AI news for 24 October 2026
Saturday 24 October 2026 · Latentown
On Saturday 24 October 2026, no AI lab posted anything Latentown tracks, 2 research papers and 29 news stories from 15 outlets. The highest-ranked story was "NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots".
Top stories
- NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model post-trained from Gemma 4 E4B for local voice assistants, game characters and robots,…
- Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first.
- Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters
Moonshot AI today introduced Kim K3.1 Pro, a large language model that can perform some tasks better than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.
Earlier: Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 The Decoder · 23 October 2026
- Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their…
Earlier: Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety' BBC · 9 October 2026
- Eka Robotics raises $150M to scale its vision-force-action model for robots
Eka Robotics is building a vision-force-action, or VFA, model to develop an intuition of physics through reinforcement learning at scale.
Research papers
- DynaFlow: Learning Free-Form Multi-Agent Orchestration
Multi-agent systems often rely on predefined collaboration structures, limiting their ability to adapt to diverse task requirements.
- ChronoReplay: One Answer Interface Is Not Enough for Streaming Spatial Intelligence
Training a spatial VLM to answer which side an object lies on does not require it to preserve the metric displacement that determines that answer, while supervision for a distance estimate may leave…
From the news wire
- NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model post-trained from Gemma 4 E4B for local voice assistants, game characters and robots,…
- Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first.
- Moonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters
Moonshot AI today introduced Kim K3.1 Pro, a large language model that can perform some tasks better than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.
Earlier: Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 The Decoder · 23 October 2026
- Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their…
Earlier: Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety' BBC · 9 October 2026
- Eka Robotics raises $150M to scale its vision-force-action model for robots
Eka Robotics is building a vision-force-action, or VFA, model to develop an intuition of physics through reinforcement learning at scale.
- OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache
OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached…
- Infosys AI revenue jumps 29%; Apple’s foldable iPhone fully pre-booked in week 1
Infosys reported steady revenue growth in Q2 FY27, driven by strong AI demand and large deal wins.
- Turmoil hits AI buildout as neoclouds face pressure, credit risks mount and Solidigm pulls IPO
Stock slumps, pulled IPOs and rising spreads on credit default swaps this week sets stage for hyperscaler earnings.
- UK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab
The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.
Earlier: Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility The Robot Report · 25 September 2026
- Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated…
- The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language.
- Leaked video exposes how industrial-scale Chinese factories are dismantling RTX 5090s by the thousands to fuel AI servers
Wondering why RTX 5090s are so hard to find?
- Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more…
- Save up to $800 on Acer’s ultra-slim RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop — pay $2225 for the 16GB RAM model or upgrade to 32GB for $2400
The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI combines a 240 Hz QHD+ OLED display with Intel’s 24-core Core Ultra 9 processor and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics, and Best…
Earlier: Buy an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti 16GB for only $1099 Tom's Hardware · 6 October 2026
- Georgia's Silk Cloud deploys Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs
UK-based Fuse Energy also brings GPU compute online for customers
Earlier: Illegal Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs found inside state-owned China Telecom's network Tom's Hardware · 23 October 2026
- Nvidia's role as AI financier faces first big test as neoclouds take market hit
As Nvidia has gone from chipmaker to industry financier, some investors see the company taking on outsized risk tied to the AI buildout.
- 360's Zhou Hongyi Says Its Sovereign AI Operating System Is Already in Use at Some Organizations
360 founder Zhou Hongyi says the company's sovereign AI operating system, covering compute, models, knowledge bases and an agent factory under customer…
- iFLYTEK Open Platform Launches Agent OS, APA and XFYUN CLI for 700-Plus AI Capabilities
At its 1024 developer festival, iFLYTEK's open platform launched Agent OS for enterprise agent teamwork, APA for recorded workflow skills, the XFYUN CLI and a…
- China’s AI compute surge heavily reliant on US chips, offshore cloud access: report
China’s access to artificial intelligence computing power will double next year, but US-designed chips will account for about 65 per cent of that capacity, an…
- Meet Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime: OS-Level Sandboxing for AI Agents, No Containers
Anthropic sandbox-runtime (srt) is the open-source, OS-level sandbox behind Claude Code.
- Fancy harnesses make coding agents more expensive but not better, study finds
A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than…
- Fudan's RoboSkill Lets Robot Agents Save What They Learn as Reusable Text-and-Code Skills
Fudan researchers built RoboSkill, which turns methods a robot agent discovers into reusable text-and-code skills and adds touch sensing, cutting task time…
- Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
- Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
- AI Boom Brings New Business to Matchmakers
Linx Dating founder and CEO Amy Andersen tells Bloomberg This Weekend that newly wealthy AI creators are fueling demand for high-end matchmaking as busy…
- Stateful Agentic Engineering Copilots with Letta: Core Memory, Shared State, Semantic Retrieval, Custom Tools, Streaming, and Portable Agent Workflows
Discover how to extend agentic memory beyond basic prompts by building a stateful engineering copilot with Letta.
- YouTuber escapes the modern AI tech market by recreating his 1996 PC
Exhaustion with tech market prompt Youtuber to remake their first PC — 1996 build fueled by nostalgia and AI weariness
- What a day in customer service looks like — as AI changes everything
Customer service can be a "really, really difficult job." Will AI make it easier — or cause even more headaches?
- iFLYTEK Healthcare Upgrades Spark Medical Model to V3.7 and Reports 99.6 on MedBench 5.0
iFLYTEK Healthcare upgraded its Spark medical model to V3.7, merging speech, imaging and language for medical agents.
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