AI Round-up: 6 October 2026

New York City's AI hearing brings company representatives and former lab researchers before lawmakers to discuss risks and oversight, with testimony and hearing coverage prominent on YouTube. Reflection has unveiled Beam, its first planned open-weight model; early access is limited and the company says public weights will follow later this month. Cohere announces North 2, expanding its enterprise-agent platform with orchestration, memory and governance controls.

The snapshot also covers OpenAI's planned EU text watermarking and visual ads, alongside official Codex CLI and Claude Code Mods demonstrations. X includes practical agent updates and an accountability discussion, while Reddit touches on Copilot CLI session states, local language models and Anthropic's response to allegations about government websites.