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OpenAI Asks Gov. Newsom to Strengthen AI Regulations

OpenAI would support requirements for AI companies to have shutdown controls for their models, mandated annual independent audits, and stronger cybersecurity practices, a senior company official wrote in a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom. OpenAI “would recommend strengthening SB53,”...

Why it matters

Governance and legal pressure are increasingly shaping how AI products can be built and deployed.

theinformation.com Oct 22, 1:32 AM GMT+2 signal 77 verified

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AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise | Microsoft Security Blog

Storm-0940 used ARTEX agentic AI to accelerate a ConnectWise supply chain compromise, enabling application credential abuse across Microsoft 365 environments.

AI microsoft.com Oct 21, 8:23 PM GMT+2 3 sources signal 91 primary

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Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models

Four open Granite models, one extensible forecasting interface, and less guesswork about which model to use.

Chips huggingface.co Oct 22, 9:51 AM GMT+2 signal 86 primary

Broad access through consistent standards

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

Models openai.com Oct 21, 11:00 PM GMT+2 signal 84 primary

Train in Simulation, Deploy on a Real Robot: Microduck with Isaac Lab 3.0

This post was written in collaboration with Antoine Pirrone, Augustin Crampette, Matthieu Lapeyre, Coralie Deplanne, Anne-Charlotte Passanisi, and Thomas Wolf.

Chips huggingface.co Oct 21, 7:58 PM GMT+2 signal 84 primary Hot

How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications

Models specialized for a domain or a task by fine-tuning general open-source models, such as Qwen and Gemma, inherit a vocabulary built for many domains and general applications.

Chips huggingface.co Oct 21, 7:35 PM GMT+2 signal 84 primary Hot

How AT&T is rethinking in-house legal work with OpenAI

AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.

Models openai.com Oct 21, 7:00 PM GMT+2 signal 83 primary

Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium.

This post starts from scratch and assumes no prior profiling experience. The walkthrough uses AWS Trainium, a purpose-built AI chip for deep learning training and inference workloads, and TorchNeuron, its open source native PyTorch backend.

Chips huggingface.co Oct 21, 6:04 PM GMT+2 signal 83 primary Hot

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.

Models openai.com Oct 21, 2:00 PM GMT+2 signal 83 primary Hot

NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required

NVIDIA Kumo Relational is a pre-trained relational foundation model that makes predictions directly on enterprise databases.

Chips huggingface.co Oct 21, 8:26 PM GMT+2 signal 82 primary

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to 26 new countries as diversification push accelerates

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Ads in 26 new countries as it works to expand its advertising business

Big Tech cnbc.com Oct 21, 3:00 PM GMT+2 2 sources signal 82 verified

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OpenAI to bring AI models to Google's cloud, in further expansion beyond Microsoft

OpenAI will now have its models on all three of the top clouds, giving corporate developers more choice.

Models cnbc.com Oct 21, 2:00 PM GMT+2 2 sources signal 82 verified

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Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster

We're excited to share three updates to IBM's Granite Speech collection: a new speech-language model, granite-speech-5.0-2b, and revised versions of two models the community already uses, granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus.

Chips huggingface.co Oct 21, 4:58 PM GMT+2 signal 81 primary

ChatGPT Ads expands to 26 new countries as over 100,000 advertisers have used the platform

From local businesses to global brands, more advertisers can now reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.

Models openai.com Oct 21, 3:00 PM GMT+2 signal 81 primary

NVIDIA Kumo Forecast Combines Pretrained Time-Series Representations with Historical Pattern Retrieval and Interpretability

NVIDIA Kumo Forecast (formerly known as NV-Tesseract Forecasting) is a multi-variate time-series forecasting model that combines a pretrained Transformer backbone with Domain-Aware Representation and Retrieval (DARR), a context-enhanced forecasting mode...

Chips huggingface.co Oct 21, 2:51 PM GMT+2 signal 80 primary

Mistral Advances AI for Engineering with NVIDIA

Mistral is collaborating with NVIDIA to develop a new generation of AI-native engineering workflows powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing.

Models mistral.ai Oct 21, 2:00 PM GMT+2 signal 80 primary

Announcing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories

Building robotics simulations and high-fidelity AI factory digital twins takes more than 3D models.

Chips huggingface.co Oct 21, 12:59 PM GMT+2 signal 80 primary

Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation

Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."

Models techcrunch.com Oct 21, 10:57 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent

Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet.

Chips theverge.com Oct 21, 9:53 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation

Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion.

Models techcrunch.com Oct 21, 8:51 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity

Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.

Startups arstechnica.com Oct 21, 8:51 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits

Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.

Startups arstechnica.com Oct 21, 8:20 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

PHP armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.

Models techcrunch.com Oct 21, 7:59 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Who’s paying for the AI build-out? Probably you

Every big pool of capital, in every corner of the developed world, is funding data centres

Policy ft.com Oct 21, 5:00 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C

Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.

