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AI News Today: Muse Leak, 40 AGs, a Second $45B Deal

Ten stories for 20 October: the Muse Marketplace incident, 40 attorneys general intervening in the Character.AI sale, a second Nscale-Anthropic deal in talks, Meta's million-GPU Ohio site, Tenstorrent at $6.2bn, a diffusion LLM at 1,000 tokens a second, and DeepSeek reportedly moving pre-training to Huawei.

News20 Oct 20267 min read239 views
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Nscale and Anthropic in Talks for a Second $45B Deal

Bloomberg reports Nscale and Anthropic are in talks for a second West Virginia compute deal worth about $45 billion. The first, reported in August, covered 460 MW over six years at the Monarch Compute Campus. Neither company has confirmed the new talks.

News20 Oct 20266 min read47 views
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40 Attorneys General Move on the Character.AI Sale

Character Technologies filed for bankruptcy without reaching agreement with state attorneys general. Forty of them have now asked the court to attach child safety and data conditions to any sale, because private chats, voice calls, ages and device data could transfer to a buyer.

News20 Oct 20266 min read30 views

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Meta Muse Gave a Buyer a Seller's Home Address

Matt Robb let Meta's Muse agent handle a keyboard sale on Facebook Marketplace. It shared his home address with a buyer, agreed a pickup and sent a message from his account saying he was home while he was not. A stranger arrived at his house late at night.

News20 Oct 20266 min read30 views
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AI Models Released in October 2026: Shipped vs Coming

A dated October 2026 release log split three ways: what shipped and you can use today, what is preview-only despite the coverage, and what was announced with nothing behind it. Includes the systematic dating error that makes most October release lists wrong by up to six days.

Guide19 Oct 202610 min read412 views
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FTC Subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic: What It Covers

The FTC issued civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic on 14 October, each over 50 pages, covering security incidents, safeguarding practices, privacy policies and marketing materials. The same day, eight states sued OpenAI separately. Both actions rest on one theory with consequences well beyond two labs: the gap between what a company claims and what its product does.

News19 Oct 20268 min read98 views
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How to Play Songs on Gesture Synth, and Record Them

The guide for after you have opened it. Why it sounds random and the one change that fixes it, what each of the five sounds is for, how to set a key and convert any song into finger counts, and how to record what you play when the app has no record button.

Tutorial19 Oct 20268 min read85 views
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AI News Today: Anthropic Fund, OpenAI Robot, Banks Block

Ten stories for 19 October: Anthropic's 5% equity commitment, OpenAI's humanoid robot, three unannounced aurora models, banks and major websites blocking AI agents, $4.42 billion in nuclear restart loans, Korean publishers demanding disclosure, and the British Airways glasses story corrected.

News19 Oct 20267 min read18,634 views
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DOE Lends $4.42B to Restart Three Nuclear Plants for AI

Federal loans totalling $4.42 billion are reviving three shuttered US nuclear plants - Palisades, Crane and Duane Arnold - adding 2.25 GW of capacity contracted largely to AI data centres. Crane is the former Three Mile Island Unit 1.

News19 Oct 20266 min read173 views
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Schwab and JPMorgan Block AI Agents From Moving Money

Charles Schwab blocks third-party AI agents attempting to move client money in the tens and twenties each week, according to CEO Rick Wurster. The firm plans read-only MCP access instead. JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon warned of rogue agents on the bank's earnings call.

News19 Oct 20266 min read89 views
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Altman Confirms OpenAI Is Building a Humanoid Robot

Sam Altman confirmed OpenAI is building its own humanoid robot, telling Fortune he expects a demo in 2027 while cautioning that street-level deployment is years further out. The company has 27 open robotics roles spanning actuators, sensing, thermal systems and manufacturing.

News19 Oct 20266 min read204 views
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Anthropic Commits 5% of Shares to a Public Benefit Fund

Anthropic said on 18 October it will commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, subject to stockholder approval, with the stake able to increase as the company's value grows. The announcement names no governance structure, no spending programme and no dollar figure.

News19 Oct 20266 min read102 views
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Is Gesture Synth Safe? No Sound and Camera Fixes

The three things people actually search for after opening Gesture Synth: why there is no sound, why the camera will not start, and which of the ten near-identical domains is the real one. Includes the complete left-hand and right-hand control map taken from the app itself, and a straight answer on privacy that does not overstate what can be verified.

Guide18 Oct 20268 min read108 views
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Top 10 AI Games in 2026: Priced, Scored and Ranked

Every price and review score here was read off the game's own store page on 18 October 2026, not copied from another list. Ten generative AI games ranked, four of them free, with the cloud services each one calls and what it costs after you buy. Plus a separate section for the other search: games with genuinely good enemy AI.

Guide18 Oct 202611 min read99 views
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Grok by SpaceXAI: Every Guide, Price and Comparison

Grok is now a SpaceX product. xAI was acquired in February 2026, became SpaceXAI in July, and was renamed SpaceX SI in October — while the legal entity on your invoice stays SpaceXAI LLC. This is the index to every Grok guide, pricing breakdown, voice walkthrough, agent tutorial and comparison we have published.

Guide18 Oct 20266 min read185 views
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