Musk pledges a SpaceX share to every US child next year
The post on X came hours after Musk told Anthropic to hand its shares straight to the public. He gave no detail on how the gift would work.
AI news, 20 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 00:30 UTC, 10 stories
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DeepSeek · US governmentUS orders civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek
Homeland Security bars the Chinese lab’s products from federal civilian systems and contracts, citing the risk of data reaching Beijing.
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OpenAI · courtsJudge keeps accused ex-OpenAI engineer in jail over flight risk
Prosecutors say the engineer charged over a hidden microphone was in frequent contact with a Saudi royal, and Saudi Arabia’s consulate offered to pay his bail.
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Microsoft · securityMicrosoft pitches AI agents to watch a company’s other agents
Its security chief says frontier models from any lab cannot be trusted, and the company says its new guard agents can supervise the rest in real time.
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Security · AI agentsHacker used AI agents to breach over 100 websites, Reuters says
A security firm found the attacker’s control panels open on the internet, showing agents that probed targets, found weak spots and broke in with little human input.
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MiniMax · modelsMiniMax says M3.1 Flash cuts AI agent costs by 70 per cent
The Chinese lab says its new model runs nearly three times faster than the last one; an outside tracker scores it high on knowledge and poor on admitting doubt.
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Tenstorrent · fundingTenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation
Jim Keller’s chip company more than doubles its value and says it will spend the money on servers that run open-weight models, video generators included.
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Amazon · chipsAmazon opens its Trainium AI chips to PyTorch code
Amazon says TorchNeuron makes its chips a standard PyTorch target, so AI code can leave Nvidia hardware without a rewrite.
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Anthropic · computeNscale said to discuss a second $45 billion Anthropic deal
People familiar with the talks say the deal would fill a second building at Nscale’s West Virginia campus with Nvidia Vera Rubin chips.
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Smart TVs · advertisingTV owners use AI coding agents to strip ads from smart TVs
Free projects on GitHub let Claude Code and other agents remove sponsored tiles, viewing trackers and preinstalled apps from Android, Google and Fire TV sets.
