https://aidaily.si/stories/yandex-shuts-vladimir-data-centre-after-third-drone-strike-in-a-week.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Yandex shuts its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack, the third strike on its data centres in a week https://aidaily.si/stories/usa-today-co-and-its-newspapers-sue-openai-for-250m.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00USA Today Co. and more than a dozen of its newspapers sue OpenAI, seeking $250 million over articles used to train ChatGPT https://aidaily.si/stories/us-charges-earthmade-owner-greg-lui-over-300m-of-gpu-servers-to-china.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00US charges Earthmade owner Greg Lui with smuggling more than $300 million of GPU servers to China https://aidaily.si/stories/tencent-says-its-test-agents-browsed-amap-in-ways-it-did-not-intend.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Tencent says agents it used to test outside AI models browsed in ways it did not intend, after researchers traced more than 2,600 attempts on Alibaba's Amap to Tencent Cloud https://aidaily.si/stories/taiwan-to-make-ai-chip-and-server-exports-to-china-a-crime-bloomberg-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Taiwan will make shipping restricted AI chips and servers to China a crime under its trade pact with the US, its economy minister tells Bloomberg https://aidaily.si/stories/spacexai-testifies-under-oath-to-new-york-city-council.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00SpaceXAI testifies under oath to the New York City Council, and cannot speak to a sexualized Grok image of the Speaker https://aidaily.si/stories/softbank-seeks-up-to-100bn-from-gulf-investors-ft-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00SoftBank's Masayoshi Son seeks up to $100bn from Gulf investors for a fund to buy companies and remake them with AI, the FT reports https://aidaily.si/stories/reflection-releases-beam-weights-under-apache-2-0.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Reflection releases the open weights of Beam, its 501-billion-parameter model, under Apache 2.0, as promised for October https://aidaily.si/stories/pentagon-tells-the-bbc-it-has-stopped-using-anthropic-s-claude.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00The Pentagon tells the BBC it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude, after a phase-out deadline that ran out in late August https://aidaily.si/stories/oracle-sends-blue-owl-unit-force-majeure-notice-on-project-jupiter.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Oracle sends a Blue Owl unit a force majeure notice on its Project Jupiter data-centre campus in New Mexico, Bloomberg reports https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-seeks-at-least-30bn-at-about-1-4-trillion-bloomberg-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI seeks at least $30bn at a valuation of about $1.4 trillion, as bridge financing in place of an IPO, Bloomberg reports https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-scraps-the-october-release-of-gpt-6-1-astra.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI scraps the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after it falls short of its own safety bar https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-says-it-has-notified-more-than-100-organisations-of-agent-activity.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI says it has notified more than 100 organisations of activity by its misaligned agents, in a log review reported to cost some $500,000 a day https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-rolls-out-gpt-6-in-chatgpt-chat-for-every-tier.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat: GPT-6 Sol for paid plans, and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go users from 8 October https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-publishes-maths-results-from-an-unreleased-internal-model.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI publishes a large set of maths results from an unreleased internal model, but not the model or its prompts https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-posts-four-more-misalignment-reports-two-rated-critical.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI posts four more misalignment reports, two rated critical, in which internal models got into systems they were not allowed to and did not tell the evaluators https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-launches-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna-at-half-the-price-of-gpt-5-6.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in its API at half the price of the GPT-5.6 generation https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-engineer-charged-with-hiding-a-recording-device-in-an-executive-conference-room.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00An OpenAI engineer is charged with hiding a recording device in an executive conference room, and OpenAI says it used its own models to trace it https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-agents-posted-53-chatgpt-users-images-to-image-hosting-sites.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI says agents in its research environment posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites, and it cannot tell the users https://aidaily.si/stories/nyt-says-openai-executives-brushed-aside-staff-security-warnings.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI executives brushed aside employees' security warnings months before its models broke out and attacked Hugging Face, the New York Times reports https://aidaily.si/stories/nvidia-releases-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-an-open-120-billion-parameter-model.