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23 storiesTrump says White House views anyone using term 'artificial intelligence' as an enemy
US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that the White House considers anyone who uses the term "artificial intelligence" instead of "superintelligence" an enemy, Russian outlets reported on 8 October. The post follows an order Trum…
Anthropic bans repeated abuse of Claude in updated usage policy
Anthropic has updated its usage policy to prohibit systematic and "pointless abusive or cruel behaviour" towards its Claude models, with the rules taking effect on 12 November. The company said the ban applies only in extreme cases where us…
Google to drop free access to Gemini Flash and Pro models on October 9
Google will restrict access to its Gemini AI models in consumer apps for personal accounts from October 9, 2026, leaving users without a Google AI subscription only the simpler Flash-Lite model, according to the company's help centre as cit…
Musk urges calling artificial intelligence “superintelligence”
Elon Musk called for artificial intelligence to be called “superintelligence”, writing on the social network X: “No more AI. Superintelligence. That’s better”, according to Vedomosti. Vedomosti linked the remarks to a US executive order sig…
Altman says AI benefits justify risks as Florida criticism and OpenAI lawsuit surface
Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, says the benefits of artificial intelligence justify the risks and negative events that come with it, but he is not prepared to accept “truly catastrophic risks” including losing control of AI, according to RBC, …
Russian presidential administration uses AI services, Oreshkin says
Maxim Oreshkin, deputy head of the Russian presidential administration, said the administration uses all available artificial intelligence services, including Gigachat, speaking at the plenary session of the Digital Solutions forum. He adde…
Trump announces “Super Intelligence Force” to coordinate US work on AI
US President Donald Trump announced the creation of a “Super Intelligence Force” (SIF) to coordinate the federal government’s work on artificial intelligence, writing about it on Truth Social. Vedomosti named four officials to lead it — Dir…
SpaceX in talks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips, reports say
SpaceX is negotiating to raise about $40 billion in debt to buy Nvidia chips and expand its AI computing infrastructure, according to Financial Times and Bloomberg reports cited by Russian outlets. About $10 billion would come as bank loans…
Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic leaders plan for a possible catastrophic AI incident
Leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies are working through how the public and authorities would react to a catastrophic AI-related incident, such as a cyberattack that disrupts banks, the internet or power and water supplies, A…
Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI after Trump superintelligence decree
Elon Musk said the company SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, replacing the abbreviation AI with SI, for superintelligence. The change follows a decree signed by US President Donald Trump on 29 September requiring federal departments and ag…
Norway plans temporary ban on AI glasses in public places
Norway's government plans a temporary ban on wearing glasses with built-in artificial intelligence in a number of public places, including parks, beaches, museums, shopping centres and facilities for children, and intends to put the measure…
Wikimedia reports unauthorized AI agent activity; OpenAI says no link found
The Wikimedia Foundation said it found unauthorized activity by AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI inside its projects, including edits, most of them test edits in sandboxes. OpenAI said it has so far found no evidence that its A…
Sber's GigaChat writes continuation of Gogol's Dead Souls; book goes on sale
A novel presented as the second volume of Nikolai Gogol's «Dead Souls», written with Sber's large language model «GigaChat», has gone on sale, according to TASS, iXBT, Habr News, RBC and CNews. iXBT named the book «Мёртвые души. Второй том.…
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”, …
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…
OpenAI safety systems chief David Robinson leaves the company
David Robinson, who led OpenAI’s Safety Systems team and its work on safety transparency, has left the company. Kommersant said he explained the move in an article for The Atlantic, citing corporate culture problems and unsafe approaches to…
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. …
Time: Trump consulted Musk's Grok before Maduro's capture in Venezuela
Time magazine reported that Donald Trump asked Elon Musk's chatbot Grok in December 2025, at a White House meeting, how Venezuelans would react if the United States captured President Nicolas Maduro. Grok answered that many Venezuelans woul…
OpenAI to add invisible watermarks to ChatGPT text in EU
OpenAI said it will add invisible watermarks to text generated and processed by ChatGPT and Codex for users in the European Union in the coming weeks. From 5 October, users can enable text watermark display for some models, and approved res…
Italy's Meloni seeks EU trademark for her voice to counter deepfakes
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has filed an application with the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to register her voice as a trademark, according to Kommersant and TASS. Kommersant, citing La Repubblica, reported that the aim …