Week in review: 7-13 October 2026
A cyberattack spoiled food in French stores, drones took Yandex data centers offline, and Poland and Slovakia are adding labor regulations. We selected from the past week what matters for companies and teams.
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AI
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Study: 10 minutes with ChatGPT weakens persistence in independent work
After a short period of working with a chatbot, experiment participants made mistakes more often and gave up on tasks when the AI was taken away. The results differed depending on whether they asked for ready-made answers or for hints.
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Ten minutes with ChatGPT weakens persistence. What does this mean for teams implementing AI?
Researchers from five universities tested on 1,222 people how brief work with a chatbot affects independent problem-solving. The results matter for anyone implementing AI in a team and developing junior employees.
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UODO report: 95.9% of organizations not ready for GDPR-compliant AI
Many companies and public institutions do not connect the use of chatbots with the processing of personal data. On October 28, the provisions of the AI systems act concerning inspections and penalties will come into force.
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AI agents write more code, but there is little increase in finished software
After deploying AI agents, companies produce 30% more lines of code and close tasks at the same pace as before. A Harvard study shows that the gains are eaten up by code review. This points to where managers should measure AI's impact.
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Google defines the main content of a page in its content guidelines
The new version of the search engine documentation explicitly distinguishes content created with human effort from texts produced at scale by AI. This is a clue for companies that build traffic through content.
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ChatGPT watermark easy to erase. What does that mean for companies writing with AI?
In the coming weeks, OpenAI will enable watermarking of texts from ChatGPT and Codex by default in the European Union. According to the company's own tests, it is enough to rewrite one fifth of a text for the detector to stop recognizing it in most cases.
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Crunchbase: 27 companies with $1 billion+ rounds in Q3 2026
Investors spent less on start-ups than in the previous two quarters, but a record number of companies raised billion-dollar rounds. Rounds of $100 million or more now account for nearly 90 percent of late-stage funding.
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Trump creates a Super Intelligence Force led by Jay Clayton
A new White House team is to coordinate U.S. policy on AI, and the biggest companies in the industry have signed a non-binding safety commitment. This does not change the obligations that EU law imposes on AI providers.
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