ZeroSlop — October 10, 2026
Today: Deno is joining Cloudflare; Quoting Matthew Green; OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. Deno is joining Cloudflare
Simon Willison
Deno is joining Cloudflare The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Cloudflare Workers. Today, Cloudflare are acquiring Deno outright, with the goal of building on celld to “make workerd self-hosting a fir…
2. Quoting Matthew Green
Simon Willison
Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in our existing public-key encryption algorithms. […] The problem here is tha…
3. OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks
SecurityWeek
The ChatGPT maker said the researchers “violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.” The post OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks appeared first on SecurityWeek ….
4. Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
The Verge AI
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigat…
5. OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers
The Verge AI
OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed “a significant breach of trust.” In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni were dismissed for violating “clear policies on handling sen…
6. Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
MIT Tech Review
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next…
7. The Download: AI roadblocks for humanoids and portable rubber dams
MIT Tech Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI breakthroughs in robotics won’t change your life any time soon The hype around humanoid robots is reaching fever pitch. Much of it comes from the idea that the…
8. Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
TechCrunch AI
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying….
9. Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi
The Guardian Tech
AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three. Those bad things? They only happen to other people Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has some words for you about his company and the future of artificial intelligence. “One of the differences between us and some…
10. First Thorium Nuclear Clocks Begin to Tick
Slashdot
Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have independently built the first nuclear clocks based on oscillations inside thorium nuclei, marking a major milestone for a field that could eventually produce highly portable, ultra-precise timekeepers. The clocks are already precise enough to lose only about a …
11. Google Cloud Launches Gemini Agent, One Universal Agent for Enterprise Work
MarkTechPost
Google Cloud has introduced the Google Cloud Gemini agent, a single agent for enterprise work. The Gemini agent is a cloud-hosted agent from Google Cloud that answers questions, does knowledge work, creates media, and writes and runs code. It does all of this from 1 prompt box and 1 API. For develop…
12. Architect Launches Liquid Inference, a Real-Time Auction for LLM Inference
MarkTechPost
Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for every request. Liquid Inference is an LLM inference marketplace from Architect where providers bid to serve each prompt. The buyer pays the lowest offer that meets its rules. For developers, it…