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October 9, 2026 — 22 articles Snapshot updated Oct 9, 10:44 PM CDT

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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
The Verge Models Oct 9, 4:15 PM CDT

An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigat

Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
TechCrunch Infrastructure Oct 9, 11:53 AM CDT

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New

OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers
The Verge Research Oct 9, 4:48 AM CDT

OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita ⁠Balesni were dismissed for violating "clear policies on handling sen

Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
The Verge Applications Oct 9, 1:06 PM CDT

Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show "tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airwa

IBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange
SiliconANGLE Developer tools Oct 9, 5:52 PM CDT

Enterprise AI orchestration must account for agents working across the data, applications and infrastructure businesses already use. As organizations move beyond experiments, running those systems consistently brings questions of access, oversight and operational control into sharper focus. Those de

OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers
MarkTechPost Developer tools Oct 9, 3:05 PM CDT

OpenAI’s Decisions API is now in public beta on GPT-6 Luna. It returns typed probabilities, choices and scores about 10x faster than the Responses API, billing $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no output charges. The post OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers appeared firs

Seismora builds a control plane to route AI workloads across devices and clouds
SiliconANGLE Applications Oct 9, 2:59 PM CDT

A control plane for distributed AI could help applications decide which tasks to run on a device, at the edge or in the cloud. Seismora Inc. is developing networking technology to coordinate AI workloads across different providers and computing environments, according to Vito Palermo (pictured), fou

McKinsey connects enterprise data through a knowledge graph for AI
SiliconANGLE Applications Oct 9, 1:12 PM CDT

The knowledge graph can give enterprise AI applications context by connecting data with the business relationships needed to support decisions. Knowledge graphs can connect enterprise data with the meaning AI applications need. Many people have used graphs for years, nearly every day, though they ma

Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents
MarkTechPost Research Oct 9, 12:06 AM CDT

Explore a comprehensive coding guide to Google Research's RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), detailing how noise bands, cost rules, and leakage screens enable safe, efficient, and self-improving AI agents. The post Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents appeared f