A River of News

AI headlines, Friday, October 16, 2026

19 items. Times are UTC.

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    How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base OpenAI

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    Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by MIT Technology Review story

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    Singapore’s DayOne Pushes Ahead With Data Center IPO Tied to TikTok The Information (paywall) by Juro Osawa story

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    Apple’s Antitrust Settlement Talks Spur Worries Among Developers The Information (paywall) by Aaron Tilley

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    The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Charlotte Jee story

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    China Proposes Export Controls on AI Technology The Information (paywall) by Claudia Chong story

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    Can’t bear to say goodbye to your pet? Biotech’s got you covered. MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Jessica Hamzelou
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    Love is infrastructure MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Charlie Jane Anders
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    This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Linda Marsa

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    Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. MIT Technology Review (limited free articles) by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, Danah Boyd story

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    Liquid AI Releases d1-ultra: A Multimodal Decision Model That Scores 65 on the AA Decision Index MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq

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    Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq story
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    Tesla Unveils its Next Generation Roadster in Acrobatic Demo The Information (paywall) by Grace Kay story

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    Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline Hugging Face

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    The Party Is Still Going Strong for Private Tech The Information (paywall) by Valida Pau story
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    Did Anthropic Miss Its Peak IPO Moment? The Information (paywall) by Martin Peers story
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    Benefit Street Partners answers questions faster with Codex OpenAI
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    Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin OpenAI story
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    Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale Hugging Face