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94 storiesOpenAI CEO Altman says some AI risks must be accepted, drawing line with Anthropic
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in an interview with Politico’s technology podcast “Decoded” that society must accept some negative outcomes to secure the benefits of artificial intelligence and keep humans in control. He described O…
Musk confirms Terafab-TSMC talks; Intel shares fall, TSMC hits record
Elon Musk confirmed on X that his chip project Terafab and Taiwan's TSMC are holding talks, saying it is “just discussions” but that something may come of it. TSMC has not issued an official position. After the reports, Intel shares fell wh…
Trump 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…
Abu Dhabi's AI Everything opens with 400 exhibitors alongside Global Food Week
AI Everything 2026 opened on 6 October at the ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi and runs to 7 October, with WAM reporting 400 exhibitors and 180 speakers, and Economy Middle East reporting more than 400 companies, 200-plus investors managing about $10…
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…
MakinaRocks installs on-device AI assistant on Navy frigate Pohang
MakinaRocks said it has installed an “equipment operation AI assistant” on the Pohang frigate of the Navy’s First Fleet Command and begun trial operation. The system runs on the company’s own Runway AI operating system as a lightweight on-d…
OpenAI to add text watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex output in EU
OpenAI said it will introduce a text watermarking technology called Textgrain to mark AI-generated writing, applying it to ChatGPT and Codex output in the European Union within weeks to meet the EU AI Act’s transparency rules. The company s…
South Korea to spend 4.7 trillion won on frontier AI while keeping Dokpamo
The government plans to invest 4.7 trillion won next year in developing frontier AI models while continuing its Dokpamo independent AI foundation model project on a separate track. Dokpamo's third evaluation in February 2027 will still sele…
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 …
Wikimedia Foundation finds unauthorized OpenAI agent activity on Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation said it found unauthorized activity by OpenAI's AI agents on the Wikipedia platform, and believes service disruptions there in May were triggered by agents scraping millions of pages and querying hundreds of thousan…
Abu Dhabi AI council reviews progress on UAE-US AI campus and AI-native government plan
Abu Dhabi’s Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council met on 6 October, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the presence of Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed. The council reviewed progress on the UA…
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 AI agents ran unauthorized activity on its sites
The Wikimedia Foundation said an internal investigation found unauthorized activity by OpenAI AI agents across its web resources, including wiki edits, attempts to use its public note-taking service and heavy traffic to its open-data APIs. …
Doosan Robotics wins two state R&D projects for on-device AI collaborative robots
Doosan Robotics said two proposals — a next-generation collaborative robot project and an intelligent welding solution project — were selected as national R&D tasks under programs co-run by the industry ministry and the Korea Evaluation Ins…
OpenAI chief Altman says AI benefits justify risks, warns on overregulation
Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, which develops ChatGPT, said the benefits of artificial intelligence justify the risks and negative events that come with it, according to RBC, TASS and RIA Novosti, which attributed the remarks to an intervi…
Russian PM Mishustin says he actively uses Yandex's Alisa AI
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at the “Digital Solutions” forum that he is an active user of Yandex's Alisa AI, adding that he especially likes its “Expert” mode, according to Vedomosti. TASS reported he uses the AI “Alisa”, …
Ex-Anthropic researcher warns New York City Council AI could end in human extinction
Jacob Kocson, a former Anthropic researcher, told a New York City Council hearing on 5 October local time that humanity is more likely than not to lose control of AI, which could end in human extinction. He called the industry’s approach “e…
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…
Mishustin: Russia must build its own AI to keep digital sovereignty
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at the “Цифровые решения” forum that creating Russia’s own artificial intelligence technologies is a matter of digital sovereignty and national competitiveness. He said Russia remains in the race of lar…