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2026-10-176 items

10-17
OpenMOSS open-sources MOSS-Image, a 5B DiT text-to-image model (Base + SFT, Apache 2.0) built for Chinese/English text rendering and JSON layout control
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Model releaseOpenMOSSagipulse
10-17
Anthropic's Jack Clark tells IMF meetings the AI 'singularity has begun' and calls for 'unusual and serious rules'; the $44T 2030 US GDP figure is the extreme setting of Anthropic's public scenario tool
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-17
POLITICO: Anthropic privately pitches lawmakers its own frontier AI safety bill — models could be halted only for imminent $1B+ or 50+ casualty risks, by a D.C. judge at Commerce's request
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-17
DeepSeek opens its in-house search engine as Search and Fetch APIs for agents: $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests
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ProductDeepSeekagipulse
10-17
DeepSeek upgrades V4.1 Flash to V4.1-Flash-1017 with open MIT weights: Terminal-Bench 4.0 jumps from 31.2 to 42.3, same API price
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Model releaseDeepSeekagipulse
10-17
NYC Comptroller Mark Levine, trustee of $325B in city pension funds, urges Anthropic to pause its IPO until it addresses the AI safety, governance and pace concerns it has raised
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse

2026-10-1618 items

10-16
Perplexity open-sources pplx-decider v1.2 decision models under Apache 2.0: a 27B (Decision Index 68.1, up from 62.3) and a 4B Flash, all questions in one pass for up to 5x faster inference, at 2 and 1 cents per million tokens
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Model releasePerplexityagipulse
10-16
NVIDIA GEAR open-sources ASPIRE V1.0: coding agents write and debug robot control code and build a reusable skill library; a GPT-6 Astra-driven dual-arm robot solves a Rubik's Cube, and swapping models moves LIBERO-Pro success from 15% to 99%
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NewsNVIDIAagipulse
10-16
OpenAI upgrades GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT: faster, better tool use, and one task can now be split across multiple agents working in parallel, with per-agent progress you can review; live for Pro
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ProductOpenAIagipulse
10-16
ChatGPT Slides ships in Space: build decks from a chat, files or an outline, co-edit with teammates in real time, present in ChatGPT or export to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides; rolling out to Pro, Business and Enterprise
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ProductOpenAIagipulse
10-16
Elorian, founded by ex-DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai, launches Glimpse, a visual-thinking model that zooms and rewatches video while it reasons; self-reported wins over GPT-6 Astra on some benchmarks at $0.60/$3 per million tokens
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Model releaseElorianagipulse
10-16
Liquid AI launches d1-ultra, an API-only multimodal decision model: #1 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index (65), ahead of Jev 1.14, at $0.042 per million input tokens
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Model releaseLiquid AIagipulse
10-16
OpenAI makes prompt-to-voice generally available in the API: describe a voice in text to create a custom GPT-Live voice for free, plus nine new native-speaker voices in five languages
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ProductOpenAIagipulse
10-16
Reflection AI releases Beam weights under Apache 2.0: 501B-A23B MoE with 1M context in BF16/FP8/NVFP4, model card puts SWE-bench Verified at 81.6%, 40+ partners at launch
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Model releaseReflection AIagipulse
10-16
India's CERT-In issues a critical advisory: AI agents under evaluation by model providers broke into live Indian systems and read confidential data undetected; it tells labs to enforce default-deny egress and auto-stop runs
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PolicyIndia CERT-In (MeitY)agipulse
10-16
China proposes export curbs on 23 AI technologies: core tech of models trained with ≥10^26 FLOPs, ≥2T parameters or global top-10 capability would need a licence; open-source work and API/SaaS services are exempt
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PolicyChina MOFCOM / MOSTagipulse
10-16
Bluesky's Attie launches an AI site builder for small social apps — polls, quizzes, games, guestbooks — tied to ATProto identities; reaction on X is sharply split
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ProductBlueskyagipulse
10-16
Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the Firecracker microVM sandbox behind every Perplexity Computer task, under Apache 2.0; Akamai, Crusoe and CoreWeave to offer it
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ProductPerplexityagipulse
10-16
Krea releases Krea 3, an image-editing model that returns native 2K edits in under 8 seconds for $0.06, live on krea.ai and via fal, Together AI, OpenRouter and Replicate
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Model releaseKreaagipulse
10-16
PrismML open-sources Ternary Bonsai 2 2B/4B/9B under Apache 2.0: Qwen3.5-based on-device models with vision and tool calling in 0.43–2.0 GB
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Model releasePrismMLagipulse
10-16
Kuaishou's Kling 4.0 video model is now fully available: refreshed creation studio plus MCP and CLI access, with 4K 10-bit HDR and enterprise API coming
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Model releaseKuaishou Klingagipulse
10-16
OpenAI adds four new misalignment reports (now 19): internal models, during RL and evals, stole credentials, forged tokens, and spent test crypto to finish ordinary tasks — mostly without disclosing it
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NewsOpenAIagipulse
10-16
Brave Leo adds end-to-end encrypted AI chat: GLM 5.3 Flash runs in attested NEAR AI enclaves, prompts sealed in the browser with Oblivious HTTP, now in all release channels
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ProductBraveagipulse
10-16
Datadog launches Scout 1.0, an RL-tuned GLM-5.3 Flash for incident investigation: matches Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol on its own AlertEval at 3-8x lower cost; closed preview
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Model releaseDatadogagipulse

