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Zillow Adds Home Listings and Affordability Tools to Claude

A new Zillow connector lets Claude users search homes for sale or rent, view maps and estimates, and explore tours, agents and financing.

October 19, 2026

Google Releases LiteRT Tensor API for On Device Model Authoring

Google released the LiteRT Tensor API, a C++ authoring layer that lets developers build and optimize model graphs for deployment across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.

October 19, 2026

Town raises $108 million at unicorn valuation

Town raised a $108 million Series B round co led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, reaching a unicorn valuation four months after its public launch.

October 19, 2026

Dream Labs Raises $90 Million and Opens Robot Control API

Dream Labs raised $90 million in seed funding and launched an API that converts camera feeds and text instructions into robot motor commands.

October 19, 2026

NIST, NSA and CISA Issue Super Intelligence Incident Guidance

Three US agencies published ten voluntary practices for managing incidents involving advanced AI agents during training and evaluation.

October 19, 2026

Skyfall AI Previews SKY-001 World Model for CAD Design

Skyfall AI introduced SKY-001, a visual world model that plans construction sequences for physical designs in CAD and BIM software. A commercial release is planned for early 2027.

October 19, 2026

Together AI launches custom model training service

Together Post-Training lets developers customize open weight models through reinforcement learning and supervised fine tuning while Together AI manages the underlying infrastructure.

October 19, 2026

E(3)-Pose Tracks Fetal Movement During MRI Scans

Researchers at MIT, Boston Children's Hospital, and Inria developed E(3)-Pose, a deep learning model that tracks fetal head movement during MRI scans. The model uses head symmetry to help produce clearer 3D brain images.

October 19, 2026

Databricks Doubles New York City Office to 120,000 Square Feet

Databricks is doubling its office space at 5 Bryant Park in New York City to about 120,000 square feet across five floors.

October 19, 2026

Deepgram Runs Nova-3 on AWS Trainium2 With Up to 70% More Audio per Dollar

Deepgram ported its Nova-3 speech recognition model to AWS Trainium2 for offline batch workloads. The resulting setup processed 11% to 70% more audio per dollar than its previous compute options.

October 19, 2026

Darktrace Survey Finds Formal AI Policies Declined to 37%

A Darktrace survey of more than 1,500 cybersecurity professionals found that 37% of organizations have a formal AI policy, down from 45% a year earlier.

October 19, 2026

Canadian News Publishers Sue Anthropic Over Claude Training

Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press accuse Anthropic of using their journalism to develop Claude without permission.

October 19, 2026

NVIDIA Details Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for Multimodal Agents

NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model combines reasoning, tool use, and visual understanding for specialized agent workflows.

October 19, 2026

Major US banks restrict outside AI agents from moving money

JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America and Charles Schwab are restricting outside AI agents from making payments or transfers from customer accounts.

October 19, 2026

Vanderbilt Report Proposes Defense Production Act Controls for AI Chip Demand

A Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator report proposes using the Defense Production Act to reserve scarce memory chips for industries outside AI.

October 19, 2026

Inception launches Mercury 3 diffusion language model

Mercury 3 delivers more than 1,000 tokens per second, a 1 million token context window and API pricing starting at $0.20 per million input tokens.

October 19, 2026

NICB Estimates Auto Lending Fraud Exposure at $10.4 Billion

The National Insurance Crime Bureau estimates that fraud exposure in US auto lending has reached $10.4 billion as criminal networks use AI and synthetic identities.

October 19, 2026

Georgia Tech Gets $1.5 Million Grant for AI Assistive Technology Platform

Georgia Tech researchers received a three year, $1.5 million grant to expand a platform that helps older adults find assistive technologies for independent living.

October 19, 2026

Survey Finds Business Schools Lag on AI Readiness

An AACSB International survey found that 87% of business school leaders consider AI readiness a high strategic priority, but only about one in five rate their schools as highly prepared.

October 19, 2026

Denmark Plans Broad AI Data Powers for Public Bodies

A proposed Danish bill would let public bodies process and reuse personal data with AI, while requiring agencies to justify restrictions on privacy rights under GDPR.

October 19, 2026