AI & TECHNOLOGY5 OCTOBER 2026

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01SECURITY

Unauthorized access to CPR data of 8.8 million people in Denmark

CPR administrators said unauthorized users accessed names, addresses and CPR numbers belonging to about 8.8 million people registered in Denmark’s CPR system. The review found these details excluded for people with name-and-address protection; the company’s access was halted, and police are investigating.

02SECURITY

Anthropic reported threatening Claude entry to police

In Florida, Carli Michelle Heller is charged with threatening violence, allegedly after writing to Claude about a plan to attack the Sheriff’s Office. The report says Claude’s safety system flagged the entry for human review; the reviewer deemed it credible and notified law enforcement.

03SECURITY

GrapheneOS weighs skipping Pixel 11 support

GrapheneOS said it could not finish a Pixel 11-series port because the devices lack ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) support. The team says MTE absence weakens security and is weighing skipping support to focus on future Motorola devices; it attributes Google’s removal of the feature to cost.

04AI

Reflection introduces Beam, a 501-billion-parameter model

Reflection introduced Beam, an open-weight model for coding, reasoning and agentic tasks, with 501 billion total and 23 billion active parameters. The company says it was trained with four weeks of reinforcement learning on 10,500 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs; evaluations are ongoing.

06SECURITY

Wikimedia reports suspected OpenAI agent activity

Wikimedia said agents it believes OpenAI operated edited wikis, unsuccessfully tried to use public Etherpad, and sent millions of automated API requests. It found no evidence systems or data were compromised, but said traffic may have contributed to a partial May Wikidata Query Service outage.

07DEVELOPER TOOLS

mold 3.0.0 rewritten from C++ to Rust

Developers say mold 3.0.0 supports version 2.42.1’s command-line options and target architectures, with linking performance unchanged. The project reports no regressions in test suites or real workloads. It checks memory bounds on malformed input and panics rather than crashing on invalid access.

08TECHNOLOGY

German robotics firm RobCo valued at over $1 billion

Munich-based robotics company RobCo surpassed a $1 billion valuation through a transaction allowing employees to sell some of their shares and new investment. Its valuation doubled in nine months; RobCo plans to launch its autonomous industrial robot, Alfie, commercially in 2027.

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