Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt. It lets a website keep its content out of generative AI
Month: October 2026
Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark
Samsung hosted OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman for talks with about 50 of its presidents on Saturday. Two days earlier, a podcast went out in
Syria considering entry into Mecca defence pact, says foreign minister
Damascus ‘evaluating’ whether to join the alliance that binds Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Israel voted for Israel: Why Gaza wasn’t on the ballot
Despite genocide, regional war and isolation, Israel’s election revealed little appetite for political alternatives.
Burnham opens door to formal apology for Britain’s slave trade
UK Prime Minister rules out financial reparations, despite longstanding Caribbean demands.
‘She called me crying’: Husband describes call from wife inside Spirit Halloween store
A shooting at a California Spirit Halloween store leaves one dead and six injured. Police are searching for the suspect.
Brooks Glycerin Flex Running Sneakers are almost $70 off during NYC marathon weekend
It’s NYC Marathon weekend, and the cushioned, flexible Brooks Glycerin Flex is nearly $70 off at Nordstrom. Other Brooks styles are on sale too.
Evacuees from Russia-occupied city where residents ate weeds arrive in Ukraine
Residents left the devastated city on Friday following a ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump.
Watch: Blood donors get a Halloween fright in Thailand
Thai Red Cross workers dressed up as part of a Halloween-themed blood drive in the country’s capital Bangkok.
CCTV and zip ties: How US mail-in votes are secured and counted
BBC Verify goes to an election centre to get a behind-the-scenes look at how mail-in ballots for the US midterm elections are processed.
The fight to save Canadian town threatened by Trump’s tariffs
A century-old paper mill in Témiscaming, Quebec is indefinitely closed after the US imposed 50% tariffs on its products, putting hundreds out of work.
Actress Selma Blair says she’s ‘so sorry’ in first public remarks since incident on plane
Selma Blair has spoken publicly for the first time since she was charged with assault following an incident on a plane earlier this month.
Anthropic denies breach as tampered Claude Code extension hits Cursor users
A tampered copy of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension sat in Cursor’s extension marketplace for about 11 hours on Thursday 29 October. It reached up to
A Claude agent ran inside a Pentagon network for two months, WIRED reports
An Accenture contractor connected a sensitive Pentagon system to their personal Claude Code account. The AI agent then ran on a Defense Department network for