The IMF's Global Financial Stability Report identifies an AI-related market correction as a major risk to global financial stability. It also highlights AI-enabled cyberattacks and rising sovereign bond yields as pressures that could spread across asset classes.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by the Chinese company Z.ai, poses a major cyberattack…
The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping grows.
U.S. banking regulators have begun asking every institution they examine whether its autonomous AI agents can actually be switched off, a fact-finding push triggered by a coordinated AI-driven attack on seven South Korean banks.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. The report’s core concern is that the…
In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount (likely around…
Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.
After a 17-day suspension ordered by the Trump administration, the UK AI Safety Institute regained pre-release access to models from OpenAI and Anthropic and was cleared to test Google's unreleased Gemini 4 Argon—underscoring how a three-year-old transatlantic safety arrangement rests on informal authorization with no institutional safeguards.
Microsoft has unveiled Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI accelerator, with 288GB of HBM4, 18TB/s bandwidth, and a claim of about 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. It is slated for multi-gigawatt Azure deployment in 2027 and will remain internal-only, leaving Microsoft behind Amazon and Google in renting out in-house AI chips.
On October 12, 2026, Anthropic released a distillation defense research report detailing three engineering defense lines that reduced model theft by 90%-99%. The report also breaks down the mechanisms, industry impact, and strategic implications of these measures.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team networked 15 roughly $55 Android TV boxes to demonstrate distributed inference for Gemma4-26B-A4B at 0.39 tokens per second. The study examines how self-replicating AI could adapt to unfamiliar hardware and evade centralized containment.
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.
Bloomberg reports that Epic Games has told its Disney-partnered game team to switch to an AI-first production model, including a ban on handwritten code and a requirement that all art assets be generated through a complete AI workflow. The title, already delayed to March 2027, now has no confirmed release window as the move raises questions about quality, jobs, and industry adoption.
QGIS has upgraded its AI contribution policy from "human oversight" to an outright ban after roughly 50 AI-assisted pull requests overwhelmed volunteer reviewers, with about 40 closed unmerged. The move reflects a broader industry split between full bans and disclosure-based policies, and exposes how far generation costs have outpaced review capacity.
“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.
On 2026-10-13, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with Gemini 3.1 Pro taking first place for the day at 82.39 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suitable for observing short-term signals, not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
Gemini 3.1 Pro experienced a regional outage affecting Asia-Pacific and western and central U.S. users, while the YZ Index showed a sharp score drop and pointed to deployment or routing issues.
