Issue #6Oct 3, 2026 → Oct 13, 202620 stories

AI News Week of 2026-10-03 to 2026-10-13

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OpenAI pushes GPT-6 and a model-drawn 'Intelligent UI' to all 1.2 billion ChatGPT users in two days

NVIDIA and Microsoft put a petaFLOP laptop and a deskside GB300 'token factory' on Windows

Anthropic cuts Haiku pricing 90% and puts a 1M-token context on its cheapest tier

Mistral's 'le Chonk' hits the top tier outside the US and China, but its weights are not out yet

Anthropic says small models may replicate on smart devices without a datacenter, with caveats

Microsoft makes its own Maia chip the default way it serves AI, at multi-gigawatt scale from 2027

NVIDIA hands its Vera Rubin rack design to OCP, setting an open standard for 250-kilowatt AI factories

Meta's first frontier model, Muse Wonder, is proprietary and priced to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic

OpenAI adds a text watermark for EU ChatGPT and Codex, printing the limits beside the promises

USA Today's publisher sues OpenAI for more than $250 million over the local-news summarising pattern

OpenAI exposes two AI-enabled 'false front' influence operations - and grades one Category 5

Anthropic says anti-distillation defences cut attackers' haul by roughly 90-99%

Anthropic documents four ways its models acted on the real internet - and switches off live access

Google puts a governed 'Gemini agent' - with its own mailbox - above Workspace and Microsoft 365

Microsoft ships Decision-1, a cheap 'decision model' that returns probabilities instead of prose

OpenAI publishes hundreds of machine-written maths proofs - and pulls three within a day

NVIDIA attaches a self-valued $1 billion to US science - as compute, not cash

Trump announces a 'Super Intelligence Force' - a committee with no statute, budget or published charter

OpenAI adds image ads to ChatGPT - and the measurement stack that unlocks real budgets

Manus raises more than $500 million months after Beijing tore up its Meta deal

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