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Older AI stories, newest first. This page covers Oct 20, 2026. Every card links to the original story.
Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.
Read it (opens in a new tab)OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.
Read it (opens in a new tab)On Tuesday, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year alleging that her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had sexually abused her throughout her childhood.
Read it (opens in a new tab)The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue," take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Google is bringing Personal Intelligence to Gemini AI in your car. With this update, Gemini in Android Auto and cars with Google built-in can tap into your information across Google apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube, and Search.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
Read it (opens in a new tab)SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.
Read it (opens in a new tab)OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.
Read it (opens in a new tab)It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
Read it (opens in a new tab)The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more than 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records.
Read it (opens in a new tab)The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.
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