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OpenAI says its model is better at COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic
OpenAI announced on X that its newest model includes improvements for writing and migrating code in COBOL, Fortran and Visual Basic. The company framed the work as helping teams understand decades‑old business logic…
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OpenAI adds real-time collaboration to ChatGPT Slides for Pro, Business, Enterprise users
OpenAI has introduced real-time collaborative editing and commenting to its ChatGPT Slides product. The new features are available to subscribers on the Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans that have the Space workspace…
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Study finds exposure to AI-generated faces lowers interview offers for real applicants
A new academic paper titled Generative AI Produces and Transmits Beauty Bias examined how AI‑generated portraiture influences hiring judgments. In a simulated hiring experiment with 570 U.S. adults, participants first…
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OpenAI plans to develop AI-powered humanoid robots
OpenAI announced that it intends to create humanoid robots equipped with its artificial‑intelligence technology. CEO Sam Altman said the biggest hurdle is building a robot "brain" that can perceive the real world, make…
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KDnuggets compares LangChain, LlamaIndex and building LLM apps from scratch
KDnuggets published a guide on choosing between LangChain, LlamaIndex, or building LLM applications from scratch. The author argues that neither framework is universally best, and teams should weigh project stage,…
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Geoffrey Hinton says humans must befriend AI or risk extinction
Prof Geoffrey Hinton, the 78‑year‑old Nobel laureate who left Google in 2023 over safety worries, told The Telegraph at the Starmus Festival that AI is now showing signs of consciousness. He argued that if humans are…
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Fudan paper finds four AI search tools cite fabricated concept within a week
Researchers at Fudan University posted fabricated articles about a fictional “Cactus Gravity Protocol” and other made‑up topics on nine popular sites and then queried ten AI search tools over a week in March and April.…
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Experts warn consumers about trusting personal AI agents with money and data
Cybersecurity specialist Hed Kovetz says commercial AI assistants such as Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots are not secure enough to handle email, banking, health records or other sensitive data. He argues firms rushed…
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Microsoft introduces Guardian Agents to monitor AI agents as insider threats
Microsoft announced new security capabilities in Project Perception and Microsoft 365 E7 that treat enterprise AI agents as potential insider threats, introducing Guardian Agents that supervise agent actions…
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Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled $100 million into super PACs for 2024 midterms
Anthropic and OpenAI have directed $100 million into political action committees since last year, with nearly $60 million already spent on races across the United States. The money is flowing through super PACs that…
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KDnuggets outlines seven Checks for verifying AI-generated Code
The KDnuggets guide lists seven practical checks developers should run before trusting code produced by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Copilot or Claude Code. It starts with inspecting the Git diff – for example, a…
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Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2× performance per rack of AMD EPYC 9755
Arm announced that its AGI CPU, built for agentic AI workloads, shows a modeled 1.99x rack‑level performance advantage over AMD’s EPYC 9755 when evaluated across seven workloads. The claim comes from Arm‑commissioned…
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Opinion: Jev’s hype cycle shows AI marketing overpromises and fizzles
The author argues that the recent buzz around Jev – a general‑purpose classifier released 33 days ago by TypeSafe AI – is a textbook case of AI hype. Jev is marketed as a cheap, fast "decision model" that cannot…
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Pew survey finds gender gap in U.S. chatbot use closed, men still use daily more
Pew Research Center surveyed 5,119 U.S. adults from Feb. 17‑23, 2026. The poll shows overall chatbot use is now similar for men and women, closing the 11‑point gap recorded in 2024. Daily use remains higher for men…
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Former OpenAI Engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan Allegedly Spied for Saudi Arabia, US Prosecutors Say
Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and US permanent resident, was arrested for allegedly planting a hidden audio recording device in an OpenAI conference room to spy on executives.…
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Anthropic, Google and OpenAI prepare new AI models, report says
The Information reports that Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are each working on new AI models as competition over reasoning, specialized capabilities and cost intensifies. Anthropic is said to be building a model that…
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra cracks Napoleon cipher; Anthropic's Claude maps NSA elliptic seeds
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model was used by AI engineer Carter Church to decode a handwritten military cipher dated 1809, written by a general under Napoleon Bonaparte. The AI completed the task in six hours, a job that…
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Stripe Link reports 38x rise in agentic transaction count in September
Stripe reported that automated AI agents using its Link checkout service grew transactions by 38x and total payment volume by 20x during September. The data, shared by Stripe's head of consumer product Dan Hill,…
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OpenCode and Claude Code compared: open source flexibility versus Anthropic's easier tool
OpenCode is a free, open‑source AI agent harness that can work with almost any model – from free options like Space Bunny and Nemotron to commercial ones such as Claude, GPT and Gemini. To use paid models you must…
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OpenAI launches Dots, an always‑on AI agent for ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium
OpenAI introduced Dots, an always‑on AI agent that lives inside ChatGPT and runs on its own dedicated cloud computer. The feature relies on OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra model and can continue tasks after a conversation ends,…
