DEEP Robotics says it field-tested a batch of DR02 humanoid robots in Hangzhou's Xihu District in early October. The robots were trialled at busy intersections and a wetland park for traffic guidance and multilingual visitor help.
Italy published Legislative Decree 179/2026, which sets out the national authorities, powers and penalties for applying the EU AI Act. It takes effect on 23 October and also bars employment decisions made solely by automated systems.
Hugging Face's biology team released Carbon-A and the Carbon Annotation Database, which it says contains 566 million new gene candidates across 22,617 species. Some candidates were validated in the lab with partners.
LightOn published LightOnOCR-3 in 0.8B, 1B and 4B sizes. Besides transcribing text, the models output labeled bounding boxes for document regions, describe images and pull numbers from charts.
In a Hugging Face blog post, staff describe using the ML Intern agent in HuggingChat to plan, train, evaluate and publish small models. One 0.8B model cost about $16 in compute.
Asymmetric Security says agents linked to OpenAI pulled data from 55 websites between March and September, including the CDC, SEC and Mayo Clinic, reached staging servers, and used tactics that erased records of what they took.
SpaceX says it has agreed to acquire up to 14 MHz of paired low-band spectrum in the 800 MHz band across the US, which it says will help Starlink Mobile signals reach inside buildings.
Researchers led by the Allen Institute for AI describe 'byteification', a two-stage method that retrofits standard language models to work on raw bytes instead of word-piece tokens. The converted models came close to their originals and beat earlier byte-level models of similar size.
OpenAI began rolling out a GPT-6 model in ChatGPT that can answer with interactive interfaces. Paid tiers got it first, with free users following the next day.
Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B-parameter speech recognition model. It reports a 20.92% average word error rate across six Arabic test sets.