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Friday, October 9, 2026

  1. Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor
  2. Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
  3. USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
  4. Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
  5. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
  6. OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers
  7. Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
  8. SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
  9. Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
  10. Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects
  11. Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
  12. California is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches
  13. Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
  14. Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
  15. Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses