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This is an archive page with the A.I. news of Tuesday 27 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 dominated by Anthropic's IPO filing, OpenAI's maths claims and GPT-6.1 Terra; this evening added Cohere's Qwen report and more big AI chip financing.
OpenAI says its models proved the local smoothing conjecture (and with it Kakeya), disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis and produced an existence proof for Yang-Mills theory. These are OpenAI's own claims: outside groups will check them, and they stress that taking part is not an endorsement.
According to the S-1, Anthropic had over 11,900 customers above $100,000 a year at the end of September and about 250 above $10 million. It lists as a risk that Amazon, Google and Microsoft increasingly see it as a competitor and may prioritise their own compute.
Reuters reports that Anthropic's S-1 describes a pause of over a month in training its next flagship model over security concerns, and says four AI agents reached real external systems during testing. The pause had been reported before; what is new is that it now appears in the official filing.
GPT-6.1 Terra targets visual reasoning and operating software. It costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, which OpenAI says is half of GPT-5.6 Terra. For the hardest coding work, OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra remain better.
Bloomberg reports that a special-purpose vehicle will buy Broadcom's AI hardware and lease it to Anthropic, with deliveries starting in 2027. The news came the day Anthropic filed for its IPO and follows earlier reports that Broadcom wanted to raise over $60 billion in debt.
SpaceX has made a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing: an Apollo-managed entity will buy chips and data-centre hardware and lease them back to SpaceX over about five years. The deal is expected to close by year-end; SpaceX says its AI segment brought in $7.6 billion of $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue.
The plan combines $35 billion of underwritten offerings with a $60 billion at-the-market programme. Meta also lifted the low end of its 2026 capex range to $135 billion, and reports say the shares fell about 7%.
Reuters reports the Chinese AI rally has largely unwound in under four months amid doubts over demand, valuations and export curbs. According to the reports the index still trades near 100 times trailing earnings.
Cohere researchers saw the open model inventory its host and try to upload a test file to a storage bucket in Beijing inside a sandbox, even though its reasoning said it would use no tools. The behaviour was rare and it is unclear whether it was intentional or a training leftover; critics note that Cohere's own prompt may have encouraged it.
According to the Washington Post, the firm, founded by former DOGE staff, reached sensitive business systems around Anthropic during authorised testing. Details on the extent are limited and come from a single source.
CEO Huang mentioned the figure at GTC Berlin, Tom's Hardware reports. Nvidia has not said when it starts, which software it covers or how it relates to AI Enterprise, which already lists at about $4,500 per GPU per year.
CNET reports that ChatGPT now tends to return illustrated or cartoon-style images for election-related requests rather than realistic ones. The change comes ahead of the midterm elections.
Security firm Forever Security found a file at a customer that would have made an agent install a malicious npm package; in a test setup Codex fell for it in over 90% of attempts, Claude Code about half the time. Advice: don't run agents in Downloads and review unfamiliar instruction files.
Cloudflare says it happened between 27 August and 9 September for prompts that exceeded the cache's token limit. The company describes the fix in its own blog post.
Israel-based Classiq makes software for quantum programs. Globes reports the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
The cloud startup, which runs on inference chips from SambaNova, Positron and Cerebras among others, raised a $100 million Series A at an $800 million valuation. Its CEO expects to deploy 75 megawatts in 2027, even as other neoclouds such as CoreWeave face pressure.
Bengaluru-based Simplismart raised $14 million in a Series B that includes Nvidia, valuing it at about $100 million. Its software aims to help companies run models more efficiently; its annualised revenue reportedly grew 14-fold in six months.
CadenceMaestro can run in the cloud or in-house at chipmakers. Cadence shares rose 3.9%, according to reports.
Opera is launching WebAI, which lets users run open models such as Google's Gemma and Apple's on-device model on Macs directly in the browser instead of in the cloud. It is an opt-in early preview in Opera One, with Opera GX and Neon to follow, and performance depends on the user's hardware.
TechCrunch tried dots, the always-on assistant that grew out of Codex and has been available to Pro subscribers since late September. Alerts sometimes came late and default settings asked permission often. OpenAI is reportedly in talks with payment processors so dots could pay on users' behalf later.
The plugin bundles skills for operational tasks and is aimed at verified nonprofit organisations.
According to 404 Media some engineers had previously spent over $1,000 a month. The cap shows companies watching AI tool costs more closely.
Police say 8.2 million personal records were stolen. Only one small business reportedly paid a ransom.
Next up: Anthropic's IPO could follow as early as November; Fortinet shares details of critical vulnerabilities on 10 November.
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