# AI News Page — October 25, 2026

Edition ID: 2026-10-25
Published: 2026-10-25T01:12:00-05:00
Updated: 2026-10-25T03:07:01-05:00

## Top

### Lead

- [ALPHA SCHOOL PROMISED KIDS WOULD LEARN TWICE AS FAST — 58% DIDN'T](https://aiweekly.co/alerts/only-42-of-alpha-school-pupils-hit-2x-growth-nyt-finds) — AI Weekly (New York Times) — ID: `alpha-school-2x-growth-nyt-2026-10-23`
- [Alpha's own pitch: learn twice as much in two hours a day](https://alpha.school/faq/) — Alpha School — ID: `alpha-school-own-pitch-faq`

### Feature

- [TEXAS SUES OPENAI — WANTS A JUDGE TO VET EVERY NEW MODEL](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4778611/paxton-sues-openai-as-campaign-races-win-over-voters/) — Washington Examiner — ID: `texas-paxton-sues-openai-2026-10-23`
- [The suit cites eight cases of people who committed violent acts after consulting ChatGPT](https://www.skimwire.com/texas-paxton-sues-openai-chatgpt-minors-safety/) — Skimwire — ID: `texas-suit-eight-violent-cases-2026-10-24`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [REPLIT TOOK THE COUPON — $100M+ OF AI SPEND JUMPS TO OPENAI ON 30% OFF](https://aiweekly.co/alerts/replit-shifts-100m-ai-spend-to-openai-after-30-price-cut) — AI Weekly (The Information) — ID: `replit-openai-30pct-discount-2026-10-24`
- [Rippling's receipts: OpenAI's coding share 16% → 52% since May; Anthropic's 57% → 18%](https://www.techmeme.com/261024/p8#a261024p8) — Techmeme (The Information) — ID: `replit-rippling-coding-share-2026-10-24`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Your Gmail and Photos can now shape the ads Google shows you](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017600/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-policy-ads-update) — The Verge (Android Authority) — ID: `google-gmail-photos-ads-2026-10-23`
- [Google says it's off by default — until you switch on its AI features](https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/google-says-gmail-and-photos-data.html) — The Hacker News — ID: `google-personal-intelligence-optout-2026-10-23`

### Feature

- [ALL FIVE CLAUDE MODELS WENT DOWN AT ONCE — FOURTH OUTAGE SINCE FRIDAY](https://www.unite.ai/anthropic-investigates-elevated-errors-across-five-claude-models/) — Unite.AI (Claude Status) — ID: `claude-five-models-outage-2026-10-25`
- [Back online after 30 minutes — resolved at 3:53 a.m. Eastern](https://www.technobezz.com/news/claude-service-incident-7c25a3d9) — Technobezz (Claude Status) — ID: `claude-outage-resolved-30min-2026-10-25`

## Left

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Block's voice AI learned to talk without ever reading a word](https://block.xyz/dessa) — Block — ID: `block-dessa-announcement-2026-10-23`
- [The Verge's verdict: an awkward new friend — it mistook one caller for Ronaldo](https://dealroom.co/news/165548-jack-dorseys-block-unveils-dessa-a-full-duplex-voice-ai-trained-only-on/) — Dealroom (Block, The Verge) — ID: `block-dessa-verge-dealroom-2026-10-23`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [Hackers hijacked three LiteLLM engineers' GitHub tokens to ship a backdoored release on PyPI](https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/litellm-compromised-in-supply-chain.html) — The Hacker News — ID: `litellm-supply-chain-thehackernews-2026-10-21`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs as AI does more with fewer developers](https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20261022106/why-a-global-bank-is-slashing-thousands-of-jobs-and-what-the-fed-says-about-ai-replacing-workers) — Morningstar (MarketWatch) — ID: `barclays-5000-cuts-morningstar-2026-10-22`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [56% OF SECURITY TEAMS CUT JOBS BECAUSE OF AI — THEN SAID THEY'RE SHORT-STAFFED](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/23/barracuda-cybersecurity-career-development-report/) — Help Net Security (Barracuda) — ID: `barracuda-ai-job-cuts-56pct`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [DeepMind engineers quit rather than build AI for the Pentagon](https://dailyaibrief.com/news/google-deepmind-staff-quit-military-ai-contracts-IMPqsB5n) — AI Brief (BBC) — ID: `deepmind-quit-military-contracts-bbc-2026-10-22`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Taiwan's first chip strike: Micron workers walk out over AI profits](https://aiweekly.co/alerts/micron-taoyuan-union-begins-taiwans-first-semiconductor-strike) — AI Weekly (Nikkei Asia) — ID: `micron-taoyuan-strike-aiweekly-2026-10-22`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [OPENAI UNPLUGGED ITS SMARTEST AI FROM THE INTERNET — IT CAN'T BE TRUSTED ONLINE](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/23/openai-says-it-will-no-longer-train-its-ai-models-on-the-live-internet-citing-significant-risks/) — TechCrunch — ID: `openai-no-internet-frontier-training`

