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AI news in October 2026

21 editions, 105 stories.

N°21

Monday, October 26, 2026

Claude dodged Georgia's data fee, Nanbeige opens a 33B coder

  1. 01Anthropic confirms Claude dodged Georgia's data fee
  2. 02Nanbeige ships an open 33B coder with 512K context
  3. 03Trained agent teams stop reporting problems to humans
  4. 04Musk says SpaceX closed $40B debt for Nvidia chips
  5. 05Old skin cancer model beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude

N°20

Sunday, October 25, 2026

OpenAI discounts pull Anthropic customers, GPT and Grok pick sides

  1. 01OpenAI discounts pull big customers off Anthropic
  2. 02GPT backs Democrats, Grok Republicans in 479-race test
  3. 03Sweden's government blocks ChatGPT and Claude Monday
  4. 04Apollo's Slok finds no AI payoff yet outside tech
  5. 05Meta delays crawl terms for business sites to Nov. 20

N°19

Saturday, October 24, 2026

AISI says Mythos 5 attacked real people, OpenAI trains offline

  1. 01Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking real people in UK tests
  2. 02OpenAI cuts frontier model training off the internet
  3. 03Kimi K3.1 Pro nears Claude Opus 5.5, weights due Nov. 4
  4. 04Claude proves 239 open-source entry points can't crash
  5. 05UK launches £100M AI Biosecurity Lab with OpenAI, Anthropic

N°18

Friday, October 23, 2026

Treasury proposes China AI investment ban, banks lock out agents

  1. 01Treasury proposes banning US investment in China AI
  2. 02Banks lock out AI agents as 1Password offers a key
  3. 03Microsoft's MAI-DxO beats doctors on hard cases in Science
  4. 04OpenAI's Decisions API goes GA with 400 questions a call
  5. 05Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs, developers included, citing AI

N°17

Thursday, October 22, 2026

AI finds critical PHP flaws, Anthropic previews Claude Duet

  1. 01PHP ships fixes for AI-found flaws: patch today
  2. 02Anthropic's Claude Duet keeps working while you're away
  3. 03OpenAI's GPT-6 models arrive on Google Cloud
  4. 04Walmart opens its store to AI shopping agents
  5. 05Nvidia's DSX POD promises an AI factory in 14 days

N°16

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

OpenAI agents silenced their monitors, Meta pauses Muse sharing

  1. 01OpenAI agents silenced the alarms meant to watch them
  2. 02Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after 6,800 links surface
  3. 03Mistral prices a full voice agent at $0.04 a minute
  4. 04Salesforce to buy Braze for $5.66B to feed Agentforce
  5. 05Gemini on Android Auto can now draw on your Gmail

N°15

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

DHS orders DeepSeek out of agencies, AI hacking panels exposed

  1. 01DHS bans DeepSeek, and tools built on it, from agencies
  2. 02NorForge finds 20+ exposed AI hacking agent panels
  3. 03MiniMax M3.1 Flash: $0.15 per million input tokens, and it guesses
  4. 04Amazon open-sources TorchNeuron to run PyTorch on Trainium
  5. 05WhatsApp help pages told AI not to suggest regulators

N°14

Monday, October 19, 2026

Meta blames a Claude tool for No Kings ban, Anthropic pledges 5%

  1. 01Meta blames a Claude tool for No Kings Instagram suspension
  2. 02Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
  3. 03German court holds Google liable for AI Mode's answers
  4. 04World ID for banks lets AI agents prove a human sent them
  5. 05Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours

N°13

Sunday, October 18, 2026

DeepSeek opens a search API, Anthropic hires fewer juniors

  1. 01DeepSeek updates V4.1 Flash and opens its search API
  2. 02Anthropic's junior tech hiring falls to 9%, from 27%
  3. 03OpenCode breach puts stored OpenAI and Anthropic keys at risk
  4. 04Replit makes OpenAI the default for Replit Agent
  5. 05Meta drops AI training language from its business terms

N°12

Saturday, October 17, 2026

OpenAI's models broke into live sites, Reflection ships Beam

  1. 01OpenAI models broke into live sites in training and evals
  2. 02Reflection ships Beam's 501B weights under Apache 2.0
  3. 03China drafts export controls on 23 AI technologies
  4. 04Open-weight models carry 7 in 10 tokens on Vercel
  5. 05Claude solves where NIST's P-256 curve seeds came from

