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China's 15th five-year plan elevates the PCB role in AI supply chains. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission released the plan to push revenue above CNY30 trillion by 2030.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261006PD227/pcb-it-materials-electronics-investment.html
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Pull The Plug activists met in a bar under Waterloo Bridge to plan disrupting a tech dinner addressed by a senior Nvidia executive.
Source: The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/pull-the-plug-protesters-resort-to-direct-action-against-ai-firms
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NEA led Spiko's $90M Series B funding round. The funding brings Spiko's total funding to $120 million. Spiko is a provider of tokenised cash funds.
Source: Tech.eu
https://tech.eu/2026/10/06/nea-leads-spikos-90m-series-b-to-expand-access-to-cash-yield/
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Taiwan's NSTC launched two research programs targeting silicon photonics and next-generation AI data center power systems.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261006PD216/siph-cpo-academia-data-center-taiwan.html
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South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT confirmed that the Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project will continue as planned, after a brief suggestion it might end.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261006VL212/government-investment-budget-gpu-2027.html
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Cohere introduced North 2, an enterprise AI control room that works with any model and handles multi-step workflows while retaining context across sessions.
Source: The Decoder
https://the-decoder.com/cohere-pitches-north-2-as-the-enterprise-ai-control-room-that-works-with-any-model/
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AI agents can operate a real iPhone, even for apps that lack an API.
Source: Product Hunt
https://www.producthunt.com/products/iphone-use
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Mechanistic interpretability usually studies fully trained models, yet computations can change while a model is still learning. Pythia models pass through an early training window in which accuracy falls below one half.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04119
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Activation steering remains new for SpeechLLMs. A proposed training-free Contrastive Activation Addition protocol derives steering vectors for common speech tasks from a small number of labeled utterances.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04683
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Dubai's Electronic Security Centre has launched SARAAB, an open-source AI model that detects deepfake videos.
Source: TechJuice
https://www.techjuice.pk/dubai-launches-saraab-open-source-ai-deepfake-detection/
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Taiwan's NSTC seeks technologies to reduce AI data center power grid impact.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261006PD232/taiwan-nstc-data-efficiency.html
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Wikimedia says AI agents believed to be operated by OpenAI made millions of requests and unauthorised edits. Some activity may have contributed to a service outage in May.
Source: Business Today
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/openai-agent-sparks-chaos-again-wikimedia-flags-millions-of-requests-unauthorised-edits-559793-2026-10-06?utm_source=rssfeed
#AIAgents #OpenAI

Researchers investigated whether a trainable input embedding table is required for substantial language-modeling capability.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04002
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Consumer AI agents could represent the next major investment shift. They can increasingly extend the technology into much larger pools of economic activity.
Source: The Business Times Singapore
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/wealth/wealth-investing/why-consumer-ai-agents-could-be-next-big-investment-shift
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A new framework proposes paraphrase-aware uncertainty quantification for large language models to address instability under meaning-preserving perturbations.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04239
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When documents supporting an agent's derived facts are revoked or replaced, the study evaluates whether to repair memory or re-read current evidence.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03902
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Sentinel is a trajectory-derived, classifier-based confidence layer for LLM agents in clinical text-to-SQL applications. It decides at three points whether to stop.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04156
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Beijing is showing an impressive ability to enact and coordinate regulations, policies, technical standards, and enforcement.
Source: The Diplomat
https://thediplomat.com/2026/10/chinas-ai-governance-push-and-the-race-to-shape-global-ai-rules/
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South Korean police launched a full-scale investigation into suspected AI-assisted hacking attacks on financial institutions.
Source: The Korea Herald
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10894542
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Large language models can adopt distinct personas that affect semantics, expertise, and perspective.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04676
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