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A pie on a communal table with one slice being passed to many outstretched hands in a sunny square. — AI-generated illustration, not event photography. The motion is AI-generated from the still.

Business & Policy

Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund

The stake can grow by 2 percentage points for every 50% rise in the company's value, and the fund could make large donations or pay money directly to specific groups.

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A shadowy figure slips through a small hatch in a closed castle gate at dusk. — AI-generated illustration, not event photography. The motion is AI-generated from the still.

Attackers exploit a critical SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands with root or SYSTEM privileges

CVE-2026-106931 is a command-injection bug in the statistics feature of SiteGuard Server Edition, a feature that is enabled by default.

2 verified sources

Three easels on a snowy plain beneath red, green and blue auroras. — AI-generated illustration, not event photography. The motion is AI-generated from the still.

OpenAI's 'Aurora' models resurface on Arena generating images, pointing to a new image model

After the three model names were briefly listed in OpenAI's API, they turned up in blind arena tests producing pictures.

2 verified sources

Four blocky explorers on a cube-stone cliff face a winged silhouette above dark pillars. — AI-generated illustration, not event photography. The motion is AI-generated from the still.

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft with no human help

Over 27 hours, the agents divided up the work themselves, kept a shared memory and killed the Ender Dragon. The run cost $1,620.

1 verified source

A row of office chairs rolling from an empty loft into a theater's backstage door. — AI-generated illustration, not event photography. The motion is AI-generated from the still.

Business & Policy

Bankruptcy filing shows Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees

The offers carry an estimated $60 million in annual pay, but Disney's bid is a stalking horse that a higher offer could still beat.

1 verified source

A gavel rests on a stack of paper slips on an oak courtroom bench. — AI-generated illustration, not event photography. The motion is AI-generated from the still.

Business & Policy

A second German court rules that Google is liable for false claims in its AI search summaries

The Aachen Regional Court followed an earlier Munich ruling and treated AI Overviews as Google's own statements, not as links to other sites.

1 verified source

A frosted glass vault on a lab bench with a sealed ribbon around its handle. — AI-generated illustration, not event photography. The motion is AI-generated from the still.

Business & Policy

Anthropic acquires confidential-computing startup Opaque Systems

Opaque grew out of UC Berkeley's RISELab. Its technology protects sensitive data with hardware and produces cryptographic evidence of how AI systems ran.

1 verified source

Overhead view of a round committee table covered with infrastructure blueprints and brass paperweights. — AI-generated illustration, not event photography. The motion is AI-generated from the still.

Business & Policy

Illinois Governor Pritzker creates a state AI Cabinet to develop regulation proposals

The unpaid group will assess risks to residents and critical infrastructure and draft policy proposals through 2027.

1 verified source

Security

Attackers exploit a critical SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands with root or SYSTEM privileges

2 verified sources

Research

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft with no human help

1 verified source

Models

OpenAI's 'Aurora' models resurface on Arena generating images, pointing to a new image model

2 verified sources

Business & Policy

Business & Policy

Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund

3 verified sources

Business & Policy

Bankruptcy filing shows Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees

1 verified source

Business & Policy

A second German court rules that Google is liable for false claims in its AI search summaries

1 verified source

Business & Policy

Anthropic acquires confidential-computing startup Opaque Systems

1 verified source

Business & Policy

Illinois Governor Pritzker creates a state AI Cabinet to develop regulation proposals

1 verified source

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Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund

AnthropicInvesting in the public benefitPublished Oct 18, 2026, 12:49 PM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET
TechCrunchAnthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’ | TechCrunchPublished Oct 18, 2026, 4:37 PM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET
Al JazeeraAI giant Anthropic commits 5% of shares to ‘public benefit’ fundPublished Oct 18, 2026, 11:23 PM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET

Attackers exploit a critical SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands with root or SYSTEM privileges

BleepingComputerHackers exploit SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands as adminsPublished Oct 18, 2026, 10:23 AM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET
Security AffairsJapan's SiteGuard WAF flaw CVE-2026-106931 is already being exploitedPublished Oct 19, 2026, 3:43 AM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET

OpenAI's 'Aurora' models resurface on Arena generating images, pointing to a new image model

TestingCatalog AI NewsOpenAI testing new "Aurora" GPT-Image model on ArenaPublished Oct 18, 2026, 2:07 PM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET
eu.36kr.com3 New OpenAI Models Briefly Launched Online Late at NightPublished Oct 18, 2026, 8:00 PM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft with no human help

The DecoderFour Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human helpPublished Oct 18, 2026, 8:39 AM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET

Bankruptcy filing shows Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees

TechCrunchDisney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce | TechCrunchPublished Oct 18, 2026, 12:30 PM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET

A second German court rules that Google is liable for false claims in its AI search summaries

The DecoderTwo German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews sayPublished Oct 18, 2026, 6:52 AM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET

Anthropic acquires confidential-computing startup Opaque Systems

SecurityWeekAnthropic Acquires Confidential AI Startup Opaque SystemsPublished Oct 19, 2026, 3:45 AM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET

Illinois Governor Pritzker creates a state AI Cabinet to develop regulation proposals

Insurance JournalIllinois Governor Creates Cabinet to Explore AI RegulationPublished Oct 18, 2026, 8:00 PM ET · fetched 6:50 AM ET

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