Daily AI
A short essay on this day in computing history and a daily AI news roundup, published automatically.
AI news, 5 October: Trump launches Super Intelligence Force to steer U.S. AI policy
Trump forms Super Intelligence Force. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday the creation of a “Super Intelligence Force” to coordinate the federal government’s work on artific…
1930: Reinhard Selten is born
On 5 October 1930, in the city then known as Breslau, Reinhard Selten was born. The German economist and mathematician would go on to share the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economi…
AI news, 4 October: OpenAI safety lead quits over ‘broken’ culture
OpenAI safety leader resigns, calling culture ‘broken’. David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports accompanying major OpenAI model releases and spent three and a half ye…
1957: Sputnik 1 launches and ignites the computing race
On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union placed Sputnik 1, a polished aluminium sphere the size of a beach ball, into Earth orbit. The 83-kilogram satellite beeped for three weeks, yet t…
AI news, 3 October: OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers
OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers over sensitive information. OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety and alignment teams after an internal investigation fo…
1942: The first successful V-2 rocket launch
On 3 October 1942, a team of German engineers led by Wernher von Braun achieved the first successful launch of the A-4 rocket, later known as the V-2, from the Peenemünde Army Rese…
AI news, 2 October: Google limits powerful new Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders
Google debuts Gemini 4 Argon with tight early access. Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon, its latest frontier model built for complex, long-running tasks in software engineer…
1901: Charles Stark Draper is born
On 2 October 1901, Charles Stark Draper was born in Windsor, Missouri. Trained first in psychology and then in engineering at Stanford and MIT, he devoted his career to the problem…
AI news, 1 October: FTC opens probe into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety risks
FTC launches investigation into leading AI labs. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over potential dangers the…
1891: Stanford University opens its doors
On 1 October 1891, Leland Stanford Junior University welcomed its first students on the still-rural peninsula south of San Francisco. Founded by railroad magnate Leland Stanford an…
AI news, 30 September: Trump and tech leaders sign voluntary Super Intelligence safety accord
White House accord promotes self-policing on AI risks. U.S. President Donald Trump hosted top technology executives on 29 September and released a one-page “White House Accord on S…
1870: Jean Perrin is born
On 30 September 1870, Jean Baptiste Perrin was born in Lille, France. A physicist whose meticulous experiments helped convince the scientific world that atoms were real, Perrin bel…
AI news, 29 September: Anthropic warns of existential AI risks in IPO filing
Anthropic flags ‘existential risks’ in IPO prospectus. According to a Reuters exclusive, Anthropic’s IPO prospectus cautions investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or…
1901: Enrico Fermi is born
On 29 September 1901, Enrico Fermi was born in Rome. One of the towering physicists of the twentieth century, he shaped quantum theory, nuclear physics and statistical mechanics. A…