A River of News

AI headlines, Thursday, October 22, 2026

35 items. Times are UTC.

22:00 UTC 2

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    Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox Hugging Face
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    OpenAI Fundraising Round Set to Close Soon With UAE Investors, Coatue Leading Investment The Information (paywall) by Jemima McEvoy story

21:00 UTC 1

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    Designing an AI serving harness built to last MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Anand Logani story

19:00 UTC 1

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    Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API OpenAI

18:00 UTC 2

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    The Foundations of Scalable AI MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by MIT Technology Review Events
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    Salesforce Customers Brace For New Fees to Use Claude in Its Apps The Information (paywall) by Laura Bratton story

17:00 UTC 3

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    SB Energy Considers Waiting Until December or Later for an IPO The Information (paywall) by Valida Pau story
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    Liquid AI Launches RIPL, a Real-Time Inference Engine for Sub-50 ms LFMs MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq
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    Datadog Offered to Buy Security Startup ‘Upwind’ For Nearly $4 Billion The Information (paywall) by Valida Pau

16:00 UTC 5

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    Gradium Open-Sources Phonon, a 31M-Parameter On-Device TTS Model Under Apache 2.0 MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq
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    Cohere Releases Rerank 5 With Passage-Level Context Focus and Calibrated Scores MarkTechPost by Michal Sutter
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    A Developer’s Guide to OmniParseBench: Leaderboard Benchmarks and OCR Testing MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq
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    OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet Hugging Face
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    Exclusive: Physical AI Startup Tractian Becomes a Unicorn The Information (paywall) by Rocket Drew

15:00 UTC 2

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    Google To Pay Homes and Businesses To Curb Energy Usage The Information (paywall) by Ryan Barwick story
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    OpenAI Had Numerous Vulnerabilities Its AI Could Exploit, Evaluators Find The Information (paywall) by Tiffany Li story

14:00 UTC 2

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    Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types Google DeepMind
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    Utopai Becomes a Unicorn as Video AI Takes Off The Information (paywall) by Rocket Drew story

12:00 UTC 2

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    The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Thomas Macaulay
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    Nvidia’s Powerful B300 Chips Spotted on Chinese State-Owned Network The Information (paywall) by Qianer Liu story

11:00 UTC 1

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    Andreessen Horowitz to Drop ‘Crypto’ From Name of Flagship Blockchain Fund The Information (paywall) by Leo Schwartz story

10:00 UTC 2

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    Three things you should know about permafrost MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Casey Crownhart
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    Making the case for context-aware AI MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by MIT Technology Review Insights story

08:00 UTC 1

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    AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Tim Rausch

07:00 UTC 2

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    Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models Hugging Face
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    IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq story

06:00 UTC 1

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    What FDE means at OpenAI OpenAI

04:00 UTC 2

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    Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq
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    A Coding Guide to Cactus Whistle: Does a 16.9 MB Speech Model Hold Up Against Whisper Base? Word Error Rate, Speed, Streaming, Timestamps, Keywords, and Speech-to-Tool Calls on a CPU MarkTechPost by Sana Hassan

03:00 UTC 2

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    NVIDIA Nsight Python Tutorial: How to Profile GPU Kernels MarkTechPost by Sana Hassan
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    Zuckerberg’s Wealth Tax Concerns Shaped Meta’s Stock Overhaul The Information (paywall) by Jyoti Mann story

00:00 UTC 4

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    Microsoft Warns of Chinese State-Linked Cyberattacks Powered by AI Agent The Information (paywall) by Juro Osawa story
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    Tesla Shares Fall 3% After Cutting Capital Spending The Information (paywall) by Steve LeVine story
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    The Closing of the ‘Defenders Window’ Is Nigh The Information (paywall) by Leo Schwartz story
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    Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI OpenAI story