In a filing on Wednesday, OpenAI says a former employee sent more than 100 files about its product plans to a personal account before joining Apple. The unnamed employee then allegedly presented the information to Apple leadership, including the vice president of operations in Asia.
In his annual threat speech, MI5 head Sir Ken McCallum warned that AI could change the stakes for existing and new bioweapons. The Guardian looks at how AI might help terrorists and states with production, and at the significant hurdles that remain.
Simon Willison points to a piece by indie developer Popcar on the wave of AI-powered game decompilation, which enables odd mash-ups and a boom in projects that get old games running on new hardware, often in a browser. The flip side is that if AI can decompile any software, anyone can reuse it as they like.
Alibaba's AI models have been approved for use in Apple Intelligence in China ahead of the iPhone Duo launch. Apple's AI system has still not rolled out in mainland China, nearly two years after its debut.
Humanly bought recruitment marketing company CareerArc, its fifth acquisition since 2025, for an undisclosed price. The AI hiring tools it is consolidating fall under the EU AI Act's high-risk employment category, whose obligations were pushed back to December 2027.
A poll published on 14 October finds only 18% of French people plan to use AI to learn about the presidential election. Just 20% say they trust tools such as ChatGPT for that purpose.