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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
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 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
Sunday 25 October
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
Thursday 22 October
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
Tech companies are painting data centers with gray coatings on top of gray concrete and steel to resist fire, rust and static electricity. That has made data centers a fast-growing market for paint makers.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 10:36 BST
Wednesday 21 October
The tool, which is not yet widely available, will compete with OpenAI’s dots and Meta’s Muse. It is built for work and not personal errands.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 21 Oct 2026, 22:36 BST
The spending is having an effect on the Silicon Valley giant’s cash flow, as Meta continues investing to lead in the technology.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 21 Oct 2026, 21:36 BST
The disclosure heightened concerns about A.I.’s potential to upend cybersecurity unless shortcomings are addressed.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 22 Oct 2026, 20:37 BST
General Motors is seeking help from artificial intelligence to keep up with Chinese companies that introduce vehicles very quickly.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 21 Oct 2026, 19:37 BST
A deal would consolidate Elon Musk’s holdings in rockets, cars and artificial intelligence into a company worth well over $3 trillion.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 21 Oct 2026, 15:36 BST
A Times reporter and editors discuss the challenges of sifting through what’s real and what’s not in pursuit of the news.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 21 Oct 2026, 14:36 BST
Tuesday 20 October
The response came after Homeland Security ordered the removal and exclusion of products developed by the Chinese tech giant.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 20 Oct 2026, 22:36 BST
Elon Musk’s rocket company also said its revenue had more than doubled, driven by its Starlink internet satellite service and artificial intelligence products.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 20 Oct 2026, 22:36 BST
Monday 19 October
Anthropic, an A.I. rival to SpaceX, earlier said it would form a “public benefit fund” and other tech moguls have contributed to savings accounts for children.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 23:37 BST
A Saudi military official paid for the OpenAI engineer’s wife and infant son to fly out of the United States a day after his arrest, according to a court filing. The Saudi government also offered to cover his bail.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 19:37 BST
Anthropic, an A.I. rival to SpaceX, earlier said it would form a “public benefit fund” and other tech moguls have contributed to savings accounts for children.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 19 Oct 2026, 15:36 BST
Friday 16 October
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 16 Oct 2026, 22:18 BST
Thursday 15 October
Even as alarm grows over the risks, families are embracing bots and agents to tackle the spiraling administrative tasks of modern child rearing.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 15 Oct 2026, 10:36 BST
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 15 Oct 2026, 03:36 BST
The company held an investor meeting on Wednesday as it plans a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as next month.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 15 Oct 2026, 00:36 BST
Wednesday 14 October
Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them. A Times reporter was invited to join the discussion.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 14 Oct 2026, 12:36 BST
As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 14 Oct 2026, 11:36 BST
As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 14 Oct 2026, 10:36 BST
Tuesday 13 October
OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 13 Oct 2026, 23:36 BST
Apple unveiled the device as it continues its foray into artificial intelligence and tries to prove it can still innovate.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 13 Oct 2026, 15:36 BST
Monday 12 October
The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are meant to compete with cutting-edge A.I. models from rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 12 Oct 2026, 18:36 BST
For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.
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- First seen by WIRE Mon 12 Oct 2026, 10:37 BST
Saturday 10 October
The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.
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- First seen by WIRE Sat 10 Oct 2026, 00:36 BST
Friday 9 October
“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 9 Oct 2026, 12:36 BST
Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns. Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg’s hand.
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- First seen by WIRE Fri 9 Oct 2026, 10:36 BST
Thursday 8 October
Nearly 100 patients discussed their maladies with a Google bot, called AMIE, before meeting with physicians.
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- First seen by WIRE Thu 8 Oct 2026, 23:36 BST
Wednesday 7 October
Our journalists Sheera Frenkel and Dylan Freedman break down what A.I. agents are, how they differ from chatbots and why A.I. companies are worried about them now.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 7 Oct 2026, 21:37 BST
Prosecutors say Michael Smith flooded music-streaming platforms with bots that repeatedly streamed his A.I.-generated music, earning him as much as $8 million.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 7 Oct 2026, 19:36 BST
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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- First seen by WIRE Wed 7 Oct 2026, 10:36 BST
Tuesday 6 October
China’s booming artificial intelligence sector has given local researchers good reason to remain in the country, but it has yet to lure overseas scientists despite a government push.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 6 Oct 2026, 16:36 BST
China’s booming artificial intelligence sector has given local researchers good reason to remain in the country, but it has yet to lure overseas scientists despite a government push.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 6 Oct 2026, 10:37 BST
The president said there were signs that such models were used in recent attacks on several banks involving customer data. Police are investigating.
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- First seen by WIRE Tue 6 Oct 2026, 06:37 BST
Sunday 4 October
An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played in court.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 21:36 BST
Saturday 3 October
Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Five humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell the difference?
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Friday 2 October
“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”
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- Kept: AI term "A.I." in headline
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Russians are creating and spreading music glorifying the invasion of Ukraine, using platforms built in the United States.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
The Swedish American actress, who died in 1990, was brought back in a A.I.-generated ad for a manufacturing company.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST
Wednesday 30 September
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.
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- First seen by WIRE Sun 4 Oct 2026, 00:25 BST