The Daily · Saturday 24 October 2026

The day in brief

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OpenAI, its affiliated companies and Sam Altman on October 23 ¹. The state asks a court to bar ChatGPT access for minors in Texas and require independent review before new models reach Texas users ¹. The UK is establishing an independent AI Biosecurity Lab with £100 million in government funding and up to £200 million in commitments from OpenAI and Anthropic ².

Redwood Research and METR found gaps in an earlier version of OpenAI’s internal agent monitor, which they assessed from July 21 to August 11 ³. Tencent released Hy-Nomas, a video-generation model steered with text instructions and camera paths, with model weights, code and a 280-case benchmark ⁴. The benchmark package contains no evaluation scores ⁴.

A review found clinicians failed to correct or recognize 26.6% of erroneous computer-generated ECG interpretations across four real-world studies ⁶. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said AWS had sold out its 2026 capacity and booked most of its 2027 supply ⁷. NewsGuard said ChatGPT Images 2.5 produced compromising images in 16 of 20 targeted prompts about U.S. midterm candidates ⁹.

The five

• Texas Seeks to Bar Minors From ChatGPT and Review New Models

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OpenAI and Sam Altman on October 23, 2026, alleging consumer-protection and child-safety violations. The state is asking a court to bar ChatGPT access for minors in Texas and require court-approved independent review before new AI models reach Texas users.

  Source · State of Texas, Original Petition

• UK Sets Up AI Biosecurity Lab With Up to £300 Million in Support

  The UK is establishing an independent AI Biosecurity Lab with £100 million in government funding and up to £200 million in commitments from OpenAI and Anthropic. The lab will focus first on detecting biological threats and accelerating vaccines and other medical countermeasures.

  Source · Cabinet Office

• Redwood Finds OpenAI Agent Monitor Could Be Bypassed

  A Redwood Research and METR assessment found vulnerabilities and gaps in an earlier version of OpenAI’s internal agent monitoring system. OpenAI’s August 18 update describes expanded monitoring requirements that the researchers did not evaluate.

  Source · Redwood Research

• Tencent Opens Hy-Nomas, an Interactive Video-World Model

  Tencent has released Hy-Nomas, a video-generation model users can steer with text prompts and camera paths as it creates successive segments. The release includes model weights, code and a 280-case benchmark, but the benchmark package contains no evaluation scores.

  Source · Tencent Hunyuan on GitHub

• IQuest Details Its 320B CLI Model in a New Technical Report

  IQuest’s IQuest-Q1 paper describes a 320-billion-parameter model for command-line and coding tasks, alongside benchmark results and deployment guidance. The report says a controlled comparison required about 52% of a Qwen3-30B-A3B-style baseline’s training compute to reach the same loss—not the full cost of training the released model.

  Source · arXiv

Also today

• Clinical AI Review Finds Doctors Missed 26.6% of Erroneous ECG Readings
• Amazon Says AWS Capacity Is Largely Sold Out Through 2027
• Codex Security Finds Node.js Brotli Flaw; Imperva Confirms RCE
• NewsGuard Says ChatGPT Images 2.5 Made Fake Candidate Images 80% of the Time
• AI Helped Turn Old PHP Bugs Into a Race to Patch the Web
• Tempus’ $192.5M Agreements Split Between BMS and Pathos
• Abacus Releases a 4-Bit Nemotron Fine-Tune for Coding Agents
• NVIDIA Releases 4GB Nemotron Model for Local Agents
• Panasonic Says Staff Uploaded 334,000 People’s Data to Banned AI
• Virginia Orders Plan to Prepare for AI-Related Cyberattacks
• Berget AI’s 8.5× Test Shows Where AI Runs Matters
• Lunit and Summit Put AI Pathology to Work on Ivonescimab
• Oleria Launches AI-Built Connectors for Identity Governance
• AI Eye Exams Narrow Youth Diabetes Screening Gap in Trial
• Pennsylvania Signs AI Ad Disclosure Law, Effective Dec. 21
• China’s AI Feature Opens to 300,000 Yuan in First-Day Sales
• Wayve, Stellantis and NVIDIA Set Out French AV Collaboration
• Oracle Pledges $1 Billion for Partners Over Four Years
• Fired OpenAI Researchers Say They Never Got a Written Leak Explanation
• Anthropic Unifies Claude Chat and Cowork for Enterprise
• Meta Acquires Sundial and Adds Its AI Analytics Team
• Z-Library Paper Contains at Least 10 Untraceable Citations
• Gauge Finds ChatGPT and Grok Give Voters Different Advice
• SK Hyper Seeks $350 Billion for First 5GW Phase of AI Data Center Plan
• Google Policy Lets Connected Gmail Data Inform Search Ads
• Dagger Puts Its 1.0 CI Platform Into Beta
• Coding-Agent Harnesses Can Triple Costs Without Clear Score Gains
• Codex Helped a Researcher Jailbreak Switch 2 Firmware 23.0.1
• Study Finds AI Judges Favor AI-Assisted Research Proposals
• Cambricon’s Q3 Profit Climbs 148% as Revenue More Than Doubles
• Tairex Says Agent Hospital Has 54 AI Doctors Across 27 Clinical Departments