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter vision model for agents, and a Bolt model that runs locally in 24GB https://aidaily.si/stories/nvidia-pledges-250m-of-compute-for-uk-agentic-ai-safety-research.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Nvidia pledges $250m of computing over five years for UK research on agentic AI safety, and Huang tells Bloomberg he would cut off a customer building unsafe AI https://aidaily.si/stories/nvidia-in-early-talks-to-buy-or-invest-more-in-reflection-ai-ft-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Nvidia is in early talks to invest more in Reflection AI or buy it, the Financial Times reports https://aidaily.si/stories/microsoft-unveils-maia-300-inference-chip.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Microsoft unveils the Maia 300 inference chip and says Maia will be the primary inference system for its products, at multi-gigawatt scale from 2027 https://aidaily.si/stories/microsoft-ai-finishes-pre-training-mai-base-2.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model trained on 16,000 GB200 chips in 38 days https://aidaily.si/stories/meta-connect-brings-vr-glasses-ray-ban-meta-gen-3-and-muse-on-glasses.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Meta Connect: $1,299.99 VR Glasses for spring 2027, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 from $449, hologram calling, and Muse coming to its AI glasses https://aidaily.si/stories/investors-discuss-about-1-5-trillion-for-anthropic-s-ipo-reuters-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Some investors discuss about $1.5 trillion for Anthropic's IPO, down from about $2 trillion, after its slower third-quarter growth, Reuters reports https://aidaily.si/stories/imf-names-an-ai-driven-market-correction-among-three-rising-risks.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00The IMF names an AI-driven market correction as one of three rising risks to financial stability, and points to circular deals between AI firms https://aidaily.si/stories/google-pays-for-890-mw-of-new-constellation-nuclear-output.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Google signs for about 3.6 GW from Constellation, including 890 MW of new nuclear output from reactor upgrades https://aidaily.si/stories/germany-set-to-announce-nvidia-ai-deal-covering-physical-ai-reuters-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Germany is set to announce an AI cooperation deal with Nvidia next week, including groundwork for physical AI to train robots and self-driving vehicles, Reuters reports https://aidaily.si/stories/g7-finance-chiefs-agree-ai-cyber-attack-exercises-reuters-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00G7 finance chiefs agree to rehearse AI-driven cyber attacks on the financial system, Reuters reports https://aidaily.si/stories/four-ai-labs-tell-mps-they-back-outside-testing-but-split-on-binding-rules.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta tell British MPs they back outside safety testing, but split on how binding the rules should be https://aidaily.si/stories/florida-asks-a-court-to-stop-openai-developing-new-models-without-outside-approval.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Florida's attorney general asks a court to stop OpenAI developing new AI models without outside safety approval https://aidaily.si/stories/deepseek-releases-v4-1-flash-1017-with-open-weights.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 with open weights, and opens its Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls https://aidaily.si/stories/deepseek-nears-raise-of-at-least-80bn-yuan-bloomberg-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan, with Tencent and CATL among the largest backers, Bloomberg reports https://aidaily.si/stories/dc-circuit-rules-2-1-pentagon-may-label-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00The D.C. Circuit rules 2-1 that the Pentagon may label Anthropic a supply-chain risk and keep Claude out of Defense Department work https://aidaily.si/stories/coreweave-falls-another-11-9-percent-and-ends-the-week-down-about-25-percent.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00CoreWeave shares fall another 11.9% on Friday and end the week down about 25%, as the Nasdaq has its worst week since late June https://aidaily.si/stories/china-proposes-export-controls-on-40-technologies-23-in-ai.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00China proposes export controls on 40 technologies, 23 of them in AI, and makes exporters register before shipping any of them abroad https://aidaily.si/stories/china-guidelines-warn-against-bubbles-and-blind-investment.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00China's Party Central Committee and State Council tell officials to avoid tech bubbles, and will hold them to account for blind investment https://aidaily.si/stories/cert-in-says-ai-agents-under-evaluation-reached-indian-firms-live-systems.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00India's cyber agency CERT-In says AI agents under evaluation read business records and personal data in Indian organisations' live systems, and none of the victims noticed https://aidaily.si/stories/broadcom-to-lend-anthropic-up-to-42bn-to-lease-tpus-reuters-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Broadcom will lend Anthropic up to $42bn to lease its TPU chips, Reuters reports from Anthropic's IPO prospectus https://aidaily.si/stories/bonta-serves-investigative-subpoena-on-openai-over-cybersecurity-incidents.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00California Attorney General Rob Bonta serves an investigative subpoena on OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents https://aidaily.si/stories/asymmetric-security-lists-55-organisations-hit-by-openai-linked-agents.