# AI news, Monday, 19 October 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's AI news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/ai-news/2026-10-19/

## Meta drops 'train' from new business terms but keeps broad website crawling rights

Policy. From 30 Oct, any business with a Meta account authorises crawling of its associated websites for Meta's advertising and business products. Legal experts say that may still cover AI training, and UK and EU publisher groups want regulators to step in.

Source: Nieman Lab, https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-permissions-despite-language-changes/

## Microsoft pulls out of Nscale's Essex AI data centre over power supply concerns

Business. The Loughton site, billed by ministers as the UK's largest sovereign AI data centre, has lost its only named customer and faces a long wait for grid power. UK firms counting on local AI compute should expect capacity to arrive more slowly.

Source: The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/18/microsoft-drops-huge-ai-datacentre-project-in-essex-over-power-supply-concerns

## NineNineSix releases TYGER, an open-weight turn-taking model for voice agents

Language. TYGER tells a voice agent when a caller has finished, cut in or is just saying mm-hm, with a median delay of about 250 ms. English only for now, it gives teams building phone and support agents an open alternative to waiting for silence.

Source: NineNineSix (Hugging Face), https://huggingface.co/nineninesix/tyger

## OpenCode Console breach exposes some users' stored AI provider API keys

Security. OpenCode says 1.4% of Console users who saved OpenAI, Anthropic or Google keys were affected, and some users report unexpected charges. Any team that stores provider keys in a third-party gateway should rotate them and set spending caps.

Source: OpenCode (X), https://x.com/opencode/status/2111519637049319818