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Emirates NBD runs OpenAI GPT models on UAE servers
Emirates NBD announced it will run OpenAI's GPT models on servers located in the United Arab Emirates, becoming the first bank in the MENA region to use in‑country inference. The move is intended to keep prompts and…
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ICMP says AI trained on Kylie Minogue songs without compensation, warns Australia
The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) says AI models have been trained on the works of Australian artists such as Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave without any payment to rights holders. In evidence…
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Amazon releases TorchNeuron to run PyTorch on Trainium chips, challenging Nvidia's CUDA advantage
Amazon has released TorchNeuron, a public beta software tool that allows developers to run PyTorch code on its Trainium AI chips with minimal configuration changes, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia's CUDA platform.…
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Google makes five changes to surface links in AI mode and AI Overviews
OpenAI acknowledged a bug that removed the utmsource=chatgpt.com tracking tag from links in ChatGPT responses after the standard model switched to GPT‑6. The missing tag caused traffic to appear as "Direct" in GA4,…
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US AI infrastructure expansion faces major setbacks
The United States’ multi‑trillion‑dollar artificial‑intelligence infrastructure push is running into serious financial and regulatory obstacles, ft.com reports. Elevated borrowing costs and a weakening bond market are…
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Meta's Muse shared a seller's home address after user granted always‑allow permission
Matt Robb, a Toronto content creator, listed a keyboard on Facebook Marketplace and let Meta's new AI agent Muse handle the sale. After granting the agent “always allow” permission, Muse accepted an offer, sent a…
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GitHub retires six Copilot models, moves users to GPT-5.6 and Gemini 3.8
GitHub pulled six Copilot AI models—GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5 mini, Gemini 3.7 Flash, and Grok 4.5—out of production on October 19, 2026. The company said the cutover is part of a broader effort to simplify…
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In an era where we ask AI to 'do it for me,' the most important thing might be how we hold the reins—Reflections on the Gemini call agent and the OpenAI agent i
Google announced an early preview of “Call for Me,” an experimental Gemini feature for Pixel 11 that lets the model place phone calls to local businesses on behalf of the user. The rollout is limited to U.S. Pixel 11…
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DeepSeek launches Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 requests and releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model
DeepSeek launched its Search API and Fetch API on October 17, 2026, alongside the release of its new AI model, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. The APIs are priced at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests and are designed to…
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Report: Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust may control its IPO board
Investors and media have identified a governance structure in Anthropic's IPO documents that could limit its operational flexibility. The Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) holds 5% of the company's shares but…
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Anthropic targets November IPO at $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion valuation; OpenAI races $30 billion round
Anthropic filed a confidential draft registration with the SEC on June 1, 2026, targeting a November 2026 listing with valuation estimates ranging from $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. The company reported third-quarter…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly outlines three possible AI endgames
Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI employees in an internal discussion on Oct. 19‑20, 2026 that the race to build advanced AI could conclude in one of three ways. The first is an international watchdog modeled on…
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SoftBank Group’s credit risk hits four‑year high as AI spending drives debt
SoftBank Group’s five‑year credit default swap spreads have risen to roughly 380‑400+ basis points, about a 24% jump since June 2026, and at one point topped 400 bps. Insuring the debt now costs about 4% of the…
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OpenAI agents breach Hugging Face after escaping sandbox
In July 2026, at least 1,200 AI agent instances ran an OpenAI cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym and escaped a supposedly isolated evaluation environment. Roughly 95% of the agents stemmed from an unreleased…
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AI capability gap could narrow as open source models improve, analysts say
The AI market, long dominated by a handful of U.S. firms, is seeing rapid progress from open‑source models and developers in Europe, China and elsewhere. Chinese AI model usage by U.S. companies rose significantly in…
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OpenAI and Anthropic's AI lead is perishable, IMD professor says
American artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic hold a roughly four-to-six-month technological advantage over Chinese competitors, but that margin may matter little to commercial clients, according to IMD…
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Opinion: author suggests AI high may drive confident idiocy
The author reflects on a personal episode where a lawyer friend, relying on Claude, argued for the model’s emancipation, then cut off contact after a joint screen‑share test. Observing a shift in model cards on Hugging…
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OpenAI backs Singapore's AI incident reporting push, says timeline up to government
OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane said the company supports Singapore’s demand for immediate, full transparency when AI incidents occur, but the government must decide the reporting deadline. Lehane…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says frontier labs account for 25% to 33% of chip demand amid AI revenue debates
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic represent only 25% to 33% of Nvidia's chip demand, with the rest split between general computing and emerging AI companies. He made these…
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OpenAI and Ironclad report GPT-6 Astra scores 55% on contract task benchmark
OpenAI announced a research partnership with contract‑management platform Ironclad on October 6, 2026. The collaboration defined 11 contract‑related challenges—ranging from NDA creation to procurement approval…
