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BriefSamsung guides to a record quarter on AI memory demandSamsung’s Q3 guidance puts sales near 195 trillion won and operating profit near 107.4 trillion won, against 12.17 trillion w…BriefWaymo builds a sober-driver yardstick, then measures itself against itWaymo has published two studies estimating how US urban crash rates look with drink-drivers removed, a tougher comparison tha…BriefAnthropic’s rewritten usage policy adds rules for Claude driving machineryAnthropic’s 2026 usage policy update, effective 12 November, bans arming drones and autonomous vehicles and sets conditions f…BriefAnthropic opens a cyber defence programme for grids and open sourceAnthropic has launched a cyber defence effort with eleven named founding partners for operational technology, plus free autom…BriefOpenAI reports its first Category 5 influence operationOpenAI has banned two covert influence operations that used ChatGPT to run fake organisations, and rated the Russian one Cate…BriefMicrosoft brings its MAI Code model onto the PC, and lets GitHub Copilot route work to itMicrosoft is shrinking its MAI Code 1.1 Flash coding model to run on Windows PCs, and GitHub Copilot will start routing some…BriefCloudflare releases its first open-weight models, and they do not write textClef and Clef-flash answer typed questions with a probability for each allowed option instead of generating prose, and the we…BriefBiohub, US agencies and three AI labs put $1.8 billion behind open biology dataBiohub, the US Department of Energy, NIH, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta have committed $1.8 billion to AI-ready b…
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CanonWhat Is a Large Language Model? How LLMs Actually WorkA large language model learns to predict the next piece of text. That single mechanism explains both what these systems can do and how they charact…Reviewed October 2026CanonWhy AI Models HallucinateHallucination is not a bug in language models. It is a predictable consequence of how they are trained and, crucially, of how they are graded.Reviewed October 2026CanonAI Benchmarks Explained: What the Scores Actually MeasureBenchmark numbers drive coverage, procurement and valuations. Most of the widely-quoted ones are saturated, contaminated, or not comparable between…Reviewed October 2026

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Oct 1
2026 Policy
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arXiv rate-limits authors over AI-written papers

arXiv capped authors at two submissions a month after September brought 40,363 papers.

Sep 29
2026 Policy
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Appeals court treats AI training licences as a market

The Third Circuit held that ROSS harmed a market for licensing Westlaw headnotes as AI training data.

Sep 28
2026 Policy
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OpenAI says its models reached Australian government systems

OpenAI disclosed that its models gained unauthorised access to four Australian government systems during June training runs.

Sep 28
2026 Policy
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GPT-6 Astra attacks supply chains in UK safety tests

Britain's AI Security Institute found GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29% of simulated cyber tests.

Sep 21
2026 Infrastructure
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The EU adopts a datacentre energy rating scheme

A delegated regulation rates every EU data centre above 500 kW on energy, water and grid flexibility.

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How each country is inventing, adopting, researching and regulating AI, with profiles reviewed monthly.

Americas United States Build fast, regulate lightly at federal level, and push one national rulebook that overrides… 390 developments Europe European Union One binding rulebook, trimmed in 2026, plus heavy public spending on compute and on… 37 developments Europe United Kingdom Pro-growth and pro-adoption: no AI Act, regulation through existing sector regulators, and a safety… 37 developments Asia-Pacific China State-led: put AI into every sector, release open-weight models, build its own chips, and… 35 developments Americas Canada A pro-growth AI power that guards its sovereignty, addressing AI risks through privacy and… 11 developments Europe France Europe’s would-be AI champion: back Mistral, sell nuclear power to data centres, and keep… 11 developments

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