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The Verge 1 month ago 6
Google reached out to major Hollywood studios to negotiate licensing deals to let it train its AI models on copyrighted material. The reporting says the deals would involve “massive” payouts, with the exact figure not specified. This would give Google more training data for its AI efforts while creating legal and commercial risks for studios considering licensing rather than limiting use of their content.
Fortune 31
Lawmakers proposed a new House bill that would tax major AI companies based on the value of AI tokens or AI service revenue, with the tax rate rising when unemployment increases.
The Verge 1 month ago 32 ● 2 sources
Apple is seeking expedited discovery in its lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging OpenAI has been destroying evidence. Apple’s filing on Monday says OpenAI only recently turned over a MacBook used by a former employee and that it included discussion about destroying forensic data Apple needs. The case will move faster as Apple tries to secure evidence before it can be further lost.
Startups Magazine 31
The UK Government launched a £100 million Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme with national competitions for British AI firms to build solutions to public sector challenges. The scheme’s funding is £100 million. The competitions roll out first under this new programme, targeting areas such as NHS productivity and defence compute efficiency, with successful providers keeping the AI models and building commercial products.
Fortune 24 ● 4 sources
The European Commission designated OpenAI’s ChatGPT as a “very large online search engine” under the Digital Services Act. January 2027 is the deadline—four months after the decision—for compliance with added obligations. The move extends DSA-style duties for illegal content, minors’ protection, and election-related harms and could bring fines up to 6% of worldwide annual sales for noncompliance.
SiliconANGLE 1 month ago 34 ● 3 sources
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey warned that advanced AI creates risks for financial system infrastructure in a letter to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors. He cited “stretched asset valuations” in the AI market as one fragility and warned that frontier large language models could enable cyberattacks. Banks are urged to prepare for disruptions affecting multiple institutions or technology suppliers, speed up patching, and use “bare metal” restoration workflows after major incidents.
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24 October 2026
Open-weight models are moving from “interesting” to “in the room,” and today’s proof comes with receipts. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.1 Pro lands as an open-weight flagship with a projected path to narrow the gap to top proprietary systems—from 12 points down to 3 on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index—if Moonshot publishes the weights by Nov. 4. In the latest scoring snapshot, Kimi K3.1 Pro sits at 55 points, placing fourth overall behind Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5. The model also targets a practical pain point: improved agentic workflow performance with lower hallucinations, alongside cheaper API token costs than its predecessor.
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