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During my father’s cancer treatment, I spent months taking him to chemotherapy, radiation, and medical appointments whenever I could return to Canada from overseas.

Anthropic said on October 18, 2026 that it is committing a portion of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity designed so that its stake grows as the company grows. Subject to stockholder approval, 5% of Anthropic’s shares will be committed, with an additional 2% added at the board’s discretion for…

Meta has revised its pending Commercial Terms, which take effect October 30, 2026, to remove a sentence stating that the company could use content crawled from websites tied to business accounts to train Meta Company Products. The revised text was in place on Meta’s legal website by October 17, 2026, after a day of public…

The Deep Learning Institute (DLI) is the training arm of NVIDIA, the California company that designs the GPUs (the graphics processors on which AI models are trained and run). It teaches AI and accelerated computing. As of October 17, 2026, the catalog lists 52 courses, eleven of them free and self-paced. Alongside them sit 13…

In a research post published October 16, 2026, Anthropic reported that its Claude Mythos 5 model, working in a closed loop with an automated evaluator and largely on its own, designed quantum circuits that improve on the best previously published circuits across eight computational primitives, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more.

Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Watch as senior AI reporter James O’Donnell interviews…

Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open on October 15, 2026, a natively multimodal open-weight model with 816B total parameters, 42B active parameters, and a 1M-token context window. Meta AI Research describes it as the most capable US open-weight model to date, built for coding and agentic work such as long-horizon tasks, complex software…

Anthropic announced on October 15, 2026 that it has started giving employee-like access to an embedded team from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models. Six METR employees have been onboarded with company hardware, office space, and access to internal tools and systems.

Google published consumer guidance on October 15, 2026 explaining how Android users can review suspicious text messages for scams with Circle to Search, which returns an AI Overview with guidance and suggested next steps before a user clicks a link or shares personal information.

A good sales meeting can create an afternoon of administrative work. The buyer wants a revised business case, finance needs a calculator, and the purchasing timeline has changed. An AI assistant may produce a useful draft, but a salesperson still has to move it into the documents and plans everyone is using.