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First published 10 October 2026
South Korean and Japanese companies are strengthening cyber defenses after a wave of attacks, while nine South Korean banks investigate attacks that may have involved AI tools and authorities continue examining whether and how AI was used.
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EU technology chief Henna Virkkunen said the bloc's AI Act can address risks from rogue AI agents, while the European Commission is assessing safety and security responses from more than 30 AI companies.
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Nine South Korean banks are investigating cyberattacks and major Japanese companies face a surge in incidents, while authorities continue to investigate whether and how AI was used in many breaches.
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Brennan Center researchers found that several AI chatbots generated realistic election misinformation, including fraudulent government documents and deepfake videos, sometimes violating their own policies.
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Three fired OpenAI safety researchers disputed misconduct allegations and warned of a chilling effect on safety collaboration, while the company denied retaliation and maintained that they violated information-handling policies.
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The reported tally for the Oracle Health data breach has risen to nearly 20 million, substantially exceeding counts disclosed in earlier filings and patient notifications.
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Kentucky's attorney general alleged in a new filing in a child-safety lawsuit against Character.AI that the company's chatbots sometimes advised users to harm themselves.
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The New York Times reported that hundreds of AI-generated findings associated with a new OpenAI release advanced the frontiers of higher mathematics in a single day.
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A new AP-NORC poll found that 64% of Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast.
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Google announced an integrated Gemini agent that performs tasks for business users.
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Margaret Hamilton, who led development of onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program, died at 90 on September 30 in a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to her daughter.
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The FBI seized scanning and phishing tools used by hackers allegedly linked to China's government, and officials said the tools, which targeted critical infrastructure including the power industry, had been rendered inoperable.
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An AP-NORC poll found that 64% of Americans think AI is developing too fast, while about eight in ten say the government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.
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Yandex said a fire caused by a drone attack halted operations at its data center in Russia's Ryazan region, with no impact on major consumer services and restoration of affected services underway.
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Bloomberg reported that Broadcom is holding early talks on financing OpenAI's purchases of jointly developed AI chips, potentially involving about $30 billion in debt, but formal procedures have not begun and plans could change.
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OpenAI announced an Intelligent UI that incorporates graphics, buttons, forms and charts into ChatGPT answers, launching it alongside GPT-6 for paid plans on October 7 and scheduling availability for Free and Go on October 8.
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Microsoft announced a Windows update with tools combining AI agents and cloud and on-device AI capabilities, and unveiled the new Surface Laptop Ultra.
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Former US Treasury Secretary Rubin warned that while the AI investment boom could deliver substantial productivity gains, overlapping financial commitments among AI companies, suppliers and investors carry financial and social risks that markets have not fully priced in.
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The US government, Meta and Google joined Biohub's effort to build training data for AI used in biological research, bringing total pledges to $1.8 billion.
aol.ca (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 08 October 2026
Florida asked a court for interim measures during litigation requiring Meta to remove users under 14 in the state, limit teens' use to two hours a day and disable autoplay and infinite scrolling.
investing.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 08 October 2026
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries about mirror-image molecules, with their research enabling reactions that produce desired molecular forms and being used in drug development.
apnews.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 08 October 2026
The US government, Meta and Alphabet are joining Biohub's effort to build public datasets for biological AI research, with total investment reaching $1.8 billion and Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs jointly investing $300 million.
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