Corrections

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• Microsoft pulls out of a UK AI data center deal (19 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Microsoft gave no reason. 'No grid power until the 2030s' is the Telegraph's report.

• DeepSeek's free model update chases Claude on coding (18 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: The sources never name Claude; 'chases Claude' was our inference from the Hugging Face page, which lists Opus 5 at 74.0 vs DeepSeek's 77.0 on DeepSWE (DeepSeek's own table).

• DeepSeek opens search API at $0.75 per 1,000 (18 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Search and Fetch both cost $0.75 per 1,000 successful calls. Only server-side calls via DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex are free until 1 Nov 00:00 Beijing time.

• Anthropic signs first Canada data center deal (18 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: The 20-year lease, 95 MW and late-2027 start are EverWind's claims; EverWind does not name the tenant. Reuters names Anthropic.

• Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill (18 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Threshold: a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than 50 people killed or seriously injured, or over $1B in damage.

• $137M of AI-made ads flood the US midterms (18 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: $137M counts ads made at least partly with AI; 27% carried an AI label.

• Microsoft finishes training its giant MAI-Base-2 (18 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Pre-training is finished; post-training is underway. '4 to 12x' is pre-training compute efficiency versus DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base only, a scaling-law estimate (4.2 to 12.3x), per Microsoft.

• Disney hires Character.AI's team after bankruptcy (18 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Disney pays $20M for a license to Character.AI's code and 9 patents, not the platform. About $180M is Disney's 3-year cost estimate for the staff it hires. Character.AI filed Chapter 11 on 12 Oct in Delaware.

• Apple spells out its ban on AI nudify apps (17 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Not a new ban: Apple says these apps were already banned. Rule 2.5.19 spells it out and adds penalties.

• iPhone Duo sells out, deliveries slip to 2027 (17 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: 'Three months' is in no source. Delivery dates vary by outlet (25 or 29 January 2027).

• Claude solves a 25-year-old encryption mystery (17 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Anthropic says a backdoor is 'much less plausible', not ruled out. B-163 and some base points are still unexplained.

• Microsoft builds a giant 2.8 trillion parameter AI (16 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Pre-training is finished; post-training is underway. '4 to 12x' is pre-training compute efficiency versus DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base only, a scaling-law estimate (4.2 to 12.3x), per Microsoft.

• Meta gives away its big Muse Spark AI for free (16 Oct story)

  Corrected 19 Oct: Muse Spark runs on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios (up to 512 GB each).

• OpenAI's AI spent crypto from a wallet it didn't own (16 Oct story)

  Corrected 18 Oct: earlier text said 'in testing' and 'found a public wallet key'. CoinDesk: it happened in TRAINING of an internal GPT-5.6 Sol-family model (26 Jun, found 25 Sep), 362 addresses from public recovery phrases, Sepolia testnet only.