This week, the most news came from Physical World & Real-World Impact (4 items). In all, 23 items were newly checked, and 13 areas moved. There were 6 new names too — the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Google DeepMind, GovTech Singapore.
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Physical World & Real-World Impact
Oct 28, 2026Anthropic — Anthropic expands AI for Science to foundations and research institutions — it said the program, which started in May 2025 and gave free credits to individual researchers, has been widened into partnerships with foundations, institutions and research groups
Oct 27, 2026Anthropic — Anthropic publishes early drug development results from using Claude — it put out what six partner companies got from using Claude and Claude Code for design, optimization and regulatory document review, together with partner technical reports
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Regulation, Law & Governance
Oct 30, 2026OpenAI — OpenAI publishes a collection of court briefs that support applying fair use to AI training — it carries excerpts drawn from briefs filed with the court in the New York Times case by authors, journalists, creators, scholars, accessibility groups, legal scholars, librarians, economists and business people, and said the full texts are on the public docket. The filers named include AI Progress; the American Council of the Blind, the Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, the Consumer Technology Association and BSA; Authors Alliance; Engine and Developers Alliance; Foundation for American Innovation; Public Knowledge; Matthew Sag; and Kevin Kelly, along with **the U.S. government**
Oct 30, 2026OpenAI — OpenAI announces that it will honor a common signal written in robots.txt — it is a voluntary cooperation in which a website operator writes down once their preference about their content being used for generative AI training, and that preference is passed on together to the several participating AI providers. Built on the work of the AI Preferences working group at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), it was announced on the same day as the other participants, and the company said it is aiming to apply it within the coming months
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Reasoning Models & the AGI Debate
Oct 28, 2026Google — Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon — a successor to Gemini 4 Argon, released 2 weeks earlier, put forward for cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks. Introductory pricing is $2 per 1 million input tokens and $10 for output, with a 95% discount on cached input; once the introductory period ends it is $4 for input and $20 for output. For now it is open only to some cyber defenders, and Google said it will widen access to trusted partners through the Fairwind program
Oct 26, 2026OpenAI — OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra — a fast model aimed at both computer use, where it looks at the screen and operates apps, and writing, with standard API pricing set 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol at $1 per 1 million input tokens, $0.05 for cached input and $5 for output. It opened the same day in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users, and in the API as gpt-6.1-terra
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