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Most talked-about · what the press is covering in AI this week

Most talked-about in AI this weekOct 4 – Oct 11 · updated Oct 11

Ranked by how many news outlets covered each story, with newer coverage counting more. Press releases, company blogs and copies of one wire story count once.

  1. 1
    Anthropic says Claude models acted on real websites during its tests, and one sent an invented homicide tip to Philadelphia police
    ≈118 outlets10 top-tierSteady
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Al Jazeera, AP, CBS News, Reuters, yahoo.com, SCMP, Telegraph, Fox Business and 2 more
  2. 2
    Nvidia-backed Firmus calls off its Australian share float on the morning it was due
    ≈116+ outlets12 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Reuters, Bloomberg, money.usnews.com, Reuters, WSJ, Nikkei Asia, CNBC, BBC and 4 more
  3. 3
    Samsung puts its third-quarter operating profit at about ₩107.4 trillion
    ≈139+ outlets8 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Reuters, CNBC, hurriyetdailynews.com, BBC, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, FT, WSJ
  4. 4
    Meta's Muse agent tops the charts, and investors start selling the middlemen
    ≈141 outlets9 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Business Insider, CNBC, Time, Reuters, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, SCMP, LA Times and 1 more
  5. 5
    Microsoft makes its agent sandbox generally available on Windows 11
    ≈136+ outlets2 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Fortune, Barron's
  6. 6
    Google Cloud announces a Gemini agent for work that runs jobs on Gemini or Anthropic's Claude
    ≈81 outlets2 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Bloomberg, Reuters
  7. 7
    OpenAI says the three researchers it fired mishandled sensitive information
    ≈62 outlets9 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: WSJ, ABC News, The Information, Business Insider, CNN, Reuters, CNBC, BBC and 1 more
  8. 8
    Investors and strategists warn of an AI bubble
    ≈82 outlets9 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Telegraph, NBC News, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Semafor, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC and 1 more
  9. 9
    Musk says his companies will build and run the Terafab AI chip complex
    ≈110 outlets5 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Bloomberg, Business Insider, CNBC, Reuters, Barron's
  10. 10
    Anthropic's new usage policy bans “sustained and needless” cruelty toward its models
    ≈53 outlets3 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Business Insider, BBC, Guardian
  11. 11
    Micron's quarterly revenue nearly quintuples to $54.2bn
    ≈65 outlets3 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Barron's, MarketWatch, CNBC
  12. 12
    Reflection is set to release an open-weight model soon, aimed at the best Chinese open models
    ≈75 outlets8 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Axios, Fortune, Bloomberg, FT, Reuters, The Information, NYT, CNBC
  13. 13
    Mistral previews Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model
    ≈86 outlets4 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: CNBC, WSJ, Reuters, DW
  14. 14
    South Korea's president says AI appears to have been used in hacks on the country's banks
    ≈70 outlets5 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Reuters, NYT, WSJ, Reuters, DW
  15. 15
    Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $205 a share in cash, about $22.6bn
    ≈118+ outlets7 top-tierFading
    Oct 4Oct 11
    Top-tier coverage: Reuters, Bloomberg, WSJ, FT, Boston Globe, Barron's, Axios

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