Microsoft · Original source
Microsoft Research has released Flint-interactive, a language that lets AI agents and users create data visualizations people can click, filter, zoom and link across charts, text and tables. Built on the Flint compiler, it defines interactions through high-level semantic events and update operators rather than low-level code, which researchers say lowers generation cost and improves reliability. It works in chat through Flint-MCP and in apps through Flint Interactive Canvas.
Anthropic · Original source
Anthropic is inviting life sciences researchers at academic institutions, nonprofits and government labs to apply as guest investigators. Selected groups will spend 8 to 12 weeks working with Anthropic researchers, using Claude on questions in fields such as molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and clinical science, with Anthropic running its models at no cost. Outputs will be published with open-source data and code. Applications are open for about 14 days.
Microsoft · Original source
Microsoft has announced an initiative with the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association, to expand free AI literacy and skills training for US public library workers and patrons. Called Building AI Skills and Agency Through Libraries, it will offer training resources, a Community of Practice and free webinars. Microsoft is also expanding its Elevate for Changemakers program for nonprofit staff, which has supported more than 18,000 learners.
OpenAI · Original source
OpenAI has made its Decisions API generally available. Built with GPT-6 Luna, it answers questions with bounded answers, returning a probability, choice or score, and OpenAI says it is up to 10 times faster than using GPT-6 Luna through the Responses API. New since the beta are GPT-Live integration, prompt caching, US and EU inference residency and up to 400 questions per request. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens, with no output-token charges.
NVIDIA · Original source
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang visited Astana on 23 October, meeting President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and speaking with Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev at the Alem.AI centre. Firebird signed an investment agreement with the government and holds a US export licence for 45,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs, with a first phase due to launch in the third quarter of 2027 and about 500 megawatts of potential capacity. NVIDIA also announced an investment in startup Higgsfield AI.
NVIDIA · Original source
NVIDIA has launched Minerva, an AIOps platform that combines telemetry from GPUs, networking, storage, schedulers and workloads to help operators find problems earlier in AI factories. It maps infrastructure in a knowledge graph, uses machine learning to detect anomalies and predict failures, and includes an AI assistant for investigating cluster health. IREN already uses it; Bitdeer AI, IBM, Jio, Lambda and Tesla plan to deploy it, and Dell, Lenovo and Supermicro will offer it.
xAI · Original source
xAI has launched the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network, an official program for companies building products and services with Grok. Transformation Partners help enterprises deploy the Grok platform, while Marketplace Partners build plugins and integrations. More than 130 companies took part in early access, and engineers at more than 30 organizations have been trained through its Forward Deployed Engineer accreditation. Launch partners include Bain & Company, Databricks, NVIDIA and Snowflake.
Anthropic · Original source
Anthropic is donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents task-specific knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, which it co-founded with Block and OpenAI. More than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, support the standard. About 1 million skills have been published and nearly 280 million installed. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and other companies will maintain it.
Google DeepMind · Original source
Google DeepMind and Google Research, with the World Resources Institute and IIASA, have released Forest Typology (ForTy) 2020, a global map classifying every 10-by-10-metre patch of land into six forest and land-use types. The map is intended as a baseline for the EU’s deforestation regulation. An early time series tracks yearly changes from 2017 to 2025, including where natural forests were replaced by plantations or farms.
IBM · Original source
IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP are adding AI-powered features to the Scuderia Ferrari mobile app ahead of the United States Grand Prix in Austin. New features include a Race Timeline, a Pitstop Reaction Game and a Tifosi Hub for fan stories, while Race Summaries built with IBM watsonx agents now cover every session. IBM says the app uses more than 70 reusable AI skills and 30 agents, which raised productivity across the app’s development lifecycle by 30%.
