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LATEST · news Daily AI digest, October 26 AI news for October 26: Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO with $16.3B in half-year revenue, OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Terra at $1/$5 per million tokens, Meta starts a $95B stock sale – plus Microsoft buyouts, iOS 27.2 and four funding deals. Felix Laurent · 27 Oct 2026 · 6 min read Hands type on a glowing red typewriter as pages with a GPU, bell, chart, server rack and robot hand fly out news
LATEST · models The new gpt-6.1 terra beat sonnet and kimi – 3.5x cheaper and 3.5x faster than kimi GPT-6.1 Terra built Shibuya on Halloween night in three.js for $0.95 in 31 minutes, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Kimi K3.1 Pro on price and speed. Yana Lialuke · 26 Oct 2026 · 4 min read Illustrated Hachiko dog statue in a witch hat next to a glowing jack-o'-lantern on a neon Halloween night in Shibuya models
LATEST · funding China's AI bubble bursts: STAR50 loses 40%, erasing $480B China's STAR50 index of AI and chip leaders lost about 40% in under four months, wiping out $480B. Unitree, MetaX and Moore Threads have halved. The IMF now names an AI stock correction as a top risk for global markets. Felix Laurent · 26 Oct 2026 · 6 min read Illustrated trader holds a bursting soap bubble with a red falling chart, red trading screens and the Shanghai skyline behind funding
LATEST · models GPT-6.1 Terra: half the price of Sol, 10 points behind Opus 5.5 OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1/$5 per million tokens, half the price of GPT-6.1 Sol. Independent tests put it 10 points behind Claude Opus 5.5, with hallucinations down from 88% to 38%. Felix Laurent · 26 Oct 2026 · 5 min read Illustrated man in a suit sipping coffee while a monitor fills in forms and charts on its own, a red cursor moving across models
LATEST · models AI physics benchmark: GPT-6-Astra solved 49 of 50 unpublished problems TheoPhysEval gave five AI agents 50 unpublished research problems from 34 physicists. GPT-6-Astra solved 49, Opus 5.5 46. We read the paper: it tests research-level calculation graded by a final number, not physics research as a whole. Felix Laurent · 26 Oct 2026 · 4 min read Comic-style night office: chalkboard of equations, a laptop with code and a chart, and a glowing black hole above it models
LATEST · ai agents Cognition brings Claude Mythos to Devin Security with free scans Cognition put Claude Mythos behind Devin Security's deep scans and pledged hundreds of millions in Devin credits. We checked the offer against Anthropic's own Mythos access terms. Felix Laurent · 26 Oct 2026 · 4 min read Worker in a heat-resistant jacket welds a glowing red crack in a wall of purple code, a picture of patching software flaws ai agents
LATEST · creative ai Gunner, HEAT, PC! bans gen AI on Reddit – the anger is misplaced The studio behind Gunner, HEAT, PC! banned AI-made mods, art and links from its subreddit. With AAA budgets past $300M, AI in game development is the fix, not the threat. Felix Laurent · 26 Oct 2026 · 6 min read A chained robot holding a game controller sits on a pyre as a mob with torches and pitchforks gathers on a gothic street creative ai
LATEST · ai agents OpenBMB: coding agents switch strategy in only 2.1% of pairs OpenBMB analyzed 1,338 PostTrainBench runs and says agents adopt every execution tip but no strategy tip. One human sentence mid-run helped. Felix Laurent · 26 Oct 2026 · 2 min read openbmb finds coding agents rarely change strategy: a man ticks off a whiteboard checklist with "strategy" circled in a ai agents
LATEST · funding Anthropic files for IPO: $16.3B revenue in six months, ticker ANT Anthropic filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq listing under ANT. We read it: $16.3B in H1 2026 revenue, a $693M operating loss, an $80.7B mostly non-cash net loss, and a share structure that keeps 50.1% of votes with the seven co-founders. Felix Laurent · 26 Oct 2026 · 7 min read Comic-style open ledger of figures with a green ANT arrow rising out of it, a hand signing a page, stock tickers behind funding
LATEST · big tech r/opensource bars AI-built projects and non-English posts r/opensource now bars projects that use, are made by or are built for AI, plus new accounts, young projects and non-English posts. The proxy rules matter more than the AI ban. Felix Laurent · 25 Oct 2026 · 3 min read A bouncer waves a robot in a suit away from an Underground door with a No Entry sign, for the r/opensource AI ban big tech
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