Friday, October 23, 2026
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Daily news quiz · Friday, October 23
Five questions from today's AI headlines. About two minutes.
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles put Martians on the radio, and by morning America had a legend: mass panic. The evidence says it mostly didn't happen. A three-and-a-half-minute film on how newspapers built the myth, and the real, deadly panic in Quito eleven years later that almost nobody remembers.
· AI voice, from Jefferson Pooley & Michael J. Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic,” Slate (Oct. 28, 2013), NPR (Oct. 30, 2013), Radio Guide transcript of Welles's press conference, Oct. 31, 1938 (via Wellesnet)
Images and motion generated with AI (Google Flow: Nano Banana images, Veo video) and edited by AI Broadsheet. Press-conference dialogue is quoted from the Radio Guide transcript of October 31, 1938, and voiced by synthetic stock voices; no real person's likeness or voice is used. Narration, sound effects and score generated with ElevenLabs.
What AI is changing this week for people's rights, work, children and democracy.
SafetyFrom the labs
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
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WorkResponsible AI
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What people are building with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and open models this week. Every project links to its maker.
Let an AI model use a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32: AirPlay eyes, USB HID hands, any OpenAI-compatible vision model. No Mac, no developer account, no jailbreak.
Ears for coding agents: let AI hear, review and make sound. CPU-only, open source.
A design system for AI applications. Material, physical, tactile, technical.
Newsletters where you pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers, at a fraction of the price of beehiiv and the like. Open source: self-host it, or use mailcheap.ai.
Trace-native CI/CD for AI agents: grade production traces, cluster failures, freeze them into replayable regression tests, and block PRs that regress. Self-hostable.
Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.
Point Claude at any game. Skills, tools and the fal MCP that let Claude Code mod almost any PC game you own: recon, reverse engineering, fal-generated art/3D/audio, in-game testing
A tiny friend in your Mac's notch and on your iPhone that keeps an eye on your AI coding agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity and more. Approve from the notc
A toolbox of film styles made in code for Claude Code: 59 ready to use, and your own. Each style is a style prompt plus a demo film made entirely in code by Claude Opus 5.5, with n
Eleven free Claude skills that clone any app: reverse-engineer it, rebuild it, test it for bugs, then fix what its users hate. Free, MIT.
Stories selected by our newsroom, explained in about a minute.
A Malta designer says their team built an AI, then lost their jobs to it. Goldman Sachs now sees 9% of US workers displaced within a decade, and beginners feel it first. What professionals can do.
· Captions, from IBTimes UK (citing Times of Malta, 18 Oct 2026), Allwork.Space (Goldman Sachs estimate), Stanford Digital Economy Lab: Canaries in the Coal Mine
Noir illustrations drawn in code by AI Broadsheet; the worker is not shown or named. Music: “Journey To The Interweb” by Aemyn (CC0, Freesound); sounds: Freesound (CC0).
Millions of people have visited Lascaux. Almost none of them have been to Lascaux. A four-minute opinion film on copies better than the original, AI answers that arrive too complete, and the discipline of letting a gap stay a gap.
· AI voice, from French Ministry of Culture, Lascaux, Pew Research Center (July 2025)
Opinion. An AI Broadsheet Op-Doc. Photographs of the Lascaux replicas: public domain (HTO) via Wikimedia Commons; other scenes drawn in code. Narration and score generated with ElevenLabs.
Stripe says AI agents' purchases through Link grew 38-fold in September, but won't say how much money that is. Who's shopping, what they buy, and how to keep the final yes for yourself.
· AI voice, from The Decoder, Maximilian Schreiner (Oct 19, 2026), Upstarts Media (cited by The Decoder)
Noir illustrations drawn in code by AI Broadsheet; figures are anonymous silhouettes, not the people in the story. Narration, sound effects and music generated with ElevenLabs.
In 2020 a Detroit father was arrested on his driveway, in front of his daughters, because facial recognition matched his old licence photo to a blurry shoplifting video. A four-minute motion comic from court records: the arrest, the lineup, thirty hours in a cell, and the rules that changed in 2024.
· AI voice, from Williams v. City of Detroit, First Amended Complaint (E.D. Mich., 2023), NPR (June 24, 2020), ACLU
Images and motion generated with AI (Google Flow: Nano Banana Pro images, Veo video) and edited by AI Broadsheet. Dialogue is quoted from the lawsuit and interviews and voiced by synthetic stock voices; every person is an anonymous figure, not a likeness of anyone involved. Dramatized from court records and published reporting. Narration, sound effects and score generated with ElevenLabs.
AI Broadsheet Labs
The free courses from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and more, put in order by our newsroom: 8 paths, from "What is AI?" to building agents.
New in Labs: Young Lab
Nine games for ages 8 to 17: sort, teach a machine, spot fakes, build a bot. No account, and nothing typed ever leaves the device.
Every story is filed to a desk, the way a newsroom works.
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Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation · Evan Solomon
Official releases
Regional support through the expanded Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative to boost AI adoption and bring Canadian-made AI solutions to market
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