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Cohere Opens an Ottawa Office as Its AI Agents Head to Navy Ships Beijing Warns Officials Off 'Blind Investment' in AI and High Tech TSMC Q3 Revenue Beat Its Forecast: What to Watch in ASML and TSMC Earnings China Gave AI Influencer Yuri an Official ID. What It Unlocks for Creators Double Counter Discord Breach: What to Do If Your IP Address Leaked Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Deny Leaking, Warn of a 'Chilling' Culture Arena, the Leaderboard That Ranks AI Models, Is Now Worth US$3.1 Billion Cohere Opens an Ottawa Office as Its AI Agents Head to Navy Ships Beijing Warns Officials Off 'Blind Investment' in AI and High Tech TSMC Q3 Revenue Beat Its Forecast: What to Watch in ASML and TSMC Earnings China Gave AI Influencer Yuri an Official ID. What It Unlocks for Creators Double Counter Discord Breach: What to Do If Your IP Address Leaked Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Deny Leaking, Warn of a 'Chilling' Culture Arena, the Leaderboard That Ranks AI Models, Is Now Worth US$3.1 Billion

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Beijing Warns Officials Off ‘Blind Investment’ in AI and High Tech

Guidelines from China's Communist Party and State Council published on Oct. 9 order a full AI rollout across industry, and promise to…

Jeff Cameron Oct 11, 2026 · 5 min

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AI Safety Hearing: MPs Will Question OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta on 13 Oct

The Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee wants the four AI developers and the AI Security Institute to say on Tuesday…

Theo Wright · 5 min

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Elon Musk’s Alberta Separation Posts Expose Canada’s Thin Platform Rules

Musk told Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan to separate on Oct. 7, and Carney hit back at "large tech firms" a day later.…

Felix Strauss Oct 10, 2026 · 4 min

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UK Non-Compete Clauses: Burnham Pledges a Law, but Not Yet a Ban or a Cap

The Prime Minister told the Innovation Nation Summit on 9 October that non-competes will no longer block start-up hiring. He gave no…

Felix Strauss · 4 min

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ICO Gets 10 AI Labs to Change Data Practices. AI Agents Are Next

Britain's privacy regulator says Amazon, Apple, OpenAI, Anthropic and six others made or promised changes, without saying which did which. It has…

Theo Wright · 4 min

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AI Victim Impact Video: Arizona Court Orders New Sentencing in Pelkey Case

Arizona's Court of Appeals upheld Gabriel Horcasitas's manslaughter conviction on Sept. 30 but vacated his 10.5-year sentence, finding an AI recreation of…

Felix Strauss Oct 9, 2026 · 5 min

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Utah Lets an AI Write Your First Acne Prescription for US$4.99 a Month

Nolla Health says it is the first company a U.S. state has cleared to let AI issue initial prescriptions, starting with topical…

Lauren Smith · 5 min

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Google Play Store Class Action: £1.2bn UK Trial Over App Fees Begins

Consumer advocate Liz Coll says Google's commission of up to 30% was passed on to about 20 million UK Play Store buyers…

Theo Wright · 4 min

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Ofcom Investigates Meta Over Instagram Instants as Big Tech Fights in Court

Ofcom opened its Online Safety Act case on Oct. 6, asking whether Meta risk-assessed its unscreenshottable disappearing-photo feature before launch. A day…

Cassandra Lee · 4 min

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Signal Would Quit Canada Over Bill C-22. Here’s What the Bill Demands

Signal's Udbhav Tiwari told senators and MPs on Oct. 5 the app would shut down Canadian operations rather than comply with the…

Felix Strauss Oct 8, 2026 · 7 min