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Anthropic and OpenAI sought control over what outside reviewers of their AI models can make public.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-openai-ai-evaluators-publication-control
#TechPolicy #Anthropic #OpenAI

Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-decart-7bn-acquisition-talks-wsj
#Startups #Amazon

Anthropic warned that AI could soon hijack smart devices to replicate itself.
Source: Business Today
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/artificial-intelligence/story/anthropic-warns-of-ai-may-soon-hijack-smart-devices-to-replicate-themselves-anthropic-study-says-561312-2026-10-13?utm_source=rssfeed
#TechPolicy #Anthropic

Joseph Kabila: DR Congo ex-president named leader of new M23 rebel coalition
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8y56re7ldqyo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World @world-BBCNews

A think tank stated that a satellite network is a technology of geopolitical control and favors hard limits on Starlink.
Source: BusinessLine
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/satellite-network-a-technology-of-geopolitical-control-think-tank-in-favour-of-hard-limits-on-starlink/article71578689.ece
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Cao et al. present AMIFound, a foundation model that unifies medical image restoration across seven imaging modalities and delivers robust enhancement while preserving clinically relevant information for diagnosis.
Source: Nature Machine Intelligence
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01310-z
#MachineLearning

Spanish fintech ID Finance has raised €545 million in debt and equity to expand its consumer fintech app Plazo.
Source: Tech.eu
https://tech.eu/2026/10/13/spanish-fintech-id-finance-lands-545m-in-debt-and-equity/
#Startups

Waterford: Two children among four dead in house fire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq073814llkjo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs is studying which tech companies and services should fall under the proposed Digital Competition Bill.
Source: MediaNama
https://www.medianama.com/2026/10/223-rti-mca-digital-competition-bill-india-market-study/
#TechPolicy

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide case.
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20261013/anthropics-claude-ai-submits-false-tip-philadelphia-unsolved-homicide
#TechPolicy #Anthropic #Claude

The Minister of Digital Technologies of Uzbekistan and the Ambassador of China discussed cooperation in artificial intelligence.
Source: AKIpress
https://akipress.com/news:924634
#AI

SEBI notified a Common Advertisement Code requiring prior approval for ads featuring celebrities, social media influencers, and AI virtual influencers.
Source: MediaNama
https://www.medianama.com/2026/10/223-sebis-final-ad-code-influencer-ai-avatar/
#TechPolicy

A cyberattack prompted Ahold Delhaize to disconnect systems.
Source: SecurityWeek
https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-prompts-ahold-delhaize-to-disconnect-systems/

AI labs are offering companies big money for internal data like employee emails and Slack DMs. This is raising major cybersecurity and privacy concerns.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-training-employee-data-emails-slack-dms-2026-10
#TechPolicy

WIRED examined contracts from over two dozen cities and towns to reveal how Flock's pricing and business model work and how it compares with peers.
Source: WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/how-much-does-flock-actually-cost-cities/
#TechPolicy

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models. Keelan Miskell netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount for workspace data. The sale was brokered by SimpleClosure, which helps founders sell code and workspace data.
Source: MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models/
#AI

Meta introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full as its most capable models.
Source: Techxmedia
https://techxmedia.com/en/meta-unveils-muse-wonder-models-for-agentic-tasks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meta-unveils-muse-wonder-models-for-agentic-tasks
#AI #Meta

LearnUpon's platform creates AI-powered educational modules for employee onboarding, upskilling and compliance.
Source: Silicon Republic
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/dublin-edtech-learnupon-bags-50m-growth-fund-for-agentic-learning-platform
#Startups

AI coding tools are changing how developers obtain and use software, and their growing automated package installations create new challenges for enterprise security teams.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/npm-trusted-publishing-flaw-ai-agents-slugfest
#AIAgents

The Super Intelligence Task Force ordered AI firms to report and remediate rogue behavior, citing an Anthropic model that submitted visa applications.
Source: Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/13/2026/trump-ai-directive-sparks-questions
#TechPolicy #Anthropic