Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs
Amnon Shashua’s doubleAI launches an AI that speeds up code while it runs

Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company and is its chief executive. The company announced Maxwell on Monday and o…

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours with no human help
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours with no human help

Four AI agents running on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon have defeated the Ender Dragon, Minecraft’s final boss, without human help. It took them 27 hours and 14 minutes from their first program, Google DeepMind researchers wrote in a paper published on arXiv…

Sergey Brin says Gemini now helps build the next Gemini
Sergey Brin says Gemini now helps build the next Gemini

Google is “starting to get onto that RSI treadmill”, cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon, Business Insider reported. Google shared the video on Wednesday. Brin pointed to the Flash models Google released before Gemini 4 as evid…

Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’
Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’

“Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.” Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in…

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are built to run AI agents locally
Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are built to run AI agents locally

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops, which launched on Friday, are built to run AI agents on the laptop itself. Users can install agents such as GitHub Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw and Perplexity from the first start-up, without a command line, Nvidia said. Each l…

Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen

Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card. Achint Sri…

Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1
Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1

From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts move to Gemini Flash-Lite only, according to Google’s Gemini Apps Help page. The change comes three days after Google released Nano …

Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests
Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra and hallucinates far less in early tests

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropic’s Claude …

Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails
Restate raises $20m to keep AI agents running when software fails

Restate, a Berlin startup founded by the creators of Apache Flink, has raised a $20m Series A. It builds infrastructure that keeps AI agents and backend software running through failures. Singular led the round, with Redpoint Ventures and Capital One V…

Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wedn…