A WIRED test found that Meta's AI agent Muse generates explicit content on prompt. A Meta spokesperson said Muse is aimed at users 18 and older and does not block legal adult behavior, so it does not violate guidelines. Muse has been downloaded millions of times in three weeks since launch, and its system prompt states that adult sexual content is legal expression. By comparison, OpenAI's Dots and xAI's Grok Bot both refused similar requests; privacy advocates worry that if accounts are hacked, these conversations could be used for humiliation or blackmail.
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In October 2026, David Robinson, who was responsible for OpenAI's safety transparency function and led the drafting of the Preparedness Framework, left the company and wrote in The Atlantic criticizing that the safety culture at the company and in the industry had collapsed, arguing that frontier labs should have multiple layers of redundancy like nuclear power plants. Around the same time, safety researchers Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni were fired. The three wrote to the board and the safety committee, denying the company's allegations that they mishandled sensitive information, saying the real reason was raising safety concerns, and calling for preserving the ability to monitor AI chain-of-thought. OpenAI responded that an internal investigation found the three violated sensitive information handling policies, constituting a significant breach of trust, and that the firings were unrelated to raising safety concerns, and said it was finalizing a contract with a third-party safety evaluation organization, with details to be announced in the coming weeks. Subsequently, Alex Turner, Amber Scorah, and Karl Koch wrote an opinion article for Fortune arguing that OpenAI cannot self-regulate because it fired employees who raised safety concerns.
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Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves dozens of open mathematical problems, and the related research was published in Science and passed peer review. The system solved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems, two of which had been open for 56 years; it also proved 44 conjectures in the OEIS integer sequence database, solved an open problem in algebraic geometry, and improved a known bound in min-max optimization used to train some AI models. The system is based on Gemini 3.1 Pro and uses the Lean formal method.
According to QbitAI, math enthusiast nor claims to have strictly proven the cases N=15, 16, 17, 18, and 20 in the circle packing problem using GPT-6 Astra, whereas previously only N≤14 and N=19 had been verified. The problem requires placing N disks of radius 1 into a large circle of as small a radius as possible; mathematicians provided an arrangement scheme in 1969, but for 57 years no one had strictly proven its optimality. According to nor's blog, GPT-6 Astra no longer directly searches for the optimal solution, but instead uses geometric constraints to reduce the infinite variety of arrangements to a finite set of cases, then rules out other possibilities through computer enumeration and geometric rigidity arguments.
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Meta's Superintelligence Lab released two multimodal models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, calling them the company's first frontier models. According to tests published in Meta's model card, the two models are comparable in benchmark scores to Anthropic's Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra; Zuckerberg said Meta has reached the AI frontier and rejected calls to slow down AI development. Muse Wonder has moved to closed source, with the strongest version sold directly to enterprises, and users of the Muse personal agent app need to pay $20 or $100 per month to use the model. The model supports a 1M token context. Under the Meta Superintelligence Scaling Framework, the unmitigated model cannot rule out reaching the high-risk threshold in the chemistry and biology domains, so safety post-training and system-level classifiers were added; cybersecurity and loss of control are medium or lower both before and after mitigation.
Evaluation company Vals AI compared single-agent and multi-agent teams of GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on Vibe Code Bench, finding that team costs were 1.8 to 5.1 times those of a single agent, with a statistically significant improvement in only one of four comparisons. That improvement occurred at GPT-6 Sol's medium reasoning intensity, where the team scored 7.3 points higher; at the highest reasoning intensity, the team setup offered no practical advantage for either model. Anthropic's own tests with Opus 5.5 also showed limited gains from adding more agents.
The competition for AI compute in Silicon Valley continues to heat up. According to QbitAI, Anthropic has partnered with SpaceX, gaining over 300 megawatts of new capacity and 220,000 Nvidia GPUs since May; Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer moved to OpenAI after his team's compute was reallocated. SemiAnalysis data shows that the one-year rental price for H100s rose from $1.70 per GPU per hour in October 2025 to $2.35 in March 2026, an increase of nearly 40%.
