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This is an archive page with the A.I. news of Thursday 22 October 2026. This day was compiled afterwards from reports that appeared at the time, so it was not kept on the day itself; a lot may have changed since. Today's news is on The Latest A.I. News.
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Anthropic launches its Duet agent app, while OpenAI and DeepSeek are reportedly lining up large funding rounds. OpenAI also opens its fast Decisions API to everyone.
Duet builds daily briefings and dashboards and carries out tasks in the background. It runs on Claude Opus 5.5, connects to thousands of connectors and plugins, and is a research preview behind a waitlist for Pro and Max users. Purchases need approval, and the agent will not trade securities or move money between accounts.
Sources say Coatue and UAE investors are leading the round, with terms still under negotiation. A valuation of $1.4 trillion had been mentioned a month earlier. OpenAI confidentially filed for an IPO in June and declined to comment.
The Chinese lab reportedly raised around 100 billion yuan, one of the largest funding rounds in China. Named potential investors include battery maker CATL and Tencent. DeepSeek has not responded to requests for comment; two days earlier the US barred its use at civilian federal agencies.
The model is adapted from ChatGPT Luna and responds in roughly 100 to 180 milliseconds instead of 1 to 3 seconds. Companies such as Box, Datadog and Ramp already used it to replace language models in their workflows. Rival Jev from TypeSafe ranks higher on public leaderboards.
After a pilot with about a thousand staff, around 80 percent of whom were not engineers, the whole company gets OpenAI's enterprise agent. Uber has not disclosed the cost. It will track how people use it and feed the lessons into its wider AI strategy.
The system has several AI agents work like a panel of doctors and scored far above primary care doctors and internists working alone (36%) in a simulation of difficult cases. Much of the gain seems to come from the underlying models, and the effect on emergency cases was small. A real-world trial with a US hospital is planned.
Microsoft says a China-aligned group stole credentials from ConnectWise's cloud backup service. Using those and an open-source agent framework, the attackers targeted about 2,250 organizations at nearly 3,000 sign-in attempts per minute. ConnectWise has paused the service and is investigating.
The model first plans an image's layout, elements and text, then generates images up to 2K in 30 aspect ratios. All users can reach it through the Dream Lab tab and the API. Two cheaper versions are coming soon.
Next up: OpenAI's funding round is not final yet, and Duet is for now available only through a waitlist.
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Everything here is a summary of reports from other media, not original research. The label (Certain, High, Medium, Low) is my estimate of how reliable the source is. The summaries are generated automatically with AI and may contain mistakes; read the article itself for the details (the star marks the leading source). Sources: leading A.I. and tech sites and the official blogs of the A.I. companies.
