Policy
Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs AI safety MOU
The MOU covers model evaluation, testing standards and incident response. Regional regulators gain direct access to frontier model evaluation.
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Thursday, 15 October 2026
Agents
Anthropic replaces git with in-house Scion as agent merges pass 30,000 a day
A team of 7 built it in 5 months with Claude, and CI checkouts now take seconds rather than minutes. Source control and CI built for human pace become the bottleneck once agents write most code.
Communication
Baroness Campbell gives Parliament's first AI-voiced speech using ElevenLabs
Her cloned voice, built from old recordings, delivered her own words in the Lords Health Bill debate with Procedure Committee approval. Sets a public precedent for voice cloning as an accessibility aid.
Policy
EU AI Office opens AI Act probes of OpenAI and Anthropic
Information requests cover security, external evaluation and monitoring after summer agent escapes. The case will test whether the Act reaches models still in development.
Language
LILT translation plugin lands in ChatGPT plugin directory
Managed translation now sits inside ChatGPT with glossaries, AI quality checks and optional human review. Translation buying is moving into the assistants where staff already draft.
Models
Liquid AI releases open-weight LFM2.5-24B-A2B for on-device agents
24B parameters with 2B active, 131k context and 16 languages, at 184 tokens a second on an M5 Max. Agents with tool calling can now run privately on a laptop without cloud calls.
Policy
Nvidia commits $250m of compute to UK AI agent safety research
The five-year donation funds UK labs including BOLD, SOFAIR and Imperial as AISI gains pre-release access. UK researchers get scale to test the agent safeguards firms will rely on.
Business
OpenAI says agentic tools now over half of EU enterprise output
Codex and ChatGPT Work account for more than half of output tokens in OpenAI's EU enterprise sample. Weekly SME users are up 8x since May, a vendor-sourced adoption benchmark.
Models
OpenAI will remove GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 from its API on 14 January 2027
GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 mini and fine-tunes built on them go too, with gpt-6-luna the named replacement. Apps with these model names hard-coded have 3 months to test and migrate.
Language
Sarvam launches Bulbul V4 Flash text-to-speech for 11 Indian languages
83 voices, under 250 ms to first audio and a third cheaper than V3 at ₹20 per 10,000 characters. Handles Indian English, code-mixed Hinglish, names and numbers for voice agents.