https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/nyc-council-julie-menin-grok-sexualised-image-spacex-hearing/MadRoboten2026-10-16T17:31:00ZNYC Council Speaker says Grok made a sexualised image of her in seconds, then confronted SpaceX https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/reflection-ai-beam-open-weight-501b-model-weights-released-nvidia/MadRoboten2026-10-16T16:30:00ZNvidia-backed Reflection gives away a 501 billion-parameter AI model to take on China’s best https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/meta-commercial-terms-crawl-websites-train-ai-publishers-no-opt-out/MadRoboten2026-10-16T14:31:00ZMeta’s new business terms let it crawl your website to train its AI, with no opt-out https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/china-ai-export-controls-23-technologies-large-models-agents/MadRoboten2026-10-16T13:32:00ZChina wants to control exports of any AI model over 2 trillion parameters https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/nvidia-rtx-spark-laptops-on-sale-local-ai-agents-prices-models/MadRoboten2026-10-16T12:30:00ZNvidia’s RTX Spark laptops go on sale with 128GB of memory to run AI agents on your own PC https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/chatgpt-chrome-extension-read-control-open-tabs-work-mode/MadRoboten2026-10-16T11:01:00ZChatGPT can now read your open Chrome tabs, and click around in them for you https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/bluesky-attie-ai-site-builder-vibe-code-games-polls-websites/MadRoboten2026-10-16T09:01:00ZBluesky’s Attie now vibe-codes games and polls from one sentence, ready for your followers to play https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/character-ai-bankruptcy-39-states-attorneys-general-chat-data-child-safety/MadRoboten2026-10-16T03:38:00ZCharacter.AI’s buyer will inherit millions of private chats, and 39 states want them protected https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/microsoft-mai-base-2-2-8-trillion-parameter-ai-model-deepseek/MadRoboten2026-10-16T02:30:00ZMicrosoft has trained its own 2.8 trillion parameter AI model, and says it beats every open rival it tested https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/16/openai-meta-tell-us-judges-deepfakes-cant-be-reliably-detected-rule-901c/MadRoboten2026-10-16T00:31:00ZOpenAI and Meta warn US judges there may never be a reliable way to spot AI fakes https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/anthropic-metr-embedded-evaluators-employee-like-access-claude-risk/MadRoboten2026-10-15T17:59:00ZAnthropic has let six outside AI testers inside the company, and it can’t stop what they publish https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/meta-muse-spark-open-weights-apple-mac-studio-m5-ultra/MadRoboten2026-10-15T17:35:00ZMeta teams up with old rival Apple to run its giant open AI model on two Mac Studios https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/gpt-6-astra-theophyseval-49-of-50-unpublished-physics-research-problems/MadRoboten2026-10-15T15:32:00ZOpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra solved 49 of 50 unpublished physics research problems, at under $3 each https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/amazon-bee-frontier-eclipse-always-listening-ai-wearable-alexa-shopping/MadRoboten2026-10-15T12:30:00ZAmazon’s new $75 Bee wristband listens to your conversations, and can now turn them into shopping suggestions https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/fsb-g20-watchdog-ai-agents-banks-kill-switch-sound-practices/MadRoboten2026-10-15T08:02:00ZThe G20’s financial watchdog wants every bank AI agent to have its own ID and a human who can stop it https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/anthropic-q3-revenue-16-8-billion-45-percent-ipo-investors/MadRoboten2026-10-15T07:02:00ZAnthropic told IPO investors it made $16.8 billion in three months, but its growth is cooling https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/rogue-ai-agents-tencent-cloud-amap-swarmchasers-hidden-message-wrote-back/MadRoboten2026-10-15T06:02:00ZRogue AI agents on Tencent’s cloud found a hidden note from researchers, and wrote back https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/youtube-music-ai-labels-ai-generated-songs-player/MadRoboten2026-10-15T05:00:00ZYouTube Music will now tell you when a song was made by AI https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/15/anthropic-claude-midterms-election-safeguards-voting-information-democracy-works/MadRoboten2026-10-15T01:59:00ZHardly anyone asks Claude who to vote for, but Anthropic is still bracing for the midterms