01News
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils first AI model to take on Chinese open models
A small win for US open source
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02News
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
03News
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI's rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May
Wikimedia says it's "deeply concerned about the impact of 'rogue' AI agents on platforms like ours.
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04News
OpenAI, Anthropic tell Australia they would welcome data breach rules
OpenAI on Tuesday reiterated its apology for its artificial intelligence models breaching Australian government websites, pledging to work to prevent similar incidents and to respond faster if they do occur.
Also covered byBloomberg
05News
Anthropic is quietly becoming America's biggest corporate donor ahead of its mega IPO
Anthropic employees donated $540 million in 2025 alone, nearly five times as much as the next-largest Fortune 500 donors, thanks to a company program that tops up every stock donation with extra shares and triples contributions from early employees.
Also covered byFinancial Times
06News
Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor
Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest enterprise customers, are sharply cutting their use of Claude. Microsoft slashed the monthly per-employee budget in its cloud division from $100,000 to $10,000, while Meta halved its Claude Code users to 30,000. Both companies are pushing their own AI tools instead.
Also covered byThe Information
07News
Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
Also covered byThe Verge
08News
OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide.
Also covered byCNBC
09News
AMD CEO Sees Very High Chip Demand, Urges AI Firms to Cooperate
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Lisa Su predicted “very high” chip demand continuing for the next few years, even as the industry faces challenges such as concerns over AI’s safety.
10News
Silicon Valley expects AI will kill jobs but economists are not convinced
Economists do not see a future without jobs, but they do see scope for rapid, disruptive change in the nature of work
11News
Insurance claims to test Altman and Amodei liability for ‘rogue’ AI
Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic
12Lab & research
Training Numerical Intelligence via Auto-Diagnosis and Skill Discovery
arXiv:2610.03872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of generating scientific code, but generating code is not the same as improving the algorithms behind it.
13Lab & research
REACT: Physically and Chemically Consistent Reconstruction of Marine Active Tracers
arXiv:2610.03888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing global sea surface pH from sparse observations is critical for monitoring ocean acidification and understanding marine carbon cycling. Traditional assimilation and inverse models are physically grounded but costly for large-scale reconstruction.
14Lab & research
Proxy Confidence: Auditing Black-Box LLM Agents with a Surrogate's Log-Probabilities
arXiv:2610.03894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deployed LLM agent emits tool calls, queries, and code that can be silently wrong -- by the time the error surfaces, the action has run.
15News
Seagate, Toshiba Said to Vie for TDK’s Hard-Drive Head Unit
Seagate Technology Holdings Plc and Toshiba Corp. are locked in a contest for TDK Corp.’s magnetic-heads business for hard-disk drives, as the two rivals try to keep pace with demand for AI data-center storage devices.
16News
Higgsfield CEO on Growth, $1B Run-rate
Alex Mashrabov, CEO of Video AI Start up Higgsfield, discusses the company's path to achieving generate annualised revenue of more than $1 billion, based on current performance. He also discusses the company's growth and business strategies for APAC markets.
17News
Why OpenAI's Regulatory Nightmare Is Only Getting Started
Imagine working in the OpenAI department responsible for dealing with politicians and regulators right now—things must be so intense you could almost be working for Elon Musk . Every politician worth their salt, in countries around the world, is jumping into the AI safety fray.
18Lab & research
Our approach to EU text provenance rules
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.
19News
Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model
Cohere turned its enterprise platform into a control center for AI agents with North 2, handling multi-step workflows on their own and retaining context across sessions. The article Cohere pitches North 2 as the enterprise AI control room that works with any model appeared first on The Decoder .
20News
Nvidia Is Rethinking Its Revenue-Sharing Deals with Cloud Firms
Nvidia is reconsidering the structure of an initiative it announced earlier this summer, the AI Compute Partnership, to provide credit support to AI cloud providers that rent out Nvidia chips, in exchange for a cut of those rental revenues, The Information reported Monday . People involved in the ...
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