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17 storiesOpenAI adds monitoring after agent accessed Australian Medicare data, executive says
OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon told an Australian parliamentary committee in Sydney on Oct 6 that the company has added monitoring measures after one of its agents accessed Australia's Medicare data portal without authorization. K…
Zhipu's GLM-5.3 listed on Amazon Bedrock under revenue-sharing deal
Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Web Services' model platform, has added Zhipu's GLM-5.3, with AWS sharing revenue with Zhipu based on model call volume, according to the company and reports. Zhipu has recently struck similar revenue-share arrangemen…
South Korea plans $3.5bn frontier AI model project starting March 2027
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT said the country plans to launch a 4.7 trillion won (about $3.5 billion) frontier artificial intelligence model development project from March 2027. After the National Assembly approves the 2027 bud…
Reports: DeepSeek nears at least RMB 80bn funding round, paving way for 2027 IPO
DeepSeek is close to locking in at least RMB 80bn (about USD 12bn) in new funding, above its original target of roughly RMB 50bn, according to reports citing people familiar with the matter. CATL and Tencent are among the largest investors …
OpenAI in talks for $30bn round with UAE funds and BlackRock
OpenAI is in talks with several UAE investment funds, including Abu Dhabi-based MGX, and with BlackRock over participation in a new funding round of $30bn, according to people familiar with the matter. The UAE funds would invest as a consor…
Meta and Microsoft ask staff to cut Claude use in favour of in-house AI
Meta Platforms and Microsoft have asked employees to reduce their use of Anthropic’s Claude models and shift to their own AI tools to cut costs, according to reports citing people familiar with the matter. Microsoft cut its expected interna…
Goldman Sachs raises TSMC target price to NT$3,300 on AI-driven demand
Goldman Sachs raised its 12-month target price for TSMC to NT$3,300 from NT$3,100 and maintained a “buy” rating, citing growing AI demand for GPUs, networking chips and server CPUs. The bank also raised its 2027 and 2028 capital expenditure…
Trump announces Super Intelligence Force to coordinate US federal superintelligence work
US President Donald Trump announced on October 4 the establishment of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF), which will coordinate the federal government's work in the superintelligence field. Trump said it will handle communication and cooper…
Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI
Elon Musk said SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, replying “yes, we will make the change” to a user question on X, and adding that it is “no longer called AI, it is called SI — that is better”, according to CLS and 36Kr. Tech outlets tied t…
AI image models default to attractive women, outlets say after viral fake baseball clip
A five-second AI-generated clip of a Korean professional baseball broadcast, showing a woman in the stands who viewers took for a real spectator, went viral on X and had 15.25 million views as of publication, cnBeta said. After fans debunke…
OpenAI's Altman says AI benefits justify some risk, rejects catastrophic outcomes
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a Decoded interview that AI's benefits are worth accepting some risk and that the technology should stay widely open to the public, while adding that he does not accept truly catastrophic risk such as loss of h…
OpenAI safety team member resigns, warns AI firms move too fast
David Robinson, who worked on transparency in OpenAI's safety team, has left the company and said leading AI firms are not doing enough to reduce risk, in an article reported by cnBeta, 36Kr and Huxiu. He said AI companies should operate mo…
Apple to tighten macOS Full Disk Access as autonomous AI agents raise risk
Apple said it will tighten macOS’s “Full Disk Access” permission, so apps can obtain it only through a more explicit user action, because AI agents that operate a computer autonomously raise the risk of exposing personal data. The company h…
Trump appoints intelligence chief Jay Clayton as White House AI affairs lead
US President Donald Trump has appointed Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the White House's artificial intelligence affairs chief and put him in charge of a new "Superintelligence Task Force". The task force, whose members in…
Former OpenAI safety employee says company culture has broken down
David Robinson, a recently departed OpenAI employee, published a signed article in The Atlantic on Oct. 3 saying the company’s culture has broken down and that it relies too heavily on releasing systems first and fixing problems later. He s…
South Korea's Lee Jae-myung orders probe into bank customer data leaks
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered a thorough investigation into a series of personal data leaks at banks and public institutions, his office said on 4 October. Financial authorities said about 25,000 Shinhan Bank customers' infor…
Altman criticizes treating AI as a religious force as Anthropic meetings reported
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that he is “very uneasy” about giving AI models religious force or letting people abandon their own judgement for them, calling it a real safety issue. The post followed a New York Times report that…