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Archives for October 2026

Marina Galperina
Marina Galperina
Highway robbers are targeting trucks carrying data center components.

NBC News reports that accelerated data center construction across the country is creating new opportunities for heists that involve phishing, corporate identity theft, and car-ramming.

Truckloads of costly equipment like servers, fiber-optic cables, computer memory chips, copper wires and bitcoin mining machines crisscrossing America’s highways have become prime targets for organized criminal groups looking for big payoffs, according to law enforcement and industry experts.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Another senator wants Meta to reverse its business term revisions.

Adam Schiff joins Sen. Marsha Blackburn in expressing concern, urging Meta to “compensate creators and publishers for their work” after the company’s updated terms seemingly gave itself permission to train its AI on news sites. Those changes have since been tweaked and pushed back until November 20th, but Schiff says “a delay isn’t enough.”

Data center backlash is uniting America

Some midterm races come down to ‘people who hate data centers’ versus ‘people who hate them even more.’

Lauren Feiner
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Proton is reportedly going to “re-interview” employees and ask about their AI use.

An email to staff seen by 404 Media says the Proton Mail owner needs “people who can translate AI’s capabilities into better products, stronger execution, and new ways of working.” It reportedly calls the re-interviews “consequential,” adding that they “may lead to changes in roles, responsibilities, and continued employment.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
GitHub’s former CEO launched a competing platform for AI agents.

Thomas Dohmke has officially launched Entire after teasing the decentralized coding platform in July. Similar to GitHub, developers can use the platform to host and review code, but it’s designed specifically to work with AI agents, replacing pull requests with a “Trails” feature that offers “customizable evals that are scored by agents on every code push.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
GPT-6.1 Terra is very good at computer use, OpenAI says.

The new AI model, available today for Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, is “a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use alongside clearer, more natural writing,” and it “excels at the communication and computer-based tasks that fill the workday,” OpenAI says.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Total War studio says they are “investigating” the AI-botched Shogun 2 remaster.

Sega recently pulled the recently-launched Complete Edition of the game, which was made in part by an external developer, after users found bugs and upscaling seemingly done by AI.

“At Creative Assembly we do not use generative AI to create game assets, including AI-generated art,” Creative Assembly’s VP of Total War Roger Collum, said in a big post on Reddit. “We demand the same of any external developers we work with.”

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employeesMicrosoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
Emma Roth and Tom Warren
Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren’t you?
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The author of The AGI Chronicles and co-host of Machine Gods on going all-in on YouTube and the AI race.

Nilay Patel