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MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come
Ken McCallum says terrorists are already trying to use AI, and bioweapons worry him most. The same day, OpenAI told MPs more rogue AI incidents may come to light.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 16, 2026
Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour
The Super Intelligence Force has 120 days, a report to commission and no new rules. Its first case was an Anthropic test model that submitted visa applications.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 16, 2026
Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports
Accenture Claude users who spent up to $1,000 a month now get $29 each. Anything above that has to be charged to a project or team budget, and access is not guaranteed.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 16, 2026
Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them
according to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 16, 2026
Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’
The new Epic Games Launcher is out in Preview, with Linux support and Fortnite to follow. It lands two days after Bloomberg reported Epic told its Disney game team to stop writing code by hand.
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Oct 16, 2026
Geoffrey Hinton tells the Guardian humans are creating ‘alien beings’
Geoffrey Hinton has answered Jensen Huang, who said all his predictions were wrong. The same day, he and Yoshua Bengio joined about 400 scientists calling for a global body to oversee AI containment.
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Oct 16, 2026
Sherry Turkle warns AI overreach risks human connection in new book
MIT professor Sherry Turkle’s "Artificial Intimacy" argues against AI replacing human interaction, warning of risks in psychotherapy, loneliness, and workplace…
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Oct 16, 2026
Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever
The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.
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Oct 16, 2026
Gemini 4 Argon’s ARC-AGI-3 success highlights the flaws in AI benchmarking
Google DeepMind’s Gemini 4 Argon achieved 97.5% on ARC-AGI-3 but scored just 49.8% in another test.
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Oct 16, 2026
Schwab and JPMorgan are blocking AI agents from moving customer money
CEO Rick Wurster said Schwab stops outside agents tens of times a week and will offer read-only AI access instead.
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Oct 16, 2026
Here’s How ChatGPT Is Targeting You With Ads
Feeling seen?
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Oct 16, 2026
Google adds Gemini-powered scam checks to Messages and Android calls
A new opt-in mode in Google Messages uses cloud AI, and Android now hangs up on fake bank calls.
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Oct 16, 2026
DJ Reinier Zonneveld launches AI music startup GasLab with $1M pre-seed funding
GasLab (Generative AI Solutions Lab), a GenAI music platform created by DJ and producer Reinier Zonneveld, is launched this week, backed by $1 million in pre-seed funding. GasLab is on a mission to keep creatives in…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 16, 2026
Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028
He would not name them, but says AI companies are starting to make phones. He also blames memory prices, up five to six times, for a 20% drop in the phone market this year.
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Oct 16, 2026
Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase mistakes and leaked cards
His Lego order arrived. SpaceXSI’s own terms, updated on Monday, say the company is not responsible for what its agent does.
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Oct 16, 2026
AI safety worries multiply but everyone’s still racing full speed ahead
AI safety worries multiply but everyone's still racing full speed ahead - SiliconANGLE
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Oct 16, 2026
Anthropic Could IPO Any Time Now, But Some of the People Who Matter Most Don’t Want It
Investors are reportedly unhappy with the financials, while politicians are pleading for a delay.
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Oct 16, 2026
Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles
Counterfeits of luxury goods are a major problem for fashion houses. Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes,
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Oct 16, 2026
Research firm calls Anthropic the ‘most ridiculous IPO of 2026’, says it may be worth $144bn
New Constructs says a $2tn Anthropic would need twice Nvidia’s profits by 2035. PitchBook sees fast growth but not a $2tn company, and the prospectus asks investors to price an AI that could go rogue.
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Oct 16, 2026
CERN and Mistral plan an AI foundation model for particle physics
The model will be trained on billions of simulated collisions from CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
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Oct 16, 2026
OpenAI's new Rosalind Academic Plan gives research labs up to 30 free seats for a year
OpenAI is launching the Rosalind Academic Plan, a free offering that's currently open only to research labs at US universities without an enterprise contract.
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Oct 16, 2026
China proposes export controls on its advanced AI models and chip designs
Beijing's draft would restrict exports of models above 2 trillion parameters, and comments close on 15 November.
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Oct 16, 2026
Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are built to run AI agents locally
A 74-billion-parameter Nemotron model squeezed into 24GB runs the agents, with Nvidia and Microsoft controls on what they can do. Laptops from six makers start at $2,599.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 16, 2026
Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will build their next driving systems on Nvidia
Mercedes is aiming for Level 4 robolimousines on Nvidia self-driving technology. Volvo plans a gradual move to eyes-off and mind-off driving, starting with a next-generation car it has not named.
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Oct 16, 2026