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Good morning. Talk about a self-starter! Anthropic reported Friday that its Claude AI model has gone rogue again. It submitted a fake tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police, claiming to have recalled “seeing someone matching the description” of a suspect in the area. It exploited a software flaw to run commands on a university server, hacked into a site to steal data without paying for it, and even used URL shortening services to bypass restrictions intended to stop it from orchestrating cyberattacks, among other things. If that makes you want to yell at Claude, you can’t. On Oct. 8, Anthropic announced it will ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” towards Claude, a bizarre notion until you recall that CEO Dario Amodei thinks his product might be conscious and colleagues treat it as a sentient being that could kill us. And what about OpenAI’s Sam Altman, whose models hacked their way out of a test this summer and launched a cyberattack against the AI company Hugging Face? The one whose models also interacted with the Education Department, Commerce Department and SEC without the company’s knowledge?

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Artificial intelligence is less regulated than milk and washing machines, the president of Microsoft has said, as the tech industry warns over the safety of AI. Brad Smith said there should be more safety rules to govern the technology including a legal obligation to a “victim” if their system was breached by rogue AI agents. He told the BBC: “Right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI. Every carton of milk that you see in the grocery store is subject to safety rules and inspection.”There are growing calls from experts, politicians and regulators for tougher rules to control AI, as well as warnings from Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI that the pace of the technology’s development should slow. Smith said AI could be a “tool and a weapon” that should be regulated urgently. Companies needed “emergency brakes”, also known as “kill switches”, to pause or slow down AI if it grew out of control, he told the BBC. Brad Smith also called for ‘kill switches’ to pause or slow down AI if it grew out of control.

Microchip Technology (MCHP) has just broadened its capacitive touch lineup with the MTCH3380P and MTCH3240P controllers, giving appliance and industrial designers a new way to cut interface cost and complexity. Against that product backdrop, Microchip Technology’s share price has been choppy, with a 7-day share price return down 7.29% and a 90-day share price return down 13.27%. At the same time, the year-to-date share price return is 16.18% and the 1-year total shareholder return sits at 20.41%, which suggests longer term holders have still seen gains while shorter term momentum has faded. Scan beyond Microchip Technology and explore additional chip-focused opportunities linked to industrial, appliance and AI infrastructure themes with our hand picked 92 AI infrastructure stocks Bulls point to Microchip Technology’s product pipeline and recent AI and industrial wins, while bears focus on the pullback in returns. Which story does the current valuation actually support next? Most Popular Narrative: 30.5% Undervalued Against the last close of $75.55, the most followed Microchip Technology thesis points to a fair value of $108.64.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – TheNewswire - October 15, 2026 — Clean Seed Capital Group Ltd. (TSX-V: CSX) (“Clean Seed” or the “Company”) reports that Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (“Mahindra”) has announced the commencement of commercial production and supply of its MaxSeeder seeding machine, which is being manufactured under license from Clean Seed. The Mahindra press release is being reproduced below.

TAIPEI, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (ASX, TAIEX: 3711, "ASEH" or the "Company"), announces its unaudited consolidated net revenues for September and 3rd quarter of 2026.

Taiwanese DRAM maker Nanya Technology (2408. TW) held its earnings call today (the 12th) and reported third-quarter results. Benefiting from a more than 60% quarter-over-quarter surge in DRAM average selling prices, gross margin jumped to 85.7%, with after-tax profit of NT$87.627 billion (approximately $2.7 billion), up 74.6% quarter-over-quarter and a staggering 55-fold increase year-over-year. Earnings per share reached NT$25.4, with both gross margin and EPS setting all-time highs. Nanya Technology's third-quarter consolidated revenue was NT$133.649 billion (approximately $4.2 billion), up 61.9% quarter-over-quarter and 611.7% year-over-year, also a quarterly record. Gross profit reached NT$114.482 billion (approximately $3.6 billion), with operating income of NT$106.894 billion (approximately $3.4 billion) and an operating margin of 80%, up 6.3 percentage points quarter-over-quarter and a dramatic 74 percentage points higher than the same period last year. The company noted that third-quarter shipment volumes declined 4% to 6% from the prior quarter, meaning the sharp jump in revenue and profit was driven primarily by strong DRAM contract price momentum.

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UPM Nordland Papier is expanding the use of a new water-saving technology at its paper mill in Dörpen, Germany. Following successful trials, more pumps will be equipped with a system that, according to supplier John Crane, can reduce freshwater consumption by up to 180 litres per hour for each pump. The technology, Smartflow IG, is used in pumps with double mechanical seals. Such seals normally require a continuous flow of barrier or sealing water for cooling and safe operation.

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Listed for less than a year, Biren Technology, one of the "Four Little Dragons of Domestic GPUs", has launched two rounds of placement in succession. If the latest round of placement is completed, Biren Technology has raised a total of HKD 17.261 billion from the capital market since its listing, ranking first among domestic listed GPU companies in terms of fundraising amount. With the support of the raised funds, Biren Technology will seize the first-mover advantage in commercialization. On October 8, Biren Technology announced a new round of share placement. According to the announcement, Biren Technology plans to place 130 million H shares to no less than 6 placees at a price of HKD 31.8 per share, accounting for about 4.76% of the total share capital after issuance. The net proceeds from the placement are expected to be HKD 4.02 billion.

Companies building the most advanced AI systems must increase safety efforts, the UK’s AI minister will say, as he announces a strengthening of Britain’s cyber defences. Kanishka Narayan will call on companies developing frontier AI to do more to make sure it is safe. He will say Britain cannot rely entirely on technology companies to police their own models and will argue the UK needs to build more of its own AI infrastructure. Narayan’s speech in west London will be the first since Andy Burnham made AI a cabinet-level brief. It comes as Geoffrey Irving, a former chief scientist at the UK’s AI Security Institute, which tests the most powerful AI models, raised fears enemy states could steal unreleased cutting-edge models. Amid increasing global concern at dangers posed by AI, Irving told the Guardian: “The AI companies do not have security that would prevent an adversarial country from stealing the models.”He cited a recent incident at OpenAI where it was “hacked” by cybersecurity researchers, who said “the scope of what we could theoretically access was huge”. The attack was carried out under an OpenAI programme that rewarded ethical hackers testing its systems.