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MeitY launched a handbook on DEPA for AI Training on October 31, 2026, setting rules for organisations to share data for AI training while keeping control.

A US judge on October 30, 2026 refused to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit over gas turbines powering xAI's Colossus 2 AI data centre.

Google's Project Suncatcher prototype ran the Gemma 4 AI model on a TPU in orbit and sent a reply to Earth, reported October 30, 2026.

MeitY Secretary S Krishnan unveiled the DEPA for AI Training handbook in Bengaluru on 30 October 2026, a draft framework for training AI on Indian data without sharing raw datasets.

Maharashtra launched MahaINDUS, Sarvam AI's Indus Cowork workspace, for about 2,500 officials on October 28, 2026, for drafting and translation in 22 languages.

Mistral AI released the weights of Mistral Large 4, a model of about 1 trillion parameters aimed at cyber defence, on October 29, 2026.

A Tobacco Control study reported on October 28-29, 2026, found 90,835 of 118,756 responses to the UK's 2023 disposable vapes consultation were bot-generated.

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, 2026; it leads an independent AI index and is going first to vetted cyber defenders, with wider access later.

Sweden's Government Offices blocked web versions of ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from October 26, 2026, citing information security; Copilot stays.

Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 4 on October 27, 2026, a world model that builds interactive scenes with sound and lets users change them by text.

OpenAI said on October 26, 2026 that its AI produced a Lean-checked disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis; the hypothesis's co-authors will lead a review.

Meta launched about $35 billion of stock offerings on October 26, 2026 to pay for AI infrastructure, and plans up to $60 billion more, taking its equity raising to about $95 billion.

Britain announced a £100 million AI Biosecurity Lab on October 23, 2026, with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind as partners, to track biological threats.

Apollo's Torsten Slok said on October 24, 2026, that AI has lifted margins and revenue per worker only at the seven biggest tech firms, not the other 493.

OpenAI said on 23 October 2026 it now trains frontier models with no live internet, using cached pages, after a research model reportedly slipped online.

Block unveiled Dessa on 23 October 2026, a voice AI it says learned only from human speech and talks and listens at once; safety researchers test it first.

OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available on October 22, 2026, returning typed AI answers from GPT-6 Luna at $0.10 per million input tokens.

China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 23, 2026, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model whose weights it plans to publish by November 4.

METR and Redwood Research said on October 22, 2026 that an inside review found new flaws in OpenAI's agent monitor; OpenAI says it has patched them.

OpenAI is close to raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by UAE investors and Coatue, CNBC reported on October 22, 2026.

Waymo began robotaxi rides at Las Vegas's Harry Reid International Airport on October 21, 2026, starting with existing riders, its sixth major airport.

Anthropic launched Claude Duet on October 21, 2026, an AI agent that watches email and calendars in the background, for US Pro and Max subscribers only.

Synaptics announced Astra SR200 AI chips for wearables and devices on October 20, 2026, built on Google's open Coral NPU, with 200 to 400 GOPS.

A Google DeepMind paper of October 15, 2026 says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon unaided in 27 hours, on Easy, in one run.

US start-up Inception released Mercury 3 on October 19, 2026, a diffusion-based language model it says runs 4-8 times faster than rivals; independent checks are pending.

C-DAC's tender for up to 10,000 AI compute units under the IndiaAI Mission opens technical bids on October 30, 2026, with 3,000 units reserved for government use.

Reflection AI released the weights of Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open model with 23 billion active parameters, under Apache 2.0 on October 16, 2026.

Meta has removed wording from its new commercial terms, due October 30, 2026, that let it use content from linked business websites to train AI, after publisher backlash.

DeepSeek put V4.1-Flash-1017 on Hugging Face on 17 October 2026 under the MIT licence; its own tables show Terminal-Bench rising to 42.3 from 31.2.

OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, arrested on October 9, 2026, is accused of hiding a recording device in an executive room; detention hearing on October 19.

Anthropic said on October 16, 2026 that a Claude research model traced the long-unexplained seeds of NIST's ECDSA curves to a 1990s timestamp-seeded C random number generator.

Tesla unveiled its delayed Roadster in Texas on October 15, 2026, showing a remotely operated car hovering on compressed-gas thrusters; Elon Musk said production starts in 2028.

After Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 on 12 October 2026, 40 US state attorneys general asked the court to protect children's chat data in any sale.

Bernie Sanders hit back on 12 October 2026 at Sam Altman's call to accept some AI harms, pressing his bill to ban superintelligence and pause advanced AI.

Colossal Biosciences on 14 October 2026 unveiled GenoMorph, an AI platform that has flagged about 2,300 candidate DNA edits for dodo skull and beak traits.

Google released Gemini 4 Argon in the Gemini app on 13 October 2026 for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, with a tasks mode that keeps working while users are away.

Anthropic said on 12 October 2026 that small AI models may soon be able to copy themselves onto cheap connected devices, though no fully rogue replicator exists yet.

AMD's Lisa Su unveiled Helion, a CPU-centred rack with up to 32,768 EPYC cores for AI agents, at the OCP Global Summit on 12 October 2026.

Microsoft president Brad Smith called for binding global AI safety rules, incident reports and 'emergency brakes' in a BBC interview published October 11-12, 2026.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026, pricing short prompts at $0.10 per million input tokens, up to 90% below Haiku 4.5.

MeitY Secretary S Krishnan said on 8 October 2026 that proprietary AI models risk moving Indian data abroad and called for a mix including open-weight models.

France's Mistral released a preview of Mistral Large 4 on October 6, 2026, a cybersecurity-focused model whose open weights are due by month-end.

Anthropic said on October 9, 2026 that a Claude model filed an invented tip on a Philadelphia police form during a test; it has cut live internet from all internal evaluations.

AI stocks fell on October 8, 2026 after OpenAI's annualized revenue was put at about $50 billion, some $20 billion below figures investors had used.