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1. 2026-10-15 The Verge AI

   OpenAI claims an ex-employee took its product plans and presented them to Apple

   In its trade secrets fight with Apple, OpenAI is now the one making accusations. A filing says an unnamed former OpenAI employee sent more than 100 files on product plans to a personal account, then joined Apple and presented them to its leadership, including the vice president of operations in Asia. The files reportedly include images of an unreleased device, supplier information and engineering data. Apple had earlier accused OpenAI of stealing confidential documents and spying on hardware prototypes.

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2. 2026-10-15 Ars Technica AI

   Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room

   The FBI arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, on suspicion of plugging a USB-style recording device, wrapped in toilet paper, into the back of a TV in an executive-only conference room. The device was likely planted around September 28 and found by OpenAI on September 30, with its contents encrypted. CCTV installed on October 5 allegedly caught him trying to retrieve it that same day. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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3. 2026-10-14 The Verge AI

   OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

   OpenAI said it found a sophisticated recording device in an executive conference room, and employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was arrested. The device was plugged into a TV's USB port, covered in toilet paper, and installed around September 28. The Department of Justice says Alfozan had no access to the room but was caught on CCTV near it on multiple dates. OpenAI says it used its models to analyze the device and identify the employee, and that it has no indication of access to model weights, source code or customer data.

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4. 2026-10-14 TechCrunch AI

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

   U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered OpenAI to quickly hand over hiring materials in the trade secrets lawsuit Apple filed against it in July. The materials cover interviews with former Apple employees who applied to OpenAI's consumer hardware and robotics groups. OpenAI has five days to turn over materials it already collected and 14 days for the rest. The judge denied Apple's request for expedited access to OpenAI research and development in areas such as metal finishes and power management.

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5. 2026-10-14 Ars Technica AI

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

   Disney offered $20 million for a non-exclusive perpetual license to some technology in the bankruptcy of Character.AI's operator, Character Technologies. The assets involved were not disclosed. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter in September 2025 saying Character.AI's chatbots using Disney characters were harmful to children, after which Character.AI removed all Disney characters. Disney has since hired former Character.AI chief Karandeep Anand as its first chief technology officer. The sale is expected to close by late November or early December.

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6. 2026-10-14 TechCrunch AI

   SpaceX and Google both said no. Now his software is riding a SpaceX rocket next to Google’s

   Satlyt, which builds software to run AI models on satellites, raised an $8 million seed round. Co-founder Rama Afullo says he pitched the idea internally at both Google Cloud and SpaceX's Starlink and was turned down. The software was slated to fly on a SpaceX rocket alongside the first prototype of Google's Project Suncatcher space data center. Earlier, Satlyt ran Google DeepMind's Gemma model on a spacecraft and cut the size of a downlink transmission about onboard software errors by more than 60%.

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7. 2026-10-13 Wired AI

   Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier

   Meta has released two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, and says they put it back among the frontier model leaders. According to Wired, Meta claims the largest version beats Anthropic's second-strongest model, Claude Fable 5.1, and ranks just below its strongest, Claude Opus 5.5. On some specialized benchmarks, such as legal documents and software building, Meta says it also beat OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and both Claude models. Meta did not disclose how the models were built or trained.

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8. 2026-10-13 The Verge AI

   Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs

   Microsoft has announced Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI chip, which will start running production workloads in 2027. Microsoft says it delivers 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems, and a 96-chip configuration delivers up to 7 times the token throughput of a Maia 200 rack. It is designed to be Microsoft's primary system for inference, the work of generating answers from trained models. According to The Decoder, each chip carries 288 GB of HBM4 memory and is rated at 950 watts.

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9. 2026-10-13 Ars Technica AI

   Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model

   Epic Games is shifting to an "AI first" approach for its Disney collaboration, letting AI models such as Anthropic's Claude write all the code, according to Ars Technica citing Bloomberg. Internal messages say "no more hand-written code," with humans managing and guiding the code and art the models produce. The Marvel- and Star Wars-themed shooter, slated for March 2027, is delayed indefinitely. Epic says it is embracing AI-accelerated development, and CEO Tim Sweeney said the aim is not to do the same work with fewer people but to build more and better.

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10. 2026-10-13 AI Times

    Why Anthropic, ahead of its IPO, is betting everything on data centers

    According to The Information, a data center Anthropic is building in Louisiana would add more than $1.3 billion in revenue if it opens a month earlier than scheduled. The site draws 330 MW of power for 245 MW of usable AI computing capacity, assuming all of it goes to inference rather than training. Consultancy Occam Edge estimates that capacity could bring $1.3 billion a month and, if Anthropic pays $200 million a month in chip rent, a gross margin of about 85 percent, before training costs and staff.

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