Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel prize in physics for helping create the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which uses a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice to detect high-energy neutrinos from deep space. The breakthrough has opened a new field of astronomy, giving scientists a way to investigate the universe’s most powerful and mysterious cosmic particle accelerators.

Unseen Bangladesh went viral for letting users map the districts they have visited, but its most useful feature may be its trip planner.

Biology professor Timothy Paustian once devised novel traps to catch students turning in chatbot-written assignments, but his university, along with campuses across the US, is now shunning AI detection software altogether.

OpenAI and Anthropic have told an Australian parliamentary inquiry they would support laws requiring AI companies to disclose data breaches caused by their agents, according to a recent report by Reuters.

OpenAI is expanding advertising on ChatGPT with a new visual ad format, which will be tested inside the platform's image generation feature later this month in the US with an initial group of advertisers.

The AI industry could build data centres twice as quickly if it was not held back by supply shortages, Nokia's CEO Justin Hotard has said in a recent interview with CNBC.

The Wikimedia Foundation has confirmed that rogue AI agents operated by OpenAI left traces across Wikipedia platforms, in activities that included unauthorised edits, attempts to exploit a hosted tool, and millions of automated requests that may have contributed to a partial outage in May.

Chief strategy officer Jason Kwon appeared before Australian lawmakers to answer for the incident, in which a rogue OpenAI model bypassed safeguards to gain unauthorised access to a government health statistics website.

The plaintiffs, who allege Google abused its dominant position, are seeking more than £1 billion ($1.3 billion) in damages in a hearing at the Competition Appeal Tribunal set to last seven weeks.

Two Bangladeshi students have won the SpaceXAI “Make It Legendary” challenge at HackMIT 2026, an international hackathon held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.

Anthropic is launching Claude Frontier Academy, a training programme backed by a $100 million commitment, with the aim of producing 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has argued that AI's benefits outweigh the case for eliminating risk entirely, and that the technology should remain widely available to the public.

Elon Musk said on Sunday that he would rename his company's artificial intelligence division from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI.

YouTube creator Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, has unveiled Ajax, a small language model built to run locally as an always-on AI assistant.

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A former OpenAI safety employee who recently resigned has criticised the company's approach to artificial intelligence safety, arguing that a culture built around rapid releases raises the risk of failures.

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Buds On, its first clip-on earbuds and the company’s entry into the growing market for open-ear wireless headphones.

Apple is reportedly preparing to unveil its long-rumoured smart home display on October 13, marking the company’s entry into a new hardware category built around its redesigned Siri assistant.

MG Bangladesh has launched two new EVs — the S9 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) and the S6 electric vehicle (EV).

Meta has published open-source tools that let developers build custom hardware connected to Muse, its AI agent, under a project called Muse Gadgets.