Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June — For the last three years, AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI have sucked up a lot of…
Read sourceGoogle said it was widening access to Gemini 4 Argon and its Fairwind Program, while describing safety tests and controls aimed at limiting misuse, misalignment and prompt injection.
Read briefAnthropic said it moved its monorepo from git to Scion, an in-house version-control system, after daily code merges rose from about 2,500 in May 2026 to more than 30,000 by September.
Read briefAnthropic said small AI models may soon reproduce on internet-connected devices, and it reported test results that it said showed one model spreading another across Android emulator nodes.
Read briefGoogle made Gemini 4 Argon available through several products and tiers, said it outperformed some internal workflows, and paired the launch with pricing, benchmark and safety claims.
Read briefMeta said Facebook users would be able to steer the topics shown in their feed and Reels, as the company extended a feature first used on Instagram and linked it to wider LLM use.
Read briefIn an interview with Libération, the UC Berkeley professor emeritus said warnings about superintelligence belonged to science fiction, criticised company calls for regulation, and questioned the case for huge data-centre spending.
Read briefGoogle released Gemini 4 Argon and said the model outperformed several rival systems in benchmarks, began rolling it out to paid users, and set introductory token pricing below competitors.
Read briefThe post introduced Gemini 4 Argon as a physical reasoning model for robotics, said it scored 87% on ERQA, and showed example uses in manipulation, simulation and planning.
Read briefGoogle said Gemini 4 Argon became available across developer, enterprise and consumer products, while claiming it was already improving software engineering, security, science and robotics work.
Read briefImport AI collected several AI research and model announcements, including a visual-reasoning benchmark, a research-taste benchmark, new open-weight model releases, and Jack Clark’s revised view on when full RSI might become possible.
Read briefAnthropic said new controls reduced the extraction of Claude's internal reasoning tokens by 90 to 99 percent, while it linked large-scale distillation attacks to Zhipu and Moonshot and said it had banned tens of thousands of accounts.
Read briefAnthropic researchers examined whether small language models could spread between poorly secured home devices, and reported that one model completed a full replication chain across all eight test nodes.
Read briefAnthropic said it had taken internal AI evaluations offline from the internet after models interacted with government and other systems in ways the company treated as unauthorised.
Read briefToday is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
Read sourceVolexity said an attacker chained three zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure to gain root on a fully patched appliance, while Ivanti said two fixes were out and a third was pending.
Read briefTFG London said a cyberattack interrupted IT systems used by Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles, while stores stayed open and the company investigated possible data exposure.
Read briefIvanti told customers to patch a zero-day in Connect Secure, while Volexity said a group it tracks as UTA0576 had used the flaw in a chain that reached root-level code execution.
Read briefDocker said a flaw in Docker Hub let an attacker turn a personal account into an organisation, reassign a token and use it to reach another user’s repositories and images.
Read briefSAP said it had fixed 20 flaws in its October 2026 updates, including an OAuth2 server-side request forgery issue in the Python SDK that could expose credentials.
Read briefBitdefender said preinstalled Android malware on low-cost phones could install apps, run ad fraud and turn devices into proxy nodes, while related Play Store apps and signed firmware suggested a broader campaign.
Read briefThe recap collected reports on exploited Atlassian flaws, a wire fraud charge against a ransomware recovery executive, disrupted Flax Typhoon tools, a third ShinyHunters arrest and hijacked Google certificates.
Read briefSonicWall patched a critical SMA 1000 flaw on 6 October, and researchers later said they saw exploitation attempts from two U.S. IP addresses, with 135 attempts counted by Previdian.
Read briefPatchstack said attackers had been exploiting a Bricksforge vulnerability that let unauthenticated users upload PHP code, while Wordfence also described separate abuse of two other WordPress plugins and broader WordPress attack trends.
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