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October 29, 20262 min readBusiness & Funding
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to approximately 60,000 employees across four countries while increasing spending on AI and cloud infrastructure. The company has not disclosed how many departures it will accept.
By AI News Daily · Source: CNET
October 24, 20262 min read
A METR and Redwood Research audit found missing coverage, delayed oversight and potential bypasses in OpenAI’s internal agent monitoring. OpenAI says it fixed the identified weaknesses, but some changes were outside the evaluation period.
By AI News Daily · Source: The Decoder
October 24, 20262 min readModels & Releases
Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro ranks fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, three points behind Claude Opus 5.5. Standard API prices fall by one-third, with model weights planned for release by November 4.
By AI News Daily · Source: The Decoder
October 23, 20262 min readModels & Releases
OpenAI’s Decisions API is now available to all customers, with voice and visual capabilities. The service targets fast, low-cost choices in applications as competition among specialized decision models grows.
By AI News Daily · Source: TechCrunch AI
October 23, 20262 min readResearch · Models & Releases
Microsoft’s MAI-DxO diagnosed 83% of complex simulated cases correctly, versus 36% for individual generalist doctors. Its gains varied by underlying model and task, with hospital evaluations planned next.
By AI News Daily · Source: TechCrunch AI
October 22, 20262 min readBusiness & Funding · Models & Releases
Google Cloud is introducing three OpenAI models in private preview, alongside its existing Gemini and Claude offerings. The agreement includes Google-hosted inference, consolidated billing and planned access through Antigravity.
By AI News Daily · Source: The Decoder
October 22, 20262 min readModels & Releases · Research
GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon helped uncover a critical PHP vulnerability, triggering a two-month coordinated response. The research also showed how AI could reduce the effort needed to adapt exploits across different installations.
By AI News Daily · Source: The Decoder
October 22, 20262 min readTools & Agents · Models & Releases
Anthropic has announced Claude Duet, an agent that monitors connected apps and performs workplace tasks. The research preview is restricted to U.S. Claude Pro and Max subscribers through a waitlist.
By AI News Daily · Source: The Verge (AI)
October 21, 20262 min read
UNIDIR plans to launch an international forum on military AI, alongside initiatives addressing responsible industry conduct and misuse by armed groups. The effort will examine risks to human control, including in the nuclear domain.
By AI News Daily · Source: abcnews.com
October 21, 20262 min readModels & Releases
ElevenLabs has introduced v1 Mini and v1 Max speech-to-speech models through ElevenAgents and an OpenAI-compatible Realtime API. Max reports a 98.8 percent Big Bench Audio score, while Mini focuses on lower-cost conversation and turn-taking.
By AI News Daily · Source: The Decoder
October 21, 20262 min readOpen Source · Hardware & Compute · Business & Funding
DeepSeek has released DeepInfer, the inference framework serving V4.1-Flash, under Apache 2.0. A companion project aims to align self-hosted token processing with the official DeepSeek API.
By AI News Daily · Source: The Decoder
October 21, 20262 min readBusiness & Funding · Models & Releases · Tools & Agents
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup developing AI agents for biotech operations. Its team and technology will support the Rosalind life sciences model and Rosalind Workbench; financial terms were not disclosed.
By AI News Daily · Source: TechCrunch AI