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Models & researchGoogle DeepMind unveils Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio and talking characters27 Oct 2026 Chips & hardwareOracle and Nvidia: Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs available on OCI, with expansion to multi-gigawatt scale27 Oct 2026 Tools & productsApple adds an AI assistant to Pages, Keynote and Numbers, plus MCP support for third-party agents27 Oct 2026 AI agentsIsraeli researchers get a $500,000 bounty for a single bug found by their AI tool27 Oct 2026 Models & researchGoogle DeepMind unveils Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio and talking characters27 Oct 2026 Chips & hardwareOracle and Nvidia: Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs available on OCI, with expansion to multi-gigawatt scale27 Oct 2026 Tools & productsApple adds an AI assistant to Pages, Keynote and Numbers, plus MCP support for third-party agents27 Oct 2026 AI agentsIsraeli researchers get a $500,000 bounty for a single bug found by their AI tool27 Oct 2026

Wednesday, 21 October 2026

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Google Cloud and NVIDIA: A5X instances with Vera Rubin NVL72 reach general availability

At GTC Berlin, Google Cloud and NVIDIA announced that A5X instances, built on Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, will be generally available next month, with planned expansion to Europe. Google plans to scale to as many as 960,000 Rubin GPUs across multiple sites.

Chips & hardware

21 Oct 2026, 13:45

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NVIDIA expands the Isaac platform: new reference humanoid, datasets and simulation tools

At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced an expansion of its open Isaac robotics platform, including the Agile ONE SN reference humanoid from Agile Robots, a simulation asset library on Hugging Face, and integration of its Halos safety system by robot makers.

Robotics

21 Oct 2026, 13:20

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