Models techcrunch.com Oct 21, 7:18 PM GMT+2 signal 74 verified

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Dev tool Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent adds an official MeshyAI plugin

Nous Research says Hermes Agent has an official MeshyAI plugin that uses Meshy's MCP server for 3D asset tasks. The supplied post ends mid-sentence, so further details are unavailable.

observed Oct 22, 3:20 AM GMT+2

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@nousresearch — Hermes Agent now has an official plugin for @MeshyAI. Ask Hermes to make a 70m poly treasure chest for Godot, or to turn a photo of a mug into a model you can print, and it does the job through

Model release Gemini

Gemini release announced

@officiallogank: In just the first 72 hours since Gemini 4 Argon launched, we processed ~25 trillion tokens, the demand for intelligence is incredible and still under appreciated!

observed Oct 21, 6:45 AM GMT+2applies Oct 24, 6:45 AM GMT+272 hours

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@officiallogank — In just the first 72 hours since Gemini 4 Argon launched, we processed ~25 trillion tokens, the demand for intelligence is incredible and still under appreciated!

Dev tool Codex

Prompt caching extended to 12 hours in API and indefinitely across Codex

@thsottiaux: API prompt caching is now supported for up to 12 hours, while cache is kept indefinitely for logged-in users across Codex and Work with guaranteed hits when resuming conversations.

observed Oct 21, 3:10 AM GMT+2now

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@thsottiaux — Day 16/ You can now cache for 12h in the API and for logged in users across Codex & Work we keep cache forever and you don’t have any penalty for coming back to an old conversation or resuming after a

Model release Ampersand

Ampersand collaborator model released

Niloofar Mire announced the release of Ampersand, described as a collaborator model with built-in privacy co-designed with a product.

observed Oct 21, 12:50 AM GMT+2applies Oct 21, 12:50 AM GMT+2today

1 source

@niloofar_mire — Today we release our first collaborator model @humansand! Ampersand is the first model with privacy built in (unlike most other models where privacy is an afterthought), co-designed in tandem with our

Model release Flora

Flora open-weights robotics model suite released

Flora is introduced as an open suite of robotics models to parse physical environments, with weights open-sourced today.

observed Oct 20, 7:31 PM GMT+2applies Oct 20, 7:31 PM GMT+2today

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@drjimfan — We built a robotics data engine with Astra-level performance at 125x lower cost. And we are open-sourcing the weights today! Introducing Flora, a suite of open models to parse the physical world and

Quota reset Codex

Codex usage limits update

@thsottiaux: There were reports of usage draining faster than anticipated for some users over the weekend. We've identified approximately 40,000 accounts that had an inconsistency on which usage limits where the actual usage that was applied did not correspond to their actual

observed Oct 20, 7:10 PM GMT+2

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@thsottiaux — There were reports of usage draining faster than anticipated for some users over the weekend. We've identified approximately 40,000 accounts that had an inconsistency on which usage limits where the

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Stord Acquires AMS Fulfillment To Expand Logistics Network And AI-Powered Fulfillment Platform

AI Oct 22, 12:09 PM GMT+2 Story madrobot.blog

AI agents are slipping into US bank accounts, and banks say they can’t tell if you sent them

Policy Oct 22, 12:06 PM GMT+2 Story unite.ai

Cyware Launches Last Mile AI Agents to Turn Shared Threat Intelligence Into Daily Priorities

AI Oct 22, 12:00 PM GMT+2 Story businessinsider.com

Hugging Face is launching a new AI model that lets scientists 'chat with DNA'

Startups Oct 22, 12:00 PM GMT+2

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Robotics and embodied AI +3.9

Physical AI activity spans robot dexterity research, manufacturing automation, and reported moves toward assembly and public-market financing.

5 sources Capital and consolidation +3.8

Funding, acquisitions, and strategic investment point to active capital flows across agent infrastructure, robotics, and AI businesses.

7 sources AI infrastructure and compute -14.4

Compute demand and deployment constraints appear across data center buildout, chip serving, energy projects, and server infrastructure.

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Quick takes

Agent capability is increasingly shaped by memory and workflow scaffolding, while stronger task performance can carry higher token costs.AI coding tools are being applied to security workflows that connect vulnerability discovery with proposed fixes and human review.Agent deployment is expanding alongside evidence that tool access and safety monitoring require operational controls.AI-supported vulnerability discovery is advancing alongside evidence that agentic systems can accelerate attacks and complicate safety oversight.On-device reasoning and vocabulary specialization point to inference-cost and privacy tradeoffs shaping smaller-model deployment.ChatGPT advertising is expanding geographically as conversational intent becomes part of ad targeting infrastructure.Cloud distribution is widening as OpenAI models enter Google Cloud's marketplace, giving enterprise developers another route to access them.Advertising expansion and new conversational ad infrastructure show platforms developing monetization around user interactions alongside model access.

