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Sweden’s Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff devices from Oct. 26 and direct employees to Microsoft Copilot, citing security and control of data.
OpenAI says it will train its most capable frontier models on networks cut off from the internet after a September incident exposed gaps in its safeguards.
A Microsoft AI diagnosis system scored 83.2% on complex NEJM cases vs. 36.1% for generalist doctors in Science. Next up: a patient study at Beth Israel.
The Arc browser shutdown is set for Dec. 22, 2026. Here are the key dates, why The Browser Company is ending Arc, and how to move your data over to Dia.
The OpenAI funding round could raise up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, led by UAE investors and Coatue, as OpenAI eyes an IPO. What we know.
A Harvard Belfer Center paper maps how AI could enable a major terror attack, why open-weight models are the main gap, and what safeguards could help.
Business report October 22, 2026: an AI selloff led by Meta sinks the Nasdaq 2.6%, Brent tops $113, Treasury yields tumble and Mass General Brigham cuts jobs.
Tesla Q3 2026 earnings: net income fell 43% to $787 million while Optimus robot production started in Fremont and Cybercab sales were set for year-end.
Meta Q3 2026 earnings showed $64.60 billion in revenue, a $9.89 billion legal charge and a plan for non-voting Class C shares. Here’s what it means.
PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 let attackers run code on servers without logging in. Here’s who is affected and which versions fix it.