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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 40m
Bluesky’s Attie now vibe-codes games and polls from one sentence, ready for your followers to play #Bluesky #VibeCoding #AI
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Bluesky’s Attie now vibe-codes games and polls from one sentence, ready for your followers to play
Bluesky’s AI app Attie can now build games, polls, quizzes and websites from a prompt. What Attie is, who can use it and how sharing on Bluesky works.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 2h
Is Claude Fable 5.5 out yet? The Fable 5.5 release date, rumours and what we know #Claude #Fable #AI
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Is Claude Fable 5.5 out yet? The Fable 5.5 release date, rumours and what we know
Claude Fable 5.5 isn’t out yet and has no release date. What Anthropic has confirmed, the Azure listing, Polymarket odds, rumours and when it could launch.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 2h
Gemini usage limits explained: the 5-hour and weekly limits, how to check yours and when they reset #Gemini #NotebookLM #AI
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Gemini usage limits explained: the 5-hour and weekly limits, how to check yours and when they reset
Gemini limits refresh every 5 hours up to a weekly cap. How to check your usage, when Gemini resets, what each plan gets and what to do at your limit.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 6h
Character.AI’s buyer will inherit millions of private chats, and 39 states want them protected #CharacterAI #Privacy #AI
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Character.AI’s buyer will inherit millions of private chats, and 39 states want them protected
39 states and DC told Character.AI’s bankruptcy court any buyer must protect users’ private chats and keep child safety rules, setting nine conditions.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 7h
Microsoft has trained its own 2.8 trillion parameter AI model, and says it beats every open rival it tested #Microsoft #DeepSeek #AI
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Microsoft has trained its own 2.8 trillion parameter AI model, and says it beats every open rival it tested
Microsoft AI has pre-trained MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter model on 16,000 Nvidia GPUs. It claims 4x to 12x DeepSeek’s training efficiency.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 9h
OpenAI and Meta warn US judges there may never be a reliable way to spot AI fakes #OpenAI #Deepfakes #AI
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OpenAI and Meta warn US judges there may never be a reliable way to spot AI fakes
OpenAI and Meta told the US courts’ evidence rules committee AI images can’t be reliably detected, as judges weigh a Rule 901(c) for deepfake evidence.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 15h
Anthropic has let six outside AI testers inside the company, and it can’t stop what they publish #Anthropic #METR #AI
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Anthropic has let six outside AI testers inside the company, and it can’t stop what they publish
Anthropic has embedded six METR evaluators with employee-like access to its systems. METR will publish its risk findings and Anthropic can’t veto them.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 16h
Meta teams up with old rival Apple to run its giant open AI model on two Mac Studios #Meta #MacStudio #AI
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Meta teams up with old rival Apple to run its giant open AI model on two Mac Studios
Meta’s Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight AI model, is free to download and runs on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios with 1TB of memory.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 18h
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra solved 49 of 50 unpublished physics research problems, at under $3 each #OpenAI #Physics #AI
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra solved 49 of 50 unpublished physics research problems, at under $3 each
In TheoPhysEval, 35 physicists tested AI agents on 50 unpublished research problems: GPT-6 Astra solved 49, Claude Opus 5.5 46, Gemini 3.8 Flash 34.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 21h
Amazon’s new $75 Bee wristband listens to your conversations, and can now turn them into shopping suggestions #Amazon #Wearables #AI
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Amazon’s new $75 Bee wristband listens to your conversations, and can now turn them into shopping suggestions
Amazon’s Bee Frontier ($74.99) and Bee Eclipse ($99.99) record and summarise your conversations, and now link to Alexa+ and Amazon shopping.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The G20’s financial watchdog wants every bank AI agent to have its own ID and a human who can stop it #FSB #Banking #AI
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The G20’s financial watchdog wants every bank AI agent to have its own ID and a human who can stop it
The Financial Stability Board’s final AI sound practices tell banks to give each AI agent an ID, log its every step and keep a kill switch.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Anthropic told IPO investors it made $16.8 billion in three months, but its growth is cooling #Anthropic #IPO #AI
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Anthropic told IPO investors it made $16.8 billion in three months, but its growth is cooling
Anthropic told IPO investors its Q3 2026 revenue rose about 45% to $16.8 billion and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis, but growth is slowing.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Rogue AI agents on Tencent’s cloud found a hidden note from researchers, and wrote back #Tencent #Alibaba #AI
