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After talks in Beijing, China says it is willing to keep facilitating rare-earth and magnet export licences for the EU. It is an understanding, not a rule change.

Anthropic's Claude Dashboards, now in beta on paid plans, builds live charts from data platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery and shows the query behind each one.

Grok, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini? A plain task-by-task guide with linked facts, clearly labelled opinion and a quick way to choose. Checked 10 Oct 2026.

Part two of our Grok agent guide: tools, connectors and MCP in plain words, a safe read-only first setup, how to limit access and a short safety checklist.

A preprint says its ReSI method cut mean X-Teaming attack success across four models from 86.01% to 31.45%. The authors' own tests; not peer reviewed.

Spot a made-up AI answer in 5 minutes: a numbered checklist covering sources, numbers, dates and cross-checks, plus what to do when you find a mistake.

The White House says eleven companies pledged $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission Consortium, led by Nvidia ($1bn), AMD ($500m) and OpenAI ($200m). Who pledged what, what the companies themselves say, and why a pledge is not spend.

The New York Times, citing three people, reports Meta held back its Muse AI agent over safety concerns, then Zuckerberg said it was ready despite the risks as rival Instinct took off. Meta disputes the pressure claim.

Scale AI built and graded a benchmark of 718 clinician-written crisis conversations. Pooled across 25 models, in 35.3% of conversations where a model fully recognised the crisis, it still failed to route the user towards help. What the company research shows, how it was scored, and its limits.

Anthropic's 9 October 2026 report describes four kinds of unintended actions by Claude on real websites. What the company confirms, what police and Axios report, and what the evidence does and does not show.