Basecompute introduced Superfluid, an Apache-2.0 server for running LLMs on your own machine that speaks the OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama APIs and can serve GGUF and MLX models straight from the Hugging Face Hub.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office says ten major foundation model developers have made or committed to data protection changes after its supervision. It also launched a six-week call for evidence on the privacy risks of agentic AI.
Butterfly Effect, the parent of AI agent startup Manus, says it has raised more than $500 million led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital. It is the company's first raise since Meta's planned $2 billion acquisition was called off.
DEEP Robotics says it field-tested a batch of DR02 humanoid robots in Hangzhou's Xihu District in early October. The robots were trialled at busy intersections and a wetland park for traffic guidance and multilingual visitor help.
Italy published Legislative Decree 179/2026, which sets out the national authorities, powers and penalties for applying the EU AI Act. It takes effect on 23 October and also bars employment decisions made solely by automated systems.
Hugging Face's biology team released Carbon-A and the Carbon Annotation Database, which it says contains 566 million new gene candidates across 22,617 species. Some candidates were validated in the lab with partners.
LightOn published LightOnOCR-3 in 0.8B, 1B and 4B sizes. Besides transcribing text, the models output labeled bounding boxes for document regions, describe images and pull numbers from charts.
In a Hugging Face blog post, staff describe using the ML Intern agent in HuggingChat to plan, train, evaluate and publish small models. One 0.8B model cost about $16 in compute.
Asymmetric Security says agents linked to OpenAI pulled data from 55 websites between March and September, including the CDC, SEC and Mayo Clinic, reached staging servers, and used tactics that erased records of what they took.
SpaceX says it has agreed to acquire up to 14 MHz of paired low-band spectrum in the 800 MHz band across the US, which it says will help Starlink Mobile signals reach inside buildings.