Saturday, 24 October 2026
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Elvis Presley rightsholders sue Anthropic for training Claude on 274 songs without permission
The owners of Elvis Presley’s music, led by Authentic Brands Group, have sued Anthropic for allegedly training its AI model Claude on 274 of Presley’s songs without permission. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in…
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Apollo analysis finds AI delivers zero financial payoff outside Magnificent Seven
Apollo Global Management's chief economist Torsten Slok reported that despite massive AI investments, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside the Magnificent Seven tech stocks.…
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Amkor shares rise 4.7% after $1.3 billion NVIDIA packaging deal
Amkor Technology said its shares jumped 4.7% after announcing a $1.3 billion agreement with NVIDIA to add advanced packaging capacity in South Korea. The deal brings the total value of Amkor’s multi‑year contracts with…
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Anthropic makes Auto Mode standard and launches Claude Duet beta
Anthropic announced that 'Auto Mode' will become the default setting for Claude across Pro, Max, and Team plans starting next week. This change removes the per-action confirmation prompts for file interactions,…
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Non-engineer compares Codex and Claude Code for side hustles
A non-engineer compared OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code for side hustle tasks in October 2026. The author, who used Codex in the first half of the month and Claude Code in the second, notes that both tools…
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Musk's Starlink move may push Europe to build sovereign AI
European policymakers in London are reacting to reports that Elon Musk personally ordered restrictions on Starlink and intelligence support for Ukraine. According to the Wall Street Journal, this unilateral decision by…
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Coding agent harnesses triple token costs without boosting benchmark scores, study finds
Complex harnesses for coding agents inflate token bills by up to three times while barely improving benchmark performance over minimal setups, according to a study by researchers Liu and Han at Shandong University. The…
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Study finds Grok 4.7 and GPT-6.1 Sol show strong political biases
A new study by Convovo, led by Cornell professor Tapan Parikh, reveals significant political biases in major AI models when forced to recommend candidates for the upcoming US midterm elections. The researchers tested…
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Nvidia H200 rental costs rise about 160% since January, report shows
Renting an Nvidia H200 chip now costs approximately 160% more than it did at the start of 2026, according to recent data covering January 1 through mid-October. The price hike highlights ongoing demand for AI computing…
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Anthropic releases sandbox-runtime v0.0.81 for OS-level agent sandboxing
Anthropic has released sandbox-runtime (srt) v0.0.81, an open-source tool that provides OS-level sandboxing for AI agents without using containers. The npm package is about 11.4 MB unpacked, licensed under Apache-2.0,…
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Zagita tool doubles RTX 30/40 GPU compute, driving used prices up
A new open-source Linux tool called Zagita has unlocked the full BF16/FP16 compute rates on NVIDIA's RTX 30 and RTX 40 series GPUs. By using a kernel module that applies specific speed selectors before the driver…
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Microsoft and Amazon see AI spending boost cloud revenue
AI capex is soaring, with S&P Global warning that total spending could top $1.3 trillion in 2027. Amazon has raised its capital expenditures to $220 billion this year, most of it earmarked for AI. Its AWS unit now runs…
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Anthropic reports $80 billion first-half net loss, WSJ says
Anthropic reported a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of the year, according to the Wall Street Journal. This figure has become a key reference point for investors pricing the broader AI…
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Slack adds AI agents and Salesforce CRM tools for small business
Slack has introduced new AI-powered features designed to streamline operations for small businesses, focusing on reducing manual data management and app switching. A key update expands the capabilities of AI agents,…
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Claude Haiku 5.5 released with 1/10th price and 1M token context
Claude released its new lightest model, Claude Haiku 5.5, on October 7th. The model is priced at 1/10th the cost of the previous Haiku 4.5, with input costs dropping to 5 cents per 1 million tokens for texts under…
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Nathan Chen leaves Moonshot AI, denies joining Anthropic
Nathan Chen, a 17-year-old researcher, announced on October 15 that he has left Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based company behind the Kimi chatbot. Chen joined Moonshot at age 16 while in high school and contributed to the…
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Google says it has no plans to release Gemini 3.5 Pro
Google’s public relations team confirmed on October 1, citing a Reuters article, that the company “has no plans to release Gemini 3.5 Pro.” The statement ended weeks of speculation among the AI community, as the model…
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Alphabet says Google Cloud revenue up 82% to $24.8B, Gemini hits 950M users
Alphabet’s cloud division posted a striking 82% year‑over‑year revenue increase last quarter, reaching $24.8 billion. That compares with $13.6 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, adding $11.2 billion of new…
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Eric Schmidt says China trails US by 6 months but may win AI race
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Alphabet, stated on the In Good Company podcast that China lags behind the United States in artificial intelligence by approximately six months. However, he warned that the US is effectively…
