The one thing
Higgsfield's AI can now make videos over 10 minutes long, up from one
Why it mattersMarketers and creators using Higgsfield can now produce 10-minute videos in one tool, where the limit was one minute.
Seventy: Wednesday, 14 October 2026
- 02Models
Amazon Bedrock adds SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 model for multi-step agent work
Why it mattersGrok 4.7 is now a option, so you can test it for agents without a new vendor contract.
- 03Agents
NVIDIA backs French startups as local firms put agentic AI to work
Why it mattersFrench startups building AI assistants now have NVIDIA as an investor, which matters if you sell to or compete with them.
Energy Secretary orders emergency steps to keep mid-Atlantic power grid stable
Why it mattersThe DOE is treating mid-Atlantic grid stress as a blackout risk, so plan for outages now.
Energy Department plans backing for 2.5 GW power grid growth in eight states
Why it mattersFederal money is heading to 2.5 of new grid capacity, and it is aimed at power costs.
Arm says confidential AI needs a shared standard for verifying hardware trust
Why it mattersArm says trust checks must work across vendors, so ask suppliers how their interoperates.
- 07Chips
NVIDIA and Microsoft set Oct. 16 launch for RTX Spark AI laptops
Why it mattersLaptops with 1 of local AI compute arrive Oct. 16, so on-device agents become shippable.
AWS lets companies share Bedrock model subscriptions across all accounts from one place
Why it mattersOne central subscription now replaces per-account acceptance of private pricing offers for third-party models.
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Words of the day
- GW
- A unit of power equal to one billion watts, used to measure grid and data-centre capacity.
- attestation
- A cryptographic check that proves a server is running trusted hardware, firmware and software before a customer sends it sensitive workloads.
- Confidential computing
- Running software in a sealed part of the chip so that even the cloud provider cannot see the data while it is being processed.
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