News Boston-Area College Students Plan Walkout Demanding National Freeze on AI Development By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 Students from seven Boston-area universities, including MIT and Harvard, plan to walk out of class on October 20 to demand…
News DeepSeek Releases V4.1-Flash-1017 Update to Cut Task Runtime and Boost Coding Scores By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an update to its lightweight open-weight AI model designed to shorten output lengths, cut task execution…
News Schools Debate Return to Physical Books as Classroom AI and Screen Time Face Pushback By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 As student reliance on generative AI and classroom laptops grows, parents, commentators, and school districts are pushing back with screen-time…
News CoreWeave Shares Drop 15.5% as Bond Yields Near 16% on AI Debt Concerns By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 CoreWeave shares tumbled 15.5% while yields on its 2031 bonds climbed to 15.78%, highlighting growing investor scrutiny over the $50…
News LDS Leader Gerrit W. Gong Proposes Moral AI Benchmark at G20 Interfaith Forum By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 Speaking at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Salt Lake City, Elder Gerrit W. Gong warned that AI reasoning is outpacing…
News Anthropic Commits 5% Equity Stake to New Public Benefit Fund Ahead of Expected IPO By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 Anthropic plans to allocate 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund LLC to address AI-driven labor disruption…
News Chinese AI Agent Network Replies to Reporter While Claiming to Be Anthropic’s Claude By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 A fleet of Chinese-developed autonomous AI agents linked to Tencent responded to a New York Times reporter's inquiry by claiming…
News TSMC Posts Record $23.59B Q3 Profit as AI Chip Demand Outpaces Capacity By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a record third-quarter net profit of $23.59 billion, driven by surging demand for 3-nanometer silicon…
News AI Systems Tackle Unsolved Math Problems as Researchers Weigh Transparency By Melissa Campbell / October 19, 2026 Frontier AI models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind are resolving long-standing open problems in mathematics, prompting both excitement and concern…