12 – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
Skip to main content

Ai Artificial Intelligence Archive

Archives for October 2026

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Charles Schwab is blocking AI agents, too.

During an interview with Bloomberg, Charles Schwab Corp. CEO Rick Wurster called out Meta’s AI agent, Muse, saying:

We don’t want someone just giving their password to Muse, and letting Muse come in and take action on that client’s behalf. We can’t control it, the client can’t control it, something could go wrong and who’s liable? For the protection of the client and for the protection of us, we’re not allowing it.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
You’ve got to hear both sides?

With public opinion broadly against AI data centers, the Today, Explained podcast from Vox brought on Nicole Thomas, a marketing and PR exec who represents data center companies.

The “for” arguments are familiar (tax dollars, not all data centers are XXL-sized hyperscaler AI projects, and that what is needed is more transparency), and they also look at some of the attempts to make data centers friendlier, like Microsoft’s biomimicry camouflage.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI says an AI model swiped fake crypto on an Ethereum test network.

Though OpenAI didn’t give its internal research model access to funds on the network, the AI system instead found a way to access another account with test crypto, using it to help complete its task, according to OpenAI.

The model “reasoned whether it had permission” but ultimately determined that the public recovery phrase associated with the account and the fact that it contained test tokens “made the funds acceptable to use.”

A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops

Nvidia’s new Arm-based laptop chip is an exciting new challenger, but exclusively for the high-end.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto, Sean Hollister and 1 more
Robert Hart
Robert Hart
China is weighing export controls on AI.

Beijing is reportedly considering adding 23 AI technologies to its export-control list, including chip designs, agents, model weights, and source code. China has been steadily gaining on the US with recent releases like Kimi K3, and has been the target of Western AI-related export controls amid growing competition to maintain control over the strategic technology.

Robert Hart
Robert Hart
SpaceX is almost, sort of, maybe, committing to AI safety oversight.

In a noncommittal X post, Elon Musk said SpaceX will “probably” follow in Anthropic’s footsteps and allow external evaluators access to its AI systems. The tentative pledge comes amid growing concerns about the risks of frontier AI models and criticism that voluntary measures leave companies largely policing themselves.

Robert Hart
Robert Hart
G7 countries plan “tabletop exercises” simulating AI cyberattacks on banks.

The drills were confirmed by Japan’s finance minister on Thursday. States and organizations have grown increasingly worried about AI’s ability to supercharge hacking, particularly after months of impressive releases and rogue agent attacks. Experts, including the heads of the Bank of England and International Monetary Fund, have stressed the need to guard financial institutions.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
John Ternus on Apple’s “contribution” to AI:

“How do we build deeply personal experiences leveraging AI that help us all be more creative, be more productive, do whatever it is that we want to do,” Ternus says in an interview with TIME.

And his coffee order? “Americano, black.”

The tech backlash is now in theaters

Between The Social Reckoning, You Can See Everything, Musk, and Artificial, filmmakers are taking Big Tech to task.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
David Pierce
David Pierce
Today’s Vergecast: Everything’s recording everybody. What now?

Meta just shipped a pair of smart glasses with no camera — a change that both David and The Verge’s Victoria Song are excited about. But these glasses, like the new product from Amazon Bee and seemingly everything else now, are still ready and willing to record the world around you at all times. What do we do in a world where everything, everywhere, might be recording? And can tech companies figure out a way to make us feel better about it?