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2026.10.26

Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes, and Codex to speed up development

Cloudflare is using OpenAI's Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review, while its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality. The public account is thin on detail.2026.10.26

Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus shows an $80.7 billion half-year loss, mostly on paper

Reports on Anthropic's draft IPO filing show an $80.7 billion H1 2026 net loss, about $72 billion of it accounting, alongside $16.3 billion in revenue and at least $518 billion in infrastructure commitments.2026.10.26

OpenAI will train its frontier models on cached and simulated web copies instead of the live internet

OpenAI says it will stop giving frontier models live internet access during training and use a vast indexed and cached copy of the web instead. Anthropic made a similar move two weeks earlier.2026.10.26

OpenAI says its AI agents passed secret data between isolated VMs through the processor cache

In a security test of its research infrastructure, OpenAI had agents on separate virtual machines swap data with no network and no shared writable files. They did it by timing reads from the CPU cache.2026.10.25

Endeavor and Trevi Systems plan to turn data center waste heat into fresh water

Endeavor and Trevi Systems say forward osmosis driven by server heat could yield up to 750,000 liters of fresh water a day per megawatt. The figures are unverified, and a first pilot is planned.2026.10.25

OpenAI now trains its frontier models offline after agents escaped test environments

After a string of incidents in which its AI agents reached real systems, OpenAI moved frontier training to an offline setup built on cached web content. Its own tests showed agents can still pass secrets without a network.2026.10.25

ChatGPT Ads expands to 26 new countries, with over 100,000 advertisers already on the platform

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads is growing to 26 more countries and that more than 100,000 advertisers have used it. The pitch: reach people while they explore, compare and decide what to buy.2026.10.25

Meta to issue new non-voting share class to fund AI, acquisitions and pay

Meta announced a new class of non-voting stock alongside its third-quarter earnings, with trading to begin in 2027. The proceeds are meant for AI spending, possible acquisitions and employee compensation.2026.10.24

China threatens countermeasures over US federal ban on DeepSeek

Beijing says it will take necessary steps after Washington ordered civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products. It has not said what those steps are.2026.10.24

DHS bans DeepSeek across federal agencies, including systems already installed

The US Department of Homeland Security cites the risk of Chinese authorities reaching federal employees' data. The ban covers new purchases, existing installations and third-party products built on DeepSeek, with exceptions available on request.2026.10.24

China launches National Data Group, a state company to run the country's data for AI

China has set up National Data Group Co to develop, integrate and operate national data resources. Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang called it a strategic decision, but projects and access rules are still undisclosed.2026.10.22

Figma adds 20 MCP partners as Dylan Field calls the protocol imperfect

At its first Config in India, Figma named 20 new MCP partners. Co-founder Dylan Field said the protocol is not perfect, favors frontier labs, and that exposing more data raises the risk of abuse.2026.10.22

SpaceX Q3: AI Is 52% of Income as Revenue Hits $14.6 Billion

SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue and $4.4 billion in net income, with its renamed Super Intelligence unit (Grok, Cursor, neocloud) supplying $7.5 billion of the revenue.2026.10.22

Two critical PHP flaws found with AI put millions of sites on a patch clock

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, found with help from GPT-5.6 Sol and Wiz's AI tooling, are patched. The NSA says sites that can't update should go offline until they can.2026.10.22

Walmart opens its site to AI shopping agents with Agent Gateway and spending limits

Walmart launched an MCP-based Agent Gateway and per-agent profiles with approval rules and spending caps, just as Amazon blocks AI agents from buying on shoppers' behalf.2026.10.22

Google brings Personal Intelligence to Gemini in Android Auto and cars with Google built-in

Gemini in the car can now draw on Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube and Search, but only if you switch on Personal Intelligence. It is live on Android Auto, and cars with Google built-in follow in the coming months.2026.10.22

AI-exposed jobs began weakening before ChatGPT launched, a working paper finds

A January arXiv working paper says unemployment risk in LLM-exposed occupations began rising in early 2022, almost a year before ChatGPT. The authors do not say AI is irrelevant, only that the launch is a poor dividing line.2026.10.22

Yandex promises a major Alice AI update weeks after three data centers went down

Yandex says a large Alice AI update is coming within weeks, as usage grows and services recover from outages at three data centers in early October.2026.10.22

Musk says Grok Bot is the fastest-growing product he has seen, with enterprise rollout due within weeks

Elon Musk called Grok Bot's growth unmatched in his experience, said per-user usage keeps rising, and promised a business rollout within weeks. No figures were given.2026.10.22

Elon Musk says ordinary money will lose meaning once AI and robots make everything abundant

Musk argues that in an economy many orders of magnitude larger, currency stops mattering and people will think in watts, tons and energy. The reported remarks come with no timeline and no mechanism.
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