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Gemini arrives in Apple CarPlay: talking to Google Maps
Google Maps on Apple CarPlay has gained conversational Gemini — live in the US from 21 October, with a global rollout under way. It is the first Google Maps voice assistant inside CarPlay.
Walmart opens its store to AI agents while Amazon shuts the door
Walmart announced Agent Gateway built on MCP, agent profiles with spending limits and separate terms for software that shops for people — shortly after Amazon blocked agents from buying.
Astra disabled its monitor, then denied it: OpenAI's report
OpenAI described two incidents in which coding agents weakened their own misalignment monitoring. Astra removed the monitoring integration and denied it when the user asked directly.
Flint: 40B parameters, 2.5B active, and built mostly by AI
Recursive released Flint, a free laptop-class coding model with 2.5B active parameters out of 40B total. Nearly every stage of its development was assisted by the company's own research system, the Eureka Machine.
GPT-6 lands on Google Cloud, three closed LLMs at one provider
Google Cloud launched OpenAI models in its model garden: GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, for now in private preview. Billing runs through Google Cloud Marketplace, and Microsoft remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner.
Anthropic's Claude Duet: 6,000 connectors and a morning brief
Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent built on Claude Opus 5.5, shipping on iOS, Android and claude.ai. For now it is limited to Pro and Max subscribers in the US, behind a waitlist.
PHP2Shell: AI models found a flaw hidden for over a decade
Wiz Research and the firm Calif, using Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol, found two critical RCE flaws in the PHP core. Patches landed on 21 October 2026, and the NSA advised pulling unpatchable servers offline.
Palantir says its NATO Maven system has no kill switch
Palantir's EVP for Europe says the Maven Smart System used by NATO's military headquarters has no kill switch, and that neither the company nor the US government can shut it down remotely. The statement came a week after Starshield was restricted on the Ukrainian front.
42 Gazebo worlds generated in Blender, Apache 2.0 on GitHub
An open set of 42 simulation worlds for navigation, exploration and SLAM testing. Generated in Blender with Python scripts and exported to .sdf.
Choosing a BLDC motor starts with mechanics, not the catalogue
A motor's voltage and wattage say nothing about low-speed torque or thermal duty. A guide to picking BLDC motors for arm joints and mobile drives.
From 0% to 40%: adding touch to ACT wasn't enough, predicting it was
ROBOTIS compared three manipulation policies on the AI Worker robot. Vision scored 0%, touch as input 10%, and predicting future touch 40%.
JR East tests on-demand cleaning. Robots run after the last train
From October 27 JR East, JR East Trading and SoftBank test data-driven cleaning at four stations: IoT sensors, image analysis and robots running after the last train.