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AI

Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to in-country inferencing in India

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 are now available in India through Amazon Bedrock geographic cross-Region inference. You can access these models while processing data within the India Regions, and get started from the Amazon Bedrock console or with the Messages, InvokeModel, and Converse APIs. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, and its products and services include Claude and Claude Code. The India regional endpoint is served through geographic cross-Region inference. Customers in India can now access these models on Amazon Bedrock while processing the data in the India Regions in addition to the already supported global cross-Region inference.

Source: AWS Machine Learning Blog30 Sep 2026, 01:13 UTC

AI

Introducing Anthropic models on Amazon Bedrock for in-region inference in Seoul and Singapore

Amazon Bedrock now supports Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 with in-region inference in Seoul, and Claude Sonnet 5 in Singapore.

Source: AWS Machine Learning Blog30 Sep 2026, 01:13 UTC

WORLDTECH.NEWSTechnologyWednesday, 30 September 2026

Technology

WSL containers is now generally available

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As AI, cloud-native development, containers, and open-source ecosystems continue to converge on Linux, more developers are choosing to perform The post WSL containers is now generally available appeared first on Windows Blog.

29 SepSource: Microsoft Windows Blog + 1 more29 Sep 2026, 17:00 UTC

Technology

Apple releases new guide to help families build healthy digital habits

29 SepSource: Apple Newsroom29 Sep 2026, 16:59 UTC

In Brief

Technology

Google is a technology partner for the launch of America.gov.

Google partners with America.gov to use Gemini to help 100 million people access federal services faster.

29 SepSource: Google Blog29 Sep 2026, 14:15 UTC

WORLDTECH.NEWSBitcoin & CryptoWednesday, 30 September 2026

Bitcoin & Crypto

Trump accord calls for tech firms to ‘self police’ their own frontier AI

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The accord was signed at the White House by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and xAI CEO Elon Musk.

Source: Cointelegraph30 Sep 2026, 00:28 UTC

Bitcoin & Crypto

HANetf Debuts Euro-Hedged Bitcoin Fund in World First

29 SepSource: Bitcoin Magazine29 Sep 2026, 19:08 UTC

In Brief

Bitcoin & Crypto

OpenAI Gave AI Agents Their Own Computers at DevDay 2026. Here's Everything It Announced

29 SepSource: Decrypt29 Sep 2026, 18:55 UTC

WORLDTECH.NEWSCybersecurityWednesday, 30 September 2026

Cybersecurity

Toptech TMS7 and TopHAT

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The issues have been addressed in release 7.8. Users can get the latest release and more information on these issues, at the Toptech Systems security blog.

29 SepSource: CISA Advisories29 Sep 2026, 12:00 UTC

Cybersecurity

CISA Adds One Known Exploited security flaw to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.

29 SepSource: CISA Advisories29 Sep 2026, 12:00 UTC

In Brief

Cybersecurity

Signal adds encypted local backup support to iOS, desktop apps

29 SepSource: BleepingComputer29 Sep 2026, 21:30 UTC

WORLDTECH.NEWSChips & HardwareWednesday, 30 September 2026

Chips & Hardware

Low-energy chip startup Efficient Computer closes on $97M in funding

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said today it has closed on a $97 million round of funding in the second major investment it has picked up this year.

Source: SiliconANGLE30 Sep 2026, 01:44 UTC

Chips & Hardware

Meta Releases OpenZL 0.3 With Decompression Speed 144% Faster Than Zstd

Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high compression ratios and high speed compression/decompression.

29 SepSource: Phoronix29 Sep 2026, 16:06 UTC

In Brief

Chips & Hardware

hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage & Memory Reporting

For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options.

29 SepSource: Phoronix29 Sep 2026, 14:23 UTC

WORLDTECH.NEWSRoboticsWednesday, 30 September 2026

Robotics

Efficient Bezier Velocity Optimization for Free-Floating Space Manipulators

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FAVOR completes 30 of 36 tracking cases, versus 15 for single-step QP, and all 36 interception instances, versus 22 for the spline baseline. It optimizes Bezier joint-velocity curves with linear velocity, acceleration, and continuity constraints.

29 SepSource: arXiv Robotics (cs.RO)29 Sep 2026, 04:00 UTC

Robotics

Venus flytrap-inspired 'robot hand' material senses objects and grasps them under light

A Venus flytrap closes its leaves to trap prey when it senses a stimulus.

29 SepSource: Tech Xplore Robotics29 Sep 2026, 13:40 UTC

In Brief

Robotics

PHIRL: Aligning Learned Rewards with Task Progress for Inverse Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.31855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations provide dense policy-level information but sometimes lack local precision.

29 SepSource: arXiv Robotics (cs.RO)29 Sep 2026, 04:00 UTC

WORLDTECH.NEWSStartups & BusinessWednesday, 30 September 2026

Startups & Business

World model startup General Intuition closes $220M investment

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today announced that it has raised $220 million in funding at a $6.2 billion valuation. Medal provides a […] The post World model startup General Intuition closes $220M investment appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Source: SiliconANGLE30 Sep 2026, 00:17 UTC

Startups & Business

SEC Charges Multiple Entities in Fraud Schemes Totaling at Least $15 Million That Used WhatsApp and Other Platforms to Lure Investors

In two separate complaints, both filed in U.S.

29 SepSource: US Securities and Exchange Commission29 Sep 2026, 13:55 UTC

In Brief

Startups & Business

Tesla secures $30B in new credit lines as it looks to scale Cybercab, Optimus

The company says it won't draw on the new debt facilities this year, as it has already planned at least $25 billion in capital expenditures.

29 SepSource: TechCrunch29 Sep 2026, 21:20 UTC

WORLDTECH.NEWSScience & SpaceWednesday, 30 September 2026

Science & Space

Unlocking AI as a research tool for plant microscopy

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student Tianqi Wei said even advanced vision-language models (VLMs) had difficulty interpreting images of microscopic plant details.

Source: Phys.org30 Sep 2026, 01:40 UTC

Science & Space

NASA Awards Orbital Safety Analysis Support Services Contract

NASA has awarded a contract to Omitron Inc.

29 SepSource: NASA News Releases29 Sep 2026, 21:00 UTC

In Brief

Science & Space

NASA Adds Blue Origin New Glenn 9×4 to Launch Services Contract

In accordance with a contract on-ramp clause, NASA has added Blue Origin’s New Glenn 9×4 launch service to the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract.

29 SepSource: NASA News Releases29 Sep 2026, 20:08 UTC

WORLDTECH.NEWSAIWednesday, 30 September 2026

AI

Okta moves inline to police what AI agents actually do

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recently launched an AI agent (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) runtime gateway as part of its broader approach to […] The post Okta moves inline to police what AI agents actually do appeared first on SiliconANGLE. recently launched an AI agent runtime gateway as part of its broader approach to securing autonomous systems. Full visibility into an agent’s behavior, however, requires observing both the prompt entering the model and the actions it proposes.

Source: SiliconANGLE30 Sep 2026, 01:04 UTC

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