Character.AI, the conversational-AI pioneer founded by ex-Google researchers, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and agreed to sell assets to Disney for $20 million — two years after Google’s $2.7B talent deal. What happened, what it means for users, and the lesson for AI startups.
Nvidia shipped 678,000 AI accelerators in China in the first half of 2026, down 44% from a year earlier, as Huawei and a wave of domestic chipmakers filled the space left by US export controls. New IDC numbers seen by Reuters show the world’s second-largest AI chip market being remade.
OpenAI’s Dots is an always-on AI agent that keeps working after you close the laptop — and it’s racing Meta’s Muse in a new privacy battle. Here’s what Dots actually does, what it costs, and whether it’s worth your attention.
Epic Games is going all-in on AI: the Fortnite maker told developers on its unannounced Disney shooter to adopt an “AI-first” pipeline with “no more hand-written code” — a first for a major studio, and a move CEO Tim Sweeney publicly defended as the future of game development.
Character.AI, the conversational-AI pioneer founded by ex-Google researchers, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and agreed to sell assets to Disney for $20 million — two years after Google’s $2.7B talent deal. What happened, what it means for users, and the lesson for AI startups.
Nvidia shipped 678,000 AI accelerators in China in the first half of 2026, down 44% from a year earlier, as Huawei and a wave of domestic chipmakers filled the space left by US export controls. New IDC numbers seen by Reuters show the world’s second-largest AI chip market being remade.
OpenAI’s Dots is an always-on AI agent that keeps working after you close the laptop — and it’s racing Meta’s Muse in a new privacy battle. Here’s what Dots actually does, what it costs, and whether it’s worth your attention.
Epic Games is going all-in on AI: the Fortnite maker told developers on its unannounced Disney shooter to adopt an “AI-first” pipeline with “no more hand-written code” — a first for a major studio, and a move CEO Tim Sweeney publicly defended as the future of game development.
Meta unveiled Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, 2026 — its first models it claims are truly frontier-class, built for agents that can handle real-world tasks.
OpenAI says it fired Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni for mishandling sensitive information. The researchers say they were punished for doing safety work — and warn the firings will chill open debate about AI risks.
Continuum AI has launched OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a gated cybersecurity reasoning model with a 1M-token context window that claims 100% on Cybench — plus plans for an open-weight release next week.
Cisco is putting AI agents from both Anthropic and OpenAI inside Webex — so the agents come to your meeting instead of making you go to them. Plus RoomOS 27 with Google Meet support in November and a customer-experience harness called Dialog.
The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon is negotiating to acquire AI startup Decart for roughly $7 billion — weeks after Anthropic walked away from a $6 billion deal. The real prize is Decart’s cross-chip optimization software.
Odyssey has opened a public research preview of its Odyssey-3 world model, which generates interactive environments in real time — and could let robots, drones, and game agents share one brain.
