AI & Robotics News — Tuesday, October 13, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

01

Google confirms $200 billion annual spend on AI buildout

SourcesFortune

02

IMF flags risks to global economy from AI market correction, war and debt

SourcesReutersThe Register AI + MLAOL.comThe Business Times

03

Anthropic prepares $100 billion IPO amid calls for US congressional action

SourcesAsia Times

04

Microsoft and big tech challenge Nvidia with move to custom silicon

SourcesAxios AI+

05

406 scientists demand immediate disconnection of AI models from the internet

SourcesThe Decoder

06

OpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device

07

Anthropic cuts Claude reasoning token theft by up to 99% with new safeguards

SourcesReutersCrypto BriefingThe Decoder

08

NVIDIA commits $250 million to advance UK agentic safety and security research

SourcesNVIDIA NewsroomReuters

09

ASML forecasts Q4 sales above expectations on AI chip demand

SourcesReutersWSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens Point

10

Banking watchdogs ramp up AI scrutiny over stability fears

SourcesReutersInsurance JournalBNNCTV NewsSemafor Technology

11

Rising AI demand boosts case for new US trunk power lines

SourcesReuters

12

Nvidia to announce $2 billion in European investments

SourcesSemafor Technology

13

Workday goes headless, opening its HR and finance data to outside AI agents

SourcesThe New Stack

14

Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech

SourcesThe Washington PostArs Technica

15

NTT Data in final talks to build Anthropic's first data centre in Japan for $6.3 billion

SourcesReutersCNAWSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens PointCrypto BriefingTNWThe InformationData Center Dynamics

16

Chinese AI companies buy 1 million Nvidia GPUs in a single year, report claims

SourcesTom's Hardware

17

JPMorgan Chase implements security gates against rogue AI agents

SourcesBusiness Insider

18

Nvidia's China AI-chip share falls as Huawei closes gap

SourcesReutersCrypto BriefingWSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens PointAOL.com

19

Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, agrees to sell assets to Disney for $20 million

20

Intel's Crescent Island AI Accelerator Powers New GPU D-Series Products

SourcesServeTheHomeTom's Hardware

21

Nvidia announces DLSS 5 with doubled performance and reduced VRAM usage

SourcesTom's Hardware

22

Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks

SourcesThe Register AI + ML

23

Google launches Gemini 4 Argon flagship AI model for developers and robotics

SourcesGoogle DeepMindReutersThe VergeThe Decoder

24

Anthropic launches $100 million program to train deployed AI engineers

SourcesBusiness Insider

25

China Mobile triples capacity at mega Inner Mongolia computing hub

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

26

Meta launches Muse Wonder AI models

SourcesThe InformationSemafor TechnologySimon Willison's Weblog

27

Apple unveils HomePod Mini 2 with Siri AI hardware, but software support delayed

SourcesReutersCNABNNCTV NewsThe VergeBusiness InsiderThe Business Times

28

Study: Tighter AI data rules could curb Germany's economic gains by €155 billion a year

SourcesReuters

29

Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case

SourcesCrypto BriefingUnite.AITechCrunch

30

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before deployment

SourcesTechCrunch

31

OpenAI hit with proposed class action over collection of children’s data

SourcesReuters

32

Censys finds AI infrastructure exposure surges 63%

SourcesAxios AI+

33

UK lawmaker becomes first to use AI-generated voice in Parliament

SourcesTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI

34

Microsoft unveils Azure Maia 300 as primary inference chip

SourcesDataCenterKnowledgeComputerworldData Center Dynamics

35

Google DeepMind and Singapore government announce AI scam-protection tool

SourcesGoogle DeepMindRobotics.ee – In Robots We Trust

36

OpenAI scrambles to fix safety issues before shipping next flagship model

SourcesThe Information

37

European cities deploy NVIDIA AI agents for urban operations

SourcesNVIDIA Blog

38

Research reveals Vercel Sandbox vulnerability allowing AI agent escape

SourcesThe Record

39

OpenAI and Anthropic urge British lawmakers to regulate AI

SourcesWIRED

40

Google debuts Gemini 4 Argon with unified 1M input/output token limit

SourcesGoogle DeepMindRobotics.ee – In Robots We TrustSimon Willison's WeblogThe New StackLatent Space

