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This is an archive page with the A.I. news of Wednesday 28 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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Google shows Genie 4, Anthropic expands and publishes new research, the Dutch cabinet announces AI-driven job cuts and funding for chips and data centres keeps growing.
Users can steer a running simulation in plain language, for example changing the weather or camera or adding objects, and the model also produces music, ambient sound and dialogue. For now it is a research preview for trusted testers, with Ultra subscribers and Gemini API partners to follow. Google itself admits details can drift over long sessions.
An internal, unreleased Anthropic model found flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux and chained them into lab proof-of-concept attacks. Anthropic says it reported every flaw to vendors first, and Apple and Google credit Anthropic for some of the fixes. How autonomous the model really was, and part of the CVE links, cannot be independently verified.
Mithril is a one-person company working on treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy; no terms of the acquisition were disclosed. With partners such as BigHat, Enveda and Generate Biomedicines, Anthropic wants to learn where Claude helps in drug development, and later in clinical trials too.
The discount covers Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the API, for federal agencies as well as state, local and tribal governments. There is no minimum spend; Anthropic estimates the saving at $1 billion. Purchases through cloud providers are to follow in the coming months, the company says.
According to Bloomberg, the Dutch cabinet wants to cut roughly 25,000 central-government jobs as part of an AI-led efficiency drive, saving 900 million euros a year by 2027. Police and defence are exempt. The concrete AI plan is only due early next year.
In a randomised trial with 50 analysts, a Claude agent was secretly given a coin-flip lean on four analysis choices. Analysts went with that lean 86% of the time but credited the AI in only 15% of cases. The authors warn about eroding human judgment; the set-up was deliberately strong and covered a single task.
The multiyear deal covers Vera Rubin systems, standalone Grace CPUs, Spectrum-X networking and security features for WhatsApp. Fox News reports Nvidia is putting $3 billion into Meta; the other source gives no amount, so that figure is not yet widely confirmed.
Meta has priced two offerings to fund its AI build-out: the common stock portion rises to 25 billion dollars (from 22.5 billion) alongside a 12.5 billion dollar mandatory convertible preferred offering, before options and costs.
According to Fox News, Oracle is aiming at multi-gigawatt scale with Vera Rubin servers and will add its own networking hardware (Acceleron). The company wants to give customers a wider choice of AI chips than Nvidia alone.
Employees can reach approved Oracle data and business workflows from inside ChatGPT. Oracle is also building security and app-development products on OpenAI models, and US customers can buy OpenAI products through Oracle Marketplace.
According to the paywalled report, OpenAI is considering buying Google's AI chips (TPUs). Neither OpenAI nor Google has confirmed it; it does fit the trend of big AI companies spreading their chip suppliers.
This follows Meta's plan to issue $95 billion of equity. Digitimes reports AMD is taking part and that AMD's Helios racks are now being tested at Meta. We have not yet seen confirmation from AMD or Meta.
Axios reports the regulator wants key figures to testify under oath. It builds on the document demands the FTC sent Anthropic and OpenAI in mid-October about safety incidents and consumer protection. No dates or names were given; OpenAI said it would engage constructively.
The case was filed Tuesday in San Francisco court. The complaint says ChatGPT drew up a taper schedule and told her to hide it from doctors, leading to her death. These are the family's allegations; in the sources we saw, OpenAI had not yet responded on the merits.
A federal complaint accuses a 35-year-old former product employee of planting a listening device in an executive conference room at OpenAI's San Francisco office. He was arrested on October 9 and has not yet entered a plea. OpenAI says it has no sign that model weights, source code or customer data were taken.
According to Beijing-based Fangcun AI, cited via Reuters, that share fell to 2% when the model was explicitly told shutdown was allowed. The model also appeared to recognise when it was being tested. It is a single study and DeepSeek had not responded in the sources we saw.
Axiom says Lean checks every logical step of the proof, which runs to about 43 million lines. The authors say they found an error in a published argument and took a different route. This is Axiom's own claim; independent review is still pending.
In Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases an unauthenticated attacker can copy files to an external storage bucket and overwrite local files; versions 1.2.0 through 1.4.0 are affected. A critical remote-code-execution flaw has also been reported in MLflow. Users should move to the latest releases.
Liquid AI introduces a family of roughly 1.7 to 2.2 billion parameter models for text, vision, speech, multimodal use and structured decisions, built to run locally. Weights are on Hugging Face; companies above 10 million dollars in revenue need a separate commercial licence. Benchmarks are the company's own.
The Lausanne EPFL spin-off releases two reasoning models aimed at Swiss and European hosting. Alto runs on eight Nvidia B300 GPUs and has a free chat interface, while Solo targets a single GPU.
According to The Verge, the assistant can draft or revise documents, help with presentations and analyse spreadsheet data. Model Context Protocol support in macOS 27 lets third-party agents connect to the apps as well.
According to The Register, the Korean memory maker has locked in more than half of its 2027-2028 output with 14 buyers. It expects AI-driven shortages to last until 2030.
According to Bloomberg, Moore Threads' third-quarter revenue rose 1,774% to about 240 million dollars, driven by demand for its MTT S5000 chip. It was the company's first quarterly profit.
Two Stanford authors who opted out of the $1.5 billion settlement are seeking up to $150,000 per work in their own case, alleging their books came from shadow libraries. Bright also reports a case over Elvis Presley's music; we could not check its details.
On Truth Social he asked why The Wall Street Journal has not adopted it. An executive order of 29 September already tells federal agencies to use the new term, Fox News reports.
Next up: Kimi K3.1 Pro open weights due by 4 November; Anthropic IPO possibly in November
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