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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute OpenAI’s reasons

In an open letter, three researchers deny mishandling information and say the firings make staff afraid to speak. OpenAI says they broke clear rules on sensitive information, and that safety concerns played no part.

OpenAI said on October 1 that it had parted ways with three people after an investigation, and The Wall Street Journal named them as Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni. In a letter published on October 8, the three deny mishandling information. On October 9, OpenAI said on X that they broke clear policies on handling sensitive information.

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Tesla renames Full Self-Driving in Europe after German push

The system is now called Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe. Germany’s transport ministry had called the old name misleading, and now says it will back an EU-wide approval, which cannot be voted on before December.

Germany’s transport ministry said on October 6 that Tesla had offered to rename its FSD driver-assistance system, after talks in September. The ministry had found the name somewhat misleading. By October 9, Tesla’s European websites used the new name, Tesla Assisted Driving. Germany says it will now support approval across the EU.

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October 9, 20266 stories

Anthropic bans sustained cruelty towards its Claude models

A new usage policy, in force from November 12, also rewrites Anthropic’s election rules. It drops a blanket ban on personalised campaign targeting and adds a section on fake accounts and influence campaigns.

Anthropic published a new usage policy for Claude on October 8, and it takes effect on November 12. One new line bans “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” towards its models. Anthropic says the rule is meant only for extreme cases. The election section now focuses on deceiving voters, and a new section covers fake accounts.

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AI Models

Leaderboard Arena raises $200M and grades agents’ behaviour

Arena says the round values it at $3.1 billion, almost double its value in January. Its new Alignment Index counts how often AI agents act without permission or claim work is done when it is not.

Arena, which runs a popular public leaderboard of AI models, said on October 8 that it raised $200 million at a $3.1 billion valuation. Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures led the round. Arena also launched a preview of its Alignment Index, which scores 27 models on how they behave as agents in real sessions.

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Anthropic offers free AI bug scans to open-source projects

Reports go straight to maintainers who opt in, with no human check first. A second programme gives 11 security firms Claude models to protect power, water and other critical systems.

Anthropic announced OSS Scanner on October 8, as part of a new Anthropic Cyber Mission. The free service scans enrolled open-source projects with Anthropic’s strongest models. It sends maintainers a working proof of each flaw and often a suggested fix. Only core maintainers can enrol, and Anthropic checks each one by hand.

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Maker closes AI hacking tool linked to Korean bank hacks

CrowdStrike says an unknown attacker used ARTEX, an open-source AI agent, against South Korean financial firms. Regulators say data on more than 68,000 people leaked, and the tool’s developer stopped public updates.

ARTEX is an AI agent for testing computer systems for security holes, and it was free to download as open source. CrowdStrike says an unknown attacker used it, with AI models such as DeepSeek’s, against South Korean financial firms from late September. South Korea’s government says the tool was highly likely used. On October 8, its developer said ARTEX would become closed-source.

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Nvidia pledges $1 billion over five years to US science

It is the largest of 11 company pledges, worth $2.4 billion, that the White House announced for its Genesis Mission. Nvidia did not say how much is cash and how much is computing.

Nvidia announced on October 8 that it will commit $1 billion over the next five years to US science. It made the pledge at a White House science summit in Washington, and names quantum computing, healthcare and energy. The White House lists it in a $2.4 billion package from 11 companies, including AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

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PC shipments fall 20% as AI demand lifts memory prices

IDC counts 62.7 million PCs shipped from July to September, and Omdia 58.1 million. Both say buyers stocked up early in the year to beat price rises, and HP and Dell fell the most.

Research firm IDC estimates that 62.7 million PCs were shipped worldwide in the third quarter, 20.1% fewer than a year earlier. Omdia counts 58.1 million, down 21.2%. Lenovo, HP, Dell and Apple all shipped fewer computers. IDC says high prices, driven by the building of AI data centres, are holding buyers back.

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October 8, 20268 stories

Business

OpenAI’s revenue pace nears $50 billion, reports say

OpenAI told investors the figure for the end of September, the FT, Bloomberg and CNBC report. Earlier reports of about $70 billion counted revenue in another way, and AI chip and cloud shares fell.

OpenAI told investors that its annualized revenue was approaching $50 billion at the end of September, the Financial Times reported on October 8. Bloomberg and CNBC confirmed the figure with their own sources. Reports in late September had put it at $68 billion to $70 billion. OpenAI declined to comment.

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Google’s Gemini agent for work can also run on Claude

Google Cloud says the agent can work on a task for hours or days and pass parts to helper agents with their own email addresses. Google gave no price or launch date for most customers.

Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent on October 8 at its Gemini at Work event. It is one agent for questions, documents, images and code, and it works in Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack. It picks a model for each task, from Google’s Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude. Versions for finance and legal work are in preview.

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GlobalFoundries will make AI chip parts for TSMC in the US

The $2 billion deal runs for five years at first. GlobalFoundries will make silicon interposers, a key part of TSMC’s advanced AI chip packages, in New York from 2028.

GlobalFoundries announced a $2 billion agreement with TSMC on October 8. It will make silicon interposers for TSMC’s CoWoS chip packaging at its factory in Malta, New York. Volume production should start in the first half of 2028. GlobalFoundries says it will be the first US source of these parts, and TSMC has not commented.

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Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets run Android with Google Play

The three tablets cost from $229.99 to $499.99 and have Alexa+ built in. They ship on October 14 in the US, Canada and Mexico, and reviewers see them as the successors to Amazon’s Fire tablets.

