Society & Culture1 min read
New Analysis Clarifies Corrigibility in AI Safety and Alignment
Covered by 2 sources
AI news from October 17, 2026
23 stories, newest first
Robotics5 min read
Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation
MarkTechPost
Politics2 min read
Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports
The Next Web
Chips & Compute3 min read
TSMC posts a sixth straight record profit but turns cautious on 2027
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise1 min read
Meta Revises Terms to Limit Use of Business Web Content for AI Training
Covered by 2 sources
Business & Enterprise8 min read
Software’s new consolidator gets big vote of confidence from Berkshire
CNBC
Politics12 min read
Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Bill Sparks Debate Over Safety and Enforcement
Covered by 2 sources
Chips & Compute3 min read
Japan puts up to $21bn into two GlobalFoundries chip fabs in New York
The Next Web
Cybersecurity3 min read
XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days
The Next Web
Public Sector3 min read
EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise3 min read
Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk
The Next Web
Cybersecurity3 min read
Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack
The Next Web
Politics8 min read
The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures – as is the fear of ‘falling behind the public’
The Guardian
Machine Learning11 min read
Meta Unveils Muse Spark Open, a Leading 816B-Parameter Multimodal AI Model with Open Weights
Covered by 2 sources
StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context
MarkTechPost
Business & Enterprise4 min read
Amazon Acquires DuckLabs and Integrates DuckDB in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
InfoQ (AI, ML & Data)
Military3 min read
(2nd LD) N. Korea tests new precision-guided torpedo using AI: KCNA
Yonhap News Agency
LLM & Text Generation4 min read
Microsoft reveals cutting-edge MAI-Base-2 model with 2T parameters
SiliconANGLE
LLM & Text Generation2 min read
DeepSeek Launches V4.1 Flash 1017 Model with Enhanced Performance and API Access
Covered by 2 sources
