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Friday, October 16, 2026

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Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline Hugging Face
AI-native personal finance platform Matters emerges from stealth with $5m pre-seed Finextra
AI-native payments platform Movere launches Finextra
When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off TechCrunch
AI slop responses to RFPs, RFIs are overwhelming federal agencies FedScoop
Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint Hugging Face
Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs TechCrunch
Reprogramming robots in the mud: How Army Special Ops trains its new robot technicians Breaking Defense
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps TechCrunch
Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls BleepingComputer
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access TechCrunch
Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs OpenAI
Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more TechCrunch
PEX brings AI-powered finance workflows to ChatGPT and Claude Finextra
Last chance to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Founder Summit pass: Early booking ends October 16 TechCrunch
Be There for the Beginning: Celebrate the Launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark NVIDIA
Stryker invests $400M into CMR Surgical The Robot Report
How ADI is helping robotics startups scale The Robot Report
Tesla remote operators keep crashing its ‘Robotaxis,’ data shows Electrek
Accelerating the search for antimicrobial peptides with Google Antigravity Google DeepMind
Proof-based general-purpose computing with Magnetar Microsoft Research
Utilities can use AI to solve grid backlogs: AWS energy lead Utility Dive
Microsoft Copilot for Legal: What Will Be the Fallout? Artificial Lawyer
AI agents are coming to Rivian’s cars TechCrunch
Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models NVIDIA
Microsoft Launches Copilot for Legal – Brace for Impact! Artificial Lawyer
AI-native core banking startup Maximum signs Emprise Bank Finextra
Federal AI adoption metrics miss the human factor FedScoop
Extend brings AI receipt agent to bank partners' SMB customers Finextra
Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US TechCrunch
Is AI pentesting as good as a human pentester? BleepingComputer
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Last day TechCrunch
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about former FDA head calling DOGE a ‘disaster,’ an AstraZeneca AI deal, and more STAT
Reliability standards for AI data centers, crypto miners move closer to adoption Utility Dive
STAT+: ‘AI sandboxes’ are all the rage. Advocates scramble to control their future STAT
Teaching students to think and learn through questions OpenAI
Lack of financial confidence driving consumers to AI assistants Finextra
Dougs raises $50m for AI accounting platform Finextra
Cultivate AI launches AI platform for credit unions Finextra
Amazon’s Bee launches two new personal AI devices, starting at $75 TechCrunch
The AI Dividend Isn't Showing Up in Technology Delivery. Here's Why. Finextra
Legal Innovators New York – Speakers + Tickets Info Artificial Lawyer
Agility chooses Nyobolt for ultra-fast charging for Digit 5 humanoid The Robot Report
CLS completes infrastructure migration with Kyndryl Finextra
eBrevia Launches ‘Command’ Contract Management Platform Artificial Lawyer
Apertus 1.5 Release Notes Hugging Face
The Smarter Path to Managing Payment Modernisation Finextra
As prior auth becomes an AI ‘arms race,’ Otter Health raises $8M for a different approach Fierce Healthcare
Legora Seeks Centrality With 30+ Integrations Ecosystem Artificial Lawyer
A new class of batteries helps data centers play nicely with the grid Canary Media
Old Problems, New Tools: Maybe You Need a Knowledge Strategy Artificial Lawyer
Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform TechCrunch
Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis TechCrunch
JPMorgan Chase blocks outside AI agents from directly accessing customer accounts Finextra
NatWest enlists Nvidia to help its AI spending tool understand regional accents Finextra
Sullivan & Cromwell brings legal expertise into agreement review OpenAI
Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt TechCrunch
Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta Hugging Face
Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers Hugging Face
ArXiv versus AI slop: will capping preprint submissions work? Nature