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Story pulse2.com

Stord Acquires AMS Fulfillment To Expand Logistics Network And AI-Powered Fulfillment Platform

AI Oct 22, 12:09 PM GMT+2 Story madrobot.blog

AI agents are slipping into US bank accounts, and banks say they can’t tell if you sent them

Policy Oct 22, 12:06 PM GMT+2 Story unite.ai

Cyware Launches Last Mile AI Agents to Turn Shared Threat Intelligence Into Daily Priorities

AI Oct 22, 12:00 PM GMT+2 Story businessinsider.com

Hugging Face is launching a new AI model that lets scientists 'chat with DNA'

Startups Oct 22, 12:00 PM GMT+2

Market pulse

bullish

AI pulse 59/100

AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Super Micro Computer +9.55%, Palantir Technologies. +4.74%, Advanced Micro Devices +3.36% leading the tracked basket.

Ticker	Company	Move
SMCI	Super Micro Computer	+9.55%
PLTR	Palantir Technologies.	+4.74%
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices	+3.36%
NVDA	NVIDIA	+2.54%

Landscape

Oct 22, 12:08 PM GMT+2

Coding Agents

Top Anthropic engineer says Claude now writes 'literally all' her team's code

At Grafana Labs' ObservabilityCON, Anthropic engineering leader Katelyn Lesse says that Claude Code has…

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Model Releases

Google began rolling out Gemini Personal Intelligence in Android Auto

Google began rolling out Gemini Personal Intelligence on Android Auto on Oct. 20. The US is in scope, but…

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Hot Builder Skills

Predictions 2027: New Products Will Fill Gaps As AI Reshapes Insurance

Insurance will change as new risks, customer expectations, and AI reshape products and experiences. Explore…

4 evidence links

AI Infrastructure

Most AI data centers may never be built. Blame the 'bragawatts.'

Analysts estimate that almost two-thirds of announced data center capacity may never get built. Meet the…

4 evidence links

Research & Evals

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models

Four open Granite models, one extensible forecasting interface, and less guesswork about which model to use.

4 evidence links

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Thu 22 Oct 2026 Policy

OpenAI Asks Gov. Newsom to Strengthen AI Regulations

The ledger

AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise | Microsoft Security Blog

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models

Broad access through consistent standards

Train in Simulation, Deploy on a Real Robot: Microduck with Isaac Lab 3.0

How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications

How AT&T is rethinking in-house legal work with OpenAI

Profiling TorchNeuron (Part 1): System-level profiling on AWS Trainium.

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to 26 new countries as diversification push accelerates

OpenAI to bring AI models to Google's cloud, in further expansion beyond Microsoft

Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster

ChatGPT Ads expands to 26 new countries as over 100,000 advertisers have used the platform

NVIDIA Kumo Forecast Combines Pretrained Time-Series Representations with Historical Pattern Retrieval and Interpretability

Mistral Advances AI for Engineering with NVIDIA

Announcing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories

Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation

Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent

Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation

OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity

Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits

PHP armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

Who’s paying for the AI build-out? Probably you

Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C

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Signals

Hermes Agent adds an official MeshyAI plugin

Gemini release announced

Prompt caching extended to 12 hours in API and indefinitely across Codex

Ampersand collaborator model released

Flora open-weights robotics model suite released

Codex usage limits update

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Stord Acquires AMS Fulfillment To Expand Logistics Network And AI-Powered Fulfillment Platform

AI agents are slipping into US bank accounts, and banks say they can’t tell if you sent them

Cyware Launches Last Mile AI Agents to Turn Shared Threat Intelligence Into Daily Priorities

Hugging Face is launching a new AI model that lets scientists 'chat with DNA'

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Stord Acquires AMS Fulfillment To Expand Logistics Network And AI-Powered Fulfillment Platform

AI agents are slipping into US bank accounts, and banks say they can’t tell if you sent them

Cyware Launches Last Mile AI Agents to Turn Shared Threat Intelligence Into Daily Priorities

Hugging Face is launching a new AI model that lets scientists 'chat with DNA'

Market pulse

Landscape

Coding Agents

Top Anthropic engineer says Claude now writes 'literally all' her team's code

Model Releases

Google began rolling out Gemini Personal Intelligence in Android Auto

Hot Builder Skills

Predictions 2027: New Products Will Fill Gaps As AI Reshapes Insurance

AI Infrastructure

Most AI data centers may never be built. Blame the 'bragawatts.'

Research & Evals

Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models

Recent leads

OpenAI Asks Gov. Newsom to Strengthen AI Regulations

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

ALTK-Evolve: How learned memory tops the τ²-bench leaderboard on customer service tasks without a frontier model

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at NVIDIA yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

Anthropic Commits At Least 5% of Shares to New Public Benefit Fund

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says