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2615
Open source

vLLM climbs GitHub Trending among Python projects

vLLM is a high-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine for large language models, originally developed in the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley and now maintained by a community of more than 2,000 contributors. It manages attention key-value memory with PagedAttention and supports continuous batching, chunked prefill, prefix caching, speculative decoding and quantization formats including FP8, INT8/INT4, GPTQ/AWQ and GGUF, alongside an OpenAI-compatible API server. The engine runs on NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs plus x86/ARM/PowerPC CPUs, and supports 200+ model architectures on Hugging Face.

GitHub Trending · Python·
2625
Products

Apple tightens macOS Full Disk Access controls as AI agents proliferate

In the Oct. 8 episode of 9to5Mac's Security Bite podcast, host Arin Waichulis walks through the new controls Apple told developers it is adding to Full Disk Access — the macOS permission that lets an app read nearly everything on a user's drive. The report ties the move to the rise of AI agents on the Mac, but Apple has not spelled out exactly what will change, and speculation has run high. The episode also explains what Full Disk Access is, what prompted the change, and what remains unknown.

9to5Mac·
2635
Industry

Center for Humane Technology lays off half its staff in 'founder-led' pivot

The Center for Humane Technology, cofounded by former Google product manager Tristan Harris and featured in the documentary The Social Dilemma, is laying off about half of its 16 non-founder employees, including executive director Julie Guirado and senior director of strategy Camille Carlton, former staffers told WIRED. The group is ending its policy research and litigation support work to focus on what it calls "founder-led" efforts: public education, targeted briefings and private coordination. Board chair Premal Shah said the moment of "accelerated AI risk" requires one strategy, while some ex-employees fear resources will shift away from democracy and civil liberties concerns.

WIRED AI·
2645
Research

Humanoid robot hype vs. reality: AI gains won't change daily life soon

Humanoid robots are being sold as AI's next wave: Tesla's Optimus is pitched as a future product that could take on almost all human labor at roughly $20,000 per unit, with Elon Musk predicting public sales by the end of 2027, and Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Marc Andreessen and Morgan Stanley offering similarly bullish forecasts. Many robotics researchers are skeptical, arguing that methods which worked for language and images understate the difficulty of the physical world, where tasks vary endlessly and training data cannot cover every possibility. The article highlights vision-language-action models such as Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics running on the ALOHA 2 platform, which can perform relatively complex tasks like packing a lunchbox or doing origami but is likely to fail outside its training set; world models are presented as a possible alternative path, attracting backing for startups like World Labs and AMI Labs.

MIT Technology Review AI·
2655
Industry

Hybio's HY3003 triple agonist gets FDA IND acceptance

Hybio Pharmaceutical said it received an FDA acceptance notice for its investigational new drug application for HY3003 injection; human trials can begin if the FDA does not impose a hold within 30 days. The candidate is a weekly subcutaneous GLP-1R/GIPR/GCGR triple-receptor agonist discovered using the company's AI peptide-chip screening technology, aimed at weight loss and type 2 diabetes. Hybio says preclinical work showed better weight reduction than the marketed dual agonist tirzepatide, a company-reported comparison.

36氪快讯·
2665
Industry

The real test for physical AI starts after the pilot

A TechRadar Pro perspectives piece argues that the bottleneck for physical AI — vehicles, equipment, cameras and sensors — is no longer budget or ambition but execution: organizations must pick a measurable operational problem, give AI the operational context it needs (maintenance history, location, driving behaviour and conditions), and connect every insight to an action. It cites BCG's 2026 AI Radar as finding corporate AI spending will more than double from 0.8% to about 1.7% of revenue, PwC's 2026 study that 74% of AI's economic value goes to 20% of organizations, and Capgemini's finding that 79% of organizations engage with robotics while only 27% deploy or scale it.

