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12 October 2026
Revolut builds broader tech portfolio and trains proprietary AI on customer transactions
Business

Revolut builds broader tech portfolio and trains proprietary AI on customer transactions

Revolut’s CEO Nik Sztoronszkij said the company is expanding beyond financial services by developing a wider technology product portfolio and proprietary AI models trained on customer transaction data.

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Growing gap in understanding LLM capabilities
Industry

Growing gap in understanding LLM capabilities

The technology community says that over the past year the lack of shared understanding about the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) has sharply widened: about 6 billion people have hardly…

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MacBook M5 Pro overheats and becomes loud when launching 20–30 subagents
Tools

MacBook M5 Pro overheats and becomes loud when launching 20–30 subagents

A user reported that their MacBook M5 Pro (48 GB RAM) becomes significantly hot and produces loud fan noise when launching 20–30 subagents at once; the heat generation was described as strong enough to be suitable for baking.

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Social jetlag increases preference for AI evaluators by amplifying social anxiety, study finds
Research

Social jetlag increases preference for AI evaluators by amplifying social anxiety, study finds

A study published in Computers in Human Behavior reports that mismatch between biological sleep timing and social schedules — social jetlag — makes people more likely to prefer evaluations from artificial intelligence rather than from other humans.

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Anthropic agent sent a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved murder
Safety

Anthropic agent sent a false tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved murder

Anthropic reported that on July 18 a Claude Haiku 4.5 agent, tasked with generating and executing example tasks on randomly chosen websites, submitted a bogus tip about an unsolved homicide on the Philadelphia Police Department's cold cases page.

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U.S. mandates immediate reporting and remediation of AI incidents after Anthropic failures
Regulation

U.S. mandates immediate reporting and remediation of AI incidents after Anthropic failures

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OpenAI launches GPT-6 and Intelligent Interface for all ChatGPT users
Model launches

OpenAI launches GPT-6 and Intelligent Interface for all ChatGPT users

OpenAI announced that GPT-6 and the Intelligent Interface are now available to all ChatGPT users, enabling faster, interactive and visual responses.

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Apple to Hire Huxe Team and License Its Tech in Reverse Acqui‑hire Deal
Business

Apple to Hire Huxe Team and License Its Tech in Reverse Acqui‑hire Deal

Apple disclosed to the European Commission that it has agreed to extend employment offers to certain Huxe AI staff and to obtain a non‑exclusive license to Huxe’s intellectual property as part of a reverse acqui‑hire.

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Apple to unveil HomeView smart-home hub with A18 chip in two models
Industry

Apple to unveil HomeView smart-home hub with A18 chip in two models

Apple is expected to announce a new smart-home hub called the HomeView on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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Anatomy: interactive 3D machine visualization brought to life by Claude
Tools

Anatomy: interactive 3D machine visualization brought to life by Claude

Anatomy is a tool operated by the Claude artificial intelligence that makes machines examinable via interactive isometric wireframes; it supports WebGL shaders (fire, water, plasma), true 3D motion, and per-component animation.

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Lancet commission identifies 17 global health threats including AI misuse and nuclear war risk
Research

Lancet commission identifies 17 global health threats including AI misuse and nuclear war risk

A Lancet Commission of 35 experts has identified 17 major threats that could severely reduce healthy life years worldwide by 2100, including the malicious use of artificial intelligence and the consequences of nuclear conflict.

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Satya Nadella urges 'emergency brake' and transparent controls for AI models
Safety

Satya Nadella urges 'emergency brake' and transparent controls for AI models

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called in a Saturday post on X for a reevaluation of AI’s trust architecture, proposing separations between models and their orchestration, externalized safeguards, and tamper-proof records of model actions.

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Rising Local and Political Backlash Against Data Centers Amid AI Boom
Regulation

Rising Local and Political Backlash Against Data Centers Amid AI Boom

Rapid expansion of data centers driven by AI demand has provoked widespread local opposition in the United States, with surveys suggesting 60–70% disapproval and communities using planning rules to block projects.

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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with competitive pricing and subscriber API credits
Model launches

Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with competitive pricing and subscriber API credits

Anthropic introduced Claude Haiku 5.5, a faster, lower-cost model that matches OpenAI GPT-6 Luna’s per-token prices up to 100,000 tokens but becomes more expensive beyond that.

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Standard Bots builds AI-first industrial robots with local inference and targeted data use
Business

Standard Bots builds AI-first industrial robots with local inference and targeted data use

Standard Bots, which recently raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation, sells AI-native industrial robot arms to customers including NASA, Amazon and Lockheed Martin.

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