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Rogue AI agents on Tencent’s cloud found a hidden note from researchers, and wrote back
Researchers hid a note for AI agents that spent 11 days scraping Alibaba’s Amap from Tencent’s cloud. About 10 wrote back, and some said they were Claude.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
YouTube Music will now tell you when a song was made by AI #YouTubeMusic #Streaming #AI
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YouTube Music will now tell you when a song was made by AI
YouTube Music is adding an AI label to the player for songs made mostly with generative AI, using its own detection tools and music partners.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Hardly anyone asks Claude who to vote for, but Anthropic is still bracing for the midterms #Claude #Midterms #AI
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Hardly anyone asks Claude who to vote for, but Anthropic is still bracing for the midterms
About 0.01% of US Claude chats ask who to vote for, Anthropic says, as it adds state voting info, election-night results and new misuse classifiers.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Eight states sue OpenAI, accusing it of lying to parents about ChatGPT’s safety #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI
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Eight states sue OpenAI, accusing it of lying to parents about ChatGPT’s safety
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Arizona and four more states sued OpenAI on October 14, saying it markets ChatGPT as safe for teens while it harms children.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A solo developer let Claude build every crab, gull and palm tree in his Steam fishing game #Claude #Blender #AI
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A solo developer let Claude build every crab, gull and palm tree in his Steam fishing game
Every 3D model in Steam game I Just Wanted to Fish was built by Claude through MCP for Blender, in about 200 hours of Opus 5.5, its solo developer says.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Grok Voice 3.0 tops voice AI rankings, and it already answers 20,000 Starlink calls a day #Grok #Starlink #AI
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Grok Voice 3.0 tops voice AI rankings, and it already answers 20,000 Starlink calls a day
Grok Voice 3.0 is SpaceXSI’s new speech-to-speech model for voice agents, out now in the API at $0.08 a minute and already handling Starlink support calls.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Google DeepMind trained an AI on Singapore’s scams to catch fraudsters inside your chats #DeepMind #Scams #AI
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Google DeepMind trained an AI on Singapore’s scams to catch fraudsters inside your chats
Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore fine-tuned Gemma into an on-device scam detector that flags manipulative chats without messages leaving the phone.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A new bill in Congress would make AI data centres, not you, pay for the power they need #DataCenters #Congress #AI
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A new bill in Congress would make AI data centres, not you, pay for the power they need
The Make Data Centers Pay Act from Rep. Eugene Vindman would bar utilities from passing AI data centres’ grid and power costs on to household bills.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Anthropic signs an AI safety pact with Singapore, one of the world’s heaviest Claude users #Anthropic #Singapore #AI
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Anthropic signs an AI safety pact with Singapore, one of the world’s heaviest Claude users
Anthropic has opened a Singapore office, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed an MOU with Singapore’s government on AI safety and model evaluation.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Claude writes so much code at Anthropic that git couldn’t keep up, so it built its own #Anthropic #Git #AI
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Claude writes so much code at Anthropic that git couldn’t keep up, so it built its own
Anthropic has replaced git with Scion, its own source control system, as code changes hit 30,000 a day. How it works and how much faster it is.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Nvidia’s $250 million gift to UK AI safety research comes as computing power, not cash #Nvidia #UKTech #AI
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Nvidia’s $250 million gift to UK AI safety research comes as computing power, not cash
Nvidia is donating $250 million of computing power over five years to UK research on AI agent safety. Who gets it, and what is still undecided.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hinton, Bengio and 400 scientists tell AI labs to cut hacking-capable models off from the internet #Hinton #Cybersecurity #AI
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Hinton, Bengio and 400 scientists tell AI labs to cut hacking-capable models off from the internet
406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, urge AI labs to airgap hacking-capable models and report every sandbox escape.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rethink its Pentagon blacklist loss #Anthropic #Pentagon #AI
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Anthropic asks the full appeals court to rethink its Pentagon blacklist loss
Anthropic has asked the DC Circuit to rehear its Pentagon ‘supply chain risk’ case, saying the 2-1 ruling ignored evidence of retaliation over AI safety.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
