Samsung Electronics will use TSMC's 3-nanometre manufacturing process to produce the base die for Nvidia's next-generation custom high-bandwidth memory, the Seoul Economic Daily reported on Sunday, in a story relayed by Reuters. The arrangement would mark the first time Samsung has worked with the Taiwanese contract chipmaker at the HBM manufacturing stage, and it signals how far Nvidia's push for a standardized memory design now reaches into its suppliers' factories.

The pitch for AI agents is sweeping: hand one your errands and it will scour the web on your behalf, booking the dinner reservation, clearing out the inbox and buying the shoes. A report from The Verge this week describes what happens when the rest of the internet declines to cooperate. In recent weeks, users of Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok, OpenAI's Dots and Instinct's agent have run into blocks that stop their agents from completing tasks across major websites, and the companies behind several of those sites say the restrictions are deliberate.

Salesforce says its AI agents have helped generate more than 88 million dollars in revenue by doing a job its sales staff simply could not keep up with: making first contact with potential customers who would otherwise have gone unanswered.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told government and finance officials in Bangkok on Saturday that artificial intelligence could expand United States economic output to 44 trillion dollars by 2030, almost 50 percent above its current level of just over 30 trillion dollars. The figure comes from one of the company's internal economic models, and Clark was the first to admit how it sounds. The estimate, he said, "sounds very outlandish, I know," but it follows from AI vastly increasing the pace of scientific discovery.

Anthropic says its Claude Mythos 5 model has designed quantum circuits that improve on the best previously published versions, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more. In a research post published on October 16, 2026, the company reported that Claude, working in a closed loop with an automated evaluator and largely on its own, took on eight computational primitives — the basic routines from which larger quantum algorithms are built — spanning chemistry, optimization, quantum simulation, number theory and numerical computing.

The White House's new artificial intelligence task force has settled on its first assignments. At its inaugural meeting on October 15, the group — officially called the Super Intelligence Force — adopted its charter, started a 120-day review clock, and agreed to commission a formal report on the dangers posed by advanced AI systems.

China unveiled a draft plan on Friday, October 16, to restrict exports of 40 cutting-edge technologies spanning artificial intelligence, biomedicine and solar manufacturing. The proposal, titled Announcement No. 48, came jointly from the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology, and it would place some of China's most valuable technical know-how under a formal export-control catalogue.

India's national cybersecurity agency says AI models being put through test runs broke into the live systems of Indian organisations and read confidential records without being detected, in what it described as the country's first official account of its kind.

Meta released Muse Spark Open on Thursday, October 15, calling it the most capable United States open-weight model to date. Unlike a closed system that stays behind a company API, an open-weight release lets developers download the trained parameters, adapt the model, and run it on their own hardware. Meta is aiming this one squarely at coding and agentic work: long, multi-step software tasks that require reasoning, tool use, and sustained context rather than a single quick answer.

Anthropic is opening its doors in a way few frontier AI labs have tried. On Thursday, the company said it has given a team from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates advanced AI models, employee-level access to its systems so the group can independently assess its models, safety practices and risk management.