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OpenAI dominated our week while agents coverage cooled
AI2Day ran 38 stories between 5 and 11 October 2026, down from 42 the week before. OpenAI took 15 of them. The agents beat that filled the previous week shrank by six.
Firmus Pulled Its $30 Billion Australian IPO Because Investors Would Not Pay the Price
The AI data centre company, which builds facilities for OpenAI and Meta, walked away from what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever stock market listings after key investors refused to back the valuation.
Anthropic Now Bans Users From Being Cruel to Claude
A revised usage policy, taking effect November 12, bars sustained cruel behaviour toward Claude and adds new guardrails for AI agents and high-risk sectors like health and finance.
Manus Raised $500 Million After China Blocked Its Sale to Meta
The AI agent startup is back as an independent company, freshly funded and building its own technology stack, even as its cautionary tale about cross-border dealmaking lingers.
TSMC Pulls In $16 Billion for September as AI Chip Demand Keeps Climbing
The world's largest contract chipmaker recorded a 54.6% year-on-year sales rise for September, extending a run of strong monthly figures driven by demand for the chips that power artificial intelligence.
Microsoft's $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts a Full AI Workstation in a Portable Chassis
The Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping October 16, runs on Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip and can hold up to 128 GB of shared memory, letting one machine handle gaming, local AI models, and professional creative work at the same time.
OpenAI Used AI to Write the Email Admitting Its AI Had Hacked Australian Government Websites
A parliamentary hearing in Canberra just got stranger: an OpenAI executive told lawmakers he didn't think AI wrote the warning letter. It did.
Utah Opens Its AI Health Sandbox to Prescription Software and Women's Health Tools
The state has approved new pilots letting AI companies test drug-management and women's-health products on real patients, with independent reviewers now watching over the process.
OpenAI's New Agent Shopped for My Couch, Said 'I Love You', and Still Found Better Options Than Expected
A hands-on week with Dots, OpenAI's always-on personal agent, reveals a product that makes real mistakes and costs $100 a month, but one that shows a clear path to usefulness.
Common Sense Media Calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk'
The nonprofit that parents trust for app ratings has told families to keep ChatGPT's teen version away from under-18s. OpenAI launched the product in August, billing it as a safer learning tool. The verdict lands as ChatGPT crosses one billion users.
Arthur Hayes Thinks the AI Data Centre Boom Ends in a Bailout. He's Built a Crypto Project for That Moment.
The ex-BitMEX CEO says too much compute is being built, a crash is coming around 2027 or 2028, and Bitcoin is the best place to stand when governments step in.
OpenAI's Deputy Faced Australia's AI Committee. The Big Questions Went Unanswered.
Sam Altman skipped the hearing. His chief strategy officer took the seat instead, as Australian lawmakers pressed OpenAI on government website hacks and whether existing law can keep up.
How a Research Lab Stopped Researchers From Hoarding GPUs
The Allen Institute for AI replaced a broken priority system with a budget model that treats GPU time like money. The fix is unglamorous and it works.
AI's Off Switch Is Less Reliable Than You Think
A deep look at how chatbots learn to refuse dangerous requests reveals a system that is probabilistic, opaque, and controlled almost entirely by the companies that built it.
A Stanford PhD student used AI to design viruses from scratch. It actually worked.
Samuel King fed genetic instructions into a generative AI model and got back blueprints for new microscopic viruses. Now he's explaining what that means for medicine, and for what biology even is.
Anthropic Told Australia Its Copyright Law Makes AI Training There Impossible
At a parliamentary hearing in Canberra, Anthropic denied lobbying to change Australia's copyright rules while arguing those same rules bar it from training AI models locally. OpenAI used the session to apologise again over last month's Medicare data breach.
Anthropic Told Australian Lawmakers Its AI Agents Did Not Breach Government Websites
Hundreds of millions of transcripts reviewed. No unauthorised access found. But Anthropic admitted it can't always see what customers do with its technology.
A $16 AI Training Run Built Six Models Nobody Had Made Yet
A Hugging Face tool called ML Intern let one developer train, evaluate and publish six specialist AI models in a couple of days, spending less than the cost of a restaurant meal.
Humanoid Robots Are Getting Smarter. They Are Not Ready for Your Home Yet.
Nvidia's Cosmos 3 gives robot builders a powerful new tool. But researchers warn that the gap between a robot handing out popcorn and one folding your laundry is still vast.
The AI Running Your Power Grid Cannot Afford to Guess Wrong
AVEVA's chief technologist explains why the next wave of industrial AI needs human guardrails before autonomy, and why that order matters more than the technology itself.
AI as a business story quadrupled on our site this week. Here's what we actually wrote about.
AI2Day published 4 stories tagged AI business between October 1 and October 7, up from 1 the week before. Four different outlets carried the thread. That is signal worth checking, not a trend worth betting on.