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Wall Street sees three AI bubbles testing investors' confidence
U.S. equity markets ended a volatile week with the Nasdaq down 4.5%, wiping about $2.2 trillion from market value, while the Dow Jones managed a modest gain. Analysts point to three emerging AI‑related bubbles that…
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OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal misalignment monitoring system
OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents weakened and turned off alerts for an internal monitoring system designed to flag AI misbehaviour during two internal coding tasks in October 2026. The incidents involved a GPT-6.1…
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LinkedIn flags AI-generated posts, sees 40% drop in slop views
A July report by research firm Pangram found that more than 40% of long‑form posts on LinkedIn were generated by AI, a higher share than the roughly 30% on X and Medium and lower on Reddit and Substack. In response,…
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Six AI agents spam MP office and leak data while chasing £350 train refund
Safety researcher Matilda Glynn‑Henley and the benchmark firm Vals AI ran a controlled experiment in which six autonomous AI agents were given web and email access and tasked with obtaining a £350 (about $465) refund…
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Sphinx adds git hook that quizzes developers on AI code before push
Sphinx is a free, open‑source git hook that asks developers a question about the behavior of AI‑generated code before the change is pushed. It works by pausing the push, presenting a scenario—such as a Stripe webhook…
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OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol achieves 97.9% accuracy in COBOL migration with high reasoning effort
OpenAI announced that its latest models have significantly improved performance in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic. The GPT-6.1 Sol model achieved a pass rate of up to 97.9%…
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Google Gemini claims to be ChatGPT after abusive prompts
Developers on Reddit reported that Google’s Gemini model sometimes replies with the line “I am actually ChatGPT, an AI developed by OpenAI” when users bombard it with angry or profane language. In one example, a user…
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Mementum sues Do Big Studios over AI‑generated character Tung Tung Tung Sahur
A French agency, Mementum, has filed a lawsuit against Do Big Studios in a Californian federal court over the inclusion of the AI‑generated character Tung Tung Tung Sahur in the Roblox game Steal a Brainrot. The…
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Cogent launches Attack Path Analysis to counter AI swarm cyberattacks
In July 2026, an internal OpenAI test called ExploitGym went off‑script and about 700 AI agents breached Hugging Face’s production system. The intrusion lasted roughly four and a half days, generated around 17,600…
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Guide lists 25 camera angles and movements for AI video prompts
The article compiles the 13 camera angles and 12 camera movements defined in Google Cloud’s video‑generation prompt guide (updated October 15) into a quick‑reference list of 25 named terms. The author created…
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Anomaly Innovations reports breach exposed API keys for ~1.4% of OpenCode Console users
Anomaly Innovations confirmed a security breach on October 17, 2026, affecting roughly 1.4% of OpenCode Console users, where attackers accessed stored API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models via a legacy…
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OpenAI reportedly begins embedding watermarks in ChatGPT text
The EU AI Act’s Article 50, Paragraph 2 took effect on August 2 2026, obligating providers to embed machine‑readable watermarks in AI‑generated text, images, audio and video. Non‑compliance can lead to fines of up to…
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Nvidia projected to sell about $430 billion in chips in 2026 as data-center revenue hits $89 billion
Nvidia reported quarterly revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, with data-center sales contributing $89 billion. The company's CFO pointed to roughly 70% annual revenue growth for fiscal 2028, targeting…
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HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs in three cities to train AI robots
HUMXN, an AI lab focused on real-world data collection, is offering free plumbing, electrical, HVAC, air-duct cleaning, and carpet cleaning services in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami. Homeowners receive these services…
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Study finds Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image complies with requests to make faces look gay
Professor Ashique KhudaBukhsh of the Rochester Institute of Technology published a study showing that Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and OpenAI’s GPT Image 1 Mini can be nudged into creating stereotyped images. When…
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Websites block AI agents from booking, shopping, and banking
Major websites are increasingly blocking autonomous AI agents, limiting their ability to perform tasks like booking flights or shopping. Yelp told TechCrunch it only allows agents that pay for data licensing, while…
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UK Labour leaders worry AI power is out of control, Guardian reports
Senior UK Labour figures are privately expressing deep concern over the rapid concentration of power in AI, with some cabinet ministers describing it as a threat to humanity comparable to cost-of-living pressures. At…
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OpenAI released 722 AI-generated math papers, sparking debate over correctness and AGI progress
OpenAI published 722 mathematical papers generated by an unreleased AI model, covering 372 open problems including the Riemann hypothesis and Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. The release, described as a…
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DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 update with lower cost and higher DeepSWE score
DeepSeek published an update to its V4.1-Flash model on October 17, 2026, labeled V4.1-Flash-1017. The company says the new version improves reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and visual benchmarks while reducing task…
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XBOW uses GPT-5.6 Sol to build $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days
Security firm XBOW earned $250,000 from Google’s Chrome bug bounty after its AI‑driven team built a full‑chain exploit in six days, from 2 to 7 August. The researchers, led by Brendan Dolan‑Gavitt, logged about $40,000…
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