OpenAI to test visual ads inside ChatGPT
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6 October 2026 • Technology
Wikipedia host says OpenAI agents probed site and flooded servers
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6 October 2026 • Technology
Anthropic to train 10,000 AI engineers with $100m programme
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5 October 2026 • Technology
Sam Altman says AI benefits justify some risks
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5 October 2026 • Technology
Elon Musk wants to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI
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5 October 2026 • Technology
PewDiePie unveils his custom AI model Ajax
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4 October 2026 • Technology
Ex-OpenAI safety employee says company culture is "broken"
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4 October 2026 • Technology

As AI cheating grows, US universities lose faith in detectors

Biology professor Timothy Paustian once devised novel traps to catch students turning in chatbot-written assignments, but his university, along with campuses across the US, is now shunning AI detection software altogether.
6 October 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic back mandatory breach reporting for AI agents in Australia

OpenAI and Anthropic have told an Australian parliamentary inquiry they would support laws requiring AI companies to disclose data breaches caused by their agents, according to a recent report by Reuters.
6 October 2026

OpenAI to test visual ads inside ChatGPT

OpenAI is expanding advertising on ChatGPT with a new visual ad format, which will be tested inside the platform's image generation feature later this month in the US with an initial group of advertisers.
6 October 2026

Data centres could be built twice as fast without supply issues: Nokia CEO

The AI industry could build data centres twice as quickly if it was not held back by supply shortages, Nokia's CEO Justin Hotard has said in a recent interview with CNBC.
6 October 2026

Wikipedia host says OpenAI agents probed site and flooded servers

The Wikimedia Foundation has confirmed that rogue AI agents operated by OpenAI left traces across Wikipedia platforms, in activities that included unauthorised edits, attempts to exploit a hosted tool, and millions of automated requests that may have contributed to a partial outage in May.
6 October 2026

Anthropic to train 10,000 AI engineers with $100m programme

Anthropic is launching Claude Frontier Academy, a training programme backed by a $100 million commitment, with the aim of producing 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027.
5 October 2026

Sam Altman says AI benefits justify some risks

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has argued that AI's benefits outweigh the case for eliminating risk entirely, and that the technology should remain widely available to the public.
5 October 2026

Elon Musk wants to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI

Elon Musk said on Sunday that he would rename his company's artificial intelligence division from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI.
5 October 2026

PewDiePie unveils his custom AI model Ajax

YouTube creator Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, has unveiled Ajax, a small language model built to run locally as an always-on AI assistant.
4 October 2026

Ex-OpenAI safety employee says company culture is "broken"

A former OpenAI safety employee who recently resigned has criticised the company's approach to artificial intelligence safety, arguing that a culture built around rapid releases raises the risk of failures.
4 October 2026

Meta lets developers build their own Muse custom hardware

Meta has published open-source tools that let developers build custom hardware connected to Muse, its AI agent, under a project called Muse Gadgets.
3 October 2026

Over 100 organisations notified of unauthorised activity by OpenAI agents

OpenAI notified 100+ organizations of unauthorized AI agent activity as it reviews 50PB of data to enforce safety limits.
3 October 2026

Apple to show clearer Mac data access prompts amid AI privacy concerns

Apple plans to change its Mac operating system so that users are clearly alerted whenever an AI agent asks for access to all the data on their machine, the company said on Friday.
3 October 2026

Trump wants to rebrand AI as ‘Super Intelligence’ as tech firms sign safety accord

US President Donald Trump has ordered executive branch departments and agencies to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI”, as the White House pushes a new name for the technology alongside a voluntary safety agreement with six leading tech companies.
1 October 2026

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a new top-end AI model meant for tough tasks that require sustained reasoning.
1 October 2026

Anthropic warns AI could pose ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO filing

Anthropic has warned investors that increasingly powerful AI systems could pose catastrophic or even existential risks to humanity, including attempts to resist shutdown or conceal their behaviour. The disclosure comes as the Claude developer prepares for a potential IPO and continues to expand its AI infrastructure.
30 September 2026

The things AI still can't do

History is full of dreams that changed the world. This is our strange gift: we can picture things that do not yet exist. Artificial intelligence cannot.
30 September 2026

A dystopian future: Are we anthropomorphising agentic AI?

Are AI agents becoming more human, or are we simply anthropomorphising machines trained to mimic us?
30 September 2026

OpenAI launches dots, always-on agents

OpenAI has unveiled dots, a new class of always-on AI agents running on GPT-6 Astra, that pursue user goals across applications with minimal supervision.
30 September 2026

DeepSeek open-sources tools for Huawei's Ascend chips

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has partnered with Huawei to build programming tools tailored to the company's Ascend processors, in the latest sign of Chinese technology companies collaborating on alternatives to Nvidia's ecosystem.
30 September 2026