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October 18, 2026, 2:15 AM
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Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bleecker Street says TikTok suspended the Musk documentary account for “political policy” violations and called the suspension “permanent”; Bleecker's appealing  —  Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens.  Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
Financial Times:
RegLayer: 47+ large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible  —  A vast bet on the future of the technology is running into the unforgiving economics of the physical world
Google:
Google says “magic state cultivation” works in practice on its Willow quantum processor, calling it a breakthrough that reduces errors by about 40x  —  We've shown that magic state cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware.  —  Google Quantum AI has demonstratively opened …
Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable:
MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data  —  MapQuest will not go gentle into that good night.  —  The navigation software — which debuted in 1996 and was later eclipsed …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic is consulting law firms on deal negotiation tactics as it develops AI agents to negotiate on humans' behalf and interact with AI counterparts  —  Tech companies are being forced to confront the rules of negotiation when machines act on humans' behalf
More: The Verge
Bloomberg:
Zelenskyy says Starshield restrictions remain and are affecting only Ukraine, leading him to believe they are a “planned operation” rather than technical issues  —  Restrictions on Ukraine's military use of SpaceX's Starlink system appear to be deliberate and not the result …
Walter Schulze / Startup Fortune:
Anomaly Innovations, behind coding agent OpenCode, says a breach hit ~1.4% of OpenCode Console users and their API keys, in a “large scale distillation attack”  —  A large-scale distillation attack against the company behind the open-source coding agent OpenCode exposed stored OpenAI …
Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal:
As AI giants rack up potential legal liabilities of tens of billions amid safety incidents, insurers worry claims may outpace limits on existing coverage  —  The artificial-intelligence industry's phenomenal rate of growth means claims have the potential to outpace the limits on existing coverage
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers “stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs” than its predecessor  —  DeepSeek released an update of its AI model this weekend that it says is faster and leaner, ramping …

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New York Times:
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was forced out of her role on Friday, after five days on the job and hosting only one press briefing

Page Six:
Sources: Bela Bajaria was “blindsided” by her firing and only found out at 5pm on Wednesday after Netflix had repeatedly reassured her that her job was secure

Washington Post:
Israeli settlers attacked WaPo photographer Heidi Levine, who wore a “PRESS” vest, in the West Bank, kicking her repeatedly and taking her cameras and phone

More News

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Meta removes ToS language that suggested it could scrape websites “associated with” business accounts, saying it applied only to “ads and business products”
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is “an operator”, had “all” of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor

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Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple updates App Review Guidelines to crack down on AI nudify apps and apps that reveal undocumented capabilities, like nudification, after app review
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: powerful, useful Magnetic Connect port, bright screen, but heavy, loud, and Windows doesn't take advantage of RTX Spark
Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters:
Waymo plans to launch its robotaxis in Toronto in 2028 in partnership with Element Fleet Management, the company's first deployment in Canada
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