[10/12 21:00 UTC] Epic Games delays its Disney shooter and orders developers to go "AI-first"…

AI News Flash for October 12, 2026 at 21:00 UTC. Topics: 1. Epic Games delays its Disney shooter and orders developers to go "AI-first" (Bloomberg via Quartz, VGC) https://qz.com/epic-games-disney-shooter-delay-ai-101226 https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epic-games-reportedly-orders-staff-to-implement-ai-first-development/ 2. Australia's parliamentary AI committee urges independent safety experts inside AI companies (ABC News) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-13/ai-inquiry-independent-safety-watchdogs/107258612 3. Trump administration plans to move three AI testing agency officials to the White House (The Information via Reuters); SI Force vice chair on verifying safety claims (MeriTalk) https://www.centraloregondaily.com/news/nation-world/trump-administration-plans-to-move-ai-testing-agency-officials-to-white-house-the-information-reports/article_6db7966b-eaf9-5ea6-b9ba-924608045dcc.html https://www.meritalk.com/articles/white-house-ai-task-force-weighs-safety-us-competitiveness/ 4. Intel names its Crescent Island inference GPU the Intel GPU D-Series and discloses performance (Intel, Tom's Hardware) https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/artificial-intelligence/intel-accelerates-open-infrastructure-agentic-ai-era.html https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intels-crescent-island-ai-accelerator-officially-powers-new-gpu-d-series-products-chip-delivers-1-3-peak-pflops-of-fp8-compute-and-1-5-tb-s-of-memory-bandwidth 5. China's CXMT says a 4F-squared server DRAM is due this year; global memory stocks slide (Seoul Economic Daily, TradingKey) https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/10/12/chinas-cxmt-says-server-dram-with-4f2-design-due-this-year https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/us-stocks/262212467-us-stock-nasdaq-sp500-dow-dram-memory-cxmt-micron-meta-tradingkey