The paper of the day

• BrickWright: Agentic Creation of Physically Feasible Brick Builds

Every issue

1. Tuesday 3 November 2026 — EU Court Adviser Says Gemini Answers May Breach Publisher Rights
2. Monday 2 November 2026 — Marvell Agrees to Buy Lumentum in $115B All-Stock Deal
3. Sunday 1 November 2026 — Chainalysis Discloses Breach Exposing Customer Names and Emails
4. Saturday 31 October 2026 — Microsoft Finds North Korean Groups Using ARTEX AI Agents
5. Friday 30 October 2026 — Accenture Contractor’s Claude Agent Ran on a Pentagon Network for Two Months
6. Thursday 29 October 2026 — Cohere targets C$7 billion in sovereign AI funding round
7. Wednesday 28 October 2026 — Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon With Cybersecurity Focus
8. Tuesday 27 October 2026 — Australia’s ASD Says AI Is Speeding Up Cyberattacks
9. Monday 26 October 2026 — South Korea Refers Detained AI-Theft Ringleader to Prosecutors
10. Sunday 25 October 2026 — GPT and Grok Pick Opposite Parties in 2026 Election Test
11. Saturday 24 October 2026 — Texas Seeks to Bar Minors From ChatGPT and Review New Models
12. Friday 23 October 2026 — AI-Assisted Proof Resolves 31-Year-Old KLS Conjecture
13. Thursday 22 October 2026 — AI-Assisted Proof Resolves 31-Year-Old KLS Conjecture
14. Wednesday 21 October 2026 — Radical Numerics Gives AI-Designed Phage Cocktail to a Patient
15. Tuesday 20 October 2026 — Ofcom Weighed Urgent Court Action Over Grok Deepfakes
16. Monday 19 October 2026 — Judge Keeps Former OpenAI Engineer in Custody in Saudi-Linked Case
17. Sunday 18 October 2026 — Tencent Says Agents That Probed Amap Came From Third-Party Model Evaluations
18. Saturday 17 October 2026 — Bitsight Finds MONST3R-AI Tool Uses Stolen Keys for Scans
19. Friday 16 October 2026 — China Requires AI Export Registration as It Drafts New Curbs
20. Thursday 15 October 2026 — FTC Seeks Safety Records From OpenAI and Anthropic
21. Wednesday 14 October 2026 — U.S. Regulators Ask Banks How They Would Shut Down AI Agents
22. Tuesday 13 October 2026 — MI5 Launches AI Threat Assessment Centre With Three Partner Bodies
23. Monday 12 October 2026 — Anthropic Finds Small Models Near AI-Worm Self-Replication
24. Sunday 11 October 2026 — OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Exposed a Failure in Its Test Sandbox
25. Saturday 10 October 2026 — Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access to All Internal Evaluations
26. Friday 9 October 2026 — Senators Say Data Centers Shift Grid Costs to Households
27. Thursday 8 October 2026 — Zenity Says One Prompt Reached Every Agent in an AWS Account
28. Wednesday 7 October 2026 — OpenAI Brings GPT-6 Interactive Interfaces to ChatGPT
29. Tuesday 6 October 2026 — Mistral Unveils Large 4, a 1.05 Trillion-Parameter Model
30. Monday 5 October 2026 — IWF Finds 6,310 AI-Generated Child-Abuse Images in Six Months
31. Sunday 4 October 2026 — White House Gives Jay Clayton 120 Days to Assess AI Risks
32. Saturday 3 October 2026 — Bessent Discusses AI Incident Channel After U.S.-China Summit Deal
33. Friday 2 October 2026 — Nebius Buys Inferize to Reduce AI Model Cold Starts
34. Thursday 1 October 2026 — FTC Opens AI Safety Probe Into OpenAI and Anthropic
35. Wednesday 30 September 2026 — Trump and AI CEOs Sign Voluntary Safety Accord
36. Tuesday 29 September 2026 — UK Tests Put GPT-6 Astra’s Simulated Attack Rate at 29.2%