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South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks

South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.

GitHub intelligence puts your code, context, and history to work

Agents should understand more than your codebase—they should understand how your team works. Your preferences, repository conventions, skills, and custom instructions guide how changes should be made, while code in… The post GitHub intelligence puts your code, context, and history to work appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Build shared workflows for your team with Copilot Automations

Shared Copilot Automations are rolling out, enabling teams to build and maintain AI-powered workflows together. With Copilot Automations, you can combine prompts, triggers, and tools to design workflows around the… The post Build shared workflows for your team with Copilot Automations appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Repository plugin defaults and enterprise plugin controls generally available

Repository plugin defaults and enterprise-managed plugin controls are now generally available in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the GitHub Copilot app. Trusted repositories can install and enable default plugins for… The post Repository plugin defaults and enterprise plugin controls generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Generate and edit images directly in Copilot

You can now generate and edit images using natural language in GitHub Copilot. When you ask for an image, your selected reasoning model calls a dedicated image-generation tool powered by… The post Generate and edit images directly in Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Copilot Fusion now supports selection of local models

Today we are shipping intelligent routing for local models into experimental preview. GitHub Copilot Fusion can now choose between supported on-device models and cloud models, enabling intelligent local model routing… The post GitHub Copilot Fusion now supports selection of local models appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Nvidia releases all-in-one adaptable Nemotron 3.5 audio transcription and translation model

Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, along with an open data pipeline for fine-tuning Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe. Traditional transcription AI models follow a workflow that detects speech, transcribes it, identifies and labels different speakers, then answers questions about the transcription. Transcribe does all of this […] The post Nvidia releases all-in-one adaptable Nemotron 3.5 audio transcription and translation model appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows Laptops Gain New Models, Agent Tools and Games

NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. These powerful systems combine an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and an NVIDIA Grace CPU in a single superchip with up to 128GB of unified […]

Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model

Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still leaving real-time use to rivals like ElevenLabs.

Virtana lets its AI agents pull in agents from other vendors to work IT incidents

Information technology observability company Virtana today added Agentic Observability Enterprise Management to its platform so its artificial intelligence agents can pull agents from other vendors into an IT incident. The release goes after a gap left by the way enterprises have adopted AI agents so far. Most enterprise agents have come built into a single […] The post Virtana lets its AI agents pull in agents from other vendors to work IT incidents appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Jedify formally launches Data Agents for building AI analysts in plain language

Enterprise artificial intelligence context startup Jedify Inc. today formally launched Data Agents, a product that lets business teams set up autonomous AI analysts by describing the work they want done in plain language. Data Agents takes on a longstanding limit of business intelligence software, where analysts have to build dashboards ahead of time around the […] The post Jedify formally launches Data Agents for building AI analysts in plain language appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

7 days until TechCrunch Founder Summit: Save up to $100 on your pass before doors open

In just 7 days, TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4. Your chance to save up to $100 on tickets is running out, and the opportunity to learn and connect directly with experienced founders, investors, and startup leaders is almost here.

Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma

A sort of review of the benchmarking industry and what's missing.

Circuit Mind lands $25M and puts AI agents to work checking circuit board schematics

British circuit board design startup Circuit Mind Ltd. today announced it has raised $25 million in new funding to extend its artificial intelligence platform across more of the hardware design process. A verification tool that puts AI agents to work hunting for errors in schematics launched at the same time. Circuit Mind offers software that […] The post Circuit Mind lands $25M and puts AI agents to work checking circuit board schematics appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Exclusive: Numeracle Raises $28M To Keep Legitimate Business Calls From Spam Label

Numeracle, a McLean, Virginia-based company that verifies businesses and links their identities to the phone numbers they use to contact customers, has raised $28 million from Edison Partners to help businesses whose calls are incorrectly labeled as spam or blocked by phone carriers.

Meta quietly launches the AI pet diary app Waddle World

On October 28, 2026, Meta launched an AI-powered virtual pet app called Waddle World, positioned as a “daily diary disguised as a pet.” Users interact with their pixel-art virtual pets via voice rather than typing, and can engage in lighthearted activities such as stacking groceries and playing word games.

Why it mattersThis information originates from a report published by The Verge on the same day, based on the official descriptions of the app available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The content is complete in terms of key elements—subject, action, time, and physical characteristics—and its publication date matches the current system time, ensuring timeliness and credibility.

The Sequence Learning Loop - Issue #960: Last Week in AI Infrastructure

DeepSeek, Google, and NVIDIA build the agent stack

From Monk To Startups: One Founder’s Unusual Path To Building Government Software

After living as a monk while managing Graves’ disease, a former Facebook engineer left Big Tech to pursue meaningful work, eventually founding government software startup FSH Technologies which aims to improve processes such as school food services and public records management through the use of artificial intelligence.

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Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed

Workers tell WIRED that NOA—or “No Ordinary Assistant”—was unhelpful. Bestselling authors also say AI is ruining their relationships with Big Five publishers.