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Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro is now available in Tencent's WorkBuddy desktop AI agent and on Tencent Cloud's TokenHub model catalog.
Source: Pandaily
https://pandaily.com/xiaomi-mimo-v2-6-pro-tencent-workbuddy-tokenhub-1m-context
#AI #Tencent

Political campaigns spent more than $137 million on AI-made ads ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Source: Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/10/21/political-campaigns-ai-advertisement-spending-137-million-republicans-misinformation/
#TechPolicy

A 14-year-old schoolgirl died after viewing suicide-related videos on TikTok, and a coroner said the material may have contributed to her decision.
Source: The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/21/uk-watchdogs-urged-to-tackle-suicide-social-media-content-after-death-of-girl-14
#TechPolicy

Peking University and PrimeBot introduced HIL-UMI, collecting robot correction data using a handheld gripper without a physical robot arm.
Source: Pandaily
https://pandaily.com/peking-university-primebot-hil-umi-robot-free-human-in-loop-vla-post-training
#Robotics

China has launched a state-owned enterprise called National Data Group, based in Xiong'an, Hebei province. Vice-premier Ding Xuexiang attended the inauguration on October 20.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261021PD244/beijing-infrastructure-data-technology-telecom.html
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Public servants are prohibited from using Waze effective immediately after a decision by the National Cyber Security Committee chaired by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Source: Free Malaysia Today
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/10/21/penjawat-awam-dilarang-guna-waze
#TechPolicy

Nobody can say precisely when quantum computers will be powerful enough to undermine cryptographic systems, and waiting for certainty could become a risk.
Source: Frontier Enterprise
https://www.frontier-enterprise.com/why-quantum-safety-must-start-now-not-after-q-day/
#TechPolicy

Skyfall AI has launched SKY-001, an Indian-built AI model that claims an edge over GPT-6 Astra.
Source: Business Today
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/meet-sky-001-the-indian-built-ai-model-claiming-an-edge-over-gpt-6-astra-562752-2026-10-21?utm_source=rssfeed
#AI

Reflection Beam 1.0 is the first open-weight model from Reflection designed for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks.
Source: Activepieces
https://www.activepieces.com/blog/what-is-reflection-beam-10-specs-benchmarks-access
#AI

Elon Musk pledged on Monday to give one share of SpaceX to every kid in America next year. He said he recommends giving the shares directly to the public.
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20261021/musk-pledges-give-share-his-spacex-company-every-kid-america
#Tech

Tenex pays AI engineers for the work they deliver instead of the hours they spend at a keyboard. The company still uses story points as a key part of engineering compensation.
Source: Latent Space
https://www.latent.space/p/tenex
#AIAgents

Apple said apps that hide harmful features such as nudification until after approval are prohibited.
Source: MediaNama
https://www.medianama.com/2026/10/223-apple-apps-hide-nudification-features/
#TechPolicy #Apple

ComplianceAgent is a large-language-model sub-agent that evaluates texts for digital sovereignty, carbon impact, compliance and ethics.
Source: arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27347
#MachineLearning

Collaboration among large language models improves clinical task performance, but it does not consistently reduce hallucination; the effect varies by model rather than by topology or agent count.
Source: arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27027
#MachineLearning

Magnolia is a persistent-memory AI agent framework that integrates computational chemistry protocols, lab notebooks and chat logs using large language models.
Source: arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27230
#MachineLearning

M-Plan is a closed-loop multi-agent framework that combines long-term and short-term memory to improve performance on multi-turn tasks.
Source: arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27032
#MachineLearning

The paper studies inference-time observation attacks on safe multi-agent reinforcement learning, where an adversary perturbs observations of some agents to change their actions.
Source: arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27293
#MachineLearning

Many Indian government websites, such as the UIDAI Aadhaar portal and the income tax filing site, use eMudhra certificates or related technology.
Source: The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/eight-web-security-keys-of-firm-used-by-govt-and-psus-leaked/article71606342.ece

LightCRS is a lightweight, query-conditioned framework that unifies multimodal conversational recommendation across many product domains.
Source: arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26948
#MachineLearning

DeepSeek has fully open-sourced its inference framework, DeepInfer, to run AI models efficiently on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Huawei hardware.
Source: South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3371592/deepseek-open-sources-new-tool-slash-ai-costs-fight-against-closed-source-rivals
#Tech #DeepSeek #Nvidia