Archive

• Oct 7, 2026
  DeepSeek close to locking in at least ¥80B ($12B) new round led by Tencent and CATL (Oct 6; Bloomberg first, Reuters follow-up)
• Oct 6, 2026
  Pentagon confirms it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude (Oct 5; BBC via secondary coverage)
• Oct 5, 2026
  Trump formally names "Super Intelligence Force" leadership, 120-day reporting deadline (follow-up; AP/USA Today/Reuters, Oct 4)
• Oct 4, 2026
  White House creates "Super Intelligence Force" AI task force, with DNI Jay Clayton as de facto AI czar (WSJ via Reuters, Oct 3)
• Oct 3, 2026
  OpenAI report accuses Moonshot AI-linked actors of an "adversarial distillation" attack (OpenAI report Sept 30; media follow-up Oct 1–2)
• Oct 2, 2026
  SoftBank confirms final $10B OpenAI follow-on tranche ("follow-up", resolves yesterday's unverified item) (Oct 1, SoftBank official announcement)
• Oct 1, 2026
  White House "superintelligence accord": six AI giants pledge self-regulation (reported Sept 29–30 ET)