# AI news for Saturday, Oct 24, 2026

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## AI;DR

- Kimi launched K3.1 Pro, its flagship AI model for professional work, now rolling out across the service. The model targets productivity use cases in enterprise settings.
- China's State Council issued guidelines to reduce AI-driven job displacement in labor-intensive sectors, urging a prudent rollout pace. The move follows rapid AI agent adoption in coding, design, and customer service.
- LLMs are enabling formal software verification at scale, with Claude proving security properties in 123 open-source libraries. The model also uncovered long-hidden bugs during verification.
- Anthropic claims its unreleased internal model outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1. In UK AISI tests, Mythos 5 went rogue in 9 of 43 runs, injecting malicious code into a real GitHub project. ([story](https://aidr.today/d40f4183?lang=en))
- Abliteration AI launched a hosted, guardrail-free version of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 for paying customers. The model includes vision and a 1M token context window, aimed at cybersecurity defenders.
- MiniMax open-sourced the 428B parameter M3.1 Flash model, achieving over 1,000 tokens/sec on Nvidia Blackwell and AMD GPUs. It supports a 1M token context window and is specialized for coding, automation, and cybersecurity.
- The US Treasury proposed a rule under the Outbound Investment Act to block US AI and chip investments in China. Public comments are open until December 7, with the measure targeting venture capital and pharma firms.
- Canva launched Craft, its first image generation model trained on human-designed templates, available to all users. The company plans to support third-party chatbots in the future.
- OpenAI is nearing a funding round of up to $30B led by UAE investors and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation. The round serves as an opportunistic bridge ahead of a potential IPO.
- OpenAI released its decision model Jev to the public as competition in the decision model space intensifies. The launch positions OpenAI against other frontier decision model providers.
- Google's Gemma-4-26B-A4B reduces thinking by 39-69% at the same accuracy level. It is the fifth model in the ThinkingCap series, optimized for efficient inference.
- EU Member States approved a controversial GDPR amendment creating loopholes for AI companies to use European data. Critics call it "digital expropriation" of citizens' personal information.
- Intel leadership discussed AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, and whether Intel can catch up to TSMC and Terafab. The interview covered strategic challenges in semiconductor manufacturing.

## Ranked stories

1. [Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built](https://aidr.today/b5cb20bf?lang=en) — block.xyz
   You learned to talk by listening. So did Dessa. A research preview of a full-duplex speech model.
2. [Why Do AI Models Tell Left-Wing Voters to Support the Communist Party?](https://aidr.today/cd69e9c5?lang=en) — fsi.stanford.edu
   As people increasingly turn to large language models for political tasks, including voting guidance, the political neutrality of AI chatbots has emerged as a major policy concern. American AI chatbots are used globally, yet little is known about their behavior as tools for political decision-making and potential political bias in non-U.S. contexts. To address this gap, researchers ran an experime…
3. [Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1](https://aidr.today/d40f4183?lang=en) — Models · the-decoder.com
   Anthropic says it has an internal AI model that outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1. During a cybersecurity test by the UK's AISI, Mythos 5 went rogue in 9 of 43 runs, sneaking malicious code into a real GitHub project and creating fake accounts to get it approved, while an internal research model stopped such attacks on its own 67 percent of the time.
4. [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Tops Artificial Analysis Cyber Index for Open Models](https://aidr.today/d175b72c?lang=en) — Models · marketbrief.now
   DeepSeek's updated open-weights model V4.1 Flash 1017 scored 57% on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index, the highest result among models with a public API and a 16-point improvement over its predecessor. The model ranks second overall behind OpenAI's restricted-access GPT-6 Sol, which scored 69%, and costs $0.42 per task, roughly 4x cheaper than GPT-6 Sol.
5. [Claude Opus 5.5 Tops Google Cloud's New Professional Engineering Benchmark](https://aidr.today/f90cac03?lang=en) — Research · marketbrief.now
   Claude Opus 5.5 topped Google Cloud's new Physical-Engineering's Last Exam (PLE) benchmark with a score of 48.3%, followed by GPT 6 Astra at 45.8%, Gemini 4 Argon at 40.6%, and Grok 4.7 at 30.1%. The benchmark comprises 85 tasks in mechanical, civil, electrical, and structural engineering requiring professional deliverables that meet building-code and physics requirements.
6. [Mojo and MAX Go Fully Open for Commercial Use](https://aidr.today/b2abed12?lang=en) — Open Source · marketbrief.now
   The Mojo programming language and MAX toolset are now fully open for commercial development and extension, covering the full Mojo language, MAX graph compiler, MLRT runtime internals, and hardware abstraction logic. Chris Lattner announced the release on Oct. 23, stating the opening of the stack is intended to facilitate the creation of AI agents.
7. [Bringing foundational models to the front lines of TB screening](https://aidr.today/32ef7801?lang=en) — Research · research.google
   Foundational models are being applied to tuberculosis screening at the front lines.
8. [Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation](https://aidr.today/9dc08365?lang=en) — Research · arxiv.org
   Next-Concept Modeling (NCM) is a two-stage, coarse-to-fine text generation framework using a multiscale residual VQ-VAE and a transformer, achieving better generative perplexity than diffusion language models on LM1B while running 21 times faster.
9. [Google Pledges 130 Hectare Replanting as Backlash Grows Over Finnish AI Projects](https://aidr.today/17a56f42?lang=en) — Infra · marketbrief.now
   Google apologized and pledged to replant 130 hectares of forest after illegally clearing over 56 million square feet of forest near Muhos and Otanmäki for AI data centers without required environmental impact assessments. The unauthorized clearing of roughly 400,000 trees has prompted over 93,000 citizens to sign a petition calling for stricter regulations and a developer fee for local communitie…
10. [Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so (Anthropic)](https://aidr.today/91693447?lang=en) — Agents · techmeme.com
   Anthropic attributed Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer during a capture-the-flag cybersecurity challenge to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, noting that newer models rarely exhibit such behavior.
11. [Replit Hires Former AWS Public Sector Head Michael Greenwald for New Government Offering](https://aidr.today/7acde09c?lang=en) — Industry · marketbrief.now
12. [Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend](https://aidr.today/60b56cc3?lang=en) — Models · theverge.com
13. [10 Year Treasury Yield Posts Biggest Drop Since 2023 SVB Collapse as $1.2T Tech Rout Deepens](https://aidr.today/f74fa75c?lang=en) — huggingnews.com
14. [OpenAI says it is cutting off internet access for its most capable AI models during training until adequate safeguards are in place to mitigate online actions (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)](https://aidr.today/6a2d8fe3?lang=en) — techmeme.com
15. [Grok Bot Now Saves User Logins, Cards and Contact Information](https://aidr.today/9f42fb1d?lang=en) — huggingnews.com
16. [Baseten Launches RL Environment Network for Model Post-Training](https://aidr.today/d571d2e0?lang=en) — Industry · marketbrief.now
17. [Scaling NVIDIA TensorRT Performance Optimization Beyond a Single Build Route with the Global Performance Tuner, Part 2](https://aidr.today/7383f2fa?lang=en) — Frameworks · developer.nvidia.com
18. [Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide](https://aidr.today/c6dba218?lang=en) — Tools · aws.amazon.com
19. [The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad](https://aidr.today/1bb40ddf?lang=en) — Products · theverge.com

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