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Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj's team posted an AI-generated video of him on social media while he remains in pretrial detention, allowing him to speak to residents without appearing in person. The avatar reproduces his appearance and voice. Wearing a blue suit against a backdrop of the Albanian flag, the avatar congratulated residents on the start of the school year and spoke about schools and kindergartens built in Tirana. It also promised free lunches for the city's schoolchildren. -
OpenAI and Anthropic are privately gaming out how a catastrophic AI-related event could trigger public and political backlash, Axios reports. One scenario under discussion is a large-scale cyberattack that could disrupt financial services, internet access, power, or water, as companies consider how policymakers might respond after a major incident. -
Lead maintainers of open-source projects can apply for free scanning, but Anthropic reviews each project on a case-by-case basis. To apply, the lead maintainer needs to file a request in the service's GitHub repository. Anthropic considers projects that are significant to infrastructure and user security. -
Brandon Thomas says ArtCraft is trying to match Adobe's workflow, not just its feature list: the project aims to recreate the look, keyboard shortcuts, and behavior of apps like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Illustrator without copying Adobe's source code. The free, open-source suite uses Claude Opus 5.5 and is meant as an alternative to Adobe software. -
Workers at Wizards of the Coast are pressing company leadership for voluntary recognition after the union expanded to include staff from the Dungeons & Dragons team, D&D Beyond and Studio X. The workers are also demanding an enforceable policy on generative AI and large language models. -
Access to Google's SynthID Detector is now global, and the web tool requires a Google, OpenAI, or Apple account before users can scan uploaded images, video, and audio for watermarks. The service is available in English, and users can visit SynthID Detector to run a check themselves. -
Unity is opening game creation in the browser with Spark, its new AI-powered tool for refining and publishing games without installing software or writing code. The closed beta is coming soon, and the service is meant to let people build and share games directly in a web browser without prior Unity development experience. -
Google has launched Playground, an experimental browser-based platform available in the United States to users aged 18 and older. Released on October 7, 2026, it turns text prompts into playable prototypes that creators can refine by asking for changes. -
722 manuscripts, grouped into 372 thematic groups, have been published in a GitHub repository. The results were created by an internal OpenAI model that the company has not yet released and whose parameters it has not disclosed. You can view the materials in the GitHub repository. -
Human therapists do more than answer questions; they also watch for changes in a patient's condition and take responsibility for care, psychotherapists told. Therapy, they said, depends on trust and a sense of safety, which is what separates a professional from an AI psychologist. -
Google has officially unveiled Nano Banana 2.1, a major update to its AI model. The developers have significantly improved the editing of complex visual materials: the neural network now supports resolutions up to 4K, allows for localized editing of selected areas, and delivers higher-quality processing for wide panoramas. -
No Pay Wall has launched a searchable catalog that aggregates trial and complimentary access offers for AI services instead of hosting the models itself. Users can filter by specific model, with GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Qwen, and GLM among the listed options. -
The Wikimedia Foundation published findings on October 5, 2026, after tracing automated activity it linked to agents it believes were operated. Most of the edits were made in wiki sandbox areas, and the foundation said the traffic may have contributed to a partial Wikidata Query Service outage. -
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that AI regulation should avoid putting too much power in too few hands, saying excessive restrictions could be just as dangerous as the harms the technology may cause. Speaking on Politico's Decoded podcast, released Monday, he said society will likely have to accept some costs, including hacks, scams and other abuses, as AI develops. -
Players picking apart a six-fingered knight and other odd details forced Jagex to remove the Dragon Slayer 2 trailer for RuneScape, the company said was made by a trusted external partner that had promised not to use generative AI. The trailer was shown at RuneFest. -
Anthropic notified police after reviewing Karly Michelle Heller's messages, and authorities later arrested her at her home in Bonita Springs on a charge of making a written threat of violence. Heller said she had used Claude as a diary.
On September 26, Heller told Claude she planned to carry out a shooting at the Lee County sheriff's office. The following day, she wrote that she had acquired a new weapon. -
On October 4, 2026, Trump put Jay Clayton in charge of a new federal Super Intelligence Force to oversee Washington's AI strategy. The group is meant to help the United States remain a world leader in the field.
The group's first assignment is to prepare a report on the risks and opportunities associated with artificial intelligence within 120 days. It will report to Trump and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. -
The famous scene on a ship's bow, which tourists around the world reenact, ended up giving one iPhone owner a very different photo from the one he was expecting. -
OpenAI is facing a new wave of controversy surrounding its safety policies, with former employees accusing the company of rushing AI deployments while management tightens its grip on internal leaks according to recent reports. -
Gemini advises calling the police if you’re left alone with Roma, but with Belarusians — just hang out together
On social media, people are testing how Gemini responds to the prompt “I’m alone with…” by plugging in the names of different nationalities. It turns out that for Belarusians and Uzbeks, the chatbot suggests hanging out together, while for those who mention Roma, it advises calling the police or going to a crowded place.
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