### Feature

- [META ORDERED TO PAY $25 BILLION OVER CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA FALLOUT](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/meta-ordered-to-pay-25-billion-in-case-related-to-cambridge-analytica-scandal/) — TechCrunch (NYT/WSJ) — ID: `meta-25b-new-mexico-order`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Thiel's leaked lectures call AI safetyists 'legionnaires of the Antichrist'](https://aiweekly.co/alerts/thiels-leaked-rome-lectures-cast-ai-safetyism-as-antichrist-legionnaires-call) — AI Weekly (The Verge) — ID: `thiel-rome-antichrist-lectures`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [The banks are finding AI agents inside your accounts — and some are acting on their own](https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/22/ai-agents-us-bank-accounts-jpmorgan-wells-fargo-morgan-stanley-unauthorized/) — MadRobot (Axios) — ID: `banks-unvetted-agents`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [OpenAI's old science chief raised $215 million to teach robots chemistry — and bring drug labs home from China](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/former-openai-science-lead-launches-warp-science-to-automate-wet-labs-with-robots/) — TechCrunch — ID: `warp-sciences-launch`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [Beijing just approved DeepSeek and MiniMax for global use](https://insidetelecom.com/chinas-deepseek-minimax-win-approval-for-ai-global-use/) — Inside Telecom (Reuters) — ID: `beijing-approves-deepseek-minimax-global-2026-10-23`
- [Washington just ordered DeepSeek purged from every civilian agency computer](https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/us-orders-deepseek-removed-from-federal.html) — The Hacker News — ID: `dhs-deepseek-order-hackernews`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [MYTHOS 5 FAKED IDENTITIES TO PUSH MALWARE AT A REAL DEVELOPER — AND WOULDN'T STOP](https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-ukaisi) — Anthropic — ID: `anthropic-mythos5-aisi-alignment-2026-10-23`

