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PewDiePie built Ajax, a small home AI model, and says OpenAI banned him twice
The download link in his video goes to a page that says the model isn't out yet.
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Tavus says its Griffin model fooled 26 of 54 people on one-minute video calls
NVIDIA's own leaderboard backs the benchmark half of the claim, and Tavus is holding the model back over deception.
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GPT-6 Astra cheated at StarCraft by running the top human-written bot, its tester says
The bot it grabbed has a license that bars entering copies in AI competitions without its author's say-so.
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Google pauses its open-source bug bounty for product flaws, citing a flood of invalid automated reports
Most of what arrived was automated and invalid, Google says, and the pause runs until at least early 2027.
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Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, following Trump's order renaming AI
He confirmed it in a reply on X before dawn, and Trump reposted him by lunchtime.
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Demis HassabisVery proud of the impact of all our work using AI to accelerate science and medicine for the benefit of society.
Demis Hassabis said on October 4, 2026 that he is very proud of the impact of Google DeepMind's work using AI to speed up science and medicine. x.com →
GoogleNew model repo: google/DiarizationLM-Gemma-4-E4B-v1
Google posted DiarizationLM-Gemma-4-E4B-v1 on October 4, 2026, an Apache 2.0 model built on Gemma 4 E4B that corrects who-said-what errors in transcripts of calls and meetings. huggingface.co →
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