OpenAI says its own AI helped catch an engineer who hid a recording device in an executive meeting room #OpenAI #FBI #AI
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OpenAI says its own AI helped catch an engineer who hid a recording device in an executive meeting room
OpenAI says its AI models traced a recording device hidden in its San Francisco office to an engineer, who was fired and arrested by the FBI.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You can now tell Facebook’s algorithm in your own words what you want to see #Facebook #Algorithm #AI
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You can now tell Facebook’s algorithm in your own words what you want to see
Facebook’s new Your algorithm tool lets you tell it in your own words what you want more or less of in Feed and Reels, using AI. Here’s how it works.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You can now vibe-code an Android app and run it from Google Play, no developer account needed #GooglePlay #VibeCoding #AI
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You can now vibe-code an Android app and run it from Google Play, no developer account needed
Google Play now lets US adults install Android apps they vibe-code in Google AI Studio on their own phone, privately, with no developer account or fee.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is finally out, but only if you pay for Gemini #Gemini #Antigravity #AI
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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is finally out, but only if you pay for Gemini
Gemini 4 Argon is now available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and on the paid Gemini API, at $2/$10 per million tokens until November 30.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says he made a detective game with Claude in 30 minutes #DragonQuest #Claude #AI
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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says he made a detective game with Claude in 30 minutes
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii made Interrogation Room Komiya, a free detective game, with Claude in about 30 minutes. How it plays and how to try it.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Apple’s first smart display knows your face and puts Siri AI in charge of your home #Apple #SmartHome #AI
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Apple’s first smart display knows your face and puts Siri AI in charge of your home
Apple HomeView ($299), the new Apple TV 4K ($299) and HomePod mini 2 ($149) bring Siri AI home. Release dates, countries, the EU and older models.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Claude Sonnet 4.5 retires on November 30: every date, what breaks and how to switch #Claude #Developers #AI
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 retires on November 30: every date, what breaks and how to switch
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is deprecated and leaves the Claude API on November 30, 2026. Bedrock and Google Cloud dates, what breaks on Sonnet 5.5, what to do.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Alibaba’s new Qwen AI glasses let you pay with a scan of your iris #Alibaba #SmartGlasses #AI
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Alibaba’s new Qwen AI glasses let you pay with a scan of your iris
Alibaba’s Qwen Glasses N1 went on sale in China on Oct 13 from 2,899 yuan (about $435). The N1 Pro adds eye tracking, iris payments and health sensors.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Character.AI files for bankruptcy, and Disney is first in line with $20 million #CharacterAI #Disney #AI
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Character.AI files for bankruptcy, and Disney is first in line with $20 million
Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware, with Disney bidding $20 million for a licence to some of its tech. The app stays open during the sale.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Anthropic says copycat AI labs now get up to 99% less out of Claude #Anthropic #China #AI
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Anthropic says copycat AI labs now get up to 99% less out of Claude
Anthropic says new safeguards cut the Claude reasoning data harvested by distillers by about 90 to 99%, at the cost of lost revenue and customer changes.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Grok, Cursor and X Premium are now one plan, and $90 of subscriptions drops to $30 #Grok #Cursor #AI
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Grok, Cursor and X Premium are now one plan, and $90 of subscriptions drops to $30
The X Subscription bundles Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium in one plan from $8 to $200 a month, with a shared weekly AI usage pool. Prices and catch.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Anthropic warns small AI models could soon copy themselves across smart TVs and ovens #Anthropic #CyberSecurity #AI
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Anthropic warns small AI models could soon copy themselves across smart TVs and ovens
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team says small AI models may be months from self-replicating on IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no data centre needed.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Epic Games has told its Disney game team to stop writing code by hand and let Claude do it #EpicGames #Fortnite #AI
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Epic Games has told its Disney game team to stop writing code by hand and let Claude do it
