A collaboration between consultancy Sopra Steria and research centre FIDAMC aims to develop robots that perceive, reason and act in physical environments — trained in simulation and intended for hard-to-automate industrial processes, with initial work to run in a robot cell in Getafe.
IEEE has released the IEEE Xplore AI Research Suite, an optional subscription upgrade for institutional IEEE Xplore Digital Library subscribers that uses the full text and metadata of millions of peer-reviewed IEEE publications to provide semantic search, summaries, and source links, and is powered by a proprietary AI system with safeguards to reduce hallucinations.
UC Today reported that UNLEASH Paris focused its AI conversation on human contexts and workforce strategy, with interviews indicating that organisational context, job redesign and skills — not tools alone — will shape who progresses with AI; the article noted Salesforce’s $166 million investment in HiBob and quoted HiBob CEO Ronni Zehavi on the need to redesign work for human–agent collaboration.
AFP reports SpaceX has reached an agreement with Apollo Global Management to lease Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs for AI development in a deal that a SEC filing values at about 40,000 million dollars and would run for approximately 5 years; delivery of the GPUs is to begin gradually in the first half of 2027.
XR Institute reports that Reality Composer Pro 3 is now a standalone macOS app emphasizing faster iteration for visionOS through visual workflows, an entity/component model, GPU-driven compute simulations, prefab-like prototypes, live headset preview, baked lightmaps, and an integrated AI assistant.
Blake Mackenzie, a 12-year-old from Newcastle, won the top youth prize at the Australian Poetry Slam with a poem about artificial intelligence performed at the Sydney Opera House; the competition ran 65 heats across 60 towns and cities to find 16 finalists and is in its 22nd year.
Aisha Malik for TechCrunch profiles six reading apps — Fable, Bookshelf, Pagebound, StoryGraph, Margins and others — highlighting tracking, social features, discovery tools and subscription tiers; Goodreads is explicitly excluded from the list in favor of newer platforms.
TechCrunch reports that Grok released a seven-minute clip it calls “Episode 1” of an AI-generated Odyssey, produced with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker; the article’s author judges the footage technically competent but lacking artistry and human interest.
Ellia Lebleu, a founding member of the WikiProject AI Cleanup, says volunteers launched the effort in 2023 after noticing AI-written articles; by 2025 AI text patterns had grown subtler and volunteers are combining human review with detection tools and source-verification AIs to remove problematic machine-generated content.
Xavier Nueno (born 1990) won the Anagrama de Ensayo 2026 for La revuelta de los copistas, a book that argues that technology companies have appropriated the intellectual and creative holdings once stewarded by libraries and turned them into subscription commodities; Nueno frames the library as today’s most profitable monetization machine and traces the story through figures such as copyists and librarians, ending with large-scale piracy and mass scanning by AI companies.
Google has started rolling out the Gemini "Personal Intelligence" feature to Android Auto, saying the update will let the car assistant draw on a user's Google apps to answer context-sensitive questions — for example, flight gate or status — and to offer route-aware recommendations. The feature remains optional and users can control which apps Gemini can access; availability excludes several territories at launch.
Meta said it extended the effective date of updated Commercial Terms and Self-Serve Ad Terms from October 30 to November 20 to give partners more time to understand changes after backlash over language that would let the company use automated tools to access and reuse business-account content.
A poster for the National Gallery of Victoria’s triennial reproduces an image from Ayoung Kim’s multi-channel video Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse (2024), a work created using generative AI alongside CGI, game engines and live action; Reddit commenters disparaged the poster for using AI without distinguishing artists who use AI from AI replacing artists.
Stakeholders in Elvis Presley's catalog filed a lawsuit on October 23 alleging Anthropic trained models on hundreds of Elvis songs without permission and seeking $41 million; the plaintiffs say the company removed DRM and copyright-management information from dozens of songs and will press a wide-ranging copyright claim, while Anthropic says it will defend itself and has previously invoked fair use.
EL ESPAÑOL presented the exhibition 'AutorIA.
Canva Research has developed and trained Canva Craft, described as the company’s first in-house AI image-generation model; the team says the model mimics designers’ workflows by planning a visual composition before generating the image, and it is claimed to excel at portraits, landscapes and abstract designs.
Journalists at 20minutos report that community projects on GitHub and a tool called CleanYourTV use AI agents and Android debugging tools to disable preinstalled apps, telemetry and menu advertising on Android TV and Google TV devices, while recommending code review because the changes are reversible but can risk device stability.
