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  • 29 Oct 2026

    AI news

    OpenAI reorganises its Model Spec around five values

    OpenAI's post, dated 29 October 2026, says it is updating the Model Spec, which it describes as its public account of how it wants its models to behave. The update organises the guidance around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care. The post says the revision adds guidance on context, oversight and agency, adjusts some behavioural defaults, and retires much of the detailed style guidance.

    Source: OpenAI (opens in a new tab)

  • 29 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Mistral releases the weights of Mistral Large 4

    Mistral's news index dates the post 29 October 2026, and the page records a publication time of 29 October 2026, 12:00:07 UTC. The post says Mistral is releasing the weights of an improved Mistral Large 4, which it also calls Le Chonk. The post says the model was in public preview earlier in the month. It calls the model a 1-trillion-parameter, natively multimodal model. The Hugging Face card for mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B says it has 49 billion active parameters per token, or 52 billion including embeddings and output layers, a context length of 1 million tokens, and text and image input with text output. The card says it was trained from scratch on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own data centres in Europe.

    Source: Mistral (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    AI news

    DeepSeek and Moonshot used GPT-6 Astra outputs in training, as reported by Reuters

    Reuters, in a report carried by U.S. News with a timestamp of 28 October 2026 at 10:10 p.m. and no time zone, said Chinese developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model to train their latest models. Reuters said The Information reported that on Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. Reuters called the practice distillation. It said The Information said Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro, which was released last week, and DeepSeek's upgraded V4.1-Flash 1017 model, launched on 17 October, benefited from distilling Astra.

    Source: Reuters, as carried by U.S. News (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    US Justice Department is asking about Nvidia's Hugging Face deal, as reported by Reuters

    Reuters reported from San Francisco on 28 October 2026 that the US Department of Justice has made inquiries about how Nvidia's $12.93 billion deal to buy Hugging Face would affect competition in artificial intelligence. Reuters attributed the account to two people familiar with the matter. It said the questions come at the same time as a years-long investigation into Nvidia's conduct. Reuters said the department's questions about the deal, and details of that broader inquiry, were being reported for the first time.

    Source: Reuters, as carried by PiQ Markets (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    AI news

    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech model

    NVIDIA's blog, dated 28 October 2026, says it introduced Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe that day. The post calls it an open-weight speech model for transcription, speaker attribution and translation, and for questions about the audio. It says the model transcribes 40 languages, including seven Indic languages, and that it is available on Hugging Face. It says the model has approximately 4.3 billion active parameters. Quantized versions are described as coming soon, for local use on RTX Spark, DGX Spark and Jetson AGX Thor, and for Blackwell data-centre GPUs.

    Source: NVIDIA Blog (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, limited at first to cyber defenders

    Google's blog, dated 28 October 2026, announces Gemini 4 Carbon as its next frontier model, which it calls its strongest model, with cybersecurity and long-horizon work as the focus. The post says Google is in the US government's voluntary process for pre-release model testing. Starting this week, Carbon is available to a subset of cyber defenders. Access then phases to further trusted partners through the Fairwind Program. Google says it is still gathering feedback and iterating on guardrails before Carbon is available to developers, businesses and consumers.

    Source: Google (opens in a new tab)

  • 28 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    Poland's AI inspection and penalty provisions enter into force

    Poland's Act of 3 July 2026 on artificial intelligence systems (Dz.U. 2026 poz. 1003) was published in the Dziennik Ustaw on 27 July 2026. The Sejm's official legal-information page says the act entered into force on 11 August 2026, with two exceptions. Article 125(4) entered into force on 28 July 2026. Articles 8 to 18 and chapters 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 enter into force on 28 October 2026. Article 127 says those provisions enter into force three months after publication. The 28 October date is the date stated on that official page.

    Source: Sejm ELI, Dziennik Ustaw 2026 poz. 1003 (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    AI news

    NVIDIA says Vera Rubin systems are generally available on Oracle Cloud

    NVIDIA's newsroom post, dated 27 October 2026, says NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and NVIDIA Vera CPUs are now generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The same post says NVIDIA and Oracle have announced plans to expand OCI Superclusters with Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt scale. It says each NVL72 rack connects 72 GPUs through NVLink. It also says OCI plans to introduce NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8, with eight Rubin GPUs, two 64-core Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, 4TB of DDR5 memory and 6.4 Tbps of RDMA networking.

    Source: NVIDIA Newsroom (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    AI news

    AMD says it will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity offering

    AMD's investor release, dated 27 October 2026 and timestamped 9:20 am EDT, says AMD will invest $1 billion in Meta's equity offering. The release says initial AMD Helios rack-scale systems are installed and being tested at Meta, on the path to a broader deployment in the near future. It says AMD EPYC processors support the computing environments behind Meta's Muse agent, and that AMD has given day-zero support for Muse Spark Open on AMD Instinct GPUs and for Muse Glimmer on AMD Ryzen AI PCs and AMD Radeon GPUs. It says Meta was an early definition customer for the Instinct MI450 architecture and will deploy a custom Instinct GPU optimised for its workloads. It also says the companies are building and deploying integrated AI systems at gigawatt scale.

    Source: AMD (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Anthropic extends a GSA discount on Claude to every level of US government

    Anthropic's post, published 27 October 2026, says it is expanding a partnership with the US General Services Administration. The new agreement gives government partners a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API. Anthropic says that, for the first time, the discount applies across every product surface, including direct purchases today and purchases through cloud providers in the coming months. It also extends to state, local, tribal and territorial governments.

