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  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool
  2. China’s AI compute access expected to double in 2027, with US-designed chips about 65 per cent
  3. UK commits £100m to national AI Biosecurity Lab
  4. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  5. Residents in Newport and Cardiff oppose hyperscale datacentres near homes
  6. Study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans in 92% of forced midterm answers, GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%
  7. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  8. Elvis Presley’s rightsholders sue Anthropic over training on 274 songs

Weekly brief

The wheresthe.ai weekly brief, 5 Oct 2026

28 developments from 28 Sep 2026 to 4 Oct 2026, the Storylines they moved, and the AI deadlines coming up. Free every Monday.

This week in AI

Storylines with new stops

KeyStoryRule or law

Defence, Government, Frontier, 9 stops The Pentagon, the labs and the limits on useWho decides how the US military may use frontier AI: the government that buys it or the companies that build it?
  1. Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic’s products
  2. Hegseth launches Project Meridian with Musk, Luckey and Gingrich to plan future war
  3. Appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic
  4. EO 14409 (covered frontier models)
  5. +5 more stops
Defence, 12 stops Project Meridian and the race to govern military AIAs the US builds an AI-first military with its own autonomous warfare command, who is setting the limits on military AI, and where?
  1. UNIDIR warns AI is crowding out human judgment in war and opens a forum on military AI
  2. Hegseth launches Project Meridian with Musk, Luckey and Gingrich to plan future war
  3. UN expert group agrees draft final report on autonomous weapons; treaty question deferred
  4. Presidential memo orders rapid rewrite of Pentagon autonomous-weapons rules
  5. +8 more stops
Defence, 9 stops Who supplies the AI-first military?Which companies are becoming the AI suppliers to Western militaries, and on what terms?
  1. Hegseth launches Project Meridian with Musk, Luckey and Gingrich to plan future war
  2. Appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic
  3. Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refused to drop two limits
  4. OpenAI agrees to deploy its models on Department of War classified networks
  5. +5 more stops
Frontier, 25 stops Frontier AI and cyber attacksHow did frontier models’ cyber-offence abilities change the way labs and governments release and police them?
  1. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  2. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  3. Ransomware affiliates ran intrusions through AI agents, an exposed server shows
  4. UK AI Security Institute and Anthropic publish findings on Claude Mythos 5 attacking real targets in cyber tests
  5. +21 more stops
Frontier, 18 stops What frontier AI developers must discloseWhat legal duties do frontier AI developers actually face in 2026, and where?
  1. OpenAI asks governments to require monitoring, shutdown controls and incident reports
  2. Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to evaluate its AI models
  3. White House task force to weigh whether AI labs must report rogue model incidents
  4. Australia says its National AI Standards will make frontier labs prove their safety systems work
  5. +14 more stops
Government, 9 stops Procurement as AI policyHow has the US government used its buying power to shape which AI it uses and how labs behave?
  1. DHS orders DeepSeek products out of federal civilian IT systems and procurement
  2. GSA issues AI clause letting agencies test purchased models and requiring change notices
  3. Appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic
  4. Pentagon signs classified-network AI deals with eight firms, leaving out Anthropic
  5. +5 more stops
Media, 17 stops Who is winning the AI training copyright fight?Do AI developers need permission to train on copyrighted work, and how are courts, governments and rights holders answering that in 2025-26?
  1. Meta delays its new business terms to 20 November after publishers object to AI scraping
  2. Judge hears Anthropic’s fair-use defence over song lyrics in music publishers’ case
  3. Third Circuit upholds ruling that ROSS’s AI training on Westlaw was not fair use
  4. US Justice Department backs OpenAI’s fair-use defence in New York Times case
  5. +13 more stops
Science, 10 stops Governments bet on AI for scienceHow are governments organising and funding AI-driven research, and what are labs delivering alongside them?
  1. White House announces $2.4bn in industry AI pledges for the Genesis Mission
  2. Google DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature
  3. Anthropic says Claude agents found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA
  4. White House commits $5bn+ to Genesis Mission and selects 278 AI-for-science projects
  5. +6 more stops
Work, 13 stops Is AI taking jobs yet?What does the evidence say about AI’s effect on employment, and how are lawmakers reacting?
  1. Singapore announces Bridge2Tech: 3,000 year-long internships over three years as AI takes junior tasks
  2. Anthropic commits $100m to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by 2027
  3. California bans AI-only firing and requires notice of AI-driven mass layoffs
  4. Anthropic study: robots could do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on 0.3%
  5. +9 more stops
Work, 11 stops Who audits the hiring algorithm?Are the rules on AI in hiring and firing actually being applied, or are they being softened?
  1. California bans AI-only firing and requires notice of AI-driven mass layoffs
  2. EU pushes AI Act duties for hiring and workplace AI back to December 2027
  3. Colorado repeals its AI Act before it starts, replaces it with lighter ADMT law
  4. NY Comptroller finds New York City barely enforces its AI hiring law
  5. +7 more stops

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