xAI Pauses Minnesota’s AI-Nudes Law
Minnesota’s ban on AI-generated fake nude images was in force for two months before a federal appeals court put it on hold. On October 2, the St. Louis-based Eighth U.S.…
OpenAI Hires Former White House AI Official to Lead Cyber-Risk Team
For much of this year, Thomas Lind’s job was to help the U.S. government think about artificial intelligence. He worked inside the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director,…
Anthropic Bets $100 Million It Can Train Its Own Enterprise Engineers
Anthropic is planning to spend $100 million to teach other companies’ engineers to do a job that barely existed a year ago. The announcement landed on the same day the…
Apple Tightens the macOS Permission AI Assistants Were Exploiting
The setting was designed for backup software: a quiet toggle buried in macOS that lets a program read the files, the mail, the messages and the browsing history on a…
Trump Asked Grok About Capturing Maduro, Time Reports
In December 2025, according to an account in Time magazine, Donald Trump sat down privately with Elon Musk and put a question to a chatbot: what would Venezuelans do if…
Apple’s Planned Home Camera Won’t Keep the Footage
A home security camera that watches everything and remembers nothing: that is how Apple appears to be thinking about its next device for the smart home. The camera Apple is…
Tesla Cuts AI5, AI6 Memory to Make Room for Optimus
Elon Musk announced the change the way he announces most things: in a short post on X. “We cut our RAM in half for the Tesla AI5 chip (now 72GB…
Palantir Names Armada Its First Modular Data Center Partner
Palantir Technologies has spent years selling governments and companies on the idea that they should control their own data and the models built on it. On October 1, the company…
SoftBank Makes Its Final $10 Billion Payment to OpenAI
SoftBank Group said on October 1 that it had delivered the third and final $10 billion installment of its investment in OpenAI, completing a $30 billion commitment it made in…
Google Puts Its AI Chips in Orbit, Testing a Solar-Powered Data Center
A Planet Labs satellite rode into low Earth orbit on October 1 aboard a SpaceX rideshare, carrying an unusual payload: a set of Google’s custom-built AI chips. The tensor processing…