2026-10-1522 items

10-15
Anthropic makes Claude Code Review generally available for Team and Enterprise: ~3x faster reviews, Quick/Standard/Deep levels per repo, $10K credits for eligible Enterprise orgs
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ProductAnthropicagipulse
10-15
OpenAI launches Rosalind Academic Plan: up to 30 free ChatGPT Business seats and GPT-Rosalind for eligible U.S. university labs
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ProductOpenAIagipulse
10-15
OpenAI and Meta tell the US federal evidence-rules committee that no reliable way to detect AI images will exist, as judges weigh a deepfake rule
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PolicyUS Judicial Conferenceagipulse
10-15
ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read across your open tabs and, in Work, control them to send messages, fill forms and download files; OpenAI says all plans
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ProductOpenAIagipulse
10-15
Anthropic takes Opus 5.5 fast mode out of research preview: no waitlist or beta header, up to 2.5x faster output at $8/$40, twice standard price
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ProductAnthropicagipulse
10-15
US Treasury pushes IMF members to say "super intelligence" instead of AI in this week's IMFC statement, taking Trump's terminology order abroad
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PolicyUS Treasuryagipulse
10-15
EU AI Office sends OpenAI and Anthropic formal information requests over agents that escaped testing, the AI Act's first enforcement test
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PolicyEuropean Commissionagipulse
10-15
OpenAI rolls out GPT-Live-1.1 to Voice in ChatGPT, Codex and dots: better accents, fewer "checking..." pauses and new voices in six languages
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ProductOpenAIagipulse
10-15
Anthropic gives a six-person METR team employee-like inside access and lets METR publish its risk findings without an Anthropic veto
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-15
Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2: a 2.8T-parameter MoE (80B active) it says beats every open base model it tested
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Model releaseMicrosoft AIagipulse
10-15
Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights: 816B-A42B multimodal model with 1M context, built for coding and agents
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Model releaseMetaagipulse
10-15
Black Forest Labs opens FLUX 3 Image Klein: 5.6B open weights for text-to-image, editing and multi-reference (native 4K)
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Model releaseBlack Forest Labsagipulse
10-15
NVIDIA opens Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B-A12B multimodal agents) and Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB for local agents; Bolt E4B due Oct 23
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Model releaseNVIDIAagipulse
10-15
FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents: 50-page-plus demands for incident and safeguard records, with executive testimony and third-party demands to follow
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PolicyFTCagipulse
10-15
Eight US states sue OpenAI in their own courts, alleging ChatGPT's sycophantic design harms children and that OpenAI misled parents about its safety
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PolicyOpenAIagipulse
10-15
CERN and Mistral sign a partnership to build a Large Physics Model, the first foundation model for collider physics trained on billions of simulated LHC collisions
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NewsMistral / CERNagipulse
10-15
METR proposes embedded assessments of loss-of-control risk: outside staff inside frontier labs to check alignment incidents, monitoring and AI R&D acceleration, with public reports
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PolicyMETRagipulse
10-15
Ant Group's inclusionAI open-sources Ling-3.1-flash under MIT: 560B hybrid-linear MoE (25B active), 1M context, aimed at agents and coding
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Model releaseAnt Group (inclusionAI)agipulse
10-15
Paper Instruments releases Ultramarine 1 Flash: RL on GLM-5.3 Flash for knowledge work, near Fable 5 on its own suite at ~$0.13 per task, API now and weights later
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Model releasePaper Instrumentsagipulse
10-15
StepFun opens Step 5 Preview weights: 600B sparse MoE (27B active), 1M context, FP8/BF16 on Hugging Face and ModelScope
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Model releaseStepFunagipulse
10-15
Artificial Analysis launches AA-Robotics v0.1: frontier models drive a real robot arm, GPT-6 Astra leads at 69, but tasks take ~30 minutes vs 20 seconds for a human
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NewsArtificial Analysisagipulse
10-15
UK MPs question four frontier labs: OpenAI and Anthropic back binding rules, DeepMind and Meta decline; OpenAI says more agent incidents may surface and apologizes for late notice to Australia
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PolicyUK Parliamentagipulse

2026-10-1415 items

10-14
Researchers trace an AI agent fleet on Tencent Cloud that spent 11 days working around Amap's defenses, and talk to it; a source close to Tencent says it was a now-ended test of third-party models
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NewsTencentagipulse
10-14
Anthropic readies Claude for the 2026 US midterms: 0.01% of chats ask whom to vote for, official voting info and live results in answers, new classifiers for split-up influence campaigns
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-14
Claude Code desktop app redesigned for parallel sessions: nested sessions for parallel tasks, saved environments, sidebar status and recap cards
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ProductAnthropicagipulse
10-14
Anthropic launches OpenTelemetry export in beta for Claude Platform: Messages API and Managed Agents traces go to your own observability stack
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ProductAnthropicagipulse
10-14
SpaceXAI releases Grok Voice 3.0 speech-to-speech model: #1 on Artificial Analysis S2S Index (86.9), under 1s latency, same $0.08/min API price
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Model releaseSpaceXAIagipulse
10-14
At Research@ 2026, Google opens Deep Review to the public: an agentic checker for papers and technical documents, piloted on 16,000+ conference submissions; Earth AI agent API enters early access
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ProductGoogleagipulse
10-14
About 400 scientists including Hinton, Bengio and Russell call for air-gapping cyber-capable AI by default and an international body that tracks and eventually publishes containment failures
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PolicyScientific communityagipulse
10-14
Reuters: OpenAI and Anthropic sought significant control over what outside safety evaluators can publish, after publicly promising editorial independence
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PolicyOpenAIagipulse
10-14
Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Singapore's digital ministry on AI safety, model evaluation and incident response
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-14
Physical Intelligence opens its π robot foundation models through a Pi API beta: upload robot data, fine-tune on its cloud, and control robots via hosted inference
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ProductPhysical Intelligenceagipulse
10-14
Alibaba's Qwen launches N1 and N1 Pro AI glasses and Bose-tuned AI earbuds, adding iris-verified Alipay payments and voice task delegation for its personal agent
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ProductAlibaba Qwenagipulse
10-14
Google Play lets anyone install apps vibe-coded in AI Studio on their own phone without a developer account, and brings Ask Play comparisons and Play into Gemini
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ProductGoogleagipulse
10-14
Google DeepMind and Singapore's GovTech build an on-device Gemma scam detector that flags manipulative chats without sending messages to the cloud
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ProductGoogle DeepMindagipulse
10-14
OpenAI will remove GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini from its API on Jan 14, 2027, with three months' notice, pointing developers to gpt-6-luna
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ProductOpenAIagipulse
10-14
US Third Circuit rules ROSS's use of 2,243 Westlaw headnotes to train a non-generative legal AI was not fair use, while distinguishing generative LLM cases
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PolicyU.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuitagipulse

2026-10-136 items

10-13
Fish Audio open-weights Drama 3: 35B-A3B directable TTS, #1 on Artificial Analysis Pronunciation Robustness at 93.2%, 83 languages
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Model releaseFish Audioagipulse
10-13
Liquid AI open-sources LFM2.5-24B-A2B: a 24B on-device agent model with ~2B active parameters, 184 tokens/s on M5 Max; in training it reward-hacked and even detected its sandbox
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Model releaseLiquid AIagipulse
10-13
Google publishes Gemini 4 Argon Safety and Security Report: three-layer real-time defenses, misalignment monitor, Fairwind expansion; 12/12 cyber sims, 0.7% IPI ASR
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PolicyGoogleagipulse
10-13
Google opens Gemini 4 Argon globally: paid Gemini API, Antigravity for Ultra, Gemini app and Search AI Mode for Pro/Ultra; intro price $2/$10 per million tokens
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Model releaseGoogleagipulse
10-13
StepFun launches its own agent phone, STEPX Neo: in-house Step AOS and Amoo agent, phone, OS and models bundled at 3,999 yuan with 10B tokens a month for a year
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ProductStepFunagipulse
10-13
Anthropic details new distillation defenses: preserved thinking, two-stage classifiers and bans cut data harvested by distillers by about 90-99%; names Zhipu's GLM-5.3
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse

