AIOct 16, 2026The Verge
Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta’s commercial terms update, effective October 30, lets it crawl sites “associated” with business accounts for AI training — publishers hear a power grab.
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AIOct 15, 2026OpenAI
Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
OpenAI’s Rosalind Academic Plan: up to 30 free Business seats for a year and trusted-access GPT-Rosalind for eligible U.S. university labs.
AIOct 15, 2026OpenAI
Teaching students to think and learn through questions
For Teachers' Day, OpenAI ships a Portuguese AI for Educators course and pushes Study Mode — a bet that AI should ask questions, not just hand over answers.
AIOct 15, 2026NVIDIA Blog
NVIDIA Expands Advanced Technology Access for Europe’s Scientific Community Through Open Learning Resources, Collaborations and Compute
NVIDIA joins the EU's new AI in Science Enablers push, pledging open models, free courseware and startup compute routes through Europe's national AI factories.
AIOct 14, 2026Ars Technica
Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
The FBI says an OpenAI engineer hid an encrypted recorder in an executive meeting room and used AI tools to plan it — a vivid sign that frontier labs are now espionage targets.
AIOct 14, 2026TechCrunch
Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to
Floqer's AI agents scrape and enrich prospect data for B2B sales — and the startup plans to open-source the database so companies can host it themselves.
AIOct 14, 2026OpenAI
How Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours
Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for days on quantitative experiments — and uses Daybreak to pen-test the sandbox before they start.
AIOct 13, 2026MarkTechPost
Z.ai GLM-Legal Beats Claude Fable 5 and Kimi K3 on Harvey LAB
Z.ai's GLM-Legal nearly triples its base model on a tough legal agent benchmark at a sliver of frontier cost, but it's gated, slow and not actually the top scorer.
AIOct 12, 2026NVIDIA Blog
From Earth to Orbit, France’s Ecosystem Delivers Agentic Computing at Scale With NVIDIA
NVIDIA's roundup of French AI deployments reads like a sales deck, but underneath it is a real story about Europe trying to own more of its AI stack.
AIOct 12, 2026TechCrunch
Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Meta’s Superintelligence Lab finally ships Muse Wonder and Wonder Full — priced like peer frontier APIs, pitched on long-horizon memory, and aimed straight at the Muse agent.
AIOct 12, 2026Microsoft Research
Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring
Microsoft Research’s StudentSim builds personalized student simulators from de-identified learning records so AI tutors can get scalable feedback before expensive human studies.
AIOct 10, 2026MarkTechPost
Sakana AI’s LLM Peer Review System Catches 73% of Core-Claim Errors
Sakana AI stopped grading AI reviewers on how human they sound and started grading them on whether they catch planted mistakes. That is the right test, and the results are encouraging and humbling at once.