TechRadar·
2674
Industry

Joe Tsai: AI to become invisible infrastructure; knowledge-worker TAM $50 trillion

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai said at Italy's Wave by Vento 2026 event that over the next five years AI will shift from a headline topic to invisible infrastructure embedded across businesses. He argued AI today mainly saves people time, while the bigger untapped opportunity is in how people spend time, with knowledge-worker productivity the most certain use case — which he pegged at a $50 trillion total addressable market. Tsai also framed Alibaba's strategy around e-commerce and full-stack AI, using 2023 as a dividing line, and reiterated the value of open source for Europe's "neo cloud" players.

AIbase AI新闻·
2684
Industry

Altman: world should accept some AI harms in exchange for huge benefits

In the first episode of Politico's new podcast "Decoded," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the world should accept some negative events from AI in exchange for the technology's benefits and user autonomy. Asked how OpenAI's approach to AI safety differs from Anthropic's, he said one key disagreement with strict safety advocates is that OpenAI favors a lighter-touch regulatory stance, arguing "some bad things" will happen as society explores resilience. NYU professor emeritus Gary Marcus criticized the remarks as telling the public to put up with harm. DoNews also cites TechSpot listing AI-driven job losses, data-center pollution and noise, copyright infringement, online spam, declining critical thinking, and surging power and water demand, which Altman still says are outweighed by the benefits.

DoNews·
2694
Industry

JPMorgan Private Bank says AI demand, constrained supply to keep driving earnings

Nataliia Lipikhina, head of EMEA equity strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, said on Bloomberg Television that artificial intelligence continues to underpin global equity markets, particularly the tech sector. She said the market is coming to the realization that the AI story continues, with demand still very strong and supply still constrained.

Bloomberg Technology·
2704
Industry

Accton to build Nanliao plant for NT$6.74B, adds NT$3.29B to AI smart park

Accton said on October 8 that its board approved an investment plan to build the Nanliao plant, with NT$6.74 billion (US$~210M) earmarked to meet the company's long-term development needs. The company also added NT$3.286 billion to its AI smart park investment. No timeline, capacity figures or customer details were disclosed.

科技新报·
2715
Open source

hackingtool: AI-guided all-in-one security testing toolkit trends on GitHub

hackingtool is an open-source all-in-one toolkit for authorized security testing that the project describes as bundling 215 curated tools across 21 categories, with an AI layer on top: you describe a goal in plain English (e.g. "find subdomains of example.com") and it maps intent onto a fixed 63-tag taxonomy to surface the right tool and command. The AI layer is opt-in and bring-your-own-key, using an OpenAI-compatible endpoint or local Ollama, and degrades to offline keyword matching with no model configured; /goal drafts a step-by-step plan, asks for authorization confirmation, and never feeds tool output back to the model. It runs only on Linux/macOS, emphasizes no auto-execution, SHA-256-verified downloads, and refuses out-of-scope requests such as DoS or mass targeting.

GitHub Trending · Python·
2724
Industry

AVEVA: Industrial AI needs guardrails and human oversight

In a MIT Technology Review Business Lab episode produced with AVEVA, AVEVA chief technologist Arti Garg describes the next phase of industrial AI. She says general-purpose foundation models, physical AI and agentic AI are driving faster adoption in industry, citing one study that suggests roughly a 78% increase over the past two years. She outlines AVEVA's responsible-AI triple mandate — secure, efficient (including environmentally) and preserving human safety and oversight — arguing AI should augment rather than replace people in critical decision loops. She also cites her involvement in an IEEE working group developing a standard methodology for measuring AI's environmental footprint across electricity, energy, resources, water and carbon.

MIT Technology Review AI·
2734
Industry

Hong Kong stocks fall; Hang Seng Tech drops 2.89% as MiniMax, Zhipu slide

Hong Kong shares closed lower on October 8, with the Hang Seng Index down 1.43% and the Hang Seng Tech Index down 2.89%. Semiconductors led the decline: Biren Technology fell more than 11%, Hua Hong Semiconductor more than 9%, and SMIC and Montage Technology more than 6%, while AI model names MiniMax-W dropped over 13% and Zhipu over 7%. Coal and oil/petrochemical shares gained, and southbound flows recorded a net buy of HK$6.477 billion.

