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The proposed programme, in ARIA's Adaptive Machines opportunity space, targets low-cost real-time sensors to identify airborne particle size, shape, and origin.
KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the Youth AI Privacy Act, and the CHATBOT Act all cleared committee despite EFF's privacy and free-speech objections.
Edge City launches Inflection Fellowship for Edge City India
Three-week, fully funded program for builders under 25 runs in Goa this fall, with LongJourney as fellowship partner.
Edge City opens applications for Edge City India popup village
Volunteer and attendee applications are now rolling for a three-week popup in Mandrem, North Goa, running Oct 11–Nov 1, 2026.
MacPaw and Liquid AI partner on on-device Mac AI stack
The multi-year collaboration pairs Liquid Foundation Models with MacPaw's Elix and Mnemos tech, starting with the Eney assistant.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B for on-device agentic tasks
The 2.6B-parameter open-weight model targets phones, laptops, and robots, running fully offline for tool-calling and multi-step agent workflows.
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M
Two new open-weight bidirectional encoders built on the LFM2 hybrid architecture, optimized for long-context workloads on CPU-only hardware with up to 3.7× faster inference than ModernBERT-base at 8,192 tokens.
ARIA consolidates funding strategy into seven new opportunity spaces
New CEO Kathleen Fisher unveiled a restructured research roadmap spanning AI, biology, climate, robotics, and neurotech ahead of a new Programme Director cohort.
ARIA published its 2026 Corporate Plan, "Activating the ecosystem"
The plan details how ARIA's opportunity spaces and Activation Partner programmes have matured and outlines the pathways it is building toward real-world deployment of funded research.
ARIA announced 10 Fellows for Encode Fellowship Cohort 2
The AI-for-science programme picked researchers from 1,429 applicants across 116 countries, with four relocating to the UK to build there.
Bluesky CEO says platform is working to shed progressive-only reputation
Toni Schneider told The Verge the app is courting sports, finance, and entertainment voices while keeping pluggable moderation tools for existing users.
Akave published sovereignty audit guide amid AI cloud conflicts-of-interest debate
Blog post outlines five questions enterprises should ask about cloud providers' AI-lab equity stakes and CLOUD Act exposure, positioning Akave's zero-egress model as an alternative.
Cryptio added support for BOB (Build on Bitcoin) network
Institutions running digital-asset operations on the Bitcoin L2 BOB can now use Cryptio for audit-ready accounting and reconciliation.
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