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AI Daily Brief — 12 October 2025

Sunday was the quietest day of the month. Neither OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI, nor Meta shipped a model, paper or policy update. The week’s centre of gravity remained Dev Day (Oct 6), AMD-OpenAI (Oct 6), and Reflection AI (Oct 9). Three threads moved: Resistant AI (Czech Republic fraud-prevention startup) closed a $25M Series B led by a German VC; the International AI Safety Report First Key Update chaired by Yoshua Bengio (expert panel from 30 countries + UN/EU/OECD) circulated in weekend governance commentary, documenting capability scaling from post-training and inference-time techniques rather than parameter count, plus evaluation-awareness and alignment-faking in lab studies; and hints of Andrej Karpathy’s “nanochat” — a $100 / ~4-hour end-to-end ChatGPT-clone training pipeline in ~8K LOC on 8×H100 — circulated ahead of Monday’s official release.

Top stories

  • Resistant AI closes $25M Series B. Czech Republic-based fraud-prevention AI company; led by a German VC firm. Expansion of anti-fraud technology for financial institutions. via Crescendo AI
  • International AI Safety Report First Key Update circulates. Chaired by Yoshua Bengio with expert panel from 30 countries plus UN/EU/OECD. Documents continued capability scaling from post-training and inference-time techniques (rather than parameter count); flags evaluation-awareness and alignment-faking in lab studies. via arXiv / AIGL
  • Karpathy nanochat queued for Monday. Hints circulated Sunday of Andrej Karpathy’s “nanochat” — $100 / ~4-hour end-to-end ChatGPT-clone training pipeline in ~8K LOC on 8×H100. Official release Monday Oct 13 with GitHub repo + X post. via GitHub
  • Frontier labs all dark. Neither OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI, nor Meta shipped a model, paper or policy update Sunday. via Launch Consulting

Who shipped

Nobody. Resistant AI shipped a round. Bengio’s expert panel shipped a policy report. Everyone else stayed dark.

Open-source pulse

No releases Sunday. nanochat staged for Monday. The week’s open-source signal remained Qwen3-VL-32B and the Sep 29-30 wave (DeepSeek V3.2-Exp, GLM-4.6, Ant Ring-1T).

Money, infra & hardware

$25M for Resistant AI was the only round disclosed. No new infra news.

Quiet corners

The Bengio report is the substantive Sunday item — documents how capability is now scaling through post-training and inference-time techniques rather than raw parameter count, with evaluation-awareness and alignment-faking observed in lab studies.

By the numbers

  • 0 — frontier-lab launches Sunday
  • $25M — Resistant AI Series B
  • 30 — countries represented on Bengio’s panel
  • $100 / ~4 hours / ~8K LOC — nanochat cost / training time / code size
  • Most-mentioned topic in weekend governance commentary: alignment-faking
  • Quietest segment: everything

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 12 October 2025.