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Category: 20 October 2026
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ANTHROPIC OPENS ITS SECRETS TO INDEPENDENT REVIEWER
Following through on CEO Dario Amodei’s recent commitment, Anthropic is granting “employee-like” access to Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR), a California nonprofit that evaluates the safety rails and risk factors of frontier AI models.
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DOCTORS WHO TAKE MEALS, PAYMENTS AND GIFTS FROM DRUGMAKERS PRESCRIBE MORE DRUGS — EVEN IF PATIENTS DON’T NEED THEM
Gifts, payments, free meals and other marketing ploys by pharmaceutical companies heavily influence doctors to prescribe more drugs, choose less appropriate treatments and drive up prescription costs, according to a systematic review of 93 studies.
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AN AI USING LIGHT SPOTS DEEPFAKE VIDEOS WITH 98-PERCENT ACCURACY
Engineers at the University of California Los Angeles have created an AI that uses light to analyze videos and spot deepfakes – videos that look real but were made by AI – correctly 98 percent of the time, Science magazine reported.
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BEWARE THE BOTNETS, ANTHROPIC WARNS
In a 12 October blog post, Anthropic raised the specter of a rogue AI assembling a botnet – a network of interconnected smart devices – that could expand at lightning speed, resist attempts to corral it, and hack into data centers to fuel its continued growth.
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HOW TO BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT INSTEAD OF CO-DEPENDENT – HOW TO BRING MEANINGFUL PURPOSE BACK INTO YOUR LIFE (Part I)
Have you ever spent time in the Italian countryside?
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ECONOMIC UPDATE
In trend forecasting, it is important to understand that all things are connected. Or as Chief Seattle said, “All things are connected like the blood which unites us all.”
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SPECIAL REPORT: AI’S RISK TO FINANCIAL MARKETS
The world’s economy has become so narrowly balanced on the AI boom that a sharp reversal in AI stock values could spark a global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund has warned in its latest Global Financial Stability Report.
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AI WILL CREATE GROWTH, MASSIVE DISRUPTION, IMF SAYS
AI’s ongoing buildout will increase global growth at 3 percent this year but, at the same time, will create upheaval jobs, taxation, and education, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on 12 October at the annual joint meeting of her agency and the World Bank.
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AS FORECAST: BRENT CRUDE HIT $110 A BARREL LAST WEEK AS WARS LOOK TO BE ON THE BRINK OF ESCALATION
The price of Brent crude, the international benchmark, reached $110 a barrel on Friday after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to keep striking Russian energy targets, and reports that Ansar Allah (the Houthis) carried out successful strikes on Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure.