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New York, United States / New York, October 15th, 2026, TechnologyWire Anchor, the browser infrastructure company for AI agents, today launched Action Index, a shared memory of web workflows that agents have already completed successfully.
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Gmail’s search can be frustrating and basic, but Google is finally smartening it up for AI plan subscribers.
Try asking an AI assistant what a mid-range hotel in Lisbon costs for next weekend. You’ll get a number, usually stated with complete confidence. And if you then ask where it came from, the explanation gets vague fast. Sometimes the agent really did check a booking site a few seconds earlier.
AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15.
Liquid AI released d1-ultra, a text and image decision model that returns calibrated probabilities in 1 forward pass. It scores 65 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index and costs $0.042 per million input tokens.
Microsoft will scale its Maia accelerator family to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027, making it the primary inference system for its own products. Maia 300 collapses scale-up and scale-out onto one Ethernet fabric and moves KV state between prefill and decode workers without leaving it.
A surge in AI adoption has been identified among smaller UK firms, with Anthropic outgunning OpenAI among British SMEs.
Rakuten priced ¥400B ($2.5B) of yen bonds on Friday, its largest yen bond sale, with ¥360B going to retail investors. The 5.5-year debt carries a 4.37% coupon. Japanese companies have sold about ¥3.2T of retail bonds this year, already above 2025’s record.
Matters, a Stockholm startup building an AI-powered consumer bank, has raised $5m in pre-seed funding as it comes out of stealth. Swedish angel investor Jakob Johansson led the round. Per Österström founded the company in April.
Tesla revealed its second-generation Roadster on 15 October at a SpaceX site in McGregor, Texas. The car uses cold-gas thrusters built with SpaceX to jump, flip, and land. Reservations cost $50,000 or $250,000 depending on the version, and Musk says production starts in 2028.
Both Nvidia and Apple have each contributed $25 million to the new White House ballroom being set up by President Donald Trump, the largest amount any donor has given. The numbers are from a donor list obtained confidentially by The Washington Post, which published the list on Thursday.
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