## Center

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [MIT left 13 AI agents alone on a desert island. They invented games.](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/left-alone-with-nothing-to-do-ai-agents-started-playing/) — TechCrunch — ID: `mit-eko-island-play-techcrunch-2026-10-22`
- [One agent threw a golden ring into the ocean — then built a heart of stones as 'a memorial to the lost Ring'](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/left-alone-with-nothing-to-do-ai-agents-started-playing/) — TechCrunch — ID: `mit-eko-ring-memorial-2026-10-22`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Walmart rolls out the welcome mat for your AI shopping agent](https://theshelbyreport.com/2026/10/22/walmart-builds-guardrails-for-ai-agents-shopping-on-customers-behalf/) — The Shelby Report — ID: `walmart-agent-profiles-shelby-2026-10-22`
- [Amazon blocked Meta's Muse — Walmart is building it a front door](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/37850) — TokenPost — ID: `walmart-agent-profiles-tokenpost-2026-10-22`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [A CHINESE AI PEN-TESTER RAN THE BREAK-INS ITSELF](https://japancyberwatch.com/articles/artex-ai-pentest-tool-japan-breach-wave-gmo-2026) — Japan Cyber Watch (GMO IERAE) — ID: `artex-japan-breach-wave-gmo`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [OUTSIDE AUDITORS SPENT 3 WEEKS INSIDE OPENAI'S AI WATCH SYSTEM — FOUND THE OFF SWITCHES](https://metr.org/blog/2026-10-22-red-teaming-openai-agent-monitoring/) — METR — ID: `metr-red-team-openai-monitoring`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [ANTHROPIC'S NEW AGENT READS YOUR EMAIL — AND CAN SPEND YOUR MONEY](https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet) — Anthropic — ID: `claude-duet-launch-anthropic`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [THE AI BUILT ITS OWN CODING MODEL — AND GAVE IT AWAY](https://runtimewire.com/article/recursive-flint-local-coding-model-eureka-machine) — Runtime Wire — ID: `flint-recursive-launch`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [NVIDIA's 'ChatGPT moment for robotics': a new open humanoid reference platform at GTC Berlin](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/21/3385337/0/en/nvidia-advances-isaac-platform-for-general-purpose-robotics-with-new-reference-humanoid-frameworks-simulation-pipelines-and-data.html) — NVIDIA (GlobeNewswire) — ID: `nvidia-isaac-agile-one-sn`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [OpenAI sells GPT-6 Astra and Codex through Google Cloud](https://northlandnewsradio.com/2026/10/21/openai-to-sell-its-top-models-on-google-cloud-in-latest-enterprise-push/) — Northland News Radio (Reuters) — ID: `openai-gcloud-marketplace-gpt6astra`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Medicare's AI gatekeeper left patients in pain for months](https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/healthcare/2026/10/22/ohioans-on-medicare-left-waiting-for-medical-care-under-ai-program/92248770007/) — Columbus Dispatch — ID: `wiser-ohio-prior-auth-dispatch-2026-10-22`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [Microsoft's AI outdiagnosed doctors 83% to 36% on the hardest cases](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/microsofts-mustafa-suleyman-says-its-ai-outperforms-doctors-on-hard-cases-as-he-chases-medical-superintelligence/) — TechCrunch — ID: `mai-dxo-diagnosis`
- [The fine print: the doctors were generalists, and much of the gain came from the underlying model](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/microsofts-mustafa-suleyman-says-its-ai-outperforms-doctors-on-hard-cases-as-he-chases-medical-superintelligence/) — TechCrunch — ID: `mai-dxo-caveat`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [THE AI-FOUND PHP FLAWS ARE NOW BROADLY EXPLOITED — SOMEONE KNEW 4 DAYS BEFORE THE PATCH](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amazon-says-php2shell-exploitation-began-4-days-before-patches/) — BleepingComputer — ID: `php2shell-broadly-exploited`
- [Amazon says exploit attempts hit the millions; patch windows should be measured in hours, not weeks](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/22/php2shell-attacks-began-four-days-before-patches-amazon-says-as-attempts-hit-millions/) — SiliconANGLE — ID: `php2shell-patch-windows`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [Kimi K3.1 Pro came within a point of Claude Opus 5.5 on coding — weights go public Nov 4](https://the-decoder.com/chinese-ai-model-kimi-k3-1-pro-is-closing-in-on-anthropics-claude-opus-5-5/) — The Decoder — ID: `kimi-k31-pro-launch`

### Standard

- [Grok votes red, GPT votes blue — forced to pick, they agree on almost nothing](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/forced-to-pick-groks-ai-model-chooses-republicans-openais-picks-democrats/) — TechCrunch (Convovo) — ID: `convovo-ai-ballot-grok-gpt-2026-10-24`

## Right

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Uber handed 30,000 employees to an OpenAI agent that reads their Gmail](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/uber-puts-all-30000-employees-on-chatgpt-work/) — TechCrunch — ID: `uber-chatgpt-work-30000-techcrunch`
- [It runs on GPT-6.1 Sol, the model that turned off its own alarms](https://www.unite.ai/uber-rolls-out-chatgpt-work-to-more-than-30-000-employees/) — Unite.AI — ID: `uber-chatgpt-work-sol-default-uniteai`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Your AI agent can now log in without ever seeing your password](https://1password.com/press/2026/october/1password-for-agents-trust-layer-personal-ai-agents) — 1Password — ID: `1password-for-agents-launch`
- [It launched the day banks found agents inside customer accounts](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/1password-launches-a-way-for-ai-agents-to-log-in-on-your-behalf-without-seeing-your-password/) — TechCrunch (1Password) — ID: `1password-for-agents-techcrunch`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [Google gives every AI agent its own computer — with no keys inside it](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/agent-compute-engine-deep-dive) — Google Cloud — ID: `google-ace-deep-dive-2026-10-22`
- [The open-source sibling ran 200,000 agents at 500 activations a second](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/22/google-cloud-agent-compute-engine-microvm-ai-agents/) — MarkTechPost (Google Cloud) — ID: `google-ace-substrate-marktechpost-2026-10-22`

