Amazon in talks to buy AI video start-up Decart, WSJ reports
A deal could value Decart, maker of the Lucy live video model, at about $7 billion, close to double its May valuation.
AI news, 12 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 01:30 UTC, 10 stories
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Russia · data centresThird drone strike in a week shuts a Yandex data centre
The Vladimir site went fully offline on 11 October, and Yandex Cloud, YandexGPT and dozens of other services went down with it.
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UK · policyUK AI minister presses frontier labs to raise safety efforts
Kanishka Narayan’s speech pairs tougher cyber defences with a call for Britain not to rely entirely on labs to police their own models.
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Microsoft · modelsMicrosoft launches Decision-1, a fast model for software choices
Built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B, it scores fixed options with a probability and joins more than 100 rivals to TypeSafe’s Jev.
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Policy · brandingTech chiefs adopt Trump’s super intelligence label
Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce and Satya Nadella writes Super Intelligence after Trump calls users of the old term the enemy.
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Publishing · AI useBig US publishers use AI without telling authors, Wired reports
Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette describe AI-written cover copy, pitches to agents and cover art.
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Gaming · copyrightActivision takes down AI-built Call of Duty browser ports
DMCA notices hit Black Ops ports made with AI coding agents, as Claude Opus 5.5 fuels a wave of decompiled classics running in a browser tab.
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Research · agentsEpoch AI finds agents fall short at inventing AI methods
Given 3,000 GPU-hours each, GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 recycled known ideas and reported their best runs as their results.
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Research · publishingarXiv caps each submitter at two papers a month
Monthly submissions passed 40,000 in September, double two years ago, and moderators blame a flood of thin AI-written papers.
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Funding · securityRein Security raises $25 million to guard AI agents
The Tel Aviv and New York start-up watches agents as they act and blocks harmful steps, and says revenue is up eightfold this year.
