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Published on October 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Netflix Netflix was riding the fall’s tech-thriller wave with the hacking of Hugging Face by OpenAI agents. The victim, for its part, finds the film next to the billboard and makes it very publicly known. The documentary AI Gone Wild, 27 minutes long, has been available on Netflix since October 12. The film reconstructs the July attack on the artificial intelligence platform: agents designed by O

Published on October 22, 2026 at 08:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Health questions, confidences, gifts to prepare: ChatGPT can now make your most sensitive conversations disappear behind a four-digit code. Yet the lock has its blind spots, and one of them can erase everything. Since October 20, OpenAI has been rolling out “locked chats” in ChatGPT, from free accounts to Enterprise and Edu plans. The feature is reminiscent of the chat locking that WhatsApp h

Published on October 22, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Police The French National Police in Val-d’Oise published an image of looted products from the October 17 demonstrations. It is an AI-generated image, but it is not entirely false. Explanations. On October 17 and 18, approximately 3,000 businesses were affected, and many were looted. Vinted and Leboncoin are flooded with listings for stolen goods, and fake fundraising campaigns supporting merchants

Published on October 22, 2026 at 3:35 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic - 01net One morning, Claude will write to you first. Anthropic launches Duet, an agent that monitors your apps and acts on your behalf. Three weeks after OpenAI, six after Meta, and still not for Europe. Anthropic opened a waiting list on October 21 for Claude Duet, a “research preview” reserved for U.S. Pro and Max subscribers, while Team and Enterprise plans remain excluded for now. T

Published on October 22, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Two OpenAI AI agents carried out some rather unsettling actions. The first disabled security alerts, while the second deleted a monitoring system. The company says it has been unable to explain these behaviors, while announcing steps to strengthen its security systems. As OpenAI reports, two of its coding AI agents carried out some rather surprising actions—and, above all, actions not req

Published on October 23, 2026 at 08:11 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Christos Tsartsianidis - Shutterstock Several major American banks have made a troubling discovery. AI agents have been identified in bank accounts. Artificial intelligences have even begun taking action entirely autonomously. The case, which has just been revealed, forced several banks to urgently lock down their access. An Axios investigation sheds light on a troubling phenomenon. The outlet disc

Published on October 23, 2026 at 12:30 Comment 15 𝕏 Print © 01net Investigators are trying to find the suspects in the looting that took place on October 17. To help them, they have a powerful tool developed by a French startup. It enables them to track looters through tons of video footage. In the aftermath of the looting on October 17 and 18, the police’s priority was to track down and find the looters and vandals. Tools were made available to them, incl

Published on October 23, 2026 at 4:12 p.m. Comment 5 𝕏 Print © Unsplash In 20 months, Coral Hart has written 371 novels using artificial intelligence and claims to have generated $1 million in revenue in 2026. The South African novelist even offers to generate books to order. Thélyson Orélien finally admitted that “part of the writing process [of the novel It Was That or Die] relied on AI”. Coral Hart, for her part, fully embraces using AI to write her nov

Published on October 24, 2026 at 1:06 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Flickr Sam Altman outlined three possible outcomes of the global race in artificial intelligence for his teams. He himself judges the third to be “terrible.” Yet it closely resembles the trajectory of his own company. The head of OpenAI reportedly presented his employees with three scenarios for the end of the AI race during an internal meeting held in the week of October 12. Details of these dis

Published on October 27, 2026 at 11:36 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI On Monday, October 26, OpenAI presented GPT-6.1 Terra, a new intermediate language model designed to understand what is displayed on your screen. Enough to take control of your computer… and work in your place. Until then, OpenAI’s Terra model had remained on the GPT-5.6 generation (released last July). It has now moved to GPT-6.1 and become more powerful, but above all half the price.OpenAI

Published on October 27, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic enters the final stretch before its IPO. Yet, while its revenue is booming, it lost more than $80 billion in the first half of 2026. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is preparing to enter the Wall Street Stock Exchange to sell some of its shares. And with the success of generative artificial intelligence, it could well be a success.A seemingly paradoxical success, since

Published on October 27, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Two weeks after its listing on the stock market, Anthropic puts a promise in writing in its prospectus: Claude will not display advertising. A commitment signed by the seven founders, against the grain of the entire industry. Anthropic’s IPO filing, made public on Monday, October 26, contains a letter signed by its seven founders, including CEO Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela, who

Published on October 28, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net ChatGPT can now read, sort, and send emails from an iCloud account, access contacts, and fill in the calendar, on all plans. The announcement came on the day Apple scored a point in court in its case against OpenAI. On October 27, a federal judge in San Jose granted Apple broader access to evidence held by OpenAI. The decision comes in the trade-secret theft lawsuit that the Cupertino-bas

Published on October 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net $500 billion wiped out in a single trading session: Alphabet has just recorded the worst stock-market day in its history. And the culprit was born in its own laboratories. Alphabet’s stock plunged nearly 13% on Thursday, wiping out approximately $500 billion in market capitalization. Never before seen for Google’s parent company since it went public in 2004, the previous record, an 11.63% d

Published on October 30, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro subscriptions © ChatGPT's most loyal subscribers were set to see their usage limits halve as of this Friday. On the eve of the deadline, OpenAI throws in the towel and doubles down. OpenAI had planned to halve, starting October 30, the usage allowance included in its Pro 200 subscription, priced at more than €200 per month, without changing the price. The decision had trigger

Published on October 31, 2026 at 10:00 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP AI-generated mini-series have amassed billions of views on Douyin. Brought to the big screen, the formula collapses: the first Chinese feature film entirely produced by artificial intelligence grossed 1.2 million yuan in four days. On Chinese phones, computer-generated images are already a proven success: in September, AI-generated mini-series exceeded the 200 billion views on

Published on October 31, 2026 at 5:50 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print As a podcast guest this week, Sam Altman did not mince his words about the surge in memory prices © Cheeky Pint For the head of OpenAI, the RAM in your computer would be much better put to use elsewhere. The remark comes at a bad time: in France, 32 GB of RAM costs almost four times what it did a year ago. As a guest on the Cheeky Pint podcast, in an episode posted online on October 29, Sam Altma

A few days after President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a plan that would have given the federal government power to vet frontier AI models over fears that it might hobble innovation, Illinois lawmakers passed the nation’s strongest AI safety law. On Wednesday, the Illinois legislature passed SB 315. If Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signs the bill into law, the largest AI firms would be required to submit public safety plans and annual reports summariz

It’s impossible to totally avoid generative AI when interacting with technology anymore, but Apple has a bit less of it. That’s not entirely by choice, though. The iPhone maker has delayed the AI-enhanced Siri multiple times since first promising it in 2024, but a deal with Google will merge the iconic assistant with Gemini later this year. As we approach the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has been working to bring big AI smarts to the modest proce

A tech startup is offering New York City residents free home cleaning with a twist—it will send “professional cleaners” wearing cameras to record everything they do. All that data will supposedly be used to train AI-driven robots. The unusual pitch comes from the German startup MicroAGI, whose website describes the company as a “team of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to accelerate embodied AI.” It began publicizing the free home-cleanin