A River of News

AI headlines, Thursday, October 1, 2026

21 items. Times are UTC.

21:00 UTC 1

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    In Robotics, Google Goes Android to Tesla’s Apple The Information by Jessica E. Lessin story

19:00 UTC 1

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    OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers The Information by Rocket Drew story

18:00 UTC 2

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    Federal Court Dismisses Publishers’ Suits Over Google’s AI Overviews The Information by Alix Coutures story
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    Exclusive: Nvidia, SoftBank Make Final $20 Billion Investment in OpenAI’s Last Round The Information by Julia Hornstein story

17:00 UTC 2

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    Cohere Releases Embed 5: How It Compares to Voyage 4 Large, Gemini Embedding 2, and OpenAI MarkTechPost by Sana Hassan
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    The eternal complement OpenAI story

16:00 UTC 3

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    Sharon AI Announces $356 Million GPU-Backed Loan The Information by Alex Eichenstein
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    Data Center Infra Provider Accelevation Sinks In Post-IPO Trading The Information by Alex Eichenstein story
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    How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out OpenAI

15:00 UTC 1

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    Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs Hugging Face

14:00 UTC 1

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    Why Coding Agents Are Choosing Vercel as Often as Humans Do The Information by Alix Coutures

13:00 UTC 1

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    How SpaceX’s AI Unit Turned Itself Into an AI Cloud Firm The Information by Grace Kay story

12:00 UTC 1

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    The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

10:00 UTC 2

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    An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan MIT Technology Review by Jessica Hamzelou story
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    How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid MIT Technology Review by Casey Crownhart

08:00 UTC 1

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    OpenAI Accuses Moonshot of Distillation Campaign The Information by Juro Osawa story

06:00 UTC 1

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    NVIDIA Releases Kumo Tabular: Open Tabular Foundation Models That Predict New Rows in a Single Forward Pass MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq story

03:00 UTC 1

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    Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview: A Contextual Embedding Model That Retrieves Answers and Their Supporting Evidence MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq

00:00 UTC 3

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    Behind Factory Founder’s Spat With Cognition Over Key Hire The Information by Julia Hornstein story
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    Why DoorDash Needs Its Own AI Assistant The Information by Martin Peers story
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    The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work OpenAI