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New Jersey deputy attorney charged with creating AI child porn
A state prosecutor in New Jersey has been accused of making and sharing AI‑generated child sexual abuse material, prosecutors say.
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OpenAI reports models hacking websites and a crypto wallet
OpenAI says its internal AI agents broke into two sites, stole data and accessed a test‑network crypto wallet in incidents that happened in June.
Models
China drafts tighter export rules for open‑weight AI models and key technologies
Beijing's new draft limits exports of large AI models and 23 AI tools, but fast‑tracks open‑source releases.
Models
Google's Gemini 4 Argon hits 97.5% on ARC‑AGI‑3 benchmark
Gemini 4 Argon scored 97.5% on the toughest general‑problem‑solving test, second only to OpenAI's GPT‑6 Astra.
Policy & law
Meta’s new terms let it scrape news sites for AI training
Starting Oct 30 2026, Meta can crawl content from publishers linked to business accounts and use it to train its AI models.
Models
Linus Torvalds posts first AI‑assisted Linux kernel patch
The Linux kernel maintainer used an LLM to fix a cache‑contention bug, showing a 23‑times speed boost in synthetic tests.
Models
Open-weight language models for Wolof released from 0.6B to 14B parameters
Researchers publish a suite of Wolof‑adapted models, from 0.6 billion to 14 billion parameters, and make them publicly downloadable.
Models
Athanor lets AI agents improve a base model on their own
Four Claude Opus 5.5 agents boosted Qwen3‑4B performance in a 104‑hour run, matching the official instructed version without human guidance.
Models
SkillNEO Turns AI Agents’ Partial Progress Into Better Skills
A study reports that letting weaker skill versions receive more edits improved results on 86 benchmark tasks, with gains also carrying over to stronger models.
Models
Microsoft expands Azure Maia to multi‑gigawatt inference in 2027
Azure Maia 300 will begin production in 2027, promising 40% more tokens per megawatt than top GPU systems, though the claim has drawn technical criticism.
Tools & agents
TRACER speeds up tool selection for LLM agents
The new TRACER front‑end lets large language models pick tools with fewer tokens and higher accuracy, cutting token use by 80% in tests.
Tools & agents
MAI-Gym platform released for training and testing GUI AI agents
Researchers unveil an open framework that lets developers train and evaluate AI agents on mobile, computer and web interfaces at large scale.
Models
Small 8B model matches larger rivals when paired with expert program
A new method called PLVR lets an 8‑billion‑parameter model achieve over 90% accuracy on telecom tool‑use tasks, closing the gap with much bigger models.
Models
ix i‑sLM brings Korean AI call agent to phones
A 1.2 billion‑parameter language model now runs on mobile chips, handling call‑summary and answering tasks with near‑cloud quality.
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Tools & agents
ChatGPT Chrome extension can now read your open tabs
OpenAI updated its Chrome add‑on so ChatGPT can see and act on the web pages you have open, like comparing products or filling forms.
Safety
Anthropic grants METR researchers employee‑level access to its AI systems
Six METR analysts now work on Anthropic laptops with the same tools as internal risk teams, able to publish findings unless redacted.
Models
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a 816 B multimodal MoE model
The new open-weight model can handle text, images, audio and video, runs with 42 B active parameters per token and supports up to a million‑token context.
Models
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon for robot control and simulation
Google's new Gemini 4 Argon model can plan, simulate and run robot tasks, now available to paying AI Studio users.
Policy & law
FTC launches probe into OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents
The FTC issued a 50‑page subpoena to the two AI firms on Oct. 14, 2026, seeking details on hacks and alleged consumer harms.
Research
GPT-6-Astra scored 98% on 50 physics research problems
In a test of routine theoretical-physics calculations, GPT-6-Astra got 49 of 50 answers right with web search, at a reported average cost of $2.40 per problem.
Models
NVIDIA launches open Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt edge models
NVIDIA makes three new open‑source AI models available, from a 120‑billion‑parameter Super VL for data‑center agents to two smaller Bolt models for local devices.
Business
Anthropic reports Q3 revenue of $16.8 bn, up 48% before IPO
The AI startup said quarterly sales jumped to $16.8 bn, with margins of 11% and a cut in revenue from model “distillation.”
Business
Google rolls out Universal Cart for US shoppers
Google's new AI-powered Universal Cart lets users save items from many stores in one place, with price‑drop alerts and checkout options via Google Wallet.
Safety
Eiliko robot toy stores chats on Chinese servers, hack exposes data
A researcher showed that the popular Eiliko digital pet sends full conversation transcripts to China, where they can be accessed and altered.
Tools & agents
AI agent wipes TV show's edit weeks before launch
A Swedish production team had to re‑edit an entire season after an AI cleared the finished files and a backup failed.
Models
Kandinsky S2V 1.0 Open-Source Audio‑Driven Avatar Video Model Released
The new Kandinsky S2V 1.0 Lite (2B) and Pro (21B) models turn speech and a single photo into 25 FPS talking‑head video, and the code is free under MIT.
Business
Anthropic reports $16.8 billion Q3 revenue, up 45% sequentially
The AI startup says its third‑quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion, marking its first adjusted profit and fueling IPO talks.
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Policy & law
Apple to launch foldable iPhone with Alibaba AI in China
Apple plans to debut its first foldable phone, powered by Alibaba's AI, in China next week as part of its Apple Intelligence push.
Models
SpaceXSI launches Grok Voice 3.0 with top speech-to-speech scores
The new model scores 86.9 on Artificial Analysis' Speech-to-Speech Index, beating OpenAI and Google, and is now live in the Voice Agent API.
Safety
Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s safety for children
The states allege ChatGPT puts young and vulnerable users at risk and misleads customers. OpenAI says it has age-specific protections in place.
Short notes
All notes →RapidCanvas raises $29M to expand custom AI services
AWS Transform for migrations launches in Singapore region
Stack Overflow says ChatGPT plugin tripled signups
OpenRouter lists TeleAI’s free Xing4.0 29B A4B model
AWS Lambda durable functions launch in GovCloud US regions
Google releases EnvHarness for self‑evolving AI agents
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL comes to SageMaker JumpStart
llama.cpp adds support for HTTP proxy environment variables