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Zapata Quantum, a Boston quantum software company, has joined the IBM Quantum Network, it said on Tuesday. It will use IBM’s machines to build software for its clients. Zapata does not make quantum hardware.
The best requirements management tools for functional safety all protect one thing: the chain of evidence behind a safety case. It runs from a hazard, through the safety requirement that mitigates it, into the design that implements it, and out to the test that proves the design works.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light.
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance”.
Ask anyone who has worked in a security operations center what the job actually involves, and you’ll hear a lot about alerts. Thousands of them, most of which turn out to be nothing.
Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy, with no price disclosed.
OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. Ho leads OpenAI’s hardware team, and the interview was published on 30 September.
Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also paused sales, Business Insider reported.
Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access “with very explicit user action”. The company announced the change on its developer news site on Friday and said AI agents were the reason.
PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereign AI company while completing a merger with Germany’s Aleph Alpha in which Cohere shareholders take roughly 90%, as…
Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of “super intelligence”, the name President Donald Trump has told US agencies to use instead of AI.
Google has said a small number of complex Android apps and games need developer tuning to run properly on the Intel versions of its new Googlebook laptops, which reached Britain, Ireland, France and Germany today.
Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget.
Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks the bigger loss may be our ability to listen. She made the case in an opinion column for The Guardian.
US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said.
The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India’s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, as Bloomberg reported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday.
A member of OpenAI’s safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AI’s risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAI’s safety team, Bloomberg reported.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios published on Saturday. “This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leadership,” Bessent said, as Bloomberg reported.
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