1 October 2026

OpenAI unveils Decisions API - the Luna model picks from preset options in a fraction of a second

At DevDay, OpenAI presented the Decisions API, in which the Luna model receives a predefined set of options, such as image classification categories or possible agent actions, and picks one of them in a fraction of a second. The service is in a limited preview for now and, according to TechCrunch, resembles the Jev model that the startup TypeSafe AI released in September. TypeSafe CEO Diogo Almeida responded on X with a joke about the start of the "clone wars."

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Nadella: treat AI models like an insider threat and build an "emergency brake"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a long post on X about controlling advanced AI models. He proposes separating the model from the system that controls it and assuming from the start that the model is compromised, meaning it may act against us, so it has to be surrounded with deterministic safeguards and procedures. An authorized person should always be able to stop the model mid-task, "like an emergency brake." Every significant action by the model should leave a tamper-resistant, human-readable trail, and transparency of reasoning is, in his view, "non-negotiable." "The most trustworthy superintelligence system will not be the one in which we trust the model the most, but the one that lets us trust it the least," Nadella writes.

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New York court sentences Michael Smith to 18 months in prison - his bots played AI songs billions of times, earning him over $8 million in royalties

Judge John G. Koeltl on Tuesday, October 6, sentenced Michael Smith, 54, of North Carolina to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release and ordered the forfeiture of $8,091,843.64, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said. According to prosecutors, from 2017 to 2024 Smith ran thousands of fake accounts (up to 10,000 at once) that streamed hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs billions of times; in April 2023, Smith's bots using YouTube Music family plans played his music 80.9 million times, while Taylor Swift's entire catalog had 9.3 million plays on such plans. Smith pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit fraud; it is the first criminal streaming fraud case in the US, Billboard reports, adding that the defense asked for no prison time and prosecutors for at least 46 months.

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SpaceX wants to buy $40 billion of Nvidia processors - with debt secured by the processors themselves

Apollo and several banks are in talks with SpaceX about financing the purchase of $40 billion of Nvidia GPUs, CNBC reports, citing a person familiar with the matter; the Financial Times reported it first. The money is to come mainly from a bond issue, and the debt is to be secured by the processors being bought, because the market assumes they hold their value for about seven years. On September 24, Elon Musk said the Colossus and Colossus 2 data centers in Memphis have a combined 780,000 Nvidia chips, with 1.21 million expected by the end of December.

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