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Last Week in AI: October 11-17, 2026
The EU turned on its AI enforcement powers, Meta played both sides of the open-weight argument, and one number — $16.8 billion — did most of the talking in San Francisco. Eight stories from October 11–17, each dated to the day and linked to the source. Everything below is confirmed and sourced; nothing here is rumor, and where reports disagree, we say so. The EU opened its first AI Act enforcement actions — against OpenAI and Anthropic.