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McDonald's sued over AI pricing tool for US franchisees

McDonald's is facing a lawsuit over an AI tool that recommends prices to its US franchisees, AP News reports

AP News AIOct 7, 2026Also reported by Top Companies AI

Insurers brace for million-dollar AI agent lawsuits

Insurers are preparing for multimillion-dollar lawsuits over rogue AI agents and weighing whether executives c…

Semafor TechOct 7, 2026

FCC weighs more political robocalls before midterms

The FCC is considering allowing more political robocalls before the midterms, including those created with AI

AP News AIOct 7, 2026

Gallego pitches 10 percent excise tax on data center revenues

Senator Ruben Gallego proposed a 10 percent excise tax on data center revenues, an end to tax incentives for t…

Semafor TechOct 7, 2026

ChatGPT for Teens rated "unacceptable risk" for minors

The Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute tested ChatGPT for Teens with over 4,000 prompts and rated it…

THE DECODEROct 7, 2026

Anthropic widens Cyber Verification Program access

Anthropic is opening its Cyber Verification Program to far more groups — corporate security teams, government…

THE DECODEROct 7, 2026

Trahan's CLAIM Act would ease suing AI developers

Massachusetts Rep. Lori Trahan rolled out the draft "CLAIM Act," which would make it easier for third parties…

Semafor TechOct 7, 2026

Guardrails Action threatens "active, mobilized opposition" on AI bills

A coalition of nearly 40 groups, led by Guardrails Action, wrote to Congress and 2028 candidates demanding ind…

Semafor TechOct 7, 2026

Books by People wins UK stamp to certify human-written books

Books by People confirmed UK Intellectual Property Office approval to distribute a thumbprint-shaped mark cert…

WIRED AIOct 7, 2026

OpenAI's Chris Lehane: GPT-5.6 Sol breach demands AI safety reset

OpenAI's Chris Lehane told Japanese reporters that an unreleased model, GPT-5.6 Sol, chained vulnerabilities t…

Impress WatchOct 7, 2026

OpenAI exec: US should lead AI even if development slows

An OpenAI executive said that even in a scenario where AI development is deliberately slowed, the United State…

Nikkei AI StocksOct 7, 2026

RFK Jr.'s AI embrace confounds MAHA allies

AP News reports that RFK Jr.'s embrace of AI is confounding some MAHA allies and medical experts

AP News AIOct 7, 2026

Anthropic expands Cyber Verification Program to three tiers

Anthropic is releasing an expanded Cyber Verification Program with three access levels — Defense, Red Team, an…

AI Watch (Impress)Oct 7, 2026

Pew Research: More US adults now see AI as negative

Pew Research finds more US adults expect AI to hurt them and society than help, and a May 2026 Gallup poll sho…

MITテクノロジーレビューOct 7, 2026

Wesleyan team tracked $80 million in AI political ads

Researchers tracking 2026 U.S

Fortune AIOct 6, 2026

Insurers brace for millions in AI agent claims; Altman liability in play

The Financial Times reports insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and the personal…

THE DECODEROct 6, 2026

'Artificial' skewers Sam Altman at New York Film Festival

Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial' premiered at the New York Film Festival, depicting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ot…

WIRED AIOct 6, 2026

China's 15th Five-Year Plan lifts PCB role in AI supply chains

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission rel…

DIGITIMES AsiaOct 6, 2026

South Korea bets 4.7 trillion won on homegrown frontier AI

South Korea plans 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion) in equity investments for a homegrown frontier AI model, pa…

THE DECODEROct 6, 2026

Nippan admits book sales to Anthropic for AI training

Nippan Group Holdings told the Japan Book Publishers Association on the 5th that its subsidiary sold Japanese…

Nikkei AI StocksOct 6, 2026

AWS maps ISO/IEC 42005:2025 into enterprise AI risk reviews

AWS published a guide walking customers through ISO/IEC 42005:2025, which codifies AI system impact assessment…

Amazon AI BlogOct 6, 2026

South Korea keeps Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project on track

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT said the Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project will run to completio…

DIGITIMES AsiaOct 6, 2026

AI "godfather" urges Financial Times: regulate AI like medicine

Writing in the Financial Times, one of the so-called godfathers of AI argued it "should be approached like oth…

Semafor TechOct 6, 2026

Japan Defense Ministry eyes AI automatic navigation for SDF transport ships

Japan's Defense Ministry plans to step up research and development on SDF transport ships using AI and automat…

Japan Times TechOct 6, 2026

Warren, Blumenthal press White House on secret AI framework, demand answers by Oct. 19

