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Lead Story · Politico Technology
Drawing on their experience taking tech companies to court, red and blue states’ top lawyers are campaigning on a more aggressive stance against AI companies.
Oct 9, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is fu…
Oct 9, 2026
The Register
Octocats claim 35x write improvement
Oct 9, 2026
The Guardian Technology
A spokesperson behind the tech company’s AI chatbot has not yet specified what counts as abusive or cruel content Anthropic has barred users from exhibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel be…
Oct 9, 2026
The Register
Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
Oct 9, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blue…
Oct 9, 2026
The Register
Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage
Oct 8, 2026
The Register
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
Oct 8, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safet…
Oct 8, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its o…
Oct 8, 2026
The Register
The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47483
Oct 8, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new rules also address ele…
Oct 8, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: Instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and o…
Oct 8, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one. The nuclear industry is historically cautious and risk averse—understandable …
Oct 8, 2026
Ars Technica
Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
Oct 8, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls in Co-op Legal Services is oppressive The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated l…
Oct 8, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya’s northern border with So…
Oct 8, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The story is a collaboration between MIT Technology Review and Aventine, a non-profit research foundation that creates and supports content about how technology and science are changing the way we liv…
Oct 8, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to au…
Oct 8, 2026
Ars Technica
Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
Oct 8, 2026
Ars Technica
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
Oct 7, 2026
The Register
But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?
Oct 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.
Oct 7, 2026
The Register
Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious
Oct 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.
Oct 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.
Oct 7, 2026
The Register
Strands Box is the latest open source AI control tool from the cloud giant; like its predecessors, it promises tighter reins on autonomous agents
Oct 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Meta launches new AI tools after discovering ads on its platforms that may look normal but direct users to harmful content elsewhere online.
Oct 7, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Leaders worry OpenAI is not doing due diligence to vet results and that AI models aren’t accessible to broader field of mathematicians OpenAI has astounded mathematicians after releasing hundreds of n…
Oct 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using simple text prompts.
Oct 7, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Housing construction is at its strongest level since 2016, but it’s AI that is sucking up resources for builders The latest series of data on housing and building activity has been released, showing r…
Oct 7, 2026
Ars Technica
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
Oct 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video, or an audio clip, is generated using AI.
Oct 7, 2026
Politico Technology
An invite-only conference in California hosted a rare convergence of AI influence — from industry luminaries to foreign officials and Congress members — as global concerns about the technology grow.
Oct 7, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information McDonald’s is facing a lawsuit in federal court over its alleged use of an AI tool to determin…
Oct 7, 2026
Semafor Technology
The Arizona Democratic senator talked about his agenda with Semafor — but demurred on how he’ll handle 2028.
Oct 7, 2026
Politico Technology
The credits are intended to give Genesis Mission researchers access to computing power that smaller labs and companies struggle to secure as major AI firms lock up capacity.
Oct 7, 2026
Semafor Technology
Massachusetts Rep. Lori Trahan’s “CLAIM Act” would make it easier for third parties to sue AI developers.
Oct 7, 2026
Semafor Technology
Guardrails Action warns politicians in a new letter that they’ll face ‘active, mobilized opposition’ if they don’t commit to safety regulations.
Oct 7, 2026
TechCrunch AI
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
Oct 6, 2026
Simon Willison
Oct 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new stand…
Oct 6, 2026
404 Media
"Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.
Oct 6, 2026
The Register
Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month
Oct 6, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests (Op…
Oct 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research …
Oct 6, 2026
TechCrunch AI
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
Oct 6, 2026
The Guardian Technology
New alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence and AI companies are looming ominously Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit un…
Oct 6, 2026
Wired
With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.
Oct 6, 2026
The Register
Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances
Oct 6, 2026