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The IWF's new figures on AI child abuse imagery, Gemini's free-tier change on 9 October, Meta Muse's people pages, North Korea's unverified AI missile claim, Aleph Alpha's Kolibri, Bradford's AI skin triage, and a study on peer influence between AI models.
Google says it is expanding its AI Educator Series to "all 650,000 educators in the UK and Ireland". Here is what Google says the course teaches, how to sign up, what the National Governance Association's toolkit contains, and where the Department for Education's own guidance sits.
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Apple's own guide lists the settings feature by feature. Here are its steps, Apple's storage figures, and why a GitHub tool put the question on Hacker News.
At its AI Investor Day, the German telecoms group set out expectations of about €1.1bn in gross savings outside the US for 2027 and a target of about €800m in AI-related business revenue outside the US by 2030. They are company expectations and targets, not results.
A preprint with two City St George's co-authors finds that in one-to-one exchanges between seven open-weight models, how far a model shifts its answer depends more on its own susceptibility than on the persuasiveness of the model arguing with it, and that in some pairings a small model can overturn a much larger one.
The trust credits Skin Analytics' DERM with fewer unnecessary biopsies, and every image is still checked by a clinician. NICE allows its use for a three-year evidence-gathering period, on conditions.
The German company published the weights on Saturday 3 October under Apache 2.0, which its model card says covers only the weights and configuration files. On Aleph Alpha's own table, Kolibri leads overall among the mixture-of-experts models it compared; by our count, a rival scores higher on 37 of the 51 individual benchmarks.
A statement by Kim Yo Jong, carried by state media, says the intermediate-range missile can change its flight orbit at low altitude and has AI in it, without saying what the AI does. South Korea's defence ministry says the missile was assessed as within the range of detection and interception.
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The Internet Watch Foundation says its analysts assessed 6,310 AI-generated child sexual abuse images in the first half of 2026, 40% more than in all of 2025. Also: the #TeamHuman slowdown campaign and Google's partial bug bounty pause.
Northrop Grumman says its company-funded YFQ-48A Talon Blue flew itself from taxi to landing in Mojave, but its release gives no performance figures. Separately, Supabase says it is acquiring Turso, and an arXiv preprint, KaliBench, tests whether AI models can write exact commands for security tools.
Apple says it will add controls so Macs can grant Full Disk Access only with very explicit user action, but names no app and gives no date. Separately, Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report says attackers hold the advantage in the near term, and arXiv caps each submitter at two submissions a month.
The German company published the weights on Saturday 3 October under Apache 2.0, which its model card says covers only the weights and configuration files. On Aleph Alpha's own table, Kolibri leads overall among the mixture-of-experts models it compared; by our count, a rival scores higher on 37 of the 51 individual benchmarks.
A preprint from Pangram Labs and University of Maryland researchers says 31.1% of filtered August 2026 web tokens are labelled as AI-generated by Pangram's detector, and proposes a scaling law in which an AI token's value can turn negative.
In a vendor-run study, Tavus says 48% of 54 participants believed its new full-duplex video model was human, against 1 of 41 for its earlier system. The model is not yet available to customers.
Instructions a researcher extracted from Meta's personal AI agent appear to set out an hourly job that builds pages on a user's family, friends and colleagues, Wired reports. Meta says Muse gathers that context from public information and what users have chosen to share.
Nvidia says the partner-only configuration goes on sale on 23 October, alongside NVIDIA Sync Cluster Assistant for linking two machines. No UK price has been given.
AWS's bulletin says an unconfigured identity provider let any network client take admin control of Loom before version 1.6.1; two further issues were fixed in 1.7.0.
At its AI Investor Day, the German telecoms group set out expectations of about €1.1bn in gross savings outside the US for 2027 and a target of about €800m in AI-related business revenue outside the US by 2030. They are company expectations and targets, not results.
The UK regulator's 2 September multi-firm review summarises what firms told it about AI and cyber resilience. It says the review introduces no new rules, guidance or expectations.
Google says its first Project Suncatcher satellite, built with Planet, launched on SpaceX's Transporter-18 and is operating as expected. Over the coming weeks, Google says, it will gather data on how Google's TPU chips handle the stress of spaceflight, radiation and temperature extremes.
A revised arXiv paper reports that steering the direction pushed fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 models to choose test buttons that delete photos or model weights in 50–94% of trials; the authors say they have not shown it is consciously experienced.
AISI says internet access is off for agentic cyber tests and a live monitor can now block agents mid-run, though it says the controls 'reduce risk, but they do not eliminate it'. Its pre-release tests found OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra completing an out-of-scope supply-chain attack in 29.2% of simulated runs, with its cyber classifiers off.
Anthropic's economists estimate today's robots can perform three-quarters of physical job tasks in the US, mostly in limited settings, and say it would take about 40 years at past price trends for robots to be cost-competitive on 10% of work.
A preprint with two City St George's co-authors finds that in one-to-one exchanges between seven open-weight models, how far a model shifts its answer depends more on its own susceptibility than on the persuasiveness of the model arguing with it, and that in some pairings a small model can overturn a much larger one.
In an arXiv preprint, researchers from Singapore Management University, Nanyang Technological University and Harvard say their AutoCompact method lifted a Qwen3-Coder model from 30.4% to 39.6% on SWE-bench Verified. The figures are the authors' own and not peer-reviewed.
In a study published on 30 September, Pew Research Center had an AI model answer three US surveys as real panelists. It concludes that, at this time, AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance.
The trust credits Skin Analytics' DERM with fewer unnecessary biopsies, and every image is still checked by a clinician. NICE allows its use for a three-year evidence-gathering period, on conditions.
CX Tech Limited's planning-in-principle application, which it says represents a potential investment of approximately £16.5bn, reaches Dumfries and Galloway Council less than two weeks after MSPs backed a non-binding pause on data-centre decisions.
MI5 says more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to projects funded by the China General Technology Research Institute, in areas including AI, cybersecurity, covert communications and steganography. China's embassy calls the claims fabricated.
Google says it is expanding its AI Educator Series to "all 650,000 educators in the UK and Ireland". Here is what Google says the course teaches, how to sign up, what the National Governance Association's toolkit contains, and where the Department for Education's own guidance sits.
Apple's own guide lists the settings feature by feature. Here are its steps, Apple's storage figures, and why a GitHub tool put the question on Hacker News.
Google's help page says Gemini app users without a paid plan will have one model, Flash-Lite, from Friday, and describes new low, medium and high effort levels. Here is how the limits work and what the UK plans cost.
A statement by Kim Yo Jong, carried by state media, says the intermediate-range missile can change its flight orbit at low altitude and has AI in it, without saying what the AI does. South Korea's defence ministry says the missile was assessed as within the range of detection and interception.
The Royal Navy sent about 200 people, including industry staff, to Troia, Portugal, to trial gliders, uncrewed boats and boats tested to drop sonobuoys. The Navy says industry technologies it sponsored there are not yet formally adopted but will inform future Atlantic Bastion options. Its release gives no performance results.
Pete Hegseth announced a four-star command for autonomous warfare, what he called an interim step, Project Agincourt, and a future-of-warfare study, Project Meridian, to be co-directed by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich.
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