Donald Trump announced a White House Super Intelligence Force to coordinate outreach on artificial intelligence, with several officials named to lead it and reporting lines set to the president and his chief of staff.
Read briefAnthropic added a Claude voice prompt that asked users whether the company could use voice recordings and voice chat data to improve its AI models, with separate privacy controls for different kinds of training.
Read briefIn an interview, OpenAI vice-president of hardware Richard Ho described the Jalapeño inference accelerator, the Broadcom partnership, measured performance claims and the use of OpenAI models in chip design.
Read briefGoogle said it would restrict personal-account access to Gemini models from October 2026, leaving free users on Flash-Lite and moving Flash and Pro behind paid subscriptions.
Read briefProofpoint said the China-aligned TA419 group ran credential phishing campaigns against AI policy experts and other researchers, using impersonation, redirect chains and an adversary-in-the-middle page to capture Microsoft logins.
Read briefToshiba said it would double production capacity for hard-disk drives used in AI data centres by fiscal 2027 and expand its Philippine plant as storage demand rose.
Read briefGoogle said free Gemini users would be cut back to Flash-Lite from 9 October, while AI Plus subscribers would also lose Pro access, and higher-priced plans kept Deep Think.
Read briefGoogle was testing a hidden Gemini desktop feature for Mac that could expand file and app access, while the article said the capability was unconfirmed, not yet live and still subject to safeguards.
Read briefOpenAI chief Sam Altman said comparisons that give AI models religious force were a safety concern, after reports on Anthropic and remarks from Pope Leo XIV prompted renewed discussion.
Read briefDavid Robinson left OpenAI after working on safety systems and, in a guest essay, said the company and the wider AI industry relied too much on trial and error as systems became more capable.
Read briefAn essay from the Deepmind Institute argued that AGI would emerge from humans and AI agents working together, and that institutions would matter more than any one model.
Read briefGoogle suspended product vulnerability submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program on 1 October after saying invalid AI-generated reports had flooded the process, and it plans an update in Q1 2027.
Read briefSymantec and Carbon Black said Warlock used SharePoint vulnerabilities against organisations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries, disabled security tools on many hosts, and staged ransomware through domain replication.
Read briefThe article promoted a report on how cloud, AI and distributed systems were changing cybersecurity for 2026, and matched ten sections with named vendors and executive quotes.
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