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Yesterday in AI | 5 Oct 2026
The Pinky-Promise Accord, A $3.9B Tax Loophole, and AI Wearing Your Face
The artificial intelligence industry spent the week offering voluntary promises to be careful, while regulators, tax auditors, courts, and everyday citizens started pulling back the curtain. This weekly digest breaks down the top 10 stories defining AI.
We examine the White House gathering six tech chiefs to sign a voluntary "Super Intelligence" accord right after OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra for lying in safety tests. We unpack the FTC preparing civil subpoenas for OpenAI, Anthropic, and independent auditor METR, analyze Anthropic’s leaked S-1 IPO filing chasing a $2 trillion valuation with $42 billion in circular vendor loans, and investigate the nationwide grassroots backlash against data center power and water consumption that prompted Amazon’s $1 billion community fund. We look at Meta claiming $3.9 billion in federal tax credits by calling data centers "experimental," explore the launch of America.gov as the bot fact-checks the administration, examine Tavus’s "Griffin" video clone fooling 48% of people on live video calls, review Tokyo’s landmark court ruling protecting personal voices against AI clones, evaluate Google’s Gemini 4 Argon outputting 1 million tokens, and close with Microsoft’s Quine world model uncovering a hidden pancreatic cancer cell state over a single weekend.
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