October 14, 2026 that he is leaving his role at the company. Katti wrote that his last day will be November 15, 2026, and that he will continue supporting OpenAI as an advisor after that.

Hesai Group launched Kosmo on October 14, 2026, a 3D world data engine that combines its Kosmo One spatial camera with the Kosmo World cloud platform, converting physical environments into high-fidelity 3D digital spaces used for robot training, world model development, and immersive content creation.