AIOct 15, 2026MarkTechPost
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model
MarkTechPost’s take on Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: 120B open multimodal MoE, 12B active, 1M context, NVFP4 weights aimed at agents.
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AIOct 15, 2026TechCrunch
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
Anthropic is embedding six METR researchers with employee-level access — and giving up the right to kill their public assessments.
AIOct 15, 2026Meta Engineering
How Meta Built Forum With AI-Native Engineering
Meta’s Forum app was a testbed for human-on-the-loop agents — success measured as verified production changes, not lines of code.
AIOct 15, 2026OpenAI
Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
OpenAI’s Rosalind Academic Plan: up to 30 free Business seats for a year and trusted-access GPT-Rosalind for eligible U.S. university labs.
AIOct 15, 2026The Verge
Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs
Zuckerberg and Apple’s John Ternus are publicly cheering Muse Spark Open on dual M5 Ultra Mac Studios — rivals playing nice for on-desk open weights.
AIOct 15, 2026NVIDIA Developer
Scale Agentic Coding Workflows with Meta’s Muse Spark Open on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
NVIDIA’s serving note: Muse Spark Open trained on GB300 NVL72, NVFP4 for Blackwell, claims up to 50K tok/s per GPU for agentic coding.
AIOct 15, 2026NVIDIA Blog
Be There for the Beginning: Celebrate the Launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark
NVIDIA’s launch-day invitation: RTX Spark Windows PCs for creators, gamers, and agents — plus #ShareYourSpark and world events.
AIOct 15, 2026The Verge
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
The Verge on Muse: you may have clicked yes — your friends never did — and security researchers say the agent builds hourly dossiers on everyone in your life.
AIOct 15, 2026NVIDIA Blog
Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B open) plus Bolt edge models aim to cover always-on agents from server rack to RTX laptop.
AIOct 15, 2026NVIDIA Developer
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Powers Specialized Agents with Multimodal Reasoning
NVIDIA folds vision, documents, video and tool use into one open 120B mixture-of-experts model, betting enterprises would rather post-train a single agent brain than stitch several together.
AIOct 15, 2026The Verge
How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops
Microsoft's prep for Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark laptops shows where the AI PC is heading: two-click local agents, tuned emulation, and a delayed Recall.
AIOct 15, 2026TechCrunch
Google’s Universal Cart shopping tool launches in the US
Google's Universal Cart is live in the US, turning Search and Gemini into a persistent cross-retailer shopping list wired into its own agent checkout standard.