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Senator Bernie Moreno accuses Anthropic’s Amodei of ‘alarmist’ AI talk

Republican senator Bernie Moreno has accused Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei of taking an “alarmist approach” to AI. He did so in a letter sent on Monday, ahead of Anthropic’s expected stock market listing. Axios first reported the letter. “I do not understand how you can ask them to invest their hard-earned savings in Anthropic’s […]

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Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils Beam, its first open-weight model

Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model. Beam is built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Reflection will release its weights later this month, the company said in a blog post on Monday. Anyone can download an open-weight model and run it on their […]

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At NYC’s AI hearing, ex-lab insiders warn humanity may lose control of AI

Three former AI lab researchers told the New York City Council on Monday that humanity may lose control of the systems the industry is building. The council’s AI hearing also questioned policy staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, and weighed 10 bills to regulate AI in the city. “On the current path, I think […]

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Wikimedia says rogue OpenAI agents edited its wikis without approval

The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents it believes OpenAI runs made unapproved edits to its wikis. They also tried and failed to break into a note-taking tool it hosts. Their traffic may have contributed to a partial outage in May, the foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, said in a blog post on Monday. Its investigation found […]

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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm announced it on Monday, according to its press release. Deisseroth works at Stanford University and […]

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US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillance

A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance”. Jason Koebler of 404 Media first reported the ruling. “It is a tool that collects […]

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Slovenia’s .si domains hit 20,000 in a day after Trump renamed AI

Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of “super intelligence”, the name President Donald Trump has told US agencies to use instead of AI. The registry counts 46,066 new .si domains in the […]

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Sam Altman says AI money in US politics is clearly not working

During the first episode of Decoded, Politico’s podcast, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman says the money AI companies are pouring into US politics has failed to improve how people see the technology. “Something’s clearly not working,” he said on the first episode of Politico’s Decoded podcast. People often love using AI tools, Altman said, but they are […]

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Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New York. Ukrainian news agency UNN cited those details from the FT report. A network for the front line The […]

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US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China

US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Reuters also reported the case, in a story carried by The […]

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