Microsoft releases Decision-1, a model that returns probabilities for routing and classification
Available in Microsoft Foundry, it takes typed yes/no, choice and score questions; it joins OpenAI's Decisions API in the fast-decision niche.
Anthropic usage policy will bar sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude from November 12
The policy excludes ordinary frustration, dark fiction and model testing; Claude ending the chat is the main enforcement tool.
Paper finds subliminal learning can pass capabilities and backdoors between models via unrelated data
Owain Evans and co-authors report partial transfer of a backdoor and a hacking propensity through distillation on number sequences; the arXiv preprint is not yet reviewed.
Preprint reports a 71-terahertz vibration in living mitochondria and proposes a quantum light-matter state
The 'mito-polariton' is inferred rather than directly measured; the bioRxiv work is not peer reviewed and needs independent replication.
Life Biosciences reports first-in-human safety data for ER-100 epigenetic reprogramming therapy
Three glaucoma patients tolerated the low dose with no serious adverse events and the dose will escalate; vision signals in two are preliminary.
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 image model with better editing and subject consistency
SafeWorld emerges with $12.2 million to stress-test robots around people in simulation
Reflection AI announces Beam, a 501B open-weