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ORCA Computing Launches PT-3 Photonic Quantum Computer at Digital Realty’s London Lab
ORCA Computing's PT-3 photonic quantum computer is live at Digital Realty's London lab beside NVIDIA GPUs. Figures are ORCA's claims.
Google Research Makes Deep Review Public, an AI Agent That Checks Technical Documents
Google Research made Deep Review public, an AI agent that checks technical documents. Users get two free reviews a week.
Google DeepMind Gives Up to 200 European Researchers Access to Its Frontier Models, Plus $3M in Compute Credits
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will give up to 200 European researchers frontier-model access and $3M in compute credits via the EU's RAISE scheme.
Ampath Confirms a Cybersecurity Incident; Attacker Claims It Stole More Than 80 Million Patient Records
South African lab Ampath confirms a cybersecurity incident that may have exposed patient data. Attacker ByteToBreach claims over 80 million records.
Albert Raises $55 Million Series B Led by TCV to Bring AI Into Chemistry Labs
Albert, which makes AI software for chemistry labs, raised a $55 million Series B led by TCV. Its 45x accuracy claim for its model is its own.
Agilent Agrees to Buy Proscia, an AI Digital Pathology Company, for $240 Million Plus Up to $30 Million More
Agilent will buy AI digital pathology firm Proscia for $240M in cash at closing plus up to $30M in milestone payments, the companies said on 13 Oct 2026.
Sabi Raises $50 Million for a Cap That Reads Brain Signals. It Isn’t Out Yet
Sabi has announced a $50 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures for a baseball cap that reads brain signals. What is confirmed (the raise), what is reported (the $600 million valuation), what are the company's own claims, and why the product is unreleased and unproven.
White House Says Eleven Companies Pledged $2.4 Billion in AI Tools and Compute to the Genesis Mission
The White House says eleven companies pledged $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission Consortium, led by Nvidia ($1bn), AMD ($500m) and OpenAI ($200m). Who pledged what, what the companies themselves say, and why a pledge is not spend.
Firmus Pulls Its IPO, Isomorphic Labs Eyes $40bn-Plus and StepFun’s Step 5 Goes Live
Three AI business items from 8–9 October 2026: Nvidia-backed Firmus withdraws its ASX listing and turns to private money; Bloomberg reports Isomorphic Labs is in early funding talks at a valuation of at least $40 billion; and StepFun's Step 5 Preview model is now listed on OpenRouter and Vercel's AI Gateway. What is confirmed, and what is only reported.
An AI-Built Map of the UV Sky, and Two Warnings About Agent Scores
Anthropic says a team of Claude Science agents helped build the first complete UV map of the sky, about a third of it predicted rather than observed. A preprint finds agent benchmark scores can move because of the grader, not the agent, and Exa previews a search benchmark it designed and runs itself. What each one shows, and what it doesn't.
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