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BriefAnthropic previews Claude Duet, an agent that works in the background and asks before actingAnthropic’s new Claude Duet app watches your connected work apps, sends a morning brief and carries out tasks, but waits for…BriefTesla starts building production-quality Optimus robots in FremontTesla says its first production-quality Optimus humanoid robots are coming off a high-volume line in California, though a ful…BriefOpenAI will sell its models through Google Cloud, with Microsoft still its main partnerOpenAI’s frontier models and Codex will arrive in Google Cloud’s Model Garden in the coming weeks, and Google customers will…BriefEka Robotics raises $150m for robots that feel as well as seeThe start-up, co-founded by an MIT professor and a former DeepMind researcher, says its vision-force-action model lets robots…BriefWalmart sets the rules for AI agents that shop for you, with spending limits and approvalsWalmart is opening a gateway for approved AI agents to shop on customers’ behalf, with separate agent profiles, spending limi…BriefBarclays to cut about 5,000 jobs, and says AI is part of the reasonBarclays expects to cut about 5,000 full-time roles, mostly in support functions, and its finance chief named fewer developer…BriefAI helped find two 22-year-old flaws in PHP, and the NSA says patch nowTwo critical flaws in PHP, found with the help of AI models, have now been patched, and the NSA wants affected servers update…BriefClaude designs proteins that bind scorpion toxins, an early step towards new antivenomsIn a 64-hour, largely autonomous campaign, an internal Claude model designed 17 small proteins that two outside labs confirme…

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OpenAI begins watermarking its models’ text output

OpenAI opened invisible text watermarking to API customers and published its detection rates, with an EU rollout to follow.

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
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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.

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Americas United States Build fast, regulate lightly at federal level, and push one national rulebook that overrides… 466 developments Europe European Union One binding rulebook, trimmed in 2026, plus heavy public spending on compute and on… 47 developments Asia-Pacific China State-led: put AI into every sector, release open-weight models, build its own chips, and… 41 developments Europe United Kingdom Pro-growth and pro-adoption: no AI Act, regulation through existing sector regulators, and a safety… 41 developments Asia-Pacific South Korea Pushing to become a top-three AI power, with state-backed sovereign models and compute alongside… 15 developments Europe Germany Industrial AI over consumer chatbots: build sovereign compute, and enforce the AI Act with… 14 developments

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