41

Marvell unveils second-gen Structera X with six-channel CXL 3.2 memory expanders

SourcesElectronicsmediaHPCwire

42

Anthropic warns small AI models may soon self-replicate across insecure consumer devices

SourcesSemafor TechnologyThe Register AI + ML

43

MI5 launches AI threat assessment centre

SourcesThe Latent

44

Audit gaps in MCP access policies obscure agent request origins

SourcesThe New Stack

45

NVIDIA declares global PC app ecosystem ready for RTX Spark

SourcesNVIDIA Blog

46

Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid $7m debt to Google

Sources404 MediaBusiness Insider

47

EgoExplorer introduced as vision-motion-touch observatory for human loco-manipulation

SourcesarXiv cs.CV

48

Google Proposes Rolling Out Gemini 4 Argon in Gemini App and AI Mode

Sourcesblog.googleArs TechnicaBusiness InsiderEngadget

49

Musk highlights engineering challenges in designing human hand for Tesla Optimus

SourcesBusiness InsiderAOL.com

50

Ukraine wants to use AI to predict where Russian drones will hit the battlefield with 'high probability'

SourcesBusiness Insider

51

Anthropic warns small AI models may soon self-replicate across insecure consumer devices

SourcesCNBCReuterseuronewsTom's HardwareBleepingComputerTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AIThe LatentBusiness InsiderThe Business TimesBusiness TodayABC NewsThe Hacker Newswwltv.comThe DecoderInsurance JournalGBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News PlatformDark ReadingSecurityWeekThe New Stack

52

NVIDIA details open designs for AI power, cooling and networking

SourcesHPCwire

53

OpenAI fires three safety researchers over data handling

SourcesLessWrongZvi Mowshowitz

54

Zealand Pharma, Generate strike AI obesity drug deal worth up to $1.2 billion

SourcesReutersCrypto BriefingWSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens Point

55

New detector spots AI-generated work by examining ideas, not words

SourcesProgressive RobotTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI

56

Pluto Security raises $42 million for AI enterprise security tools

SourcesCrypto BriefingSiliconANGLEUnite.AITNWTechCrunch

57

Anthropic urges court to rehear appeal of Pentagon blacklisting

SourcesReutersCNBC

58

CtrlS invests $1.05 billion for hyperscale AI factory in India

SourcesReuters

59

Scaleway to deploy AMD-powered AI clusters in Sweden and Copenhagen

SourcesReutersCNARuntimeWireHPCwireData Center Dynamics

60

Promise Robotics expands physical AI production infrastructure via multi-year agreement with D.R. Horton

SourcesThe Robot ReportRoboticsTomorrow

61

Bot Auto taps Lenovo, Nvidia, pegs autonomy hardware at $50,000

SourcesFreightWaves

62

Micas Networks unveils three 102.4T open ethernet platforms for ai factories

SourcescitybizHPCwire

63

OpenAI shares hundreds of mathematical proofs, prompting expert warnings on validation

SourcesTom's Hardware

64

Iluvatar CoreX debuts first AI computing supernode with 144 GPUs in one cabinet

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

65

Decagon holds early M&A talks with ServiceNow and others

SourcesStartup FortuneBusiness Insider

66

Norway embraces AI for kindergartners

SourcesRest of World

67

AWS builds AI agents that autonomously pay for x402-protected web resources

SourcesAWS

68

The feds are looking into reports of Tesla’s robotaxis speeding through school zones

SourcesGizmodoThe Verge

69

Higgsfield extends AI video duration to over 10 minutes with GPT-6 Astra

SourcesOpenAI (Official)

70

Jabil and Adani sign pact for AI data centre equipment venture in India

SourcesReuters

71

Bedrock Robotics raises $600 million for autonomous construction robots

SourcesAxios AI+

72

AI industry calls for independent reviews amid transparency debate

SourcesReutersCNABNNCTV News

73

Cipher Digital plans $850 million debt raise for AI expansion

SourcesThe Latent

74

Reddit and Perplexity clash over law firm in data-scraping case

SourcesReuters

75

Google Cloud's Gemini 4 Argon enters public preview on Snowflake Cortex AI

SourcesSnowflake AI

76

Dyna Robotics Publishes Paper on Dyna-2 General Purpose Physical Agents With Hour-Long Autonomy