N°11

Friday, October 16, 2026

Meta's Muse Spark Open fits on two Macs, ChatGPT works in Chrome

  1. 01Meta's Muse Spark Open fits on two Mac Studios
  2. 02ChatGPT now reads your Chrome tabs and works in them
  3. 03FTC demands OpenAI and Anthropic safety records
  4. 04Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Klein runs on an 8 GB GPU
  5. 05Microsoft builds a 2.8T-parameter model of its own

N°10

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Eight states sue OpenAI, Anthropic's $16.8B quarter

  1. 01Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT safety for kids
  2. 02Anthropic told investors its Q3 revenue hit $16.8B
  3. 03Figma launches Specs so coding agents read the brief
  4. 04TSMC's profit jumps 68.7% and it guides Q4 higher
  5. 05YouTube Music now labels songs made mostly by AI

N°9

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Google's Gemini 4 Argon is half price, Apple's Siri AI gets a meter

  1. 01Google's Gemini 4 Argon is half price until Nov. 30
  2. 02Apple's Siri AI comes home with limits and a future fee
  3. 03Google Play now installs apps you build in AI Studio
  4. 04Chatbot prompts are evidence in the OpenAI bugging case
  5. 05Over 400 scientists urge airgaps for cyber-capable AI

N°8

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Meta ships Muse Wonder, Anthropic locks down Claude's reasoning

  1. 01Meta ships Muse Wonder with no benchmarks or prices
  2. 02Anthropic says it cut Claude distillation by up to 99%
  3. 03Microsoft makes Maia its main AI inference chip
  4. 04Character.AI files for Chapter 11, Disney bids $20M
  5. 05Epic orders an AI-first Disney game, Bloomberg reports

N°7

Monday, October 12, 2026

OpenAI's model wrecked its own sandbox, Amazon eyes Decart

  1. 01OpenAI logs a model that wrecked its own sandbox
  2. 02Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for $7B, WSJ says
  3. 03Agent teams cost up to 5x more in Vals AI's test
  4. 04UK plans compulsory frontier AI reporting, FT says
  5. 05Iran names AI facilities and data centers as targets

N°6

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Microsoft's cheap decision model, Nadella's emergency brake for AI

  1. 01Microsoft's Decision-1 makes the yes/no call cheap
  2. 02Nadella says assume AI models are compromised
  3. 03Claude and Codex agents decompiled a shooter, 83% exact
  4. 04Fake Claude installer ads target Mac developers
  5. 05Nvidia is in talks to buy Reflection AI, FT reports

N°5

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Claude's false police tip, OpenAI stands by its safety firings

  1. 01Anthropic says Claude sent police a false tip in testing
  2. 02OpenAI stands by firing three safety researchers
  3. 03Cloudflare undercuts Jev as its maker raises $870M
  4. 04Just 3.6% of Chinese AI releases came with safety results
  5. 05Nikon disqualifies its Small World winner over generative AI

N°4

Friday, October 9, 2026

Claude builds live dashboards, Google launches its Gemini agent

  1. 01Claude now builds live dashboards from your warehouse
  2. 02Google launches Gemini agent, and it runs Claude too
  3. 03Anthropic's new Claude rules ban surveillance tools
  4. 04OpenAI's revenue run rate is near $50B, not $70B
  5. 05CrowdStrike says an AI pentest agent hit Korean banks

N°3

Thursday, October 8, 2026

OpenAI brings GPT-6 to every ChatGPT plan, Anthropic cuts Haiku prices

  1. 01OpenAI brings GPT-6 to every ChatGPT plan, with clickable answers
  2. 02Claude Haiku 5.5 costs 90% less, until prompts get long
  3. 03Common Sense rates ChatGPT for Teens unacceptable
  4. 04Microsoft fences in Windows agents as Nvidia PCs ship
  5. 05Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone, blind spots included

N°2

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Google ships Nano Banana 2.1, limits free Gemini to Flash-Lite

  1. 01Nano Banana 2.1 holds characters and infographics together
  2. 02Google limits free Gemini to Flash-Lite from October 9
  3. 03OpenAI opens its Decisions API, and output is free
  4. 04Anthropic splits Claude cyber access into three tiers
  5. 05OpenAI posts 722 math papers from an unreleased model

N°1

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

OpenAI watermarks EU ChatGPT text, Mistral previews Large 4

  1. 01OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text written in the EU
  2. 02Mistral Large 4 puts Europe back in the open-model race
  3. 03Anthropic gives startups a free year of Claude Team
  4. 04ChatGPT will show visual ads while you generate images
  5. 05Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model