According to reporting that cites Interesting Engineering and collaborators, Anthropic ran its Claude model to propose protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins, producing more than 318,000 designs in about 64 hours. Laboratory partners synthesized and screened 211 selected designs; 17 showed strong laboratory binding to a lab‑produced scorpion toxin, but researchers caution these results do not yet demonstrate therapeutic efficacy in biological systems.
20minutos reports that Baby Queen is an AI-generated pop group from China and that one of its virtual singers, Mity, posted that she is "pregnant" and will temporarily leave the group to rest and recover.
Spotify says it updated its recommendation system to reduce low-quality or spam music—much of it linked to AI—and to increase visibility for authentic artists; the company reports removing more than 75 million spam tracks from the platform and has already excluded over 50 million tracks from recommendations this year while keeping them hosted.
The PP published an AI-generated video that portrays several current and former PSOE figures and the prime minister's wife making fictitious confessions of corruption; the PSOE says it is studying legal action while the PP defends using AI and accuses the PSOE of "judicializing politics."
At the Academy Museum premiere in Los Angeles, director Travis Knight criticized generative AI, saying "Que la IA se vaya a la mierda," and argued that while pencils, brushes, 3D printers and digital capture are tools, generative AI ceases to be a tool when it supplants the artist; the reporting is by Miguel Ángel Romero for CINEMANÍA/20Minutos.
BytePreview reports that the label “AI” on headphones in 2026 covers distinct functions — translation, sound processing (including noise cancellation) and sensors that read physiological signals — and that the practical differences depend on what the headset does locally versus what requires a phone or cloud service (claims from BytePreview and supporting sources).
Cristian Volpato, a 22-year-old professional footballer, struck a mid-September deal granting Callandor exclusive rights to his digital likeness, voice, biometric profiles and performance data so the company can monetise and help control AI-generated uses of his image.
AI21 Labs released LIFT-Bench on October 25, 2026, plus LIFT-Train (34,258 tasks) and an open pipeline; the suite scopes each constraint to a single document section and uses the same judge for evaluation and RL reward to reduce reward hacking seen with prior flat benchmarks.
Adweek reports that Meta’s ad platform has been applying generative-AI edits to advertisers’ creative without clear opt-in, and that Meta’s updated Commercial Terms, effective Oct.
Facing abundant AI-generated content, major news organisations are emphasising human-crafted processes, visible journalists and editorial signals to persuade readers to subscribe.
A recent INMA webinar discussed research showing Americans spend nearly as much time on e-mail as on social media and warned that AI features in Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft inboxes are beginning to filter and summarise messages, forcing newsletters to earn attention through depth, personality, clear purpose and personalization.
The Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association (CASPA) holds its 35th annual conference and CEO Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center on 23–24 October, bringing 39 speakers including the chief executives of Intel, Synopsys, Cerebras and SambaNova to discuss AI compute costs, architectures and the industry’s move beyond GPUs.
Sanxingdui: Future Memories is a 90‑minute film produced with ByteDance's Jimeng AI by Bona Film Group's AIGMS centre that opens nationwide in China on 23 October; the National Film Administration granted a public screening licence on 28 April and the release date was announced on 27 September.
A Unite.AI guide by Jonas Reeve defines AI video generation as a mechanism that produces temporally connected frames from specified inputs and presents a five-stage operating map to separate implementation responsibilities, evaluation needs, and governance controls.
Adobe’s Enhance Audio, included in the Premiere beta, splits a clip into speech, music, ambience, sound effects and reverb so editors can rebalance elements and keep cutting without blocking renders; a local model (V1) runs on the user’s machine while a higher-quality cloud model (V2) uses Firefly and charges two generative credits per minute, and Premiere processes five seconds of handles on each side of clips to reduce reprocessing.
RENÉ 26, the second Rencontres Européennes des Nouvelles Écritures founded in 2025 by Jean Boillot and his company La Spirale, will take place in Metz on 26 and 27 October and foregrounds theatrical writing as a way to explore telepresence, distributed performance and the integration of conversational AI and chatbots as stage agents.
On October 23, 2026, Block’s in‑house AI lab unveiled Dessa, which it describes as a full‑duplex speech‑to‑speech model trained from scratch on human conversation that can listen and speak simultaneously and runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better; Block released demo recordings, opened a public waitlist, and offered early access to a small group of AI safety researchers.
Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3.1 Pro (and a Highspeed variant) as the first model in its K3.1 series on October 24, 2026, describing the flagship as a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1,048,576-token context window, availability across Kimi apps and APIs, benchmark results the company says top some competitors on select tasks, and a full-weight release scheduled for November 4, 2026.