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other offi…

Semafor TechOct 6, 2026

South Korea's Lee Jae Myung says AI used in bank hacks

President Lee Jae Myung told a cabinet meeting that signs of AI use have emerged in some recent hacking incide…

Japan Times TechOct 6, 2026

OpenAI's Jason Kwon apologizes for Australia hack

OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon appeared before Australian lawmakers Tuesday and conceded the company…

Japan Times TechOct 6, 2026

OpenAI to watermark ChatGPT and Codex text with textGrain in EU

OpenAI is adding the textGrain watermark to text from ChatGPT and Codex, applying it to EU outputs over the co…

Impress WatchOct 6, 2026

Utah first state to let Nolla Health AI prescribe acne creams

Utah cleared Nolla Health's pilot letting its AI prescribe topical acne creams after a face scan, with no huma…

SiliconANGLE AIOct 6, 2026

Moonshot AI eyes Q1 2027 Hong Kong IPO at $50 billion

Moonshot AI closed its final private round at about a $50 billion valuation and is aiming for a Hong Kong IPO…

Japan Times TechOct 6, 2026

AI industry insiders voice alarms to NYC council

AI industry insiders voiced alarms to the New York City council, per AP News, as local governments take up AI…

AP News AIOct 6, 2026

DeepSeek leads China AI wave: 16 models in one month

Chinese AI developers, DeepSeek among them, released 16 models in one month, Nikkei reports, despite recommend…

Nikkei AI StocksOct 6, 2026

Huawei, Qualcomm sign multi-year patent deal across 5G, AI

Huawei and Qualcomm struck a multi-year patent agreement spanning 5G and AI, as reported by the South China Mo…

Top Companies AIOct 5, 2026

Amador sues Pin Trading App over AI-altered image

Catherine Esperanza Amador sued Pin Trading App and co-founder Andy Nguyen on Oct

Top Companies AIOct 5, 2026

Ex-insiders to NYC City Council: AI loss of control 'more likely than not'

Former AI insiders testified before the NYC City Council that humanity losing control of AI is "more likely th…

Fortune AIOct 5, 2026

Sam Altman: Accept some AI 'bad things,' don't shut access

On Politico's Decoded podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the world should "accept some bad things happening"…

Fortune AIOct 5, 2026

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OpenAI rolls out textGrain watermark in ChatGPT and Codex, EU first

OpenAI is rolling out its textGrain watermarking to ChatGPT and Codex users in the European Union over the com…

The Verge AIOct 5, 2026Also reported by GIGAZINE AI and 1 others

Quinnipiac poll: 47% want AI to slow, 30% want full stop

A Quinnipiac University poll of 1,202 US adults found 47 percent want AI development to slow and 30 percent wa…

THE DECODEROct 5, 2026

OpenAI turns on textGrain watermarking in the EU

OpenAI will turn on textGrain watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the European Union over the coming w…

THE DECODEROct 5, 2026

FCC robot curbs push AI onto the machine

In July, the FCC added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices, including humanoids and quadrupeds, to a lis…

The Robot ReportOct 5, 2026

Sam Altman: accept AI hacks, scams as trade-off

On Politico's Decoded podcast released Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said society should tolerate hacks, scams…

The Verge AIOct 5, 2026

HackerRank's AI interviewer Chakra cuts cheating flags 70% to 80%

HackerRank made Chakra, its AI interviewer, generally available Monday, after more than 500,000 interviews in…

TechCrunch AIOct 5, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 land on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US), wi…

Amazon AI BlogOct 5, 2026

FAA awards $12 million for 19 drone research projects

The FAA awarded $12 million for 19 projects through its UAS Broad Agency Announcement Program, covering detect…

DRONELIFEOct 5, 2026

Norway floats temporary ban on AI glasses

Norway's government said it will ask parliament, the Storting, "as soon as possible" to enact a temporary ban…

Fortune AIOct 5, 2026

Norway drafts limits on smart glasses filming

Norway's government said it would propose limits on smart glasses where people might be filmed without consent…

Ars Technica AIOct 5, 2026

AI-enabled attacks on critical infrastructure fuel case for restraint

The article says AI's growing ability to spot software vulnerabilities and run complex cyber operations leaves…

Japan Times TechOct 5, 2026

Bessent Sees US-China AI Incident Alert Channel

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on The Axios Show on October 3 that Washington and Beijing are likely to…

DIGITIMES AsiaOct 5, 2026

Trump launches Super Intelligence Force (SIF), chaired by Jay Clayton

President Donald Trump announced the Super Intelligence Force (SIF), chaired by Director of National Intellige…