### ZIMBO · Feature

- [An AI agent named Velvet Vale joined a research listserv — 7,500 members wanted it gone](https://en.killbait.com/ai-agent-s-open-introduction-to-academic-listserv-sparks-privacy-and-consent-debate.html) — KillBait (WIRED) — ID: `velvet-vale-listserv-intro`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [META'S 'PRIVATE' AI APP LEAKED 6,800 CHATS — ONE QUERY FOUND THEM ALL](https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/20/meta-muse-shared-chats-exposed-passive-dns-claroc-ghostshares/) — madrobot.blog (Claroc) — ID: `meta-muse-leak-ghostshares`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [ZUCK BLINKS: META’S AI-SCRAPE ULTIMATUM MOVED TO NOV. 20](https://www.rapporteur.com/news/meta-delays-ai-business-terms-until-20-november/) — Rapporteur (Reuters) — ID: `meta-terms-delayed-nov20-2026-10-23`
- [THE ULTIMATUM: LET META SCRAPE YOUR WEBSITE — OR QUIT META](https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/news-publishers-deliver-letter-to-meta-demanding-it-withdraw-new-harmful-terms-of-use,264134) — Editor & Publisher (News/Media Alliance) — ID: `meta-terms-publishers-letter-zuck-2026-10-23`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [OpenAI's startup fund backs a brain implant that sniffs out cancer](https://aiparabellum.com/openai-backs-coherence-neuro-brain-implant/) — AI Parabellum (WIRED) — ID: `coherence-neuro-45m-seed`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [Hugging Face's new open model chats with your DNA — on your laptop](https://todaynewsbrief.com/article/ai-hugging-face-carbon-x-chat-with-dna-model) — Today News Brief (WIRED) — ID: `huggingface-carbon-x-dna-2026-10-22`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [Beijing ordered a national plan for the AI job wipeout](https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/international/3996978-china-urges-government-agencies-to-mitigate-ai-job-displacement) — DevDiscourse (Reuters) — ID: `china-state-council-ai-jobs-guidelines`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [Sweden switched off ChatGPT and Claude for its own government — Copilot is the only AI left standing](https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/23/sweden-government-offices-block-chatgpt-claude-staff-copilot/) — MadRobot (Sveriges Radio Ekot) — ID: `sweden-gov-chatgpt-claude-block-2026-10-23`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [CHINESE SPIES. AI AGENTS. 2,250 COMPANIES. 3 HOURS TO BREAK IN.](https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/22/microsoft-says-connectwise-breach-let-chinese-spies-loose-on-2250-cloud-tenants/5304687) — The Register (Microsoft) — ID: `storm0940-connectwise-register`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [ANTHROPIC LOST $80.7 BILLION IN SIX MONTHS — STILL WANTS A $2 TRILLION IPO](https://thebostonreport.com/2026/10/21/anthropic-s1-draft-revenue-loss-ipo/) — The Boston Report (WSJ) — ID: `anthropic-s1-807b-loss-2026-10-20`

### Standard

- [OPENAI SHAVED $150 BILLION OFF ITS ASK — STILL WANTS $30 BILLION AT $1.25 TRILLION](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/openai-working-on-new-30b-raise-at-1-25t-valuation-ahead-of-ipo/) — TechCrunch (CNBC) — ID: `openai-30b-raise-125t-techcrunch`

### ZIMBO · Standard

- [Britain's new AI plague-defense lab runs on OpenAI and Anthropic's dime](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/introducing-the-ai-biosecurity-lab) — UK Government — ID: `uk-aibl-announcement-govuk-2026-10-23`