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AI news from October 4, 2026

13 stories, newest first

Politics4 min read

Sam Altman Advocates Accepting Some AI Harms to Preserve Broad Access and Benefits

Covered by 6 sources

GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job

MarkTechPost
Cybersecurity3 min read

Chinese Hackers Impersonate Anthropic Employee to Extract AI Secrets

Futurism
Politics4 min read

NYC Council Hears Testimony from AI Labs and Whistleblowers on Risks and Regulation

Covered by 6 sources
Politics3 min read

Lina Khan says AI companies are following the same playbook that got Big Tech into trouble

Business Insider
Politics2 min read

Trump Forms Super Intelligence Force to Coordinate US AI Strategy

Covered by 9 sources
Energy & Climate7 min read

Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’

The Guardian

Scoop: A powerful new model from startup Reflection is set to shake up the AI race

Axios
Politics3 min read

Trump Appoints Clayton and Ferguson to Head New AI Oversight Task Force

Covered by 2 sources
Cybersecurity3 min read

China-Aligned TA419 Targets U.S. AI Policy Experts With Microsoft AitM Phishing

The Hacker News

Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters

MarkTechPost