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Tuesday 27 October
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 27 Oct 2026, 02:36 GMT
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 27 Oct 2026, 01:36 GMT
Monday 26 October
We broke down the A.I. company’s key figures, which give insight into the health of its business, its future plans and who’s in charge.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 19:36 GMT
About a quarter of the tech giant’s employees were eligible for the packages, although the company cautioned it did not expect many employees to sign on.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 19:36 GMT
The A.I. company took great pains to describe the many benefits that can come from using its Claude chatbot and technology, but also offered up a heavy dose of gloom.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 18:36 GMT
Anthropic’s IPO prospectus is 355 pages and full of never before disclosed company information.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 14:36 GMT
Former OpenAI employees started the company in 2021 after disagreements over how to safely build artificial intelligence. An I.P.O. could make them billionaires.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 14:36 GMT
The company will be the first true artificial intelligence company to go public as tech firms continue to invest heavily in AI.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 13:36 GMT
The maker of Claude is on the verge of what could be the largest ever public listing, in a test of the A.I. industry amid questions about whether the boom can be sustained.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 13:36 GMT
As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 09:36 GMT
Anthropic sits atop a pyramid of business partners and suppliers, making it a barometer of the broader economy. Its initial public offering will have widespread implications.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 09:36 GMT
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 07:36 GMT
Written the day before Sunday’s grand final, Blake Mackenzie’s poem covers brain rot, loneliness and environmental degradation in the age of AI
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 04:56 GMT
Sunday 25 October
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 25 Oct 2026, 21:36 GMT
Bulk-billing more than doubles in year; Deloitte under pressure over errors; cast say Neighbours AI recut ‘morally wrong’
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 25 Oct 2026, 20:36 GMT
"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 25 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 25 Oct 2026, 14:36 GMT
When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may never go back.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 25 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may never go back.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 25 Oct 2026, 09:36 GMT
Saturday 24 October
The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 18:36 GMT
John Edwards reflects on a changing world, economic statecraft and an AI-led manufacturing revival
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 10:36 GMT
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 20:36 BST
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 17:02 BST
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 16:36 BST
Major package to unlock the opportunities of AI in every postcode, scale up home grown AI firms, and keep UK safe from threats announced by the Chancellor.
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 06:36 BST
The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 01:36 BST
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 00:36 BST
Friday 23 October
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 23:36 BST
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 20:36 BST
Redundancies come after paper was bought in June by European media group Axel Springer
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 13:36 BST
Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at work and the footage is used to train AI.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 09:37 BST
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 08:36 BST
Biggest Apple smartwatch gets better health tracking and new readiness tools with a battery and chip boost in preparation for controversial audio AI
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 07:36 BST
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 05:37 BST
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
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Thursday 22 October
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 23:36 BST
PM will also announce funding for specialised protective gear and the deployment of military aircraft
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 22:36 BST
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 18:16 BST
The ride share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 17:36 BST
The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 16:36 BST
Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 16:36 BST
Iran’s security chiefs say there will be ‘zero red lines’ if Trump and Netanyahu attack again
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 16:36 BST
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 15:37 BST