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The wire for Friday, 16 October 2026
40 unedited headlines, exactly as their publishers wrote them. This is an archived snapshot of what the front page's Wire showed that day — it is not re-ranked or checked after the fact, and it is not reporting. How this differs from the edited paper →
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- OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites Newsroom report
- Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Company post · self-reported
- “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops Newsroom report
- Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds Newsroom report
- Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses Newsroom report
- India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity Newsroom report
- An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet Newsroom report
- Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them Newsroom report
- Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees Newsroom report
- Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever Newsroom report
- Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS Company post · self-reported
- A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops Newsroom report
- Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’ Newsroom report
- Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film ‘the right way’ and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy Newsroom report
- Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free Newsroom report
- AI-powered drones to help detect hill fires during Chung Yeung Festival Newsroom report
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Review: The First Real AI PC Newsroom report
- AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content Newsroom report
- China leans in to hi-tech systems to counter emerging AI-fuelled terror threats Newsroom report
- China’s AI boom, self-sufficiency push fuel earnings surge for local chip firms Newsroom report
- Who is Nathan Chen, the Chinese teen AI prodigy being courted by Silicon Valley? Newsroom report
- Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale Hosted post · author claims
- Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin Company post · self-reported
- AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For Newsroom report
- How Meta Built Forum With AI-Native Engineering Company post · self-reported
- Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs Company post · self-reported
- LIBERO-PeRM: Benchmarking Personalized Robotic Manipulation Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- T2-z: Test-Time Optimization of Environment Latents for Robotic World Models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Perceive, Predict, and Plan: a Unified World Action Model for Egocentric Dexterous Manipulation Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- PathFM: Fast Generative Forecasting of Multivariate Trajectories Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- OmniVerifier-C1: Decomposed Graded Verifier for Rule-Governed Generative World Modeling Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- MLExpert: Towards a Generalist Agentic Model for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Robust Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Treatment Regimes under Model and Measurement Uncertainty Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Training Reasoning Models to Generate Diverse Scientific Ideas Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- MindEval2: Clinically Grounded Patients and Rubrics for Evaluating Language Models in Mental Health Support Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Grid-Bench: Can LLMs Predict How Discrete Worlds Change? Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Backward Compatibility in Zero-Bit Neural Audio Watermarking Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Multi-Target Few-Shot Prompting with Diffusion Language Models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed