Seventy: Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Tuesday, 20 October 20268 stories made this issue.
  1. EU now has an official checklist for companies selling high-risk AI to followEuropean Commission — Digital Strategy
  2. Amazon's AI chips can now run your team's existing code unchangedAbout Amazon (AI and infrastructure)

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Words of the day

Trainium
Amazon's custom-designed chips built for training and running machine learning models on AWS as an alternative to Nvidia GPUs.
COBOL
An old programming language still widely used in banking, insurance and government mainframe systems.
High-risk AI system
The EU AI Act's category for AI used in areas like hiring, credit, education and policing, which brings the heaviest obligations.
For today

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In, 2013