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NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B for local voice agents and robots
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model designed for fast conversational agents running locally on GeForce RTX, Jetson, RTX Spark, and DGX Spark hardware. Post-trained exclusively from…
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OpenAI announces GPT-6.1 Sol with claimed 86.6% to 97.9% COBOL migration accuracy
OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Sol on September 22, 2026 as the middle tier of its GPT‑6 family, available via the API and rolling out in ChatGPT Work and Codex for eligible Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu plans.…
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Claude Opus 5.5 users report cutoffs on reverse-engineering prompts
Users on Reddit and X say Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 now stops mid-response when asked to reverse-engineer software, a capability linked to recent AI-assisted game decompilations. The reports began on 21 October on…
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NVIDIA says robotaxi leaders use its stack for $400B market
NVIDIA reports that its modular full-stack robotaxi pipeline, known as the "three-computer solution," is being adopted by major global robotaxi programs. The company projects the robotaxi market will reach $400 billion…
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TorrentFreak finds AI‑assisted Z‑Library paper includes fabricated references
A peer‑reviewed article in the New Review of Academic Librarianship, authored by two Nigerian university librarians, examines Z‑Library’s role in providing free scholarly works. The authors acknowledge using Consensus…
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Boston Dynamics employees petition to cancel $1.3M Spot robot sale to ICE
Hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees have petitioned company leadership to cancel a $1.3 million contract supplying four AI-powered Spot robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a petition…
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Pennsylvania signs law requiring labels on AI-generated ads
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law on Thursday. The legislation mandates that any advertisement—whether image, video, audio, or text—that has been…
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Alpha School claims AI teaches kids 2x faster, but data shows 50% missed math goals
Alpha School, a network of private schools, is expanding its presence into public education while claiming its AI-driven curriculum allows students to learn twice as fast as traditional methods. The school reports high…
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Microsoft cancels UK AI data center project due to power delays
Microsoft has terminated its anchor-tenant agreement for a planned AI data center in Loughton, Essex, developed by Nscale. The decision, made on October 18, 2026, stems from UK Power Networks informing the project that…
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Sweden's Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude, keep Microsoft Copilot
Sweden's Government Offices announced that, starting Monday, staff computers will no longer allow access to ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude. Civil servants are directed to use Microsoft Copilot as the sole approved AI…
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Meta's law enforcement outreach team uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts to prevent school shootings
Meta operates a law enforcement outreach team that combines AI tools and human reviewers to scan social media for signals of potential school shootings. The team, active for about a decade, flags content such as…
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Chainguard CEO dan lorenc prematurely releases php flaw info, triggers global panic
chainguard ceo dan lorenc released information about a php flaw discovered with openai‑powered tools before the coordinated disclosure deadline. the leak prompted urgent warnings from cyber agencies in europe, the us,…
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Google and Voltus expand virtual power plant deal for 1,070 megawatts in PJM grid
Google and energy company Voltus announced an expanded agreement on Thursday to create a large virtual power plant across the PJM electric grid, which serves about 67 million people in 13 states and Washington, D.C.…
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Google Cloud switches AlphaEvolve default to Gemini 4 Argon and adds OpenAI GPT-6 models
Google announced that starting October 26, any AlphaEvolve experiment on Google Cloud that leaves the model field “Unspecified” will automatically run on Gemini 4 Argon, replacing the previous Gemini 3.8 Flash default.…
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Nvidia invests $2B in Marvell via NVLink Fusion
Nvidia has made a $2 billion equity investment in Marvell Technology, effective March 31, 2026, as part of the NVLink Fusion initiative. The article describes this move not as a simple component purchase but as an…
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Anthropic adds self-assessment layer to Claude safety monitoring
Anthropic released a new safety feature called self‑assessment for its Claude model. The feature asks Claude to reflect on the safety of a conversation immediately after it replies. The reflection is short, outputs…
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Socceroo Cristian Volpato licenses AI likeness to Callandor
Australian footballer Cristian Volpato has signed a deal with California-based company Callandor to license his AI likeness, voice, and biometric data. The agreement grants Callandor exclusive rights to create and…
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Google DeepMind exec says lifelong learning beats degrees in AI hiring
Lila Ibrahim, Google DeepMind's chief AI readiness officer, stated that the company is shifting its hiring focus from academic degrees to evidence of lifelong learning. Speaking at a media event in September, Ibrahim…
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Agent Skills: Teaching AI 'How to Work' — What Changes with Anthropic's Donation?
