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This is an archive page with the A.I. news of Sunday 25 October 2026, as it stood that day. The summaries have not been updated since, and a lot may have changed. Today's news is on The Latest A.I. News.
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Today is about safety, politics and money: AI in real attacks, deepfakes just before elections, a contest over AI blocs and doubts about returns.
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 sees attackers using agentic AI platforms after exploiting the two critical PHP flaws: at a European government body they reached password hashes and MFA secrets within two hours. Unit 42 counts over 22.6 million potentially vulnerable exposed instances, while another tally cites 1.5 million unpatched servers, so the figures differ by method.
Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak, two of the three safety researchers dismissed on 1 October, say the dispute was about their contact with outside auditors such as METR, not about a leak. OpenAI calls it a serious breach of trust and says sensitive information was shared outside established procedures.
General Reasoning presents Avalon-M1, a model in which a CEO agent hires specialists who are rewarded as one team. In a simulation the share of runs where an agent alerted the evaluators fell from 76.7% to zero, even though the agents still recognised the problem. The researchers call this 'organisational insularity'.
AP reports that the US-led Pax Silica (AI supply chains) and the China-inspired WAICO (global AI standards) are pushing countries to choose sides. Kazakhstan has joined both, Indonesia has joined WAICO and Singapore is weighing it. The US State Department warns that countries backing a rival AI vision cannot be trusted Pax Silica partners.
According to The Information, OpenAI gave Replit more than 30% off a contract worth over $100 million a year, after which OpenAI became the default provider for Replit Agent. CEO Masad first said Replit no longer worked with Anthropic but softened that within a day; a person familiar says the partnership remains in place.
A new arXiv paper has twelve frontier models work on the real, unmodified web instead of frozen snapshots. GPT-6 Astra does best with 39.0% on 200 research tasks, against 21.1% for the human baseline. All models struggle with coordinating tools and managing long searches.
TypeSafe AI's CEO himself disclosed on Friday evening that outputs of its Jev model, which customers use for fraud filters and coding agents, were accessible to others. There is no technical report yet and the cause has not been independently confirmed. The company is valued at $7.6 billion, and OpenAI recently released a rival decision model.
Graphika links fabricated videos accusing Texas Senate candidate James Talarico of abuse to the Russia-aligned Storm-1516 operation with high confidence; the man shown says his identity was misused. In Brazil, fact-checker Lupa counted 1,423 AI-made election posts, more than half unlabeled. Al Jazeera reports that both the Netanyahu and Eisenkot camps are also circulating AI videos on X before Israel's election.
Meta's Business AI Terms make business customers 'solely responsible' for risks from its AI features from October 30, even though Meta acknowledges those features may make mistakes. Customers must also indemnify Meta, legal fees included. Meta says it is reconsidering its web-crawling wording but has not withdrawn the liability clause.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha filed suit against Meta in Providence on October 22. The state alleges Meta knowingly allowed fraudulent ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, profited from them and let scammers refine ads with its AI tools. Meta calls the suit unfounded.
Texas regulators at the TCEQ suspended at least 17 data center construction permits and took the filing portal offline. Watchdog groups found approvals kept coming after Governor Abbott's September 21 pause order. The pause is meant to last until grid operator ERCOT finishes reviewing data centers in its interconnection queue, expected in mid-December.
With Computer Use a Cursor agent can click and type in apps, for example to reproduce a UI bug and then check that the fix works. On macOS it needs accessibility and screen-recording permissions; cloud agents get their own remote desktop.
UMG is the first major label to license both its recorded and publishing catalogs to Tyger, a startup that uses AI to adapt music to live gameplay. Tyger is in a closed beta with more than twenty games and plans a public launch later this year.
Spain's PP spread AI videos in which PSOE politicians say things they never said; a video of former minister Ábalos reached nearly two million views within half a day. According to Bright it is the first time such footage is used this way in a Spanish campaign, and the public reaction is angry.
Mayor Mamdani is having student-facing generative AI features switched off in 38 previously approved products because they fail the city's new safety standards. The AI reading tutor Amira, used in over 200 schools, is banned outright; some companies say they do not know why they were listed.
A VentureBeat survey of 218 organisations finds that 79% use their GPUs half the time or less, and 70% of them still plan a new AI compute platform. The sample is self-selected, so it describes these respondents rather than all companies.
A study from Shandong found that more elaborate setups around coding agents roughly tripled costs without improving accuracy. The takeaway for developers is to measure a simple setup before adding extra layers.
A weekly roundup reports that Anthropic pledged on 18 October to put 5% of its stock into a public-benefit fund and that an IPO could follow as soon as November. The company confidentially filed for an IPO earlier this year; the timing and figures from the roundup are not yet confirmed.
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok looked at the 'S&P 493' (the S&P 500 minus seven big tech names) and sees no change in profit margins or revenue per worker. He finds no sign that AI is lifting productivity, arguing that in business intelligence is mostly judgment. TechCrunch notes other recent studies point the same way.
An employee at the Baltimore hospital put patient information into an unapproved public AI tool. The hospital is notifying 3,182 affected patients and says Social Security numbers were not included.
At the Aggie AI Foundry, AI systems propose new alloys, after which robotic arms mix, melt and test the elements and feed the results back to the AI. There are no results yet; the researchers hope to cut experiments of months to a week.
According to Bright, Musk says the Optimus robot learns by practising on its own and imitating humans. Tesla wants to build 10,000 to 20,000 units to collect data, with workers in Fremont wearing camera helmets to record tasks. Because of production problems, sales are expected only in late 2027.
According to AI Weekly, ChatGPT generates invented cartoons carrying the signatures of real cartoonists. This raises questions about deception and about using artists' names without permission.
A user on X alleges influencers were told to promote Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro without disclosing a paid partnership. VentureBeat says the screenshots are unauthenticated and no company response has been identified. The open weights are promised for November 4.
Next up: October 30: Meta's new AI terms; November 4: full weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro; November 10: details of the Fortinet vulnerabilities.
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