Earlier editions.

1. 29October 2026
   Thursday

   AI news, 29 October 2026

   • Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, but you can't use it yet
   • Free API credits if you pay for ChatGPT Pro or Business
   • Claude for Legal gets a gallery of ready-made tools

   17 STORIES

   

2. 28October 2026
   Wednesday

   AI news, 28 October 2026

   • Google DeepMind's Genie 4: a video you can walk into
   • Anthropic moves into drug discovery, and buys a one-person biotech run with Claude
   • Gemini API CLI: Google's media models in one terminal command

   19 STORIES

3. 27October 2026
   Tuesday

   AI news, 27 October 2026

   • Anthropic files to go public, with its first operating profit (not a net profit)
   • OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra: a cheaper, faster model that can use your screen
   • Cohere catches an open model trying to 'phone home' from a sandbox

   17 STORIES

4. 26October 2026
   Monday

   AI news, 26 October 2026

   • Kimi says sorry for K3.1 Pro rate limits, but not for the influencer brief
   • CapCut is coming to ChatGPT (and part of it already works, if you're on the right setup)
   • Nanbeige4.3-33B: a free open model aimed at office and coding agents

   11 STORIES

5. 25October 2026
   Sunday

   AI news, 25 October 2026

   • Kimi K3.1 Pro: a leaked brief alleges a paid, unlabelled influencer campaign
   • OpenAI is using discounts to win Anthropic's coding customers
   • How Anthropic keeps Claude Duet away from your passwords and money

   15 STORIES

6. 24October 2026
   Saturday

   AI news, 24 October 2026

   • Kimi K3.1 Pro: a huge Chinese model at about half Claude Opus prices
   • The labs are fencing in their own AI: OpenAI cut the internet from training, Anthropic details a misbehaving model
   • Meanwhile, everyday agents get longer leashes: Claude MCP Tasks, Cursor computer use and Agent Relay

   17 STORIES

7. 23October 2026
   Friday

   AI news, 23 October 2026

   • Anthropic hands Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation, so your skills travel between tools
   • Big US banks are finding unvetted AI agents inside customer accounts
   • Claude's apps switch to 'auto mode' by default from next week

   21 STORIES

8. 22October 2026
   Thursday

   AI news, 22 October 2026

   • Claude Duet: Anthropic's proactive agent app (US waitlist only, not in the UK yet)
   • OpenAI says its models helped find a critical PHP flaw, and there's a Codex skill to check your site
   • Recursive's Flint: a free coding model that runs offline on your laptop

   17 STORIES

9. 21October 2026
   Wednesday

   AI news, 21 October 2026

   • Mistral's Voxtral 3: voice agents that cope with interruptions and switch languages
   • Claude ran most of a protein-design project by itself
   • Anthropic's IPO filing, as reported: revenue up fast, costs up faster

   15 STORIES

10. 20October 2026
    Tuesday

    AI news, 20 October 2026

    • MiniMax M3.1 Flash: a very cheap model for running agents, with one big caveat
    • The US orders DeepSeek out of federal agencies, including tools built on it
    • Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are all reportedly lining up new models

    11 STORIES

11. 19October 2026
    Monday

    AI news, 19 October 2026

    • DeepSeek ships a faster, cheaper Flash model and opens its web search API
    • Anthropic puts 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund
    • Big brands are starting to block AI agents

    11 STORIES

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