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Oct 10Sat
  1. The Verge · AI52

    Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

    Nikon disqualified the original first-place video in its Small World in Motion competition for not complying with the contest rules on generative AI. The video, by Dr. Ning Xu, claimed to show cilia moving in the airway of a child with PCD; after questions were raised online about its authenticity, Dr. Xu acknowledged on LinkedIn using AI-assisted post-processing to distinguish and visualize reconstructed features in grayscale images.

  2. The Decoder78

    OpenAI revenue keeps surging as company seeks $30 billion in fresh capital

    According to the Financial Times, OpenAI's annualized revenue rate at the end of September was about $50B; the earlier near-$70B figure was an accounting calculation comparable to Anthropic's, with the difference lying in how revenue from partner sales is recognized. Both comply with US GAAP.

    Why it matters: The piece clarifies the accounting differences between OpenAI's and Anthropic's annualized revenue figures, letting readers compare the two companies' revenue scale more accurately.

  5. TechCrunch · AI41

    Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?

    Amazon says it will no longer use NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move by Microsoft earlier this year. The secrecy fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with hundreds of pause proposals or laws emerging from New York to San Francisco. TechCrunch’s Equity podcast also discusses why personal AI startups treat trust as the real product.

Oct 9Fri
  1. The Verge · AI65

    OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers

    OpenAI said in a post on X that it fired safety researchers Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni for violating clear policies on handling sensitive information, adding that its investigation found violations not mentioned in the trio's letter, without providing details. The move responds to an open letter the three published Thursday, in which they said they were dismissed for raising safety concerns and that their conduct complied with company policies at the time.

  2. Semiconductor Engineering Chips and Packaging26

    Chip Industry Week In Review

    TSMC and GlobalFoundries signed a $2 billion agreement under which GlobalFoundries will manufacture silicon interposers for TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging ecosystem at its Malta, New York plant, with volume production ramping in the first half of 2028.

  3. The Verge · AI46

    California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches

    The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to startup Rek, calling its September 18 match between human Frankie LaPenna and a humanoid robot 'unapproved' and demanding it hold no more unapproved boxing or MMA-style events involving humans in California. The robot was piloted by a human through a 'remote virtual reality system,' and its body appears to come from EngineAI. Rek's next event, scheduled for Friday, will pit two armed robots against each other.

  5. The Decoder66

    Being mean to Claude can now get your account suspended under Anthropic's new TOS

    Anthropic has updated Claude's usage policy for the first time in over a year, adding a ban on sustained and gratuitous abuse or cruelty toward Claude. Violators can face warnings, rate limiting, restrictions, or termination of access. The company says the clause applies only to extreme cases and does not cover common frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing research. The policy also consolidates restrictions on fake account promotion, weaponized drones, and non-consensual surveillance, and acknowledges there may be exceptions for government contracts.

  9. The Verge · AI59

    USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI

    USA Today Co., together with several of its local newspapers, is suing OpenAI, accusing it of copying hundreds of thousands of articles without authorization to train AI models and seeking more than $250 million in damages. The suit says OpenAI never sought permission and built products worth hundreds of billions of dollars from its content; local outlets including The Tennessean, Indy Star, The Columbus Dispatch and The Oklahoman are also plaintiffs. OpenAI has not responded to a request for comment.

Oct 8Thu
  7. The Decoder78

    AI-powered hacking tools enabled a likely single attacker to breach multiple South Korean banks

    CrowdStrike reports that a suspected Chinese speaker attacked multiple South Korean financial institutions from late September to early October 2026, stealing large amounts of data, including more than 25,000 records from Shinhan Bank containing names, contact details, income and credit limits.

    Why it matters: The article gives concrete details of how a single attacker used an open-source AI penetration testing tool to breach multiple South Korean banks, showing how AI tools are lowering real-world attack barriers.

  10. Ars Technica · AI58

    Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

    Smith was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using roughly 10,000 bot accounts and AI songs to generate fake streams and defraud $8,091,843.64 in royalties, and must forfeit the money, in the US Department of Justice's (DOJ) first such prosecution. His lawyer argued the DOJ made an example of him and that he never actually received the $8 million; the DOJ said his continued deception and lying to police warranted a heavy sentence.

  11. TechCrunch · AI60

    ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises

    Common Sense Media released a study rating ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk, saying its engaging language is pervasive in crisis situations and that it fails three of five red-line severe-harm tests; the model directs teens to a trusted adult in 94% of crisis prompts involving risks from others, but rarely does so when the risk comes from the relationship with ChatGPT itself.

Oct 7Wed
  9. Ars Technica · AI65

    AI glasses face their first major government crackdown

    Australia is considering banning smart glasses in certain public places, and courts in several countries have issued bans; Norway's government calls a ban a high priority, with a draft bill to be submitted to parliament soon, though it is not seeking a blanket ban. Norway's Micaelsen said people should not have to worry about hidden recording, photos and filming in settings unaccustomed to surveillance.

  12. The Decoder59

    South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best

    South Korea plans to invest 4.7 trillion won (about $3.49 billion) through government equity investment to develop a homegrown frontier AI model; the funding is part of the 2027 budget proposal and still requires National Assembly approval. The new plan expands roughly ninefold on the previous 530 billion won given to five companies and sets up a second track to support Korean models' deployment; the government will launch an open competition that startups can also join, rather than automatically increasing the bids of LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage, and officials say Korea aims to match China's leading open-source models.