2 October 2026

PewDiePie unveils Ajax - an AI model that doesn't refuse to answer and runs on a home computer

YouTuber PewDiePie presented Ajax - an AI model that can run on a home computer and from which he removed the refusal mechanism. It is a fine-tuned version of Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B. It powers Odysseus, the YouTuber's earlier project: an assistant running on the user's computer that handles email and calendar and browses the web. According to the author, OpenAI banned his account twice while he was working on the model, once for distillation, that is, training one model on another model's answers.

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From recent days

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.

Satya Nadella na X ↗ CNBC ↗ The Verge ↗

Sony brings AI upscaling to the standard PS5 - until now only the PS5 Pro had it

On October 1, Sony announced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), an AI upscaling technology for the base PS5 developed together with AMD. It improves image detail and stability in games; until now only the PS5 Pro had a similar technology, PSSR. The first games with QSSR are Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, which received patches on the day of the announcement, and the technology will be available to all PlayStation game developers.

PlayStation Blog ↗ The Verge ↗

Bill Gates: AI companies regulating themselves is not enough, laws are needed

In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Bill Gates came out in favor of a law regulating AI: "No one thinks self-regulation is enough." In his view, AI is already so powerful that in the hands of people with bad intentions it could lead to "a billion deaths." He called a kill switch that would let authorities shut down models insufficient on its own: safeguards and oversight, he said, must be mandatory.

NBC News ↗ The Guardian ↗ USA Today ↗

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