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An Amazon engineer used ChatGPT to stop her epilepsy medication: the AI designed a 25-day plan and she died
Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old software engineer at Amazon with severe epilepsy, asked ChatGPT in January 2026 how to reduce the side effects of lamotrigine as she risked losing her job and her right to stay in the United States. According to a New York Times investigation, the chatbot designed a schedule to go from 400 milligrams to zero in about 25 days. She raised concerns about her symptoms at least 158 times; the AI kept reassuring her. She was found dead in her Seattle apartment in February. Her family sued OpenAI.
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Amazon asks its engineers to stop using so much AI: an internal memo admits that measuring token consumption is "fundamentally flawed"
An internal Amazon memo, signed by Terk Terkowitz, vice president and distinguished engineer in the stores division, and published on October 27 after circulating in September, warns that AI usage metrics are "fundamentally flawed" and that "tokenmaxxing" —inflating token consumption— clashes with frugality. The text, however, argues that those metrics correlate with results and asks for a review of the teams that use AI the least and the most. Amazon shut down its KiroRank ranking in May; Microsoft introduced token budgets in August.
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MinTIC launches AI system to fight cyberattacks
Colombia's Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTIC) presented in Bogotá the National Intelligent Cyberdefense System, a platform with artificial intelligence algorithms to detect and neutralize computer intrusion attempts in real time. It operates in direct link with strategic public entities and aims to identify anomalous traffic, ransomware attempts and vulnerabilities before they affect citizen service systems. The ICT minister announced training for more than two thousand specialists in digital forensic auditing.
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Fiber Connect Latam 2026: region concentrates tech value but faces connectivity gaps
Fiber Connect Latam 2026 brought together 440 technology industry executives at the Hotel W in Chile. CEPAL economist Sebastian Rovira warned that while 75% of households in the region have internet access, only 27% have meaningful connectivity, and noted there are 4,500 AI companies in Latin America. The event highlighted that Chile went from 5,000 kilometers of fiber optics in 2015 to more than 230,000 today.
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Report says AI tools edit faces of people with visible differences without consent
People with scars, birthmarks and other visible conditions say artificial intelligence tools modify or remove their features without authorization, according to testimonies revealed to the BBC. The outlet tested several systems with images of a man and a woman with facial differences: when asked to make them "normal", Gemini, Grok and ChatGPT removed the mark on the first attempt. Anthropic's Claude and Meta's AI refused. Google said Gemini applies safeguards against harmful content, though it does not always get it right; OpenAI said reducing bias is a priority and Grok's team did not respond.
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Samsung falls as much as 6.2% despite 15-fold jump in chip profit
Samsung Electronics reported operating profit of 107.4 trillion won ($80 billion) in the July-September quarter, versus 12.2 trillion won a year earlier. The semiconductor division contributed 106.5 trillion won, about 15 times the prior-year level, though slightly below analyst expectations. Its shares fell as much as 6.2%: investors compared its memory shortage outlook, which it expects to last until 2028, with SK Hynix's, and the company postponed its new shareholder return policy until January.
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Alphabet falls more than 10% after results: earnings miss despite Google Cloud surge
Alphabet shares fell more than 10% in pre-market trading in the United States after the company reported third-quarter earnings below expectations. Earnings per share came in at $2.12 versus the $3.02 expected, although revenue rose 25% to $127.6 billion. Google Cloud revenue grew 103% to $30.7 billion and its operating income more than tripled to $11.1 billion. Advertising posted its slowest growth in five quarters and the company reported higher capital spending and negative free cash flow.
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Apple unveils its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, blurring the line with the iPad
Apple presented its first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen in Los Angeles, according to Xataka. The company had long argued it would not merge the iPad and the Mac because they served different functions, and each iPad Pro update added something the Mac already had: a keyboard in 2015, a cursor in 2020, an M-series chip in 2021, windows in 2022 and a menu bar in 2025. Greg Joswiak told Wired that many professionals and young creators expect to be able to touch the laptop's screen.
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Alphabet falls nearly 10% after admitting AI search monetizes less than traditional search
Alphabet shares fell nearly 10% after the company presented its third-quarter results, in which it acknowledged that AI-powered searches such as AI Mode generate less revenue than traditional search. Search revenue grew 12% to $63.25 billion, below the 14.5% growth of the same quarter a year earlier. Chief business officer Philipp Schindler attributed the slowdown to the "lower monetization" of AI Mode. Google rolled out ads alongside those searches worldwide.
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OpenAI and Anthropic claim to have disproved the exponential time hypothesis, a pillar of theoretical computer science
OpenAI and Anthropic said this week they have disproved the exponential time hypothesis (ETH), an assumption underpinning much research in complexity and algorithm design. Both companies published the proofs on GitHub, in natural language and in machine-checkable Lean format. Researchers have not yet independently verified them and warn that the result, if confirmed, would render numerous papers obsolete, including those of academics presenting at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.
