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Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong
In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.
MIT
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
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…
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The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies
Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.
White House Lifts 17-Day Blockade; UK AISI Regains Right to Test AI Models
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 Maia 300: 288GB HBM4, 40% More Compute per Megawatt, but Not Until 2027 and Not for External Rental
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.
Anthropic Publicly Discloses Engineering Countermeasures Against Distillation Attacks for the First Time, Cutting Theft by 90%-99%
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 Experiment: 26B Model Achieves Distributed Inference on 15 TV Boxes
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.
TC
Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
ARS
Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model
"No more hand-written code" or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter.
Epic Games Orders Disney Game to Ban Handwritten Code: Can AI-First Production Rescue the Delayed Blockbuster?
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 Formally Says No to AI Contributions: Behind the Ban, Open Source Communities' Review Capacity Is in Collective Crisis
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.
ARS
Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
“I may have information regarding this case," Claude AI told Philly police.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Leads with 82.39 Points: 2026-10-13 Smoke Quick-Test Data Brief
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 Service Anomaly Report
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.
WD
Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier
Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.
TC
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a US military contract worth almost $50 million.
ARS
Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
WD
Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him
Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.
TC
Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Meta's Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, the company's first attempt at a frontier model.
TC
This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.