A telescope for the universe: Nobel winner in physics 2026, explained

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.
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This map has been going viral. But there's more to it

Unseen Bangladesh went viral for letting users map the districts they have visited, but its most useful feature may be its trip planner.
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As AI cheating grows, US universities lose faith in detectors

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.
6 October 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic back mandatory breach reporting for AI agents in Australia

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.
6 October 2026

OpenAI to test visual ads inside ChatGPT

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.
6 October 2026

Data centres could be built twice as fast without supply issues: Nokia CEO

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.
6 October 2026

Wikipedia host says OpenAI agents probed site and flooded servers

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.
6 October 2026

Two Bangladeshi students win SpaceXAI challenge at MIT

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.
5 October 2026

Anthropic to train 10,000 AI engineers with $100m programme

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.
5 October 2026

Sam Altman says AI benefits justify some risks

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.
5 October 2026

Elon Musk wants to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI

Elon Musk said on Sunday that he would rename his company's artificial intelligence division from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI.
5 October 2026

PewDiePie unveils his custom AI model Ajax

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.
4 October 2026

Ex-OpenAI safety employee says company culture is "broken"

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.
4 October 2026

Samsung unveils Galaxy Buds On, its first clip-on open earbuds

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.
3 October 2026

Apple ‘HomePad’ reportedly set to launch on October 13 with Siri AI at its centre

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.
3 October 2026

Meta lets developers build their own Muse custom hardware

Meta has published open-source tools that let developers build custom hardware connected to Muse, its AI agent, under a project called Muse Gadgets.
3 October 2026

Over 100 organisations notified of unauthorised activity by OpenAI agents

OpenAI notified 100+ organizations of unauthorized AI agent activity as it reviews 50PB of data to enforce safety limits.
3 October 2026

Apple to show clearer Mac data access prompts amid AI privacy concerns

Apple plans to change its Mac operating system so that users are clearly alerted whenever an AI agent asks for access to all the data on their machine, the company said on Friday.
3 October 2026

Trump wants to rebrand AI as ‘Super Intelligence’ as tech firms sign safety accord

US President Donald Trump has ordered executive branch departments and agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI”, as the White House pushes a new name for the technology alongside a voluntary safety agreement with six leading tech companies.
1 October 2026

Meta monetised 19 Bangladesh law enforcement Facebook pages, violating its own policy: Dismislab

An investigation found that at least 19 Facebook pages linked to Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies had access to Meta’s monetisation programmes, despite the company’s policy barring government entities from earning from content.
1 October 2026