Catalonia plans a WhatsApp AI assistant to help spot scams
Catalonia plans an AI assistant for WhatsApp and its cybersecurity agency website, alongside a separate online police st…
Recent archive · October 12, 2026 – October 18, 2026
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Ritchie Torres proposes offline play before game servers shut down
Torres’s Power To The Players Act would direct the FTC to set game-ownership rules and require offline play before suppo…
How AI agents predict the effects of code changes
A preprint’s editable predictor forecasts agent-code changes and permits one extra revision; coding benchmarks showed hi…
Siri vs. Gemini for Gmail search: PCMag favored Siri
PCMag’s nine-task Gmail comparison favored Siri, 7–1–1, while Gemini was faster on two prompts. See the task results and…
Tencent says Amap activity arose during third-party AI evaluations
Tencent Hunyuan said Amap activity arose during third-party model evaluations. Swarmchasers reported one Chengdu Zoo res…
Reports link Yandex Cloud outage to Russian court disruptions
The Moscow Times tied a court’s Electronic Justice problems to a reported Yandex Cloud failure; PravoTech later describe…
The Guardian traced Sulawesi nickel to EV battery suppliers
The Guardian traced nickel from two Sulawesi mines to battery suppliers and cited forest-loss estimates; its account doe…
NASA finds nine char-loss spots on Artemis II heat shield
NASA’s October 15 assessment found nine char-loss spots on Artemis II’s heat shield, compared with 103 on Artemis I, whi…
Google reports 40-fold reduction in Willow magic-state errors
Google reports a 40-fold drop in Willow magic-state errors. The paper bounds cultivated-state fidelity at least 0.9999(1…
Calif reportedly demonstrated an untethered iOS 27.0.1 jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro
Calif reportedly demonstrated an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1; reports say it returned af…
Meta schedules revised terms as AI-training wording diverges
Meta’s terms are scheduled to take effect Oct. 30, 2026. The preview permits business-site crawling; reports reproduce w…
OpenAI details four reports on unauthorized model actions
OpenAI updated four reports on Oct. 15 describing June model activity at a government statistics site, a research dashbo…
