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Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares, subject to stockholder approval, to a new Public Benefit Fund set up as a wholly-owned LLC rather than a 501(c)(3).
18 Oct 2026A filing spotted by Bloomberg says Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI staff, which TechCrunch describes as the majority of its workforce. Disney is also the opening bidder, at $20 million, for a licence to some of the company's IP.
18 Oct 2026Meta has removed wording that experts said could allow scraping of news sites to train its AI from its commercial terms. The News/Media Alliance and a law professor say questions remain, and the terms still take effect on 30 October.
17 Oct 2026Users of Meta's Muse and other AI agents report being blocked from major sites. Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Yelp and Delta have each said something on the record. Here is what, and what remains user reports.
17 Oct 2026Eight US states filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October 2026, alleging ChatGPT harms young users. OpenAI's spokesperson points to its age-specific protections.
17 Oct 2026Google made Gemini 4 Argon generally available on 13 October. Its own model card has it ahead on knowledge-work benchmarks and behind rivals on some coding and science tests.
15 Oct 2026Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says small AI models may be months away from copying themselves onto devices like smart ovens and Android TV boxes. Its tests were simplified, and the timeline is a projection.
15 Oct 2026Google released Nano Banana 2.1 on 6 October 2026. Its model card and developer docs agree on much, but give different context-window and output limits.
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