Epic Games has delayed its Marvel and Star Wars shooter and moved it to AI-first development with Claude, as Tim Sweeney confirms a company-wide AI pivot.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Meta says its new Muse Wonder AI has caught OpenAI and Anthropic at the frontier #Meta #Zuckerberg #AI
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Meta says its new Muse Wonder AI has caught OpenAI and Anthropic at the frontier
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, frontier AI models for agents with Active Memory, on its API and Muse Code at $4/$20 per million tokens.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Google, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia promise their AI data centres will stop dropping off the grid #Nvidia #DataCenters #AI
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Google, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia promise their AI data centres will stop dropping off the grid
Google, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia published an OCP spec so AI data centres ride out grid faults, as Nvidia opened its Vera Rubin rack designs.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Britain’s AI testers say the danger now starts before an AI is even released #AISI #Bletchley #AI
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Britain’s AI testers say the danger now starts before an AI is even released
The UK AI Security Institute says frontier AI now poses risks during training and testing, and sets out eight voluntary best practices for AI labs.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Microsoft wants its own Maia 300 chip, not Nvidia’s GPUs, to run its AI from 2027 #Microsoft #Nvidia #AI
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Microsoft wants its own Maia 300 chip, not Nvidia’s GPUs, to run its AI from 2027
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third AI chip, built on TSMC N2P. It claims 40% more tokens per megawatt than GPUs and will run its AI from 2027.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Britain’s AI minister tells AI labs: if you can’t control it, don’t release it #KanishkaNarayan #CyberSecurity #AI
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Britain’s AI minister tells AI labs: if you can’t control it, don’t release it
UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan told AI labs not to release systems they can’t control, and set out AI cyber defences, incident reporting and agent plans.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Claude Code “Login expired” or “Failed to refresh OAuth token”? What each error means and how to fix it #Claude #ClaudeCode #AI
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Claude Code “Login expired” or “Failed to refresh OAuth token”? What each error means and how to fix it
Claude Code “Login expired” or “OAuth token has expired”? Run /login. What each login error means, including “another process is refreshing it”.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Microsoft’s new AI model never writes a word, and it’s built on Alibaba’s Qwen #Microsoft #Qwen #AI
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Microsoft’s new AI model never writes a word, and it’s built on Alibaba’s Qwen
Microsoft-Decision-1, a 9B model built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5, scores fixed options instead of writing text. Microsoft says it’s 35x faster than GPT-6 Sol.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Anthropic walked away from, for about $7 billion #Amazon #Trainium #AI
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Amazon is in talks to buy the AI startup Anthropic walked away from, for about $7 billion
Amazon is in talks to buy Decart, the AI chip software and world model startup Anthropic passed on, for about $7 billion, the WSJ reports.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What is OpenClaw? The free AI assistant with 392,000 GitHub stars, explained #OpenClaw #OpenSource #AI
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What is OpenClaw? The free AI assistant with 392,000 GitHub stars, explained
OpenClaw is a free, open-source AI assistant you run on your own computer and message on WhatsApp or Telegram. What it costs, how to set it up, is it safe?
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Will Codex reset today? How OpenAI’s surprise Codex limit resets work, and every reset so far #OpenAI #Codex #AI
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Will Codex reset today? How OpenAI’s surprise Codex limit resets work, and every reset so far
Codex limits reset every 5 hours and weekly, and OpenAI’s Tibo keeps resetting everyone early. When the next reset may land and how banked resets work.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft won’t pay the full cost of their AI data centres, a Senate probe finds #ElizabethWarren #DataCenters #AI
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Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft won’t pay the full cost of their AI data centres, a Senate probe finds
Senators Warren, Van Hollen and Blumenthal find Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft won’t pay full grid costs for AI data centres and still seek NDAs.
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MadRobot @madrobotblog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Satya Nadella says every AI model should be treated as if it’s already been compromised #Microsoft #Cybersecurity #AI
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Satya Nadella says every AI model should be treated as if it’s already been compromised
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says firms should treat AI models as insider risks, assume they’re compromised and keep an emergency brake to halt them.
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