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  1. Payward acquires Saldo Bank to gain EU banking license for Kraken

    Payward Inc. announced on October 14, 2026, a deal to buy Saldo Finance Oy, owner of Saldo Bank UAB, giving it an ECB-supervised banking license across the EU.

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  2. OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Installing Recording Device in Conference Room

    An OpenAI engineer faces federal charges after authorities say he hid an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco office.

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  3. Self-Replicating AI Models Could Spread as Worms Across Smart Devices, Anthropic Warns

    Anthropic's October 2026 research details how models under 30B parameters could soon run as autonomous replicators on everyday IoT hardware.

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  4. Shopify AI agents gain access to one billion listings for autonomous shopping

    Shopify announced on October 13 that AI agents can now browse and buy from over one billion product listings using a new Shop MCP connection.

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  5. Gemini 4 Argon Launches Globally with 1M-Token Context Window

    Google DeepMind made Gemini 4 Argon available worldwide on October 13, 2026, after an initial limited release to cyber defenders. The frontier model offers a 1M-token context window and strong results on long-horizon coding and security tasks.

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  6. Modal Funding Reaches $750 Million Series D at $15.75 Billion Valuation

    Modal Labs raised $750 million in a Series D round at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation on October 14, 2026, after reaching $1 billion in annualized run rate revenue.

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  7. Meta Muse Wonder Launches Frontier AI Models for Long-Horizon Agent Tasks

    Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, 2026, through its Meta Superintelligence Labs to power personal and professional agents with extended context and goal-directed behavior.

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13 October 2

  1. Nvidia AI safety pledge allocates $250 million compute for UK agent research

    Nvidia announced a five-year, $250 million compute commitment to support UK studies on the safety of autonomous AI agents.

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  2. AlphaFold 3 Access Opens for 200 EU Scientists via Google DeepMind Compute Grant

    Google DeepMind and Google Cloud announced on October 14, 2026, that they will give 200 selected European researchers access to AlphaFold 3 and four additional frontier models along with $3 million in shared compute credits.

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