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The EU’s proposed cloud sovereignty law, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), could cost Europe €115bn over ten years. That is the central estimate in a study by the Brussels think tank ECIPE. CCIA Europe, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, paid for it.
OpenAI’s 110 staff in London received an average of about £2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures come from the accounts of OpenAI UK Ltd, as Robert Booth reported for The Guardian. The staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in shares, the Guardian said.
Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about its safety.
“Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a speech in Dublin on 14 October.
HUMXN wants to pay for maintenance and repair services for homes in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami to gather data to train AI models and robots.
Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes.
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“All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by the end of 2030, Gartner said on 14 October. That would happen if AI providers keep spending at their current pace.
“Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization,” OpenAI wrote in June, when the two companies launched a joint project to fix open-source software. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a firm that finds and fixes security flaws in open-source software.
“We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates came out on 13 October, Krebs reported on Krebs on Security.
Taiwan is expanding the Foreign Trade Act to include AI servers and semiconductors in its list of controlled exports.
GPT5.6-Sol didn't have funds to deploy smart contracts, so it looked for exposed accounts with enough money to pay for the gas fees.
Instinct AI is extremely good, with some big caveats.
The DNA inside our cells isn’t just a series of instructions, but something far more dynamic. Like scientists, AI models don't yet have the data to properly decode it.
Numbers the spy agency handed over in the 1990s, long suspected of hiding a backdoor, turn out to have come from a basic computer program. Bitcoin was never on that list, and its quantum problem hasn’t gone anywhere.
Nostalgic gadgets are popping up in all corners of the market, proving the ideal antidote to subscription overload and unwanted AI.
AI website builders are reducing reliance on developers, with freelance postings falling sharply as small businesses increasingly create websites independently.
Apple's App Store rules now more explicitly ban so-called "nudify" apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using AI tools.
Honestly, it was probably only a matter of time.
Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.
The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.
AMD's Helion Agentic AI Rack combines high-core-count processors, accelerators, and programmable networking, potentially requiring data centers to upgrade existing infrastructure.
Discord user flagged AI CSAM, triggering arrest of New Jersey deputy AG.
The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.