Sakana AI's MASS: A 27B Open Model Improves Its Own AI Team — and the Blind-Spot Risk
Posted on 12th Oct 2026 12:05:44 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Sakana AI and UC Berkeley researchers show how a single 27B open-weight model can run, judge and improve its own multi-agent team — lifting research-task efficiency up to 1.6x per output token, while coding benchmarks slipped and the authors flag a shared blind-spot risk at the heart of self-improving AI.
Satya Nadella Calls for an AI 'Emergency Brake': Microsoft CEO Urges Treating Models as Insider Risks
Posted on 11th Oct 2026 12:06:32 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's new X essay argues that frontier AI models should be governed like insider risks - contained from the start, monitored with tamper-proof evidence, and always stoppable by an authorized human.
Microsoft Brings Hybrid Intelligence to Windows: Local AI Agents and the $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra
Posted on 10th Oct 2026 12:04:37 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
At its Oct 7 Windows and Surface event, Microsoft introduced Hybrid Intelligence, agent sandboxing with MXC, and the $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's RTX Spark.
Etched Draws $40-50 Billion Bids: Inside the Inference Chip Startup Challenging Nvidia
Posted on 9th Oct 2026 12:05:40 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Etched, the San Jose startup building AI inference systems to challenge Nvidia, is reviewing funding offers worth $40-50 billion that would roughly double its August valuation, as investors place big bets on the future of AI hardware.
Drones Strike Yandex's Sasovo Data Center: Why Data Centers Are Now War Targets
Posted on 8th Oct 2026 12:04:30 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
A drone strike forced Yandex to suspend operations at its Sasovo data center in Russia's Ryazan region, the first confirmed attack on Russian data infrastructure since 2022. Here's why the buildings that power the AI era are now wartime targets.
