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1. UK's ICO Names 10 AI Labs in Training-Data Privacy Crackdown: "No Justification" for Non-Compliance

   

   …d compliance pledges from the 10 biggest foundation-model developers, including Amazon, Anthropic, DeepSeek an…

   Stories·Oct 9

2. NYC Council AI Hearing Opens: Whistleblower Testifies Labs Are "Extremely Reckless," Humanity "More Likely" to Lose Control

   

   …f the Whole held a hearing on AI risks: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified under oath before a US le…

   Stories·Oct 6

3. White House Announces $2.4B in AI-for-Science Tool and Compute Credit Pledges From 11 Companies

   

   …er 5 years), AMD ($500M), OpenAI ($200M), Anthropic and Google ($150M each) pledged $2.4 billion in "super-int…

   Stories·Oct 9

4. Isomorphic Labs in Talks at a $40–50B Valuation; No Drug Yet in Human Trials

   

   Bloomberg (Oct 8): Isomorphic Labs — Alphabet's AI drug-discovery spinout of Google DeepMind (2021), led by 20…

   Stories·Oct 8

5. OpenAI Publishes 722 AI-Generated Math Manuscripts Citing Riemann Hypothesis Progress; None Peer-Reviewed

   

   …ers: It is the largest of OpenAI's math releases: 722 manuscripts across 372 problem families, none peer-revie…

   Stories·Oct 7

6. US Government, Meta and Google Join Biohub's $1.8B Open Dataset Effort for Biology AI

   

   … to build open datasets for training biological AI — $1.8B total; Meta / DeepMind / Isomorphic jointly invest …

   Stories·Oct 7

7. Nvidia-Backed Reflection Debuts Beam, Its First Open-Weight Frontier Model: 501B Params, 23B Active

   

   …ober 5, US startup Reflection AI launched Beam, its first frontier open-weight model: a text-only MoE with 501…

   Stories·Oct 6

8. Lambda Seeks $4B in Final Pre-IPO Round at $14.5B Valuation: $35B of Its $50B Backlog Is One Customer

   

   …unch followed): Nvidia-backed AI compute cloud Lambda is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money valuation, le…

   Stories·Oct 7

9. SignSplit Emerges From Stealth: $400M Strategic Seed at $1B Valuation, Selling “Signed Data”

   

   …nce and terms attached, while AI companies pay to use them. Why it matters: It is a $400M seed round for a com…

   Stories·Oct 6

10. Anthropic Expands Cyber Verification Program: After 129,000 Bugs Found, Its Strongest Models Open to Vetted Defenders — With Fewer Safeguards

    

    …cture operators, open-source maintainers and researchers with a vulnerability-reporting record can apply. The …

    Stories·Oct 7