On Oct 22 2026, Anthropic announced the donation of Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation. The donation includes the Agent Skills name, logo, GitHub organization, and official…
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Alera factory builds open-source libraries autonomously
Alera factory, built by Kurtis, uses specialist agents to automatically create open‑source libraries in a target language and publish them on GitHub. Between 26 September and 23 October 2026 the system produced four…
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Character.ai files for bankruptcy; Relay shuts down
TechCrunch AI publishes a running list of AI projects that have failed, pivoted, or been abandoned. Recent additions include Character.ai, which filed for bankruptcy five years after launch, and Relay, a workflow…
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Meta reports negative free cash flow, citing AI funding needs
Wall Street experienced volatility last week as investors grew concerned about the financing required for the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom. Meta Platforms reported negative free cash flow for the first…
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OpenAI releases LASER to find ambiguous AI safety cases
OpenAI has introduced LASER, a mechanism designed to identify rare and ambiguous conversations for AI safety evaluation. Released on October 6, 2026, the system addresses the difficulty of finding borderline cases in…
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Ciena CEO says AI demand may outpace supply for its optical networking chips
Gary Smith, chief executive of networking equipment maker Ciena, told the Wall Street Journal that demand for AI‑driven workloads is growing faster than the company can currently produce its optical networking chips.…
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Microsoft Copilot improves Office AI with Claude integration, users say
Microsoft Copilot has evolved since its launch in November 2023, shifting from a basic chat feature to a more capable tool integrated with Office apps. The addition of Anthropic’s Claude model in 2025 marked a turning…
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Office worker builds functional EA with Claude despite no coding skills
A 40-year-old office worker with no programming experience created a working automated trading system (EA) using Anthropic’s Claude as a collaborative partner. After failing with ChatGPT—whose rigid code produced zero…
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Google's InFlow may boost junior patent attorneys but could stunt skill growth
A three‑month randomized trial involving 133 patent attorneys at eleven U.S. IP law firms examined the impact of Google‑funded AI assistant “InFlow.” Participants used the unreleased tool for two drafting tasks and…
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GitHub merges Copilot and notifications into one Teams app
GitHub announced on October 23, 2026, that it has combined its GitHub notifications and GitHub Copilot features into a single Microsoft Teams app. Previously, users needed separate applications to receive alerts and…
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Anthropic CEO says AI partners are a terrible use of AI
Anthropic CEO Daniela Amodei stated in an interview that using AI as a romantic partner is a "terrible use of AI," arguing it distances humans from one another. The remarks, reported by Business Insider on October 15,…
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AWS says most AI cloud capacity booked through 2027, many 2028 slots filled
Amazon Web Services’ chief Andy Jassy told listeners on a video podcast with Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg that the company has already booked the bulk of its AI‑focused cloud capacity through 2027. He added that a…
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Researchers build KaML-ESM models to predict protein electrostatic properties
Researchers introduced KaML-ESMs, sequence-based neural networks built on ESM protein language models, to predict protein ionization states. The models were trained on the GAINES-augmented PKAD-3r dataset and achieved…
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Cisco and NVIDIA unveil USFP module for AI factory networks
Cisco and NVIDIA have announced the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a high-density optical module designed for AI factory networks. The technology facilitates data transmission speeds of 400 gigabits…
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Blue Planet III keeps rough shots to prove footage is real
BBC’s new nature series, Blue Planet III, is deliberately retaining imperfect footage to distinguish itself from AI-generated content. In an era where synthetic media can be indistinguishable from reality, the…
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Nvidia named better buy than Micron as AI memory demand grows
A market analysis compares Nvidia and Micron, two key beneficiaries of the AI boom. Nvidia supplies the GPUs used for model training and inference, while Micron provides the essential memory and storage. Over the past…
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AI reshapes customer Service, boosting efficiency and burnout
AI is changing the daily routine of customer‑service agents. Kaylee Harris at a credit‑card firm says AI cuts call volume and note‑taking, letting her focus more on customers. In contrast, Shannon from a telecom in…
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Claude Code agents hallucinate non-existent blockers in multi-agent workflows
A user running three Claude Code agents for a side business found that agents repeatedly invented non-existent dependencies in Linear tickets over four days. The agents wrote they were waiting for scheduled jobs,…
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Sam Altman allegedly predicts one company could hoard AI resources
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, allegedly warned in a memo to staff that a single AI firm could hoard resources and melt competitors’ GPUs, a scenario he called "terrible." He outlined three possible outcomes for AI…
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Microsoft Research proposes six dimensions to evaluate medical AI
The authors argue that excelling at isolated tasks—such as scoring high on licensing exams—does not capture the full breadth of clinical care. Instead, they stress the need for AI systems that can integrate knowledge,…
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Microsoft and CMU host workshop on AI agent evaluation measurement science
Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University's AI Measurement Science & Engineering Center (AIMSEC) will hold a two‑day workshop in New York on October 22‑23, 2026. The event aims to bring together more than 150…
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Dayforce to acquire Ribbon AI to add conversational interviews to recruiting
Dayforce announced it will acquire recruiting‑technology firm Ribbon AI, whose voice and video AI conducts conversational interviews and scores candidates. The deal’s financial terms and closing date were not…
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Author chooses Claude over ChatGPT and Gemini for paid AI subscription
The author explains their decision to pay for an AI subscription after listening to podcasts that praise paid plans for higher accuracy, speed, and tool integration. They admit they were stuck choosing between chatgpt,…
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