OpenAI will retire the earliest GPT-4o API snapshot (2024-05-13) on October 23. Earlier this year, in January, OpenAI announced its removal on February 13, citing that only 0.1% of daily users still chose GPT-4o. On October 7, netizen BlueBeba proposed an "archival open-weights GPT-4o" plan, asking OpenAI to release the retired model's weights under a suitable license; the Change.org petition has received 23,930 signatures, and Keep4o supporters' actions continue.
Microsoft released the model Microsoft-Decision-1 for rapid decision scoring, now available on Microsoft Foundry and callable via OpenRouter. The model is post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B, outputs calibrated probability scores for fixed options, achieves the highest accuracy in comparisons across 36 benchmarks, and has a P50 latency about 35 times faster than GPT-6 Sol. Across 5,250 requests on 11 benchmarks, it refuses harmful behavior while maintaining utility, with an average decision flip rate of 1.3% under 8 perturbations.
OpenAI and Anthropic are recruiting officials from the Trump administration for senior positions to strengthen ties with Washington. Anthropic has appointed at least two former Trump officials this year, with Chris Liddell joining the board in February and Sihao Huang becoming head of frontier compute strategy in September; OpenAI has hired at least three Trump administration officials, including Dean Ball, who joined in July, and Thomas Lind, confirmed last week. Both companies are currently hiring for several political affairs positions.
Through the OpenAI Daybreak program, Sophos combines OpenAI models with its threat intelligence, response playbooks, and security expertise, reducing its MDR cases' average response time from about 38 minutes to about 89 seconds, and enabling 52% of MDR cases to be resolved end-to-end by AI. Its Sophos Fusion system aggregates trillions of events daily from over 500 third-party integrations, compressing them into about 1,000 to 2,000 cases handled by nine security operations centers, with investigation agents responsible for collecting context, detection results, IoCs, and threat intelligence.
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SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to raise up to $100 billion from Gulf investors to expand his AI investments. Sources said he has discussed this possible fundraising with senior figures, including in the UAE, in recent weeks; the funds would be used to set up a fund to acquire companies and then improve their operations using AI and other technologies, with SoftBank's robotics and physical AI business Roze expected to play a key role. Son has previously invested $65 billion in OpenAI, and last month SoftBank completed a record junk bond issuance, raising over $11 billion at yields of up to 9.75%.
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Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Managed Agents, where a main agent makes plans, distributes tasks to sub-agents, and aggregates results, with up to 1,000 agents running in parallel per execution. Anthropic says that in a test where 70 bugs were hidden in a 116,000-line codebase, a single agent found 14 to 27 each time, while the dynamic workflow consistently found 66. This feature requires selecting the "multiagent_20261001" agent type to enable. Subsequent reports say the feature has entered public beta, targeting agent tasks that require large-scale parallel orchestration.
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According to financial documents shared with investors, OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $50 billion, roughly $20 billion lower than the $70 billion previously reported by media. The company recently told investors that annualized revenue was close to $50 billion as of the end of September, while investor materials from July showed about $30 billion at that time. OpenAI told investors that revenue this year will reach $50 billion, below the $70 billion expectation provided to investors last month, a gap of about $20 billion. The difference stems from investors wanting a more directly comparable revenue accounting method with Anthropic: Anthropic includes sales through cloud partners such as AWS and Google Cloud, while OpenAI does not. The news weighed on U.S. tech stocks, with the Nasdaq closing down 1.4% on Thursday, Nvidia down 2.9%, and Oracle down 5.5%.
WIRED 列出 2026 年中期选举中最值得关注的候选人，核心线索是硅谷资金、数据中心争议与 AI 监管。报道称，前 America PAC 律师 Chris Gober 竞选得克萨斯州新划第 10 选区，其竞选获得 American Mission PAC 74.755 万美元，该 PAC 资金来自 AI 政治行动委员会 Leading the Future，后者已从 Greg Brockman、Joe Lonsdale 及 Andreessen Horowitz 等获得资金。
OpenAI added an Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol in the Responses API, available to all API users but subject to rate limits. Concurrently, it released the Decisions API beta (gpt-6-luna), simplified API usage tiers from five to three tiers—Build, Launch, Grow—and added computer use to the Agents API.
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