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Award-winning novel 'Donde el agua trabaja' is 99% AI-written, according to detector Pangram
The short novel 'Donde el agua trabaja', by Peruvian author David Silva Rojas, was 99% written by AI according to the Pangram detector, which analyzed the roughly 26,000 words of the work. The book won in July 2026 the first Premio Internacional de Novela Breve Almadía Ventosa-Arrufat, worth 20,000 euros, whose rules excluded works written wholly or partly with artificial intelligence. Publisher Almadía suspended the presentation scheduled in Madrid and the rest of the Spanish tour.
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Walmart opens its stores to AI agents while Amazon shuts them out
Walmart's CEO presented in San Francisco a strategy for AI agents to operate on behalf of users at Walmart and Sam's Club. It includes Agent Gateway, a server based on Anthropic's Model Context protocol, already in beta for companies and developers, and Agent Profiles, arriving next month so customers can activate their agent and set spending limits. Amazon, meanwhile, warned that access by unauthorized agents such as Meta's Muse violates its terms of use.
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TP-Link integrates network design and management into its Omada platform
TP-Link announced new features for Omada Networks 6.3 and Omada Design Hub v1.2, aimed at simplifying the design, deployment and management of professional networks. Omada Networks 6.3 unifies Omada and Omada Campus in a single platform, adds intelligent anomaly detection, Health Score indicators, WIDS/WIPS wireless security and VLAN segmentation based on manufacturer. Design Hub v1.2, free and cloud-based, combines network and video surveillance design with an artificial intelligence assistant that recommends equipment.
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Pregnancy exit of a Babyqueen member, an AI-generated K-Pop group, sparks debate in China
Mity, one of the five members of Babyqueen, a Chinese K-Pop group created with artificial intelligence, announced on October 12 that she was temporarily leaving the band due to a pregnancy. The next day the group released a new single with four members. The group's managers later admitted in a statement that the pregnancy did not exist: it was a story to retire the character given the impossibility of managing her profiles and activities. The announcement drew criticism and an ethical debate online.
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China releases 'Sanxingdui: Future Past' in theaters, the first AI-generated feature film with official screening permission
China is releasing 'Sanxingdui: Future Past' in theaters, presented by its producer, Bona Film Group, as the first fully AI-generated feature film to obtain official screening permission, granted in April by the National Film Administration. The science fiction film is inspired by the Sanxingdui civilization and cost more than 10 million yuan (1.5 million dollars). Human creators led the concept, art direction and narrative decisions, while AI generated images and sound effects.
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China brings "Sanxingdui: Future Past", its first fully AI-generated feature film, to cinemas
China is bringing a fully AI-generated feature film to movie theaters for the first time: "Sanxingdui: Future Past", which explores the connection between an ancient civilization and a future dominated by algorithms. Its creators told the Global Times they aim to move from short online formats to the big screen. The film cost more than 10 million yuan ($1.5 million). On Weibo there is skepticism about the value of the content and criticism of the "unnatural" result of the generated actors.
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Córdoba uses drones to monitor illegal waste dumping at landfill sites
The Municipal Administrative Court of Misdemeanors of Córdoba added drones to monitor illegal waste dumping. Mayor Daniel Passerini presented the tool at the Urban Monitoring Center, alongside Lucas Carpio and Gabriel Martín. The devices can identify license plates and monitor more than 63 micro and macro dumping sites. According to Carpio, three people have already been detained and fines range from 3 to 33 million pesos.
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Alicante postpones its shopping voucher program over a cybersecurity alert
Alicante City Council and the Chamber of Commerce temporarily shut down the website and platform of the shopping voucher program as a precautionary measure after two critical vulnerabilities were detected in PHP. The first consequence is the suspension of in-person sales for people over 65, scheduled for October 26-30, which is pending a new date. The council says the shutdown is precautionary and that the problem did not originate on the campaign's website, and it has not set a date to restore the service.
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Santander expands its automation with AI alongside Spain's Maisa
Banco Santander is moving toward an AI-based automation model capable of executing complex processes, combining reasoning and execution, and extending those capabilities to different markets. To do so it uses, among other technologies, the platform of Spanish startup Maisa, founded in 2024 and specialized in traceable process automation. The initiative is part of One Transformation, the model with which the bank seeks to simplify and standardize operations and share technology across countries. AI is one of its main levers, with the goal of generating more than 1 billion euros of business value by 2028.
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Mo Gawdat, former Google X executive, to open ISE 2027 with an AI keynote
Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) announced that Mo Gawdat, bestselling author and a leading voice on artificial intelligence, will deliver the Business Keynote at the 2027 edition of the event, to be held at Fira de Barcelona Gran Via from February 2 to 5. His talk, titled "When Human and Artificial Intelligence Unite: Building a Future Worth Living In", will address the current impact of AI, corporate responsibility and the pace of innovation. The choice aligns with the "When Worlds Unite" theme.
