Artificial Intelligence
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DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, Its Production Inference Engine
DeepSeek released DeepInfer under Apache 2.0 on October 20, 2026, the inference framework powering its V4.1-Flash model at scale on NVIDIA SM100 and Huawei Ascend 950 hardware.

Gartner Maps 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2027
Gartner’s 2027 outlook names 10 enterprise technology trends, from quantitative and speech AI to agent governance, sovereign computing and biological systems.

U.S. Agencies Publish Rogue-Agent Incident Playbook
U.S. agencies issued voluntary guidance for super-intelligence training incidents, outlining ten practices for detection, containment, recovery and reporting.

ABB Links Record Orders to AI Data-Center Power Demand
ABB reports record $12.055 billion orders as AI data-center demand surges, alongside its Infinitus DC portfolio and Japan power-distribution expansion.

Cloudflare Launches Clairic, a Fast System One Extraction Model for Typed Values
Cloudflare previewed Clairic on Workers AI, a non-generative extraction model that returns typed values, estimates and forecasts from unstructured text or images in a single forward pass, claiming major speed and cost gains.

Disney Offers Jobs to Majority of Character.AI Workforce
Disney’s Character.AI deal would offer jobs to at least 60 workers for an estimated $60 million in annual compensation as bankruptcy proceedings continue.

Anthropic Plans 5% Share Commitment to Public-Benefit Fund
Anthropic will place 5% of its shares into a public-benefit LLC, with possible increases tied to company growth and a ban on lobbying and political giving.

Microsoft Exits Nscale’s Essex AI Data Center Deal
Microsoft has reportedly ended its planned Nscale data-center deal in Loughton, putting the UK AI project’s timeline and expansion plans under pressure.

OpenWorld to Acquire Blocksight for RWA Agent Automation
OpenWorld signed a definitive deal to acquire Blocksight, aiming to embed its human-approved AI agents in tokenized infrastructure and energy finance.

Rivian Pitches EV and Autonomy Tech to Outside Automakers
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the automaker could license its EV architecture, software, AI models and autonomy stack beyond Volkswagen to other brands.

Anthropic rolls out 3-tier access for cyber models
Anthropic merged its cyber verification and Glasswing programs into three access tiers for Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Mythos 5.1.