36氪快讯·
2744
Products

Apple Watch Series 12 cheat sheet: health sensing, Siri AI, pricing

Apple Watch Series 12 went on sale September 18, 2026, starting at $399 in 42mm and 46mm sizes with aluminum, titanium or ceramic cases. It uses an S11 chip with a 4-core Neural Engine, a redesigned Health Sensing System that can take heart-rate readings as often as every five seconds, and a new 0–10 readiness score combining activity, Training Load, Vitals and sleep (requiring at least seven nights of overnight Vitals data). New AI features include Siri AI plus Audio Intelligence — Sound Recognition, Music Recognition, Live Rewind and Siri Recap — limited to Series 12 and Ultra 4; Siri AI is still in beta, needs an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone and has regional limits.

TechRepublic·
2754
Industry

US Q3 earnings season to open with Nvidia, Micron driving growth

The US third-quarter earnings season begins next week. According to an analysis by ZeroHedge, Nvidia and Micron are expected to account for more than a third of the S&P 500's Q3 earnings-per-share growth. Overall, AI infrastructure companies are expected to drive more than half of that growth, the analysis found.

36氪快讯·
2764
Products

AcBel and OmniOn to show 100kW power shelf and liquid cooling at OCP

AcBel Polytech will showcase new high-power supply designs with subsidiary OmniOn Power at OCP Global Summit 2026 in San Jose from October 13–15. Its 100kW Power Shelf fits 100kW of output into 1OU and, using a patented power distribution unit, can be configured for either ±400V or 800V DC, while a 19-inch 72kW Power Shelf for 50V architectures uses 12kW modules at up to 102 W/in³ and has earned 80 PLUS Ruby certification. AcBel said it is also developing next-generation liquid-cooled power supplies to handle rising power density in AI servers.

科技新报·
2774
Industry

Flai raises $27M Series A for automotive AI customer service

On October 8, Flai, which provides AI customer service for the auto industry, announced a $27 million Series A led by Base10 Partners, with Findlay Automotive Group, The Friedkin Group and Y Combinator among the participating investors. Flai offers auto dealers a voice-first, omnichannel reception platform that answers calls around the clock for pre-sales questions, test-drive bookings, service scheduling and recall notices, and integrates with DMS and CRM systems for automatic conversation logging and seamless handoff to human staff in complex cases. The funding is earmarked for product development and market expansion.

DoNews·
2784
Industry

Navra raises $19M Series A for AI-native multi-chain finance platform

Navra has raised a $19 million Series A round to build out an AI-native, multi-chain financial platform, according to a DoNews report. The report did not name the investors, the valuation or specific product details. The company positions the platform as combining AI with multi-chain financial services.

DoNews·
2794
Industry

Phison September revenue up 370% YoY as AI modules pass half of sales

Phison reported September 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$30.639 billion, up 8% month-on-month and 370% year-on-year, with third-quarter revenue of NT$86.077 billion (up 27% QoQ and 375% YoY) and first-nine-month revenue of NT$194.932 billion, up 290% YoY — all record highs for the respective periods. CEO Pua Khein-Seng said AI Ecosystem modules, including eSSD, aiDAPTIV solution, AI PC, AI Networking, AI Server and Boot Drive, accounted for more than 50% of September revenue. He also said deployments of the company's AI Data Platform in medical settings reached 90% user satisfaction, with document production time in some workflows cut by more than 50%.

科技新报·
2804
Products

Govee launches three AI lighting products at IFA 2026

Govee unveiled three products at IFA 2026 — the AI-driven emotion-responsive Sky Ceiling Light, the COB Strip Light 2 Pro and Permanent Outdoor Lights 2 Pro — all running AI Lighting Bot 2.0, which generates and iteratively refines lighting effects from text, voice or images. Govee says it has worked on AI lighting since 2023, has filed more than 2,100 patents and won 28 international media awards at the show. Those claims, including 'industry-first' and 'first multi-turn conversation' in AI lighting, come from the company itself and are unverified.

36氪 人工智能·
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