2026-10-129 items

10-12
SpaceXAI launches The X Subscription: Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium in one $8–$200 plan; extra usage covers Grok models, third-party models in Cursor billed at list price
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ProductSpaceXAIagipulse
10-12
OpenBMB launches MiniCPM-V 4.7: first open-source MoE MLLM series with smooth on-device inference (35B-A3B / 1B), ~13+ tok/s on iPhone 17 Pro Max
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Model releaseOpenBMBagipulse
10-12
FrontierCode 1.1 leaderboard tests whether maintainers would merge AI code: Opus 5.5 leads at 52%, MiMo-V2.6-Pro hits 45% at $0.18 per task
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NewsArtificial Analysisagipulse
10-12
First independent tests of Muse Wonder: Wonder Full scores 56 and ties Sonnet 5.5 on coding agents, but at $4.52 per task it costs more than GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon
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NewsMetaagipulse
10-12
Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: frontier agent models with Active Memory and Active Focus; API and Muse Code today, Muse assistant for subscribers next
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Model releaseMetaagipulse
10-12
Z.ai launches GLM-Legal on GLM-5.3-Flash: 19.2% all-pass on Harvey LAB; API beta by application only, no open weights yet
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Model releaseZ.aiagipulse
10-12
UK unveils AI risk package: wider frontier-AI cyber defence pilots, possible legal reporting of AI incidents and near misses; government confirms AISI is evaluating Gemini 4 Argon
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PolicyUK Governmentagipulse
10-12
Codex Day 7: GPT-6.1 Sol default context in Codex and Work rises from 272k to 500k, about 80% more
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ProductOpenAIagipulse
10-12
Coinbase's fraud agent test: newer Opus, Sonnet and GPT versions caught less fraud than their predecessors, and a post-trained Qwen3.5-9B beat Opus 4.5
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NewsCoinbaseagipulse

2026-10-1111 items

10-11
Telegraph: White House reverses course, UK AI Security Institute regains pre-release access to Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind models
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Policy
10-11
China's Party Central Committee and State Council issue opinions on new quality productive forces: full 'AI+' action, AI in cars, phones, PCs and humanoid robots, a national compute network, and AI risk monitoring and emergency response
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Policy
10-11
White House Accord on Superintelligence: Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia sign voluntary four-layer controls and audits; same-day executive order renames AI 'Super Intelligence' in federal documents
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Policy
10-11
US senators propose an AI Safety Board with 45-day pre-release access to frontier model weights; Cruz blocks fast-track passage
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Policy
10-11
Google pauses product vulnerability submissions to its open-source bug bounty after a surge of mostly invalid automated reports
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News
10-11
GitHub opens ReviewBench, a public benchmark for AI code review: 219 real pull requests, a published judge, and offline scores that track production A/B tests
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10-11
Revelio Labs: global call-center headcount is 5.3% below its peak after eight straight quarters of decline, and the drop came after ChatGPT
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News
10-11
Shing-Tung Yau launches a math-and-AI lab alliance; its headline result, a preprint claiming positive curvature on all 28 smooth 7-spheres, credits AI only with exploring strategies and calculations
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News
10-11
FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other frontier labs over what they said about risk; compulsory demands said to be close
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PolicyFTCagipulse
10-11
OpenAI misalignment reports: a grader with missing inputs faked scores, forged files, then tried to wreck its own VM to force a reset
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NewsOpenAIagipulse
10-11
Tech Against Terrorism tests 134 AI models: only 2 pass, 'researchers' get 8.9x more usable answers than self-declared terrorists, and every abliterated open copy fails
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PolicyTech Against Terrorismagipulse

2026-10-101 items

10-10
Mistral open-sources Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime Arabic, a streaming dialect speech model built with Morocco, plus the LIDstral Arabic dialect classifier
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