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Iryo CEO warned in the Senate about failures in the LZB safety system
Fabrizio Favara, CEO of Iryo, told the Senate committee investigating the state of Spain's rail network that the LZB signalling system is "safe, but quite old", and that whenever the train signal disconnects from the ground signal the convoy stops and takes time to resume service. The report also includes audio from an Iryo driver who could not restart the system before an accident on the Madrid-Andalusia corridor.
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MinTIC to demand return of unexecuted funds in the Juntas de Internet program
Colombia's Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies will demand the return of unexecuted public funds in the Juntas de Internet program and will verify on the ground which installations can operate. The review, as of September 30, 2026, reported 353 community boards in operation and 20,143 connected households, below contractual targets. Initial contracts envisaged 810 boards and 70,864 households; the household target was later cut to 45,871. In Caldas, the return of 5,189 million pesos was announced.
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China unveils Sugon 8000, a supercluster with 100,000 domestically made GPUs
The Sugon 8000, a supercluster with around 100,000 graphics cards designed and manufactured in China, was presented at China's National High Performance Computing Conference in Shenzhen. The system is located in Zhengzhou, Henan province, and is the central node of China's National Supercomputing Internet. Sugon says all components —chips, networking, storage, cooling and software— come from Chinese suppliers. The company was added to the US Entity List in 2019.
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How to spot a fake image made with artificial intelligence, according to three experts
Advances in artificial intelligence have reduced the visible errors in generated images, so looking for deformed hands or meaningless text is no longer enough. Three experts consulted by La Tercera recommend checking hands, faces, shadows, reflections and background elements, and observing how objects and people relate to each other. They note that visual inspection has limits: they cite a 2025 Microsoft Research study in which people were correct in about 62% of cases. They suggest using reverse image search and detection tools as clues, not as proof.
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Microbiologist Mario Feldman warns "we are losing the battle against bacteria"
Mario Feldman, the first graduate in Biotechnology from the National University of Rosario and now a professor of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis, warns about bacterial resistance to antibiotics, a "silent pandemic." His laboratory studies Acinetobacter baumannii and strategies that target virulence factors instead of killing the microorganism. He also co-founded Omniose, which develops bacterial vaccines with a biological platform and collaborates with AstraZeneca, and received about 15 million dollars in research grants.
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Wittmann expects €330 million in revenue, up 10%, and boosts local production and digitalization
The Wittmann Group sees a recovery in some markets but considers it premature to speak of a consolidated trend change, according to owner and CEO Michael Wittmann at the Fakuma 2026 press conference. For the current fiscal year it expects revenue of around €330 million, 10% more than the previous year. The group employs 2,050 people and has ten production plants and 35 subsidiaries. The company remains cautious due to the transformation of injection molding in Europe and the automotive sector.
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Alphabet plunges on Wall Street and Microsoft rebounds after earnings: the uneven impact of AI
Alphabet fell more than 10% in after-hours trading, a loss of nearly $400 billion in market capitalization, after missing forecasts and posting negative free cash flow again due to its AI investments. Microsoft, by contrast, rebounded 4% after beating estimates, with Azure growing 48%. Alphabet invested $51.3 billion between July and September and spent nothing on share buybacks.
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PROhumana warns that AI is moving faster than Chilean corporate boards
PROhumana's Round Table, which brought together 46 leaders from 38 companies and organizations in Chile, concluded that artificial intelligence is moving faster than boards, governance structures and worker preparation. Its founder, Soledad Teixidó, said general managers are facing the change while their boards are not moving at the same pace, and that companies are holding back new hiring although they are not yet cutting jobs.
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Apple quietly cuts the student discount on the MacBook Neo
Apple reduced the student discount on the MacBook Neo minutes before announcing the touchscreen MacBook Pro. The laptop, launched in March from 599 euros for students and teachers, now costs 739 euros for that group in its base version, 23.37% more. In late June there was already a 100-euro increase across all Macs, including student prices. The gap with the general price is now 60 euros. The MacBook Air and MacBook Pro keep their student prices.
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China condemns US ban on three genetics companies over alleged ties to Uyghur forced labor
China's Ministry of Commerce condemned US restrictions on BGI Genomics, MGI Tech and Shenzhen BGI Technology (BGI Group), added to a list of entities barred from imports over alleged links to Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang. Beijing called the measure protectionist and warned it will take the necessary steps to defend its interests. BGI Group said the restrictions will not have a significant impact on its operations and MGI Tech announced it will appeal its listing. The US list now totals 190 entities.
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