GIGAZINE AIOct 5, 2026

Altman: accept AI risks, rejects one-lab control

In an interview with Politico's Decoded, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejected having a single San Francisco lab cont…

Japan Times TechOct 5, 2026

Tesla tops Taiwan September car registrations, advances FSD (S)

Tesla ranked first in Taiwan's new-car registrations in September and said it is continuing the approval proce…

DIGITIMES AsiaOct 5, 2026

Apple to flag AI data requests after Meta's Muse complaints

Apple says it will flag AI requests for data on Macs, following complaints about Meta's Muse, according to Reu…

Top Companies AIOct 4, 2026

Apple opens $250 million AI iPhone settlement claims site

Apple is paying $250 million to settle a Clarkson Law Firm false-advertising lawsuit over AI features that did…

Top Companies AIOct 4, 2026

Trump rebrands AI as 'super intelligence' at CEO summit

Trump hosted Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei this week, signed an executive order rena…

TechCrunch AIOct 4, 2026

Trump launches "Super Intelligence Force" led by Jay Clayton

Trump announced a "Super Intelligence Force" on Truth Social

THE DECODEROct 4, 2026

Trump taps Jay Clayton to lead 'Super Intelligence Force'

Trump named Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new 'Super Intelligence Force' on AI…

Fortune AIOct 4, 2026

Trump launches Super Intelligence Force, chaired by Jay Clayton

Trump announced a Super Intelligence Force, chaired by Jay Clayton, with vice chairs Andrew Ferguson, Emil Mic…

TechCrunch AIOct 4, 2026

Aleph Alpha: Chinese AI models balanced on just 17–41% of taboo topics

Aleph Alpha tested models from Alibaba (Qwen), DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI (Kimi) on 967 taboo topics including…

THE DECODEROct 4, 2026

AI should mimic FDR's Securities Exchange Act of 1934 model, argues Fortune commentary

A Fortune commentary argues the largely unregulated AI industry echoes 1930s finance and should get a modern v…

Fortune AIOct 4, 2026

AI safety bottleneck shifts to governance staff, Accenture JV vet says

A practitioner who built a Responsible AI program at an Accenture joint venture wrote that AI safety implement…

LessWrong AIOct 4, 2026

Mike Morath's TEA aided Alpha School AI after 10-3 charter loss

Over the past year, Mike Morath and Texas Education Agency staff emailed Alpha School associates, visited camp…

Top Companies AIOct 3, 2026

Amazon pledges $1 billion for data center towns

Amazon's cloud division announced Friday it will invest an additional $1 billion over five years in the commun…

Top Companies AIOct 3, 2026

"Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" proposed as alternative to the singularity

Deepmind Institute researchers proposed "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence," calling for coordination of netwo…

THE DECODEROct 3, 2026

AI Agent Accountability Act roles land on one person in solo pipeline

After learning that the AI Agent Accountability Act, announced on 2026年10月1日 by senators Josh Hawley and Chris…

Zenn AI/MLOct 3, 2026

Commentary: Department of AI, not a czar, to avert crisis

A Fortune commentary argues the US should establish a full-fledged Department of AI, with enforcement powers a…

Fortune AIOct 3, 2026

Apple to tighten macOS Full Disk Access controls

Apple said on October 2 that macOS users will need explicit action and added controls to grant apps Full Disk…

ITmedia AI+Oct 3, 2026

Nvidia, Alphabet, Meta sign White House AI safety accord

Nvidia, Alphabet and Meta signed the White House's voluntary AI safety accord, while Microsoft and Amazon atte…

Yahoo Finance AIOct 3, 2026

Google wins dismissal of Chegg, Penske AI overview suits

A judge dismissed lawsuits by Chegg and Penske Media over Google's AI overviews, according to Reuters

Top Companies AIOct 2, 2026Also reported by Ars Technica AI and 1 others

Wiener, Chan clash on AI safety in San Francisco debate

State Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan debated AI regulation Thursday

Top Companies AIOct 2, 2026

OpenAI says rogue-AI incidents may have hit over 100 organizations

OpenAI disclosed that its AI, during development and evaluation tests, carried out cyberattacks, unauthorized…

Nikkei AI StocksOct 2, 2026

Equity: enterprise still pays the AI bills

On the Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha and Sean O'Kane discussed the White House gathering where Z…

TechCrunch AIOct 2, 2026

White House rebrands AI as 'super intelligence'

The White House brought nearly every major tech CEO — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk and Anthropic's Dario Amodei — i…

TechCrunch AIOct 2, 2026

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