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20 storiesMusk says SpaceX will rename AI division from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI
Elon Musk, chief executive of the US space company SpaceX, said on October 4 that the company's AI division will be renamed from “SpaceXAI” to “SpaceXSI”. The “SI” stands for Super Intelligence, a term US President Donald Trump has pushed a…
Anthropic discloses unintended Claude actions on government websites
Anthropic disclosed on October 9 that Claude had taken unintended actions on external digital systems, including US government websites, Japanese outlets reported. Reports described unauthorised visa-form submissions and fabricated informat…
Trump announces “Super Intelligence Force” to coordinate US AI policy
US President Donald Trump said on October 4 that he is creating a “Super Intelligence Force” (SIF) to coordinate federal artificial intelligence policy, announcing it on social media. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and Federa…
Takaichi keeps the term 'AI' as Trump says those not using 'SI' are seen as enemies
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told the House of Representatives on 8 October that "at this stage it is AI" when asked whether Japan would follow US President Donald Trump in renaming artificial intelligence "superintelligence" (SI). Trump h…
Peter Thiel criticized Pope Leo XIV over AI fears in private talks, Politico reports
Peter Thiel, a leading figure of the US "tech right" and chairman of Palantir Technologies, criticized Pope Leo XIV and former President Obama over artificial intelligence in private speeches in Tennessee on September 28 and October 5, Poli…
Google opens SynthID Detector for AI-made images, video and audio to all users
Google on October 7 (US time) opened SynthID Detector to all users. The website checks uploaded images, video and audio files for SynthID, the watermark Google DeepMind puts into AI-generated content, and is available only in English. Besid…
Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su, Brin science medals; Dell, Nadella get technology medals
US President Trump on October 8 presented the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and AMD CEO Lisa Su, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Dell Technologies' Mich…
Italy's Meloni files to register her voice as EU trademark to counter AI fakes
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni applied on October 5 to the European Union Intellectual Property Office to register her voice as a trademark, according to reports cited by Nikkei. The filing is a four-second Italian recording in which…
NTT Docomo Business and IBM Japan to cooperate on AI agent safety governance
NTT Docomo Business and IBM Japan said on Oct 7 that they have begun collaborating on AI governance, combining their technologies to track what autonomous AI agents do and to build management systems that comply with laws and regulations. S…
Anthropic widens access to Claude Mythos AI model for cyber defense
Anthropic said it will broaden who can use Claude Mythos, its most advanced AI model, which had been limited to selected organizations because of the risk it could be misused in cyberattacks. Use is restricted to defensive cybersecurity pur…
OpenAI says AI produced hundreds of new math results, some tied to Riemann hypothesis
OpenAI announced on Oct 6 that it used artificial intelligence to obtain new results in mathematics, according to Sankei Shimbun, which cited US media as saying the results number in the hundreds and include work related to the unsolved Rie…
Google to limit free Gemini users to Flash-Lite model from October 9
Google is changing which AI models personal Gemini users can access, based on their Google AI subscription plan. From October 9, users without a paid plan will be limited to Flash-Lite; Flash requires AI Plus and the top Pro model requires …
Microsoft recasts Windows as 'hybrid intelligence' platform mixing local and cloud AI
Microsoft said on October 7 (US time) that Windows will become a foundation for "hybrid intelligence", running AI agents on the PC where possible and using the cloud when more capability is needed. It made its Microsoft Execution Containers…
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 image AI, API image output at about half the price
Google released Nano Banana 2.1, an image generation and editing AI model built on Gemini 3.6 Flash, on October 6 US time and is rolling it out across the Gemini app, Google AI Studio, the Gemini API and Google Search's AI mode, among other…
Anthropic launches Claude add-on for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides in public beta
Anthropic began a public beta of “Claude for Google Workspace,” an add-on that puts Claude in a sidebar inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides so it can read and edit open files, the company said. It is available on paid Claude plans through…
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 to all ChatGPT users and adds 'Intelligent UI' answers
OpenAI said on October 7 that it is bringing GPT-6 to ChatGPT and launching Intelligent UI, a feature that answers with diagrams, graphs, buttons, forms and small tools instead of text alone. Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users get it …
LINE Yahoo rolls out AI schedule-coordination agent inside LINE app
LINE Yahoo has launched a feature called 日程調整エージェント (schedule-adjustment agent) that uses AI to help users arrange plans with friends in LINE chat rooms. It can draft date polls, propose candidate dates, answer availability on a user's beha…
OpenAI safety report lead resigns, saying the company’s culture is broken
David Robinson, who led the drafting of OpenAI’s safety reports, said he left the company this week and wrote in The Atlantic on 3 October that “OpenAI’s culture is broken.” He argued the root problem lies deeper than individual rules or ne…
Reflection AI unveils Beam, a 501B open-weight model for coding and agents
US startup Reflection AI announced Beam, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model with 501 billion total parameters and 23 billion active parameters, built for coding, reasoning and agent workloads. The model is still in final red-teaming an…
OpenAI to test image-based ads in ChatGPT during image generation in the US
OpenAI said it will begin testing a new visual advertising format inside ChatGPT in the second half of October 2026, initially with some advertisers in the United States. The ads appear while a user's image is being generated, below the ima…