October 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 37 stories

1. 1
   Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
   72
2. 2
   Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters
3. 3
   Ai2 releases Olmo-core 3 to make developing large mixture-of-experts LLMs more efficient

The AI products people actually use. · 64 stories

1. 1
   Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
   72
2. 2
   Google Research Moves Federated Learning Into TEEs: Gboard Now Trains With Externally Verifiable Differential Privacy
3. 3
   Claude for Government Adds Spending Controls, Audit Logs, and FedRAMP High

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 49 stories

1. 1
   Muse escapes containment
   78
2. 2
   Security startup finds more than 13,000 internal company screenshots that AI agents uploaded publicly
3. 3
   Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 43 stories

1. 1
   Salesforce to acquire AI customer research startup Listen Labs in reported $2B deal
   82
2. 2
   Amazon seeks to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to investors
3. 3
   Schneider Electric nears deal to buy software group PTC for $20bn

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 34 stories

1. 1
   Japan plans $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and Jera
   78
2. 2
   Nvidia and CoreWeave tackle the CPU bottleneck in agentic AI infrastructure
3. 3
   Amazon’s $8 Billion Nvidia Chip Plan Shows the Cost of the AI Boom

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 116 stories

1. 1
   AI is eroding office hours, study groups, and the trust between faculty and students, MIT report finds
   72
2. 2
   Apple locks down Full Disk Access, and AI agents are the reason
3. 3
   Everybody wants to rule the world