A River of News

AI headlines, Thursday, October 8, 2026

18 items. Times are UTC.

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    White House Suspends Visa Program for Microsoft, Other Tech Firms The Information by Aaron Holmes story

16:00 UTC 1

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    JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq

15:00 UTC 1

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    How OpenAI Beat Math The Information by Stephanie Palazzolo story

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    How Amazon Rewired Its Data Centers After Mississippi Power Warning The Information by Catherine Perloff story

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    Shroud of Secrecy Cloaks Star Investor Behind Cognition, Ramp The Information by Jemima McEvoy

12:00 UTC 1

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    The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay story

10:00 UTC 2

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    Exclusive: Former Omidyar CEO Founds AI Investor Network The Information by Rocket Drew
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    Why we’re watching these climate tech companies MIT Technology Review by Casey Crownhart

09:00 UTC 1

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    AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon MIT Technology Review by Jamie Condliffe

08:00 UTC 3

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    Architect Launches Liquid Inference, a Real-Time Auction for LLM Inference MarkTechPost by Michal Sutter
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    NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From Pivotal Mistakes MarkTechPost by Michal Sutter
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    Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI MIT Technology Review by MIT Technology Review Insights story

06:00 UTC 1

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    Manus Raises More Than $500 Million After Unwinding Meta Deal The Information by Juro Osawa story

05:00 UTC 1

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    Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq

01:00 UTC 1

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    What Happens When a Trusted Model Repo Changes? Unsloth Studio Re-Checks Before It Runs MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq

00:00 UTC 3

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    AI's Simmering Question: "Where the F--- Is All the Automation?" The Information by Cory Weinberg story
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    Amazon Lays Off Hundreds in Stores Division The Information by Catherine Perloff story
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    Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations OpenAI story