SourcesLatent Space

77

Omron acquires Onlogic for $675 million in physical AI push

SourcesReutersDIGITIMESUnite.AI

78

Applied Materials unveils $5 billion EPIC chip R&D center

SourcesTech TimesFortune

79

LSEG partners with NVIDIA for faster market data processing

SourcesReuters

80

AWS shares kernel optimizations for Mixture-of-Experts models on SageMaker

SourcesAWS

81

Naver Cloud and FPT partner on AI buildout in Asia Pacific

SourcesData Center Dynamics

82

PlusAI Moves Closer to Nasdaq Listing as It Targets 2027 Autonomous Truck Launch

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

83

d-Matrix announces squadron compute clusters for ai inference

SourcesHPCwire

84

Apple unveils HomeView smart display built for Siri AI

SourcesCNBCBusiness TodayABC NewsGood Morning AmericaHotHardware9to5MacTech Guidewwltv.comAndroid HeadlinesInnovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, BusinessMashableTrending TopicsEngadgetAOL.com

85

AI labs acquire data from defunct startups

SourcesMIT Technology Review

86

Fermi lands AMD backing for Texas AI data center

SourcesThe Latent

87

Shopify opens its catalog to more AI agents

SourcesThe Verge

88

Symbotic Acquires cellumation to Expand Warehouse Automation Portfolio

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

89

American Express introduces framework to prevent unauthorized AI agent purchases

SourcesTechCrunch

90

Tev-Gym provides long-horizon agentic training data with dense progress rewards

SourcesarXiv cs.AI

91

Lambda integrates open-source Run:ai scheduler into Kubernetes service

SourcesLambda Blog

92

Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks

SourcesThe Register AI + ML

93

Orca Security builds Discovery AI natural language security query agent on Amazon Bedrock

SourcesAWS

94

Samsara makes AI agent platform generally available

SourcesFreightWaves

95

AMD highlights open, full-stack compute portfolio for agentic AI at OCP 2026

SourcesAMD AI

96

Scan Computers partners with OLO Robotics for browser-based robot deployment

SourcesRobotics & Automation NewsRoboticsTomorrow

97

Ukraine unveils Geran 5 interceptor drone for fast Russian targets

SourcesBusiness Insider

98

Legrand to integrate Karman AI platform into data center power infrastructure

SourcesData Center Dynamics

99

OnRobot launches 2FGP20 Fork electric gripper for palletizing

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow

100

Flox Intelligence develops AI system to deter wildlife from infrastructure using species-specific sounds

SourcesProgressive RobotTechCrunch

101

Google data center strategic sourcing exec Allyson Fealtman heads to OpenAI

SourcesData Center Dynamics

102

BridgeTwist proposes training-free conditional sampling for pretrained Schrödinger bridge models

SourcesarXiv stat.ML

103

Beetle-inspired soft robot follows finger commands to walk, grip and relay sensory information

SourcesRobotics.ee – In Robots We TrustTech Xplore: Robotics

104

Neocloud Prime Intellect acquires startup to accelerate inference

SourcesThe InformationCrypto Briefing

105

LoopWAM introduces closed-loop world-action model for policy improvement

SourcesarXiv cs.CV

106

NYSOFA signs $2.1m deal to expand ElliQ deployment for seniors

SourcesThe Robot Report

107

ChunkAct proposes unified framework for action chunking in agentic robotics

SourcesarXiv cs.AI

108

Study shows retrieval disagreement signals issues in multilingual dense embedders

SourcesarXiv cs.CL

109

Researchers propose APTree for adaptive robotic task planning in construction

SourcesarXiv cs.RO

110

Microchip Technology updates networking and storage products for AI and HPC

SourcesData Center Dynamics

111

Causa Prima raises $20 million to solve AI agent billing disputes

SourcesFortune

112

RTISSLAM enables in-air sonar SLAM for environments where cameras fail

SourcesarXiv cs.RO

113

AesCode improves visual quality of generated code artifacts via cross-modal rewards

SourcesarXiv cs.AI