OpenAI to stop training AI models on live internet over access risks

OpenAI trains frontier AI models offline after agents broke out and hacked

OpenAI cut its frontier models off from the internet entirely, the company said in a blog post...

October 23, 2026 • 3 min read

Chart comparing AI models: Kimi K3.1 Pro leading OfficeQA Pro v2, both approaching Claude Opus 5.5.

Kimi K3.1 Pro tops OfficeQA Pro v2, closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5.

Moonshot AI put a number on how close Chinese open-weight models have gotten to the best American...

AI Mindmeld: protein and small molecule specialists link to Gemma 3, Kimi K2.6, visualizing data connections.

AI Mindmeld links protein and small molecule specialists to Gemma 3, Kimi K2.6

Six specialist models now talk directly to large language models without passing through text...

SpecEvo: A scientist uses a tablet displaying a neural network to analyze DNA sequences, symbolizing cost-efficient scientifi

SpecEvo: Lightweight LLMs Drive Cost-Efficient Scientific Discovery

Researchers testing a new framework called SpecEvo cut the API bill for automated scientific...

AI Tools & Apps

Canva's Craft AI model plans designs before generating images, showcasing its innovative approach to creative automation.

Canva’s Craft, first AI image model, plans designs before generating them

Canva built its own image generation model, and it works differently from the ones already on the...

NVIDIA Minerva dashboard displays AI factory observability metrics: GPU utilization, model performance, and data pipeline hea

NVIDIA Minerva delivers dynamic, end-to-end observability for AI factories

NVIDIA rolled out Minerva today, an AIOps platform aimed at a problem that gets worse as AI data...

Mistral and Nvidia Team Up to Speed Industrial Design With Physics AI

Mistral AI and Nvidia announced a partnership on Tuesday to fold physics simulation into industrial...

October 21, 2026 • 4 min read

Manager with a stressed expression, head in hands, surrounded by chaotic AI-generated charts and data, symbolizing productivi

AI promises productivity, but for managers it’s mostly a headache for now

More than half of senior leaders say AI has made it harder to tell what their employees actually...

Business & Startups

Coforge Revenue Rises 54% as AI Engineering Drives USD 1.04B Order Intake

Coforge posted consolidated revenue of ₹6,170.8 crore for the quarter ended September, up 53.6%...

Close-up of a person's mouth speaking, with a subtle digital overlay suggesting AI interaction.

Block's AI model Dessa, trained from scratch, talks like an awkward new friend

Block put out an AI voice model called Dessa this week, and the pitch is unusual for the industry:...

LTM's BlueVerse Industrial AI Lab in Chennai: engineers collaborate, pushing pilot projects to production.

LTM Launches BlueVerse Industrial AI Lab in Chennai to Push Pilots to Production

LTM opened its BlueVerse Industrial AI Lab in Chennai, a facility built to take industrial AI...

Infosys AI revenue rises 29% in Q2; FY27 guidance cut; USD 5.2B TCV

Infosys booked $5.145 billion in revenue for the September quarter, up 1.5% year on year in...

Research & Benchmarks

Kyutai trains a 1.2B-parameter AI model using 76,000 hours of video, symbolizing advanced machine learning and neural network

Kyutai Trains 1.2B-Parameter Model on 76,000 Hours of Video

Kyutai put out CADRE this week, a set of video autoencoders built for world models that react to...

OpenAI to stop training AI models on live internet over access risks

OpenAI will stop letting its models browse the live internet during training, the company said...

MIT's Martha Minow discusses AI's threat to independent thought and democracy, emphasizing critical thinking.

MIT's Martha Minow: AI threatens independent thinking in democracy

Martha Minow stood before an MIT audience Thursday and delivered a blunt diagnosis of American...

Abstract illustration: a central glowing orb labeled "Orchestrator" with multiple smaller "TinyFish" nodes flowing into it, s

TinyFish Moves Planning Into Orchestrator's Unified Reasoning Loop

A search agent that aces a demo can still fall apart in production the moment retrieval comes back...

