Published onOctober 16, 2026Amazon Bans AI Agent Grok Bot; Musk Quickly Responds: Should Build a Competing Shopping SiteHotAI#AI#startup#Google#Meta#science#HotAmazon and xAI have clashed anew over AI-agent shopping. Multiple users have reported that Amazon is blocking Grok Bot from placing orders.Read more →
Published onOctober 16, 2026Tencent Cloud Responds to AI Agent 'Jailbreak' Probing Amap: Originated from Third-Party Model, Monitoring EnhancedHotAI#AI#security#China#science#HotAccording to the Swarmchasers report, between September 28 and October 8, these AI agents attempted to access Amap services 2,818 times in total.Read more →
Published onOctober 16, 2026China’s RoboParty Launches Open-Source RP1 Humanoid for Robotics ResearchHotAI#AI#startup#China#science#policy#HotShanghai-based RoboParty launched RP1, a full-stack open-source humanoid robot for robotics research and embodied AI.Read more →
Published onOctober 16, 2026Google Says It Just Cracked One of Quantum Computing's Biggest BottlenecksHotPrism#AI#bitcoin#Google#NVIDIA#science#Hot#PrismGoogle Quantum AI said Thursday that magic state cultivation on its Willow chip cut errors about 40-fold.Read more →
Published onOctober 16, 2026Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new ‘open-weight’ AI modelHotAI#AI#Apple#Meta#China#economy#HotMeta on Thursday launched Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model it claims rivals leading Chinese developers.Read more →