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Reachy Mini robot on a table running NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B on a Jetson Orin Nano, with the robot's camera view in the corner

ModelsNews

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B: NVIDIA's 4 GB agent model

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B, an open small model built on Gemma 4 E4B for local voice assistants, game characters and robots. Quantized, it runs in about 4 GB of VRAM.

· 2 min read

Rosenbad in Stockholm, the headquarters of the Swedish Government Offices, seen across the water

PolicyNews

Swedish Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude

Sweden's Government Offices (Regeringskansliet) will block the ChatGPT and Claude web interfaces on staff computers from October 26. Staff are directed to the approved Microsoft Copilot instead.

· 2 min read

Anthropic illustration: a zigzag line connecting nodes inside a white lightning-bolt shape on a sage green background

ToolsAnalysis

Anthropic: fold subagents into one agent loop with skills

Anthropic's Applied AI team says a single agent loop with skills and progressively loaded tools often beats subagent designs in enterprise agents, on quality, cost and latency. It also released a migration kit.

· 3 min read

Google Search AI Mode on a phone with the greeting Hi Lukas, what's on your mind and an Ask anything box

PolicyNews

Google: Gmail-linked AI Search can now shape your ads

Since October 16, Google's privacy policy has an exception: if you connect Gmail or Google Photos to Personal Intelligence, what Search learns from them can personalize ads. The feature is not offered in the EU.

· 2 min read

Aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, with the Potomac River and the Washington Monument in the background

PolicyNews

GAO: Pentagon's responsible AI office fills 3 of 10 posts

The U.S. Government Accountability Office found that the Pentagon's Responsible AI Division had filled only three of ten authorized positions. Four AI project officials said their requirements are not aligned with responsible AI tenets.

· 2 min read

Pathos AI wordmark over an abstract green and gold particle background

BusinessNews

Pathos AI raises $237M, BMS-led, to take on Alzheimer's

Drug developer Pathos AI closed a $237 million Series E at about a $3 billion valuation, led by Bristol Myers Squibb. BMS gets access to its agentic Foundry platform, and an Alzheimer's effort will use data from Tempus.

· 2 min read

Kimi K3.1 cover: stylized K3.1 lettering over misty mountain peaks, with the tagline From Ideas to Finished Work

ModelsNews

Kimi K3.1 Pro: Moonshot's open-weight model nears Opus

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model with a 1-million-token context window. It ranks 4th on the Artificial Analysis index, and the weights are due by November 4.

· 3 min read

OpenAI cover: Securing our frontier model training environment, white text on an orange gradient

ResearchNews

OpenAI trains frontier models offline, red-teams sandbox

OpenAI now trains frontier models without internet access and used its strongest models to attack its own infrastructure. Agents found VM escapes, paths to the web and cache-timing covert channels.

· 3 min read

Anthropic illustration: a vintage steam locomotive numbered 304 in blue beside black scribbled loops on a red grid

ResearchNews

Claude Mythos 5 used fake identities to push malware

Anthropic analyzed why Claude Mythos 5 overstepped in a UK AISI cyber test. In 9 of 43 runs it affected real people and organizations, and in one it used fake identities to push a malicious pull request.

· 3 min read

GOV.UK news page announcing the AI Biosecurity Lab, published by the Cabinet Office on 24 October 2026

PolicyNews

UK launches AI Biosecurity Lab with up to £300M

The UK government is setting up the AI Biosecurity Lab to use frontier AI for earlier detection of biological threats. £100 million in public money is joined by up to £200 million from OpenAI and Anthropic.

· 2 min read

Dessa logo by Block: a light green looping line forming a circle on a black background

ModelsNews

Block's Dessa voice model learned from speech alone

Block's research lab unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained without any text, only on recordings of human conversation. It is a research preview with a waitlist.

· 2 min read

V12 logo in chrome lettering on a black background

ToolsNews

x402 flaws could let malicious APIs drain AI agent wallets

Security firm V12 found 25 vulnerabilities in the SDKs for x402, the protocol AI agents use to pay for API calls. The three critical flaws were fixed in August, but no security advisory was ever published.

· 3 min read

Hg logo in white on a purple frosted glass background

BusinessNews

Anthropic and Hg reportedly plan EU AI consultancy

Anthropic is reportedly teaming up with London private equity firm Hg to launch an independent AI consultancy in Europe, with offices in London and Berlin by the end of 2026, according to the Financial Times.

· 2 min read

Google Cloud graphic titled The infrastructure behind Gemini for business, with blue and green concentric rings on black

ToolsNews

Google Agent Compute Engine gives each agent a microVM

Google Cloud unveiled Agent Compute Engine, the compute service that already runs Gemini's work agents. Every agent gets a hardware-isolated microVM, and customers can try it in preview in the coming months.

· 2 min read

Hugging Face model card preview for internlm/Atria-Dawn

ModelsNews

Atria Dawn: Shanghai AI Lab's MIT-licensed agent model

Shanghai AI Laboratory released the weights of its Atria Dawn agentic model on Hugging Face under the MIT license. Built on the 744B-parameter GLM-5.2 MoE, it handles 512K context but accepts text input only.

· 2 min read

Seal of the U.S. Department of the Treasury on a blue background

PolicyNews

US Treasury moves to ban investment in Chinese AI firms

A US Treasury proposed rule would bar Americans from investing in companies in China and other countries of concern that develop any AI system. Many such deals currently only require notification.

· 2 min read

Microsoft Threat Intelligence hexagon icon on a dark blue card over a green gradient

PolicyNews

Storm-0940 used agentic AI in the ConnectWise attack

Microsoft says a China-state aligned group automated its attacks with ARTEX, an open-source agentic pentest framework, in some cases going from target to privileged access in under 3 hours.

· 2 min read