    Source: Anthropic (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Google announces Genie 4, a world model in a limited research rollout

    Google's blog, dated 27 October 2026, announces Genie 4, a world model for real-time interactive simulation. The post says a person can set an event in motion and steer the scene with natural language, such as moving the camera, changing the weather or introducing a character, and that each world generates native audio, including ambient sound, music and interactive dialogue. It says the model builds on the Gemini family, with Gemini Omni anchoring appearance and behaviour and other Gemini models used for reasoning. Google says it has started rolling Genie 4 out to a limited group of trusted testers, and that it is coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie and to early access partners in the Gemini API and AI Studio. The post does not state a price or a context window.

    Source: Google (opens in a new tab)

  • 27 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    Queensland publishes a bill to criminalise creating intimate images and audio without consent

    The Criminal Code (Non-consensual Creation of Intimate Images and Audio Material) Amendment Bill 2026 was published on the Queensland legislation register on 27 October 2026. It is a bill. It is not an act. Clause 2 says the Act would commence on the day that is 28 days after the date of assent. The register does not print an assent date. As reported by ABC News, posted at 2:34pm on 27 October 2026, Attorney-General Deb Frecklington introduced the bill.

    Source: Queensland legislation (opens in a new tab)

  • 26 Oct 2026

    AI news

    Anthropic files a preliminary S-1 for a proposed Nasdaq listing

    Anthropic's news post, published 26 October 2026, says Anthropic, PBC filed a Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of Class A common stock. The post says Anthropic intends to list that stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. It says the number of shares and the price range have not yet been determined. It says the registration statement has been filed but has not yet become effective, and that the shares may not be sold, and offers to buy may not be accepted, before it becomes effective. The SEC's filing index for that S-1 lists the filing date as 26 October 2026 and an accepted time of 09:00:11. The index does not name a time zone. The file number is 333-299633.

    Source: Anthropic (opens in a new tab)

  • 26 Oct 2026

    AI news

    NVIDIA and Meta expand their work on Muse, and NVIDIA says it will invest $3 billion

    NVIDIA's newsroom post, dated 26 October 2026, says NVIDIA and Meta will expand their work on Muse and the Muse family of models, to improve inference and training performance. The post says NVIDIA will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering. It says Meta intends to expand deployment of NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs for next-generation AI agents, and that Meta will also deploy NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and BlueField-4. The companies will also consider NVIDIA's OpenShell Reference Architecture. The post says that includes OpenShell for safe deployment and Sentry for monitoring agent behaviour. A summary on the same page says they are considering OpenShell to strengthen agency security, and Sentry for monitoring structured, unstructured and graph data processing.

    Source: NVIDIA Newsroom (opens in a new tab)

  • 26 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    US Treasury proposes wider outbound-investment rules, including a ban on some super-intelligence investments

    The Federal Register published on 26 October 2026 a proposed rule from the Treasury Department's Office of Investment Security, document 2026-21786, 91 FR 67396. Written comments must be received by 7 December 2026. The notice does not give a time of day. Treasury's fact sheet says the department issued the notice of proposed rulemaking on 22 October 2026, and that the notice does not itself implement the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security (COINS) Act. A final rule would set an effective date.

    Source: Federal Register (Treasury, Office of Investment Security) (opens in a new tab)

  • 26 Oct 2026

    Regulation

    FTC demands testimony from Anthropic executives in its consumer-harm probe, as reported by Axios

    The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sent demands for Anthropic executives to testify in its consumer-harm probe, an FTC spokesperson told Axios, as reported by Axios on 26 October 2026. Axios says the FTC is investigating Anthropic and OpenAI and has sent civil subpoenas seeking documents from both about safety incidents. It says the agency plans to send investigative demands to more organisations later, and that it has confirmed testimony demands only for Anthropic.

    Source: Axios (opens in a new tab)

  • 26 Oct 2026

    AI news

    AWS makes OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra generally available on Amazon Bedrock

    Amazon Web Services said on 26 October 2026 that OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is generally available on Amazon Bedrock. AWS says the model accepts text and image inputs and supports a context window of up to 1 million input tokens. It says input and output token prices are at least 50% lower than those of GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-5.6 Terra. On OpenAI's Agents' Last Exam evaluation, AWS says Terra scored 15 percentage points higher than GPT-5.6 Terra, performed on par with GPT-6 Astra, and completed tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.

    Source: Amazon Web Services (opens in a new tab)

  • 23 Oct 2026

    Compute & data centres

    Korea sets out a plan to ease AI data-centre permits and back domestic equipment

    The Ministry of Science and ICT said it presented an "AI data-centre ecosystem support plan" at the second Regulatory Rationalisation Committee, chaired by the president, on 23 October 2026. The attached release says the committee met that day from 14:00 to 15:30 at the state guest house at Cheong Wa Dae. The release does not name a time zone. It says the plan will be followed by subordinate rules under the Special Act on the Promotion of the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Industry, which the release says was enacted in June.

    Source: Ministry of Science and ICT (opens in a new tab)

  • 23 Oct 2026

    AI news

    OpenAI and Poland's NASK agree to explore joint work on AI safety

    OpenAI said on 23 October 2026 that it and Poland's NASK National Research Institute have signed an agreement to explore collaboration on AI safety, security and technical research. OpenAI says NASK's AI Safety Research Center, which serves as the Polish Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, and OpenAI will work on evaluating increasingly capable AI systems, identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening safeguards.

    Source: OpenAI (opens in a new tab)

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