https://aidaily.si/stories/uk-science-advisers-tell-the-ai-minister-to-write-an-ai-sovereignty-plan.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-19T05:00:00-05:00The UK's Council for Science and Technology tells the AI minister to write an AI sovereignty plan, warning Britain “risks becoming a high-value AI customer” https://aidaily.si/stories/uk-cma-proposes-strategic-market-status-for-microsoft-business-software.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-19T05:00:00-05:00The UK's competition regulator proposes “strategic market status” for Microsoft's business software, Copilot included, and will test whether rival AI tools can compete https://aidaily.si/stories/proofpoint-agrees-to-buy-varonis-for-about-6-3bn.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-19T05:00:00-05:00Proofpoint agrees to buy Varonis for about $6.3bn in cash, pitching a platform to secure the data that people and AI systems can reach https://aidaily.si/stories/meta-says-a-claude-linked-tool-set-off-the-no-kings-instagram-suspension.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-19T05:00:00-05:00Meta says a tool linked to Anthropic's Claude set off its mistaken suspension of the No Kings Coalition's Instagram account, Bloomberg reports https://aidaily.si/stories/kospi-rebounds-1-76-percent-after-opening-more-than-3-percent-lower.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-19T05:00:00-05:00Seoul's KOSPI turns an opening fall of more than 3% into a 1.76% gain, as Bloomberg says financing costs, not chip demand, now drive Asia's AI hardware stocks https://aidaily.si/stories/epic-tells-staff-to-work-ai-first-bloomberg-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-19T05:00:00-05:00Epic Games tells employees to take an “AI first” approach, and its Disney game slips from its March target, Bloomberg reported https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-consults-law-firms-on-how-its-agents-should-negotiate-ft-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-19T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic is consulting law firms on fair “negotiation norms” for AI agents that bargain for their users, the Financial Times reported https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-commits-5-percent-of-its-shares-to-a-public-benefit-fund.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-19T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund, subject to stockholder approval, with 2% more for every 50% rise in its value https://aidaily.si/stories/stryker-invests-about-400m-in-cmr-surgical-with-an-option-to-buy.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00Stryker invests about $400m in CMR Surgical, maker of the Versius surgical robot, and takes an exclusive option to buy the rest https://aidaily.si/stories/no-new-model-releases-over-the-17-18-october-weekend-beyond-deepseek.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00Two release trackers show no new AI models over the 17–18 October weekend beyond DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017, and Mistral's Large 4 weights are still “Coming soon” https://aidaily.si/stories/microsoft-pulls-out-of-nscale-s-loughton-data-centre-telegraph-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00Microsoft has pulled out of Nscale's planned data centre at Loughton in Essex, where it was to be the anchor tenant, The Telegraph reported https://aidaily.si/stories/meta-drops-ai-training-wording-from-its-new-commercial-terms.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00Meta removes wording that would have let it use businesses' web content to “train” its products, before its new Commercial Terms take effect on 30 October https://aidaily.si/stories/character-ai-files-for-chapter-11-with-disney-as-stalking-horse.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00Character.AI files for Chapter 11 to sell itself, with a Disney affiliate's $20m bid for an IP licence as the opening offer, and 40 attorneys general ask the court to protect children in any sale https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-s-clark-says-ai-could-lift-us-output-to-44-trillion-by-2030-reuters-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic's Jack Clark tells the IMF and World Bank meetings that an internal Anthropic model has US output reaching $44 trillion by 2030, and calls the figure “outlandish” himself https://aidaily.si/stories/amazon-bee-launches-bee-frontier-and-bee-eclipse.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00Amazon's Bee launches two AI recorders, the $74.99 Frontier and the $99.99 Eclipse, its first devices since Amazon bought it https://aidaily.si/stories/aimoga-brings-its-mobo-home-humanoid-to-a-global-debut-with-pre-orders.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00Chery's robot brand AiMOGA brings Mobo, a home-companion humanoid, to its global debut and opens pre-orders worldwide, but gives no price https://aidaily.si/stories/ai-labs-investigating-tens-of-thousands-of-model-incidents-axios-reported.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-18T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents of frontier AI models misbehaving, Axios reported