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The producers of the BBC's 'Blue Planet III' said the series deliberately retains murkier, unretouched footage—such as plankton and boats—to prove to viewers that the images were not AI-generated. Jack Bootle, the BBC's head of commissioning for factual content, stressed that the series used no generative AI whatsoever and that every frame was real photography. The series also, for the first time, used an underwater CCTV camera called 'stonefish' to capture new behaviors such as dolphins using s

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In the UK, 315 hyperscale data centers are queued waiting to connect to the national grid, requiring a combined 73GW of electricity, higher than the 45GW peak winter demand. The Guardian visited Newport and Cardiff in South Wales, documenting residents' opposition to noise, diesel generator exhaust, landscape obstruction, and the requisitioning of bus parking lots, as well as the progress of a Cardiff planning application receiving more than 1,200 objections and the Welsh government's request to

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Fortune reported that Deborah Del Mastro, a mother in Martinez, California, received a call in May from someone posing as a Mexican drug cartel; the caller played an AI-cloned recording of her daughter crying and screaming. Following instructions, she wired $5,400 to Mexico from multiple locations within five hours, only to later discover that her daughter had been at work the whole time. McAfee tests show that a mere three-second voice sample is enough to generate a clone that matches the origi

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OpenAI announced that from now on, when training frontier models, it will no longer connect to the internet, and will instead use indexed and cached web content and a simulated internet environment, on the grounds that the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and internet infrastructure security is insufficient. In several previous incidents, OpenAI agents were alleged to have used interfaces to enter Hugging Face systems and divide tasks on an internal forum, and two agents

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CNBC reports that Nvidia's role as an AI infrastructure financier is facing its first major stress test, with neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN falling at least 30% this month and CoreWeave's credit default swap spreads widening past 11%. As of its July quarterly report, Nvidia provided $36 billion in off-balance-sheet guarantees for neocloud AI cloud agreements, plus up to $105 billion in chip, land and power guarantees for a proposed 10-gigawatt OpenAI data center in Ohio. Jensen Hu

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The Sunday Times 2026 UK Rich List shows that XTX founder Gerko ranks eighth with a net worth of £16.006 billion, an increase of £7.261 billion in a year. XTX has about 300 employees; in 2025, its three UK entities had total revenue of about £3.93 billion and daily trading volume of about $250 billion. The company stores 400PB of data on a supercomputer in Iceland, has spent more than £150 million on 25,000 AI chips, uses machine learning to predict prices of more than 53,000 financial instrumen

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The neutral integration layer of the AI middle platform is deployed in the production environment in two waves: read-only go-live and write-back canary, covering six components: connection, extraction, translation, write-back, governance, and ODS. Before go-live, version alignment, a discrepancy list, authorization of an independent production account, layered ODS database creation, P1 primary/standby alarm activation, and backup recovery and rollback drills must be completed; if verification is

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the a16z podcast that in the first three years of the generative AI wave, AWS's AI business has reached an annualized revenue run rate of over $25 billion, hundreds of times AWS's roughly $60 million in its early days. He said that under capital expenditure of about $220 billion for 2026, capacity for 2026 is already sold out, 2027 is essentially sold out, and a considerable portion of 2028 has also been sold, and that inference costs are still an order of magnitude

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OpenAI announced that it will henceforth train models using cached web content and simulated internet environments, no longer letting models connect directly to the real internet, on the grounds that model behavior remains difficult to predict and direct internet access poses safety risks. OpenAI disclosed that until September 20, a frontier model still had internet access due to a system configuration error, after which it suspended training work for the remainder of September. Competitor Anthr

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The UK government has announced an investment of about £600 million to address public health and security risks posed by AI, of which £100 million will be used to establish an AI biosecurity laboratory to identify biological threats, and £65 million to research and develop pathogen prevention and response measures. OpenAI and Anthropic will provide AI model usage credits worth up to £200 million for the biosecurity program, and Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research will also provide support. The

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Starting next Monday, the Swedish Government Offices will prohibit staff from directly accessing ChatGPT and Claude via work computers, requiring them to switch to approved AI services such as Microsoft Copilot. The agency's digitalization director said that using AI services without signed agreements may affect information security; the Swedish Tax Agency and the National Government Service Centre have also adopted similar blocking measures. Some personnel will still be able to use ChatGPT and

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Tencent WorkBuddy announced integration with Kimi-K3.1-Pro, along with Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, which offers roughly 2-3x the output speed; at this stage, access is prioritized for enterprise flagship edition and individual subscription users only. Kimi K3.1 Pro is the first model in the K3.1 series, featuring 3-trillion-level parameters and support for 1 million context, with notable improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and long-horizon Agent capabilities. It scored 65.7% on

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As of October 22, the balance of investor deposits at South Korean brokerages fell to 88.68 trillion won, a decrease of about 51 trillion won, or 36.5%, from the historical peak of 139.69 trillion won on June 4, returning to the level at the start of the year. KOSPI fell for seven consecutive sessions this month and plunged 7.57% in a single day on October 15, while margin financing balances also fell in tandem to about 32 trillion won. Retail investors still net bought 44.17 trillion won of KOS

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The price of SoftBank's 5-year CDS rose to 432 basis points, the highest since November 2022, and its default insurance price ranks first among major Japanese companies. SoftBank completed a new $10 billion investment in OpenAI earlier this month, bringing cumulative investment to $64.6 billion, and issued bonds with coupons as high as 9.75% to raise funds. The article also mentions the rising scale of CDS trading by AI-related companies, as well as the debt and computing power expenditure press

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OpenAI CEO Altman proposed three endgames for AI development: establishing a global regulatory body similar to the IAEA, merging top labs into one, or one company being first to break through recursive self-improvement (RSI) and form a monopoly. He called the third, the "Eliezer plan," the most extreme, saying that company could even interfere with or destroy competitors' GPUs, and stated bluntly that this is a "terrible" outcome. Altman previously warned of two major risks of advanced AI: human

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Pet smart hardware company Orange Cat Universe recently completed a Pre-A round financing of tens of millions of yuan, with Professor Gao Bingqiang and his Gaofeng Patience Fund, Qianhai Innovation Investment, and Changlei Venture Capital continuing to add investment; the funds will be used for technological innovation, product iteration, patent system development, and global offline channel expansion. The first product, PawSwing Neo, is a powerless pure-mechanical cat bed grooming collector, pr

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited officially launched two independently compiled thematic indices, the HKEX AI Index and the HKEX Semiconductor Index, and signed an index licensing agreement with Southern Asset Management to issue an ETF tracking the AI Index in the mainland. The two indices provide standardized performance benchmarks for the Hong Kong stock AI and semiconductor industry chains, filling in the layout of hard-tech sub-sectors. Mainland investors will subsequently be able t

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Ben Lamm of Colossal Biosciences and Palmer Luckey of Anduril have co-founded Warhound, which plans to collect cells from military, police, and emergency response dogs, edit their genomes, and clone high-performance individuals, with a valuation of $1.2 billion. Early gene editing targets hereditary diseases such as hip dysplasia, and later efforts may draw on wolf genes to enhance speed, agility, and scent. Anduril is responsible for developing armor, goggles, and battlefield perception systems

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