Artificial Inteligence feed for Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Judge dismisses Sam Altman’s sister’s sexual abuse lawsuit
• Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
• Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
• Google’s more personalized Gemini AI is heading to your car
• Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
• SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations
• OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business
• Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers
• ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats
• NVIDIA Cosmos3-H-Dreams: Bringing Clinical Surgery to Life Through Generative Simulation
• Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web
• Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei
• Meta’s Muse hits 10M U.S. downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps
• Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’
• FairStress: A deeper evaluation of fairness in LLM decision-making
• Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language
• The new economics of enterprise AI
• ALTK-Evolve: How learned memory tops the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without a frontier model
• Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations
• Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol
• US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems
• Adobe Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with a simple tap
• Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving
• AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn
• Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
• Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool
• Franchisee reconciles cash in 94% less time with ChatGPT Work
• A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub
• Terminal X matches senior investor judgment 88.6% with GPT-6.1
• Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
• OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio
• AnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms
• Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively
• MPS in PyTorch 2.15