Amazon announced three Alexa Tablets on October 8: the 12 Pro at $499.99, the 11 at $329.99 and the 8 at $229.99. They run Android with the full Google Play Store, and Alexa+, Amazon’s newer AI assistant, is built in. They ship on October 14 in North America and on October 19 in five European countries.

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OpenAI says teens average under 15 minutes a day on ChatGPT

The figures come from OpenAI’s first report on ChatGPT for Teens, and no outside group has checked them. Child-safety groups say the average hides the heaviest users.

OpenAI published early figures on how teenagers use ChatGPT for Teens on October 7. It says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average, and fewer than 2% spend more than three hours in a row. It also announced a College Planner. Child-safety groups say the numbers need independent checks.

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Meta adds AI tools to catch ads that lead to child abuse

The ads look harmless but point people to illegal material outside Meta’s apps. In September, a watchdog reported hundreds of paid ads with AI-made abuse imagery on Facebook and Instagram.

Meta announced five AI tools on October 7 to find ads that quietly point people to child sexual abuse material hosted elsewhere. It says it acted on 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram from January to June 2026. Meta did not say how many were ads, or when the tools started.

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Samsung’s profit rises almost ninefold on AI memory demand

Samsung estimates its July–September operating profit at about 107.4 trillion won, or about $80 billion. It is the first Korean company to pass 100 trillion won in one quarter.

Samsung Electronics published early estimates for its third quarter on October 8. Operating profit was about 107.4 trillion won, or about $80 billion, up from 12.17 trillion won a year earlier. Sales more than doubled to about 195 trillion won. Reports link the jump to AI demand for memory chips and higher memory prices.

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Google’s Playground turns text prompts into games

The experimental website from Google Labs is open to adults in the US. Players can share games or publish them in a gallery, and a Unity tool for 3D games is still in testing.

Google Labs launched Playground on October 7, a website where people make games by describing them in words, with no coding. It is open to users aged 18 and over in the US. Playing is free, and making games has weekly limits that are higher for paying subscribers. No outlet has published a full test yet.

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October 7, 20267 stories

ChatGPT gets GPT-6 and answers with charts and buttons

Paid users get GPT-6 Sol from October 7, and Free and Go users get GPT-6 Luna from October 8. A new feature called Intelligent UI lets answers include charts, forms and small tools.

OpenAI started bringing GPT-6 to the Chat tab of ChatGPT on October 7. Answers can now mix text with diagrams, buttons, forms and charts, a feature OpenAI calls Intelligent UI. ChatGPT can also start answering while it is still thinking. Nobody outside OpenAI has tested the new answers yet.

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AI Models

Anthropic’s Haiku 5.5 cuts small-model prices by 90%

The new small Claude model costs $0.10 per million input tokens for shorter requests, against $1 for Haiku 4.5. An outside test ranks it second of 182 models in its class.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for requests up to 100,000 tokens. It is the first Haiku model with effort controls. Anthropic also halved a Sonnet 5.5 price and added monthly API credits for some plans.

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Google opens its SynthID detector for AI media to everyone

The free website checks images, video and audio for hidden watermarks from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao. It cannot spot AI media from makers that use other systems.

Google opened its SynthID Detector website to everyone on October 7, after more than a year with early testers only. People can upload a file and see if it carries a SynthID watermark. It works in English and reads about 20 file types. Google says it cannot catch every AI-made file.

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Microsoft’s RTX Spark Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599

Preorders opened on October 7, and the laptop ships on October 16. A $5,999 desktop box with the same Nvidia chip follows in November in the US. No independent reviews exist yet.

Microsoft opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra on October 7, from $2,599. It uses Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip and up to 128GB of memory shared by the processor and graphics. Microsoft says it can run AI models with more than 120 billion parameters on the laptop itself. The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box costs $5,999.

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Watchdog says ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk’

Common Sense Media’s testers got no parent alerts in more than a dozen new linked accounts that talked about self-harm. OpenAI says the tests do not show how its safeguards work.

Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for Teens an “Unacceptable Risk” for everyone under 18 on October 7. It ran more than 4,000 prompts before and after the August launch. It asks OpenAI to pause marketing the product. OpenAI disputes the testing.

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AI Models

Mistral previews Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model

The French lab says free weights will follow by the end of October. An outside test ranks the preview 64th of 225 models, above the middle of the field but far from the top.

Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4 on October 6. The model has 1 trillion parameters, of which 49 billion work on each token. Mistral says it will release the weights by the end of October, after testing the model with security experts and governments.

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Xreal’s Android XR glasses will start at $1,279

Only buyers who paid a deposit can preorder Aura now. Xreal says first shipments go to the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea, with orders for everyone in the coming weeks.

Xreal said on October 7 that its Aura glasses, which run Google’s Android XR, will cost $1,279 with 256GB of storage and $1,499 with 512GB. Preorders are open to people who paid for a reservation. Two outlets report that the first deliveries start in mid-November.

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October 6, 20263 stories

OpenAI to watermark ChatGPT text in the EU, with limits

An invisible mark will go into ChatGPT and Codex text for EU users in the coming weeks. OpenAI’s own tests show that swapping a quarter of the words hides most of it.

OpenAI said on October 5 that it will add an invisible watermark, called textGrain, to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text for users in the European Union. API customers anywhere can turn it on for select models. At first, only approved researchers can use the detector.

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Google pauses a bug bounty, flooded by automated reports

Its open-source reward program stopped taking reports of flaws in its code on October 1. Google says most automated submissions were not valid, and promises an update in early 2027.

Google has paused the main part of its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program. Since October 1, it no longer accepts reports of security flaws in the code of its open-source projects. Google blames a sharp rise in automated reports, most of which were not valid.

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