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Older AI stories, newest first. This page covers Oct 19, 2026. Every card links to the original story.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.
Read it (opens in a new tab)OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments.
Read it (opens in a new tab)If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.
Read it (opens in a new tab)The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harms of their technology.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents that employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Read it (opens in a new tab)The US is building more fossil fuel infrastructure than it has in a decade while renewable energy growth slows down, a new report shows. Electricity demand is also climbing faster than it has in more than a decade with more data centers, factories, and electric vehicles plugging into the grid.
Read it (opens in a new tab)CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition - when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they'd get from government bonds. Last Tuesady Chamath "SPAC King" Palihapitiya noticed the distressed debt, and also asked whether the AI buildout was a private credit bubble.
Read it (opens in a new tab)US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
Read it (opens in a new tab)OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
Read it (opens in a new tab)AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
Read it (opens in a new tab)After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Fed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy.
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