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SK Hynix halts Solidigm's US$10 billion US IPO amid regulatory pressure
SK Hynix scrapped plans to list its flash memory subsidiary Solidigm in the US, in a deal that sought to raise about US$10 billion and would have valued the company at up to US$100 billion. The South Korean firm cited "recent capital market conditions" and the evolution of its share price in a regulatory filing. The decision followed opposition from South Korean regulators concerned about possible dilution for minority shareholders. SK Hynix shares rose as much as 4.5% after the announcement.
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ESET expert: turning off the phone for five minutes, as Sánchez advises, "does little" for most users
Josep Albors, head of Research and Awareness at ESET Spain, tells 20minutos that turning off the phone for five minutes a day —advice Pedro Sánchez said he received from Moncloa's Systems officials after the Pegasus espionage case— only works in specific cases of malware present in RAM. For most users, who face more common threats, it "does little". Still, restarting from time to time frees memory and closes background apps.
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Pedro Sánchez reveals the advice he was given at Moncloa to protect his phone after Pegasus
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on 'La Revuelta' that, after the Pegasus case, Moncloa's IT specialists advised him to turn off his phone for five minutes a day to strengthen its security. He explained that this brief disconnection hinders malicious programs that need the phone switched on. Experts say the measure has merit but has limits: an installed program can run again when the device is turned on. The NSA recommends restarting the phone once a week and ANSSI recommends doing so periodically.
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Goodfire researcher argues neural networks "are already clean"
Nick Cammarata, a mechanistic interpretability researcher at Goodfire and former member of the OpenAI team that developed techniques to explain what neurons in language models represent, published the article "Neural Networks Are Already Clean" on the company's website on October 15. In it he argues that AI is more understandable than previously thought and challenges the dominant explanation of neuronal polysemanticity based on superposition.
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US Army prepares AeroVironment's E-HEL laser system to take down drones from vehicles
The U.S. Army is working on upgrades to AeroVironment's E-HEL (Enduring-High Energy Laser) system, based on the 30-kilowatt LOCUST X3 laser, to counter drones from moving vehicles. In September the company received the program's first production contract, worth $464.8 million, and the Army expects to decide in fiscal year 2031 whether to produce a new version installable on infantry platoon vehicles. The system, which according to the source costs less than $5 per shot, incorporates AI algorithms in its management.
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SpaceX in talks for access to 80,000 base stations in the U.S. for its new mobile network
SpaceX is targeting a minimum of 80,000 base stations across the United States and is in talks with at least one major mobile infrastructure company to reach that goal, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. One of them would be Crown Castle, whose CEO said they are talking "with all parties." The deals would consolidate its path toward a fourth national mobile carrier. After the report, Crown Castle rose as much as 10% and AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile fell about 5%.
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OpenAI fires three safety researchers after reviewing their Signal chats
OpenAI fired three AI safety researchers —Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang— after an internal investigation concluded they violated policies on sensitive information, according to the company. The security team asked them to unlock their phones and found disappearing messages on Signal in conversations with an outside researcher. The dismissed researchers deny sharing confidential information and dispute the company's account. OpenAI says the dismissals were not over their safety criticism.
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Telefónica and IQM to deploy the first quantum computer in the Madrid region
Telefónica and IQM Quantum Computers, a Finnish group specializing in superconducting quantum computing, have partnered to deploy the first quantum computer in the Madrid region, at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. The system, an IQM Spark designed for research, education and early-stage development, will be installed before the end of 2026 and will give universities, hospitals, research centers and startups access to real quantum hardware. It will join the two computers Telefónica and IQM already provided to CESGA, in Galicia.
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Anthropic's IPO promises windfall gains for Iconiq, Spark and GIC
Anthropic's imminent IPO would generate multibillion-dollar gains for the funds that backed it. Iconiq has invested more than US$6 billion and holds a stake valued at about US$17 billion, based on the company's US$965 billion private valuation. Spark Capital invested US$75 million in 2023 and its stake is now worth US$7 billion. Singapore sovereign fund GIC holds about 1% after investing more than US$4.5 billion. The company is expected to file its IPO paperwork in the coming days.
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Observability gains weight in controlling agentic AI costs
55% of organizations cannot accurately control their AI costs, according to the Splunk State of Observability 2026, produced by Oxford Economics with 2,050 IT professionals from ten countries. The study notes that autonomous agents make consumption and behavior harder to anticipate, and that observability is increasingly tied to financial management. 87% consider monitoring AI workloads a priority, but 54% have no business results linked to that oversight and 56% cannot properly measure the quality of model responses.
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