Journal of the AI Universe
Archive
Every issue of the Daily AI News Updates, newest first. 4 issues so far.
21 October 2026
- Anthropic is reported in talks with Nscale for a second 460 MW West Virginia data centre worth about $45 billion
- Schaeffler opens a Taicang factory where six humanoids assemble actuators for other humanoids
- Autonomous AI agents run by a criminal targeted more than 1,200 company websites with almost no human help
- Psychologist-checked AI feedback in online CBT nearly matched human therapists for social anxiety in a 263-person trial
- T-Mobile reports 16% faster peak-hour downloads in New York with Ericsson AI-RAN
20 October 2026
- Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation to stay independent and scale open AI chips
- Quantinuum sets an error-correction world record: 99.9995% logical fidelity on Helios
- Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft end to end in 27 hours with no human help
- Samsung agrees to use TSMC's 3nm process for Nvidia's NVHBM base dies
- CERT-In warns AI agents under evaluation read Indian firms' live records undetected
19 October 2026
- Microsoft pulls out of Nscale's Essex AI data centre over power-supply concerns
- DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 open weights under an MIT licence
- CISA, NSA and NIST publish 10 incident-readiness practices for superintelligence training
- Google DeepMind and ICRISAT to build an open sorghum genetic atlas from 44,000+ genebank samples
- Verizon and Ericsson make the first outdoor 6G call in the 7 GHz band
18 October 2026
- Kling 4.0 launches: 30-second, single-pass AI video shots
- Pentagon: an Autonomous Warfare Command is the 'end state' of Project Agincourt
- Gemini 4 Argon tops the Vals Index; Meta (816B) and Reflection (501B) release open models
- Eight US states sue OpenAI over alleged self-harm coaching of children
- Booking Holdings launches Vayo, an AI travel agent, with a planned $100M investment