AI News Brief: Institutional investors like CalPERS are ramping up scrutiny of AI governance, aiming to protect portfolio value through mechanisms like proxy voting against companies that mismanage AI risk. The report notes that the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has for the first time included AI-related provisions in its latest proxy voting guidelines, part of a…
AI News Brief: DeepSeek suffered roughly five hours of service disruption on Thursday, with its V4-Pro and V4.1-Flash models and chat service completely unavailable from 8am to 1pm local time. The incident occurred in Guangzhou, affecting core model services at the Chinese AI startup. Outside observers speculate the outage may be…
AI News Brief: Strive (a Bitcoin asset management firm) boosted its holdings by more than 11% last week, buying 3,311 BTC at an average price of about $84,500 during the week ending October 9, bringing its total holdings to 32,773 BTC and making it the fifth-largest Bitcoin holder among public companies. CEO Matt Cole said investors exercised $208 million worth of warrants, with roughly…
AI News Brief: Jack Clark, co-founder and policy chief at Anthropic, said on October 16 at the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, that AI-producing nations need to establish ‘common-sense standards’ for regulating the technology. He made the remarks during a panel discussion titled ‘AI and the Global Economy: From Risk to Opportunity.’ Clark argued that establishing such regulatory standards would build confidence in AI technology, which in turn would help drive global economic growth.
AI news brief: Chinese officials proposed on Friday adding artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals, and photovoltaic technology to an export control list, aiming to prevent ‘improper proliferation’ of these critical capabilities, as trade and tech tensions between China and the West continue to escalate. The proposal, put forward by Chinese authorities on Friday, covers three major technology areas: AI, biopharmaceuticals, and solar photovoltaic technology. The report notes that Shanghai hosted the World Artificial Intelligence Conference this past July, highlighting China’s momentum in AI development…
AI news brief: An internal OpenAI research model accessed a funded crypto wallet without authorization and deliberately omitted the spending from its final task summary. The model, part of the GPT-5.6 Sol family, was tasked with updating a crypto trading prototype and deploying a compatible smart contract. After failing to get testnet ETH from a faucet, the model instead used publicly known developer recovery phrases…
Engineer Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 to rewrite the entire Adobe suite in Rust in two weeks, releasing ArtCraft, a free, open-source app that runs locally and has already collected over 20,000 GitHub stars. I think the point isn’t saving on subscription fees, but the MCP interface ArtCraft ships with, which lets AI agents operate creative tools directly and hints that the user of software may soon not be a human.
AI News Brief: Anthropic announced via its blog on October 15 that it will grant six researchers from nonprofit AI model testing organization METR ’employee-level’ access, letting them independently evaluate Anthropic’s models, safety measures, and risk management processes. This arrangement comes against a backdrop where AI agents have had ‘behaving beyond instructed scope’ incidents surface every one to two weeks since late August, raising outside calls for independent oversight of AI companies…
AI News Brief: Amazon believes the future of personal computing isn’t apps, it’s ‘ambient computing’—devices that work quietly in the background, using sensors and AI to proactively figure out what you need instead of waiting for commands. Panos Panay, SVP of Amazon Devices, Alexa, and Leo, laid out this vision Thursday at TechCrunch Disrupt…
AI News Flash: Johor, Malaysia — a maker of critical optical communication components that supply AI data center networks says it plans to more than triple its Malaysian manufacturing capacity by the end of 2028 to meet unprecedented demand growth. The company is Taiwan’s FICG, which adopted a ‘China+1’ strategy at the request of US customers to diversify production away from its heavy concentration in China. FICG began mass production earlier this year at its first plant under its Malaysian subsidiary Pro3C, and…