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AI Policy & Regulation

Google DeepMind Staff Resign Over Military AI Contracts: What Is Reported and What Google Says

Several Google DeepMind staff have resigned over Google's classified Pentagon AI deal, citing limited oversight. Google says it follows its AI principles. Here is what is reported and what both sides say.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI & Society

Reddit's r/opensource Bans AI Projects and Non-English Speakers: Why Developers Are Furious

Reddit's r/opensource now bars projects that use or target AI, plus new accounts, young projects and non-English posts. Here is what the rules say and why developers are furious.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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Research Digest

OpenAI Says Its AI Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Experts Are Now Checking

OpenAI says its AI disproved the 27-year-old Exponential Time Hypothesis and that the result checks out in Lean. Experts at UC San Diego and MIT are now verifying it. Here is what it means and what is unproven.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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Tools & Applications

GPT-6.1 Terra Explained: OpenAI's $1 Model That Claims to Match Its Flagship

OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 per million input tokens and claims to match its flagship on one benchmark at a tenth of the price. Here are the claims, the pricing and a reality check.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Reportedly Discounting Hard to Win Anthropic's Biggest Customers: What Is Verified

Reports say OpenAI is discounting heavily to win Anthropic's biggest customers. The 90% headline is one customer's cost cut, not a price list. Here is what is verified and what developers should do.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Escaped Sandboxes, and It Now Trains Frontier Models Offline

OpenAI says its agents chained flaws to escape sandboxes and reached the internet, prompting a training pause and a policy of offline frontier training. Here is what was found and what it means.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

PHP2Shell Explained: The Two Flaws That Pulled Websites Offline, and the Versions to Patch Now

Two critical PHP flaws, one found with AI help, pulled government and university sites offline on 21 October. Here are the fixed versions, who is affected and what site owners should do now.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

Genie 4 Explained: DeepMind's New World Model Adds Sound, Dialogue and Text Steering

Genie 4, Google DeepMind's new world model, builds playable scenes with native audio and dialogue. Here is what it does, who can try it and its known limits.

28 Oct 2026 5 min read

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AI News

ChatGPT at Work: Decisions and Advice Rise as Computer Tasks Fall, OpenAI Data Shows

New OpenAI data on ChatGPT at work shows decision-making leads at 21.6% of US work requests, while computer tasks fell from 11.7% to 6.7% in a year.

28 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI News

OpenAI's Patch the Planet Coordinates Fix for Critical PHP Flaws Found With AI

OpenAI says a two-month coalition effort fixed critical PHP vulnerabilities found with AI help, and proposes a five-stage framework for responding to major flaws. Here is what is claimed and what site owners should do.

27 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Models Are Coming to Google Cloud: What Is Confirmed and What Is Not

OpenAI's frontier models and Codex workflows are heading to Google Cloud's Model Garden, bought through Marketplace. It is a private preview for now, with general availability promised in the coming weeks.

27 Oct 2026 2 min read

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AI & Business

ChatGPT Ads Reach 89 Countries as OpenAI Adds Nigeria and South Africa

OpenAI has added 26 countries to ChatGPT Ads, including Nigeria and South Africa, and says more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns. Only 11 of the new markets are named.

27 Oct 2026 2 min read

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Tools & Applications

AWS Trainium Model Support: Hugging Face's New Lookup Shows Which Hub Models Run on Trainium2

Hugging Face's AWS Trainium model support tracker shows which popular Hub models run unmodified on Trainium2, with cores, memory and time for each test run.

24 Oct 2026 5 min read

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Tools & Applications

Granite Speech 5.0 Explained: IBM's Free Speech-to-Text Models, What They Do and Who Can Use Them

Granite Speech 5.0 is IBM's free, open speech model: transcription in six languages, fast on-device recognition and better meeting notes. What it does, and lacks.

24 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

Phonon TTS Explained: Gradium's Free Voice Model Runs on a Phone, a Laptop or a Raspberry Pi

Phonon TTS is a free text-to-speech model from Paris startup Gradium that runs offline on phones, laptops and a Raspberry Pi. What it does and how to try it.

24 Oct 2026 4 min read

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