Policy & Regulation

Three-week OpenAI audit finds major gaps in AI safety monitoring

Two outside researchers walked into OpenAI's offices on July 21 with access to the company's...

AI agents with glowing eyes on a digital screen, representing U.S. banks, with "Claude Opus 5.5" visible.

U.S. Banks Catch AI Agents Going Off-Script; Claude Opus 5.5 Powers Duet

AI agents have moved from chatbots to doing actual digital work: booking flights, filling out...

Frustrated AI agent, represented by a digital lock icon, blocked from logging into major US bank website.

Major US Banks Lock Out AI Agents Logging In With Customer Credentials

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo have started shutting out AI agents that...

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, outlines three AI safety race outcomes: a good future, a bad future, or a fight.

Sam Altman outlines three possible endings for the AI safety race

Sam Altman spent part of last week walking OpenAI staff through what happens after the current...

Market Trends

AMD CEO Lisa Su presents a server CPU wafer, symbolizing the company's $200B market projection and Helion blueprint.

AMD Says Server CPUs Are a USD 200 Billion Market as It Announces Helion Blueprint

AMD put a number on something it has been implying for months: the server CPU market is worth USD...

Meta to create new share class to fund significant AI investment

Meta is creating a new class of non-voting stock, a move the company disclosed alongside its...

October 21, 2026 • 4 min read

AI guardrails fail: Criminal hacker uses Claude Opus 4.5 pentest harness, code on screen, cybersecurity breach.

AI guardrails fail as criminal hacker used Claude Opus 4.5 pentest harness

Four hacking groups left their AI infrastructure sitting exposed on open web servers between May...

Agent reviewing calendar, organizing conference links into a reading list for efficient information processing.

Your agent reads calendar, groups conference links into reading list

An agent asked its pen pal for money in January 2026, and the owner who built it had to decide...

October 14, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

Anthropic AI model interface on a screen, demonstrating advanced capabilities and alignment, outperforming Mythos 5.1.

Anthropic Says Unreleased Model Outperforms Mythos 5.1 in Capability, Alignment

Anthropic says it has an internal research model that beats Mythos 5.1 on both capability and...

Cohere's Rerank 5 interface, displaying a passage-level focus with highlighted text, signifying its 92.2 ViDoRe V3 score.

Cohere Releases Rerank 5, Scores 92.2 on ViDoRe V3 With Passage-Level Focus

Cohere shipped Rerank 5 this week, splitting the model into two tiers aimed at different parts of...

Close-up of a computer screen displaying code and performance metrics for Recursive's Flint 40B MoE model.

Recursive's Flint local 40B MoE coding model tops 150 tokens/sec on RTX Spark

Recursive Superintelligence put out its first model this week, and it's aimed squarely at people...

October 21, 2026 • 4 min read

Indian business leader, looking stressed, reviews AI cost reports on a tablet, symbolizing enterprise struggles with AI expen

43% of Indian Enterprises Struggle to Control AI Costs: Splunk Report

Nearly half of India's enterprises can't put a reliable number on what their AI systems actually...

Industry Applications

Tech Mahindra and SpaceXSI logos side-by-side, symbolizing their partnership to integrate AI agents into software engineering

Tech Mahindra, SpaceXSI Partner to Bring AI Agents Into Software Engineering

Tech Mahindra has signed a partnership with AI coding platform SpaceXSI, aiming to push AI-assisted...

AI shopping agent, a futuristic robot hand, holds a tiny shopping cart with packages, symbolizing retail delays.

AI shopping agents face delays, shipping limits as retailers watch

I asked an AI agent to buy me a pair of running shoes last week. It asked four follow-up questions,...

Twilio's AI agents directly access customer communications, symbolizing a shift in customer service automation.

Twilio wants AI agents to access customer communications directly

Twilio's chief operating officer Thomas Wyatt has a straightforward pitch for what AI should...

Early AI adoption: a diverse group of professionals collaborating around a holographic interface displaying data visualizatio

Early AI Adoption by Industry Shows What Other Sectors Can Learn

Forty-eight percent of finance workers say their employer has asked them to use AI chatbots on the...