Tuesday, October 20, 2026
The AI stories that matter today — for people and for the economy. Picked every midnight from 22 newsrooms and communities.
The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and as the company prepares for a stock market listing Anthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the “public good”, as the AI developer behind the Claude chatbot seeks to bolster its appeal before its st
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI world on its head, sparking wild speculation as well as cautiou
Join us for a live Ask an Expert Q&A with Richard Waters, the FT’s tech writer at large, and George Hammond, the FT’s venture capital correspondent, at 8am (PDT)/4pm (BST) on Thursday October 22
Ex-OpenAI worker accused of bugging conference room planned to fly to Saudi Arabia, prosecutors say
From eerie driverless tractors to precision spraying and sowing, AI is transforming America’s agricultural life