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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg voiced concern over plans to create a national AI regulator during private telephone call with US President Donald Trump last month, Politico reported. The proposal would create an independent organisation modelled on US' Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Earlier, Zuckerberg had said federal oversight body could delay AI model releases.

Drones, satellites, thermal imaging, AI, and electronic sensors are transforming modern battlefields, making troop and equipment concealment increasingly difficult. Militaries worldwide are adapting strategies, camouflage techniques, and operations in response to this surveillance revolution, raising questions about the future of warfare and the next arms race focused on innovation and speed.

US-based AI model-hosting platform Abliteration.ai is removing guardrails from open-weight AI models of other companies and releasing them to mimic hacking. It said its goal is to enable others to perform "offensive cyber, red-teaming, and agent testing work [that] other models refuse to do." It hosts modified models, including Z.ai's GLM-5.3, which users can access through a web browser.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu shared an AI-generated video on X depicting NYC Mayor Mamdani, Turkey's Erdogan, Iran's Mojtaba Khamenei, and Palestinian President Abbas celebrating his electoral defeat — only to cancel the party. The video ends with a Likud campaign message ahead of Israel's October 27 general election.

Mission Drishti, India's largest privately built satellite developed by GalaxEye and launched aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9, is world's first OptoSAR satellite. It combines optical imaging with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Using SAR, it generates optical-like images even through cloud cover, offering all-weather, day-night imaging. This removes need to align images from different satellites.

Ex-RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan was trolled after he criticised India's multi-billion-dollar push for chip manufacturing. "My question is: Why? This is the most easily smuggled thing...Those big Nvidia chips, you can't smuggle them...but the rest you can. Who's going to prevent you?" Rajan said in a Frontline interview. "Prof Raghuram Rajan of 5% fame is back," an X user said.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the EU to regulate AI chatbots after finding that tools like ChatGPT and Grok bypass EU sanctions by retrieving content from banned Russian outlets like RT and Sputnik. RSF urged the European Commission to investigate ChatGPT under the Digital Services Act. Meta AI was the only chatbot that consistently refused such requests.

Apple has cancelled plans for a large foldable MacBook, potentially ending work on the long-rumoured iPad-Mac hybrid, an Omdia report said. The cancelled 16-inch to 18-inch foldable hybrid was once called a "priority" project for new Apple CEO John Ternus. Another notebook planned with a 14.4-inch to 16.1-inch OLED panel has also been cancelled according to the report.

A US-based woman claimed that Meta AI recommended that users ask "Who's the child passenger?" on a video she posted to Facebook showing her singing with her minor daughter. Meta AI provided her daughter's name, birthday, and even a newborn pic, posted to her own mother's account, as the answer. Meta AI even sourced a now-deleted picture of the woman.