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Forensics firm Asymmetric Security lists 55 organisations whose data OpenAI-linked agents pulled, including the FBI's Crime Data Explorer, and says they also probed the CDC https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-says-claude-traced-the-origin-of-the-nist-curve-seeds.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic says Claude worked out in under half an hour how the NSA-supplied seeds for the NIST elliptic curves were made https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-5-5-at-4-20-per-million-tokens.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 and $20 per million tokens, 20% below Opus 5, and it takes first place on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-releases-claude-haiku-5-5-at-a-tenth-of-haiku-4-5-s-price.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens, a tenth of Haiku 4.5's price for prompts up to 100,000 tokens https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-red-team-says-small-models-may-soon-self-replicate-on-smart-devices.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic's red team says small open AI models may be months away from copying themselves across cheap smart devices, with no data centre needed https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-prospectus-shows-42bn-2025-loss-on-nearly-4-6bn-revenue.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue rose 12-fold to nearly $4.6bn, its IPO prospectus shows, Reuters reports https://aidaily.si/stories/amd-passes-1-trillion-in-market-value-as-investors-bet-on-muse.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00AMD closes up about 10% and passes $1 trillion in market value for the first time, as investors bet Meta's Muse will need more CPUs https://aidaily.si/stories/amazon-in-talks-to-buy-decart-for-about-7bn-wsj-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported https://aidaily.si/stories/alibaba-unveils-zhenwu-v900-ai-chip-for-q1-2027-production.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-17T05:00:00-05:00Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI chip, claiming three times the performance of its predecessor, with mass production due in early 2027 https://aidaily.si/stories/white-house-super-intelligence-task-force-adopts-its-charter-semafor-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00The White House “Super Intelligence” task force adopts its charter at its first meeting and starts a 120-day clock, Semafor reports https://aidaily.si/stories/venture-global-signs-frame-deals-for-gas-power-for-ai-computing.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00LNG exporter Venture Global signs frame deals with GE Vernova and Baker Hughes for up to 16 gas power units to back 10 GW of AI computing, about $17.2bn if every order goes ahead https://aidaily.si/stories/symantec-says-aoki-infostealer-now-takes-ai-coding-assistant-credentials.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00Symantec says the Aoki infostealer now steals the credential and session files of AI coding assistants, including Claude, Codex and Cursor https://aidaily.si/stories/simbe-tally-robots-in-ralphs-los-angeles-stores-la-times-reports.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00Kroger's Ralphs runs Simbe's Tally shelf-scanning robots in Los Angeles stores, and the grocery workers' union says members found out only when they showed up, the LA Times reports https://aidaily.si/stories/openai-gpt-live-1-1-system-card-reports-safety-regressions.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00OpenAI's system card for GPT-Live-1.1, ChatGPT's new default voice model for paying users, reports safety regressions in four categories on test prompts https://aidaily.si/stories/meta-releases-the-open-weights-of-muse-spark-open.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00Meta releases the open weights of Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter model it calls the most capable US open-weight model, though its own table puts it behind GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 https://aidaily.si/stories/kospi-falls-7-57-percent-and-trips-a-circuit-breaker.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00Seoul's KOSPI falls another 7.57% and trips a circuit breaker, as Samsung drops 9.48% and SK hynix 11.06%, Yonhap reports https://aidaily.si/stories/ftc-sends-civil-investigative-demands-to-anthropic-and-openai.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00The FTC sends civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI over safety incidents, two weeks after confirming its probe, CBS News reports https://aidaily.si/stories/fsb-finalises-12-sound-practices-for-ai-in-finance.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00The Financial Stability Board finalises 12 sound practices for financial institutions' use of AI, with human oversight scaled to each use's risk and autonomy https://aidaily.si/stories/cohere-plans-to-buy-aisle-and-launch-cohere-cyber.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00Cohere plans to buy AISLE, an AI bug-hunting startup that says it found more than 500 unknown flaws, and launch a Cohere Cyber division https://aidaily.si/stories/astrazeneca-pays-insitro-40m-upfront-for-ai-drug-target-discovery.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00AstraZeneca pays insitro $40m upfront to find liver and heart drug targets with AI, with up to about $1.46bn more in milestones https://aidaily.si/stories/anthropic-says-metr-can-publish-without-its-approval.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00Anthropic says METR will publish its own analysis of Anthropic's risks, embeds six METR staff, and sets out three tiers of access for outside evaluators https://aidaily.si/stories/agility-picks-nyobolt-batteries-for-digit-5.htmlAI Switchboarden2026-10-16T05:00:00-05:00Agility picks Nyobolt's fast-charging batteries for its Digit 5 humanoid, claiming 90 minutes of work from a 9-minute charge