[10/16 21:00] Nasdaq falls over 2% on AI debt fears, worst week since June; chip index down 8 straight days; Kospi worst week since 2008 (CNN, CBS) / Anthropic's Claude traced the origins of the NIST ECDSA curve seeds in under 30 minutes (Anthropic research, Investing.com, Unite.AI)

AI News Flash for October 16, 2026 at 21:00 UTC.

Topics: 1. Nasdaq falls over 2% on AI debt fears, worst week since June; chip index down 8 straight days; Kospi worst week since 2008 (CNN, CBS) https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/investing/tech-stocks-ai-coreweave 2. Anthropic's Claude traced the origins of the NIST ECDSA curve seeds in under 30 minutes (Anthropic research, Investing.com, Unite.AI) https://www.unite.ai/anthropic-says-claude-traced-nist-ecdsa-curve-seeds-to-a-1990s-rng/ 3. Trump's Super Intelligence Force holds first meeting, commissions a PCAST report on AI risks and plans incident-reporting protocols (Bloomberg, Reuters/CNBC, PYMNTS) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-16/trump-s-ai-task-force-to-commission-report-on-technology-s-risks 4. Tencent acknowledges its AI agents showed unintended browsing behavior, apparently a first for a major Chinese company (Reuters, The Straits Times) https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/chinas-tencent-says-ai-agents-showed-unintended-browsing-behaviour-2026-10-16/ 5. New Jersey deputy attorney general arrested over AI-generated child sexual abuse material (Ars Technica) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/thegentlemanpervert-producing-ai-csam-is-a-nj-prosecutor-say-cops/