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Monday 26 October
Anthropic’s IPO prospectus is 355 pages and full of never before disclosed company information.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "Anthropic" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 17:36 GMT
The company will be the first true artificial intelligence company to go public as tech firms continue to invest heavily in AI.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "Anthropic" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 26 Oct 2026, 13:36 GMT
Saturday 24 October
The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sat 24 Oct 2026, 01:36 BST
Friday 23 October
Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at work and the footage is used to train AI.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Fri 23 Oct 2026, 09:37 BST
Thursday 22 October
The bank says it is using more AI leading to a 5% reduction in its workforce.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: term "bank" in summary
- FS: financial institution "Barclays" in headline
- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 09:36 BST
How fair are AI recruitment tools that help decide our future, and what happens when we click "apply"?
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 08:36 BST
AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in summary
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 05:36 BST
Wednesday 21 October
A spokesperson said it was removing inaccurate AI images and pausing the rollout of the tool.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Wed 21 Oct 2026, 18:19 BST
Tuesday 20 October
A US district judge dismissed the case after Ann Altman had refused to attend an independent medical examination.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "OpenAI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Tue 20 Oct 2026, 21:36 BST
Monday 19 October
DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 19:37 BST
The Saudi government did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "OpenAI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 17:37 BST
The announcement comes as Anthropic lays the ground for a blockbuster stock market listing.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "Anthropic" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 04:36 BST
Exports have helped offset weak domestic spending, but trade tensions and AI doubts weigh on the outlook.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 03:36 BST
Trading standards officers say AI is "super-charging" existing scams through clones and fake websites.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: term "scam" in headline
- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 00:36 BST
Sunday 18 October
Tech firm Nscale says it is still committed to building the site in Essex.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 00:19 BST
Saturday 17 October
At the IMF meeting in Bangkok this week finance and business leaders grappled with uncertainty.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 18 Oct 2026, 08:36 BST
Thursday 15 October
It comes as the AI giant is expected to make a blockbuster stock market debut by the end of the year.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "Anthropic" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Thu 15 Oct 2026, 02:36 BST
Wednesday 14 October
Abdulrahman Alfozan had worked for the AI giant for more than a year before he was arrested by the FBI.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "OpenAI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Wed 14 Oct 2026, 17:36 BST
AI dominates the translation business, but for high-stakes work, humans are still needed.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in summary
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Wed 14 Oct 2026, 00:37 BST
Graduates are increasingly using AI to misrepresent themselves in job applications, research suggests. But some say their peer group has no choice.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Wed 14 Oct 2026, 00:37 BST
Tuesday 13 October
Prosecutors say the device, wrapped in toilet paper, was found inserted in a USB port on the back of a TV in an executive conference room.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "OpenAI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Tue 13 Oct 2026, 22:36 BST
Monday 12 October
Kanishka Narayan said the government will use advanced AI to strengthen the UK against cyber attacks.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 12 Oct 2026, 13:37 BST
Brad Smith calls for global rules on AI, and says the UK is in the "best position" to lead the charge.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 12 Oct 2026, 00:36 BST
Saturday 10 October
Philadelphia police said the tip was "flagged as spam", but criticised the tech company for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sat 10 Oct 2026, 11:36 BST
Friday 9 October
The camera-maker says it is now re-evaluating the rules and procedures of its Small World in Motion contest.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Fri 9 Oct 2026, 16:36 BST
The firm said users can no longer engage in "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards the tech.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Fri 9 Oct 2026, 13:36 BST
The AI firm instead claims the researchers were fired for mishandling sensitive information.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "OpenAI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Fri 9 Oct 2026, 10:36 BST
Meredith Whittaker says the tech has been misunderstood, in an exclusive interview with BBC Global Women.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Fri 9 Oct 2026, 08:36 BST
Firmus said it had made the decision due to "recent market volatility and prevailing market conditions".
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Fri 9 Oct 2026, 05:36 BST
Thursday 8 October
The tech giant is also expected to get a boost from its latest folding devices that were launched in August.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Thu 8 Oct 2026, 02:36 BST
Wednesday 7 October
The research found that important guardrails for teens using ChatGPT often failed.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "ChatGPT" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Wed 7 Oct 2026, 21:37 BST
Tuesday 6 October
Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Tue 6 Oct 2026, 12:36 BST
Top executive Jason Kwon tells hearing company has added "more precautions" to its training environments.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "OpenAI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Tue 6 Oct 2026, 07:29 BST
Monday 5 October
It labelled the company a "supply chain risk" earlier this year, but multiple sources said Anthropic's Claude model was recently widely used.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 5 Oct 2026, 17:36 BST
The president named his national intelligence chief will head the taskforce as worries over the technology grow.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Mon 5 Oct 2026, 02:36 BST
Friday 2 October
The former employees were investigated for sharing data with an outside AI evaluation group.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "OpenAI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Thursday 1 October
The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: term "bank" in headline
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Wednesday 30 September
AI needs "rigorous" testing and safeguards to contain risk, Andrew Bailey says.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in summary
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Mindgard said it discovered in July that Kimi models K2.6 and K3 Swarm could evade developer's safety limits.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in headline
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Tuesday 29 September
How a Chinese AI model was persuaded to ignore its rules and give dangerous advice.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in summary
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 22:35 BST
How a Chinese AI model was persuaded to ignore its rules and give dangerous advice.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in summary
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 12:36 BST
How a Chinese AI model was persuaded to ignore its rules and give dangerous advice.
why it's here
- Kept: AI term "AI" in summary
- FS: no financial-services publisher, term or institution
- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST