OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra launched October 26 at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output, aimed at computer-use agents. Here is what it costs, what it beats and what remains unverified.
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Major U.S. banks are blocking unvetted third-party AI agents from logging into customer accounts, after reports that some agents acted beyond what users requested.
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Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 eligible employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, as it funds heavy AI spending. Decisions are due in early December.
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Ransomware group Emperador says it took 3.9 GB from the Budweiser and Corona maker and wants $1 million in Bitcoin. No breach has been confirmed, and the evidence remains unverified.
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Anthropic's Claude Duet opened as a US-only waitlist preview on October 21. It checks linked work apps every few hours and asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes.
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A suspected North Korea-linked group is scanning about 216 PHP servers for PHP2Shell flaws while Mirai operators make failed exploit attempts. No successful compromise has been confirmed.
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Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok says AI has produced little financial return for most of corporate America, a claim that landed as Wall Street rallied on Anthropic's IPO filing.
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GXO and Agility Robotics expanded their Digit deal to two more US warehouses in North Carolina and Tennessee. Deployments start in early 2027, but pricing and robot counts remain undisclosed.
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Researchers at Enclave showed a patched Microsoft Authenticator flaw on Android let a zero-permission app impersonate Teams and obtain work-account tokens. Update to 6.2606.4246 or later.
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Anthropic's public S-1 shows $16.29 billion in first-half revenue, an $80.7 billion net loss driven by non-cash charges, and a planned Nasdaq listing under ANT.
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Capcom says attackers reached CAPCOM ID accounts tied to Street Fighter and Resident Evil, exposing emails and login metadata. Capcom has warned players to watch for phishing.
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Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion in equity for AI data centers and superintelligence work, with chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom weighing up to $5 billion of it.
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Social Security numbers of school employees and, in some districts, student IDs were exposed in an August intrusion. Here is what Frontline has disclosed and what affected people should do.
October 27, 2026 · 5 min read
OpenAI says its internal models produced three unreviewed results in math, computer science and physics, including a claimed disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis.
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Visa, BILL and Billtrust have launched a live pilot that lets registered AI agents pay buyer-approved supplier invoices with tokenized cards. Liability for mistakes remains unresolved.
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Major U.S. banks are blocking unvetted third-party AI agents from logging into customer accounts, after reports that some agents acted beyond what users requested.
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Anthropic's Claude Duet opened as a US-only waitlist preview on October 21. It checks linked work apps every few hours and asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes.
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GXO and Agility Robotics expanded their Digit deal to two more US warehouses in North Carolina and Tennessee. Deployments start in early 2027, but pricing and robot counts remain undisclosed.
October 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 eligible employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, as it funds heavy AI spending. Decisions are due in early December.
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Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon report this week after the Nasdaq's worst day since June. Their AI capital spending will set the tone for tech stocks heading into the Fed decision.
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Google's revised privacy policy, effective October 16, lets content from Gmail, Drive and Photos help personalize ads when users connect those services to AI features in Search and Gemini.
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Instacart is exploring a sale after preliminary talks with Uber and DoorDash, and its stock jumped 9%. Bloomberg reports Uber has walked away, but no deal has been signed.
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A months-old startup founded by former DOGE staffers says its AI agents reached Anthropic's internal sales, HR and IT systems, while Anthropic says the access was limited and cut off the same day.
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President Trump wants data centers to pay host communities a dividend and make their own power, but no order exists, and a new CNBC poll shows heavy voter opposition.
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Chrome stops trusting an eMudhra root on October 27 after eight weak intermediate CA keys were cracked, and eMudhra is leaving global SSL/TLS. Here is what to check now.
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Anthropic's draft federal AI safety bill would let Washington block a frontier model only for imminent risks above 50 deaths or $1 billion in damage, and critics say that bar is too high.
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Genesys says attackers reached internal learning and CRM systems but not its core cloud platforms. An extortion group now claims a far larger haul than the company has described.
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AI data center tenants are reportedly demanding more than $5 million a day in late-delivery penalties, and insurers are building new delay coverage to absorb the risk.
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A China-linked espionage group exploited a critical BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw for about seven weeks before the October 15 disclosure. Self-hosted customers who have not patched remain exposed.
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Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon report this week after the Nasdaq's worst day since June. Their AI capital spending will set the tone for tech stocks heading into the Fed decision.
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OpenAI is reportedly nearing a $30 billion raise at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, a deal still under negotiation that could set a record for a private company.
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Court filings unsealed this month describe how a Chinese crime group took over logged-in customer-service sessions and issued more than 15,000 gift cards worth over $5 million.
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Nvidia, CoreWeave and AI infrastructure stocks led a sell-off that spread worldwide as Brent crude climbed above $112 a barrel. Here is what drove the drop and why it matters for index fund holders.
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A new extortion group is pressing more than 30 port, shipping and logistics firms, and most named victims have not confirmed a breach. A shared maritime IT vendor may be the link.
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