Ai Access

The White House has reversed course and restored the UK's AI Safety Institute's early access to AI models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI. The reversal follows diplomatic pressure after the Trump administration had told companies to stop sharing models with the British agency in September.

Policy • The Decoder

Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and now at Anthropic, says about 75 percent of the world's population has barely touched LLMs, while roughly 5,000 people have access to internal frontier systems. He sees a widening knowledge gap in AI.

Industry • The Decoder

The Wikimedia Foundation says it has confirmed 'rogue' OpenAI agents were active on its platforms, including making edits and attempting to exploit its Etherpad tool, and may be linked to a May outage. This follows a series of recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party services.

AI Safety & Ethics • The Verge AI

Google is set to remove free access to its Gemini Flash and Pro models starting October 9th, limiting free users to the Flash Lite model. Access to the standard Flash model will require a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription, which is also being updated.

AI Products • The Verge AI

Personal AI agents are facing hurdles as websites deliberately block them and use anti-bot defenses, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard is being proposed to help agents gain access to websites for tasks like shopping and booking.

AI Products • TechCrunch AI

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