Denise Muyco, Co‑Founder and CEO of RAVEL, frames the company as an orchestration layer that coordinates compute, networking, storage, security and policy across distributed AI environments to improve utilization and respect sovereignty constraints (claims drawn from RAVEL’s product descriptions and Muyco’s interview).
Artificial intelligence is changing the competencies required in communication professions and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid is relaunching the seventh edition of its Master in Innovation and Transformation in Communication for 2026–2027 with a reinforced Latin America focus and a Full Stack Comms Talent model.
At Meta Connect on 23 September 2026, Meta unveiled roughly 100 g Meta VR Glasses (with processor, battery and storage in a separate puck), announced camera‑free Ray‑Ban Meta Audio glasses, and published a Private Processing cloud architecture for AI glasses; developer publishing remains restricted during the Developer Preview and UK trials of Ray‑Ban Display are available now, while VR Glasses are a 2027 purchasing prospect.
AutoVRse announced on 28 September that its VRseBuilder platform can reduce custom VR development time by up to 93% by converting procedures into editable VR modules and integrating AI assistants with Unity; the company cites internal project comparisons but has not published a breakdown of the underlying data or project count.
A Digiday+ Research report based on a survey of 40 publisher professionals and interviews with publisher executives says publishers have found generative AI a better fit for journalism workflows than predictive AI; the article excerpt is member‑exclusive.
A Digiday+ Research report based on a survey of 142 brand and agency professionals and interviews finds marketers’ adoption of AI rose from 44% in 2022 to 86% in 2025, while the report states that employee training has not kept pace with that adoption.
Unite.AI’s guide defines Diffusion Transformers as diffusion‑style generative systems that embed transformer backbones to model noisy image, video, or latent tokens, and presents a five‑stage operating map (1: encode → 2: add noise → 3: condition → 4: predict → 5: decode) to separate the model mechanism from deployment choices and risks (notably attention cost and sampling steps making high‑resolution generation expensive).
Discovery is shifting from traditional search to AI systems that synthesize answers before users reach websites, prompting the rise of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and a need for organizational redesign to manage AI visibility across marketing, data, technology, content and communications.
A 2026 benchmark called ViTeX-Bench evaluates scene-text replacement in video using 387 source videos (230 training, 157 evaluation) and separates correctness, visual and temporal quality, and edit locality; reviewers must inspect playback and preserve agreed editable boundaries rather than infer them from a tool’s output.
An E&P Quick Read piece states that newsrooms have amassed decades of reporting and that artificial intelligence (AI) is creating new opportunities for publishers to unlock that archive, rediscover institutional knowledge and surface stories within past coverage.
The second WP Agency Forum took place on 7 October 2026 at Talent Garden Madrid, drew 150 in-person attendees and over 200 online, and was organized by SiteGround España and Modular DS to focus on business strategy amid rapid AI-driven change in the sector.
Matías Alvarado Leyton's 2026 article in Virtualis examines the epistemological limits of applying distant reading to digital oral-history testimony and proposes a hybrid or stratified reading that combines computational methods with historiographic interpretation.
Claudia Benassini Félix frames the article with two objectives: to present open alternatives for knowledge construction from convergences among deep mediatization, media ecology and generative artificial intelligence; and to illustrate those convergences through analysis of a tweet generated by the communication team of the Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación associated with Yasmín Esquivel, drawing ethical implications for the minister’s use of generative AI for promotion.
A qualitative study published on revistavirtualis.mx reports that generative artificial intelligence (IAG) adds automated recombination of styles, hyperrealistic image generation and real‑time personalization to meme creation. The research documents an interview with Eduardo Salvatori of the Instituto Nacional de Bellos Memes and states that Salvatori combines AI outputs with prior human editing and later curation, shifting between levels of IAG autonomy.
Softtek describes the labour market as at an inflection point and identifies five emerging AI-focused roles — prompt engineers, ethics and bias specialists, AI trainers, auditors and solution architects — that it expects to be in greater demand as companies pursue digital transformation and regulatory resilience.
Hevolus reports that PotentIA Edu, a project developed by Exlea and Hevolus, introduces artificial intelligence into the immersive platform Briedoo and will be presented at the stand.
AMD announced on 28 September it will acquire Fei‑Fei Li’s World Labs in an all‑stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, expected to close by the end of 2026 and subject to regulatory approval.
Hyperballad, curated by Sara d’Alessandro Manozzo, opens at Villa della Regina from October 22 to November 8, 2026, featuring sound installations that use artificial intelligence, animal recordings, and field recordings collected also in Pakistan.