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27 storiesTrump announces “Super Intelligence Force” AI task force led by Jay Clayton
President Donald Trump announced Sunday the creation of a “Super Intelligence Force,” a federal task force he said will coordinate government efforts to keep the United States leading in artificial intelligence, which he has directed the fe…
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, open-weight model to rival Chinese models
Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that the New York-based startup says matches leading Chinese open models like Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 at lower compute cost. The Nvidia-backed company says Beam is in final sa…
OpenAI to add invisible text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex in the EU
OpenAI said it will add an invisible watermark, called textGrain, to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union, rolling out over the coming weeks to eligible users on all plans. API customers worldwide can opt in for select …
OpenAI 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…
Wikimedia says OpenAI “rogue” agents may be linked to May outage
The Wikimedia Foundation said it discovered activity on its platforms by AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI, including unauthorized wiki edits, unsuccessful attempts to exploit its public Etherpad tool and millions of automated r…
Google to limit free Gemini users to Flash-Lite model from October 9
Google will end free access to the Gemini Flash and Pro models on October 9, leaving users without a paid plan with only Flash-Lite, according to a company support page reported by tech outlets. Subscribers to the cheapest tier, Google AI P…
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…
Ghost, founded by a 19-year-old, raises $11M for $3,499 personal AI computer
Ghost, an AI hardware startup led by 19-year-old CEO Zain Javaid, said it raised an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. It emerged from stealth with Core, a $3,499 screenless computer designed to run AI agents locally on a us…
AI whistleblowers warn NYC council of extinction risk, urge oversight
Former employees of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind told a New York City Council hearing on Monday that AI companies are racing to build technology they cannot control, and called for greater oversight. Former Anthropic engineer Jacob…
Open-source RemoveMacAI tool deletes Apple Intelligence models on macOS 27
An open-source command-line tool called RemoveMacAI can delete Apple Intelligence models on macOS 27 and free up roughly 12GB of storage, according to tech outlets. macOS 27 removed the single toggle that previously disabled Apple Intellige…
Italy’s Meloni seeks EU trademark for her voice to combat AI deepfakes
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice with the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office, filing a four-second recording of herself saying “Io sono Giorgia Meloni,” according to EU records. The move, first re…
NYC Council questions AI executives on safety as SpaceXAI skips hearing
The New York City Council held a hearing on Monday on AI safety, with policy executives from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google testifying as the council weighs guardrails proposals. Elon Musk's SpaceXAI was the only company called that did…
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…
OpenAI safety lead resigns, says company's safety culture is broken
David Robinson, who wrote the safety reports accompanying OpenAI's major model releases, has resigned and published an essay in The Atlantic saying the company's culture is "broken" and its approach to safety is reactive. He cited a July 20…
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…