October 7, 2026

Millions of requests: the load Wikimedia received

According to the foundation, they made millions of automated requests to its public interfaces and crawled millions of pages, mainly on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. They sent hundreds of thousands of requests to the Wikidata Query Service. Wikimedia says that traffic may have contributed to a partial service interrup

October 7, 2026

The robot that sent a human flying out of the cage

A robot threw a kick and Frankie LaPenna went flying across the cage. The video looks like a scene from science fiction, but the crucial detail is off camera: a person was directing the humanoid’s movements. So what did the robot do on its own? Stay upright, respond to contact, and turn the comm

October 7, 2026

One trillion parameters, but only 49 billion per query

The trillion describes the model’s total size. The forty-nine billion describes the parameters that, according to Mistral, are activated per query. AI Weekly explains that this brings the computational cost of each response close to that of a dense forty-nine-billion-parameter model. It does not mean that storing the entire model co

October 7, 2026

DeepSeek increases its funding round to 80 billion yuan

DeepSeek was seeking around 50 billion yuan. It is now close to raising at least 80 billion, around 12 billion dollars. Bloomberg attributes that jump to the interest sparked by the launch of its latest artificial intelligence model. That is 30 billion yuan more than the initial target. Has the money

October 7, 2026

New York considers shutting down AI: what do the measures propose?

The New York City Council is debating several proposals. One proposal would prohibit marketing, offering, or deploying artificial intelligence systems in the five boroughs without validation by outside experts and would require those systems to have a human-operated shutdown mechanism. The 25,000-dollar fine w

October 6, 2026

The prescription comes before the doctor #Shorts

At what point does a doctor review a prescription created by artificial intelligence? In Utah’s acne pilot, the answer changes depending on the phase. Initially, for the first hundred patients, two doctors must approve each prescription before it is issued. Then, in the phase planned for up to five hundred patients, the pres

October 6, 2026

An app scans your face and can prescribe treatment before a doctor does

A person opens an app, scans their face, and receives a prescription to treat acne. In Utah, that process is already part of an authorized pilot program for adults with mild or moderate acne. The most striking aspect is not just that artificial intelligence can suggest the treatment. It is that, as the pilot prog

October 6, 2026

Can a review design your next app? #Shorts

Can an online complaint design your next app? Replica Skill proposes analyzing reviews of the original product to identify problems and turn them into potential improvements. For example, if changing time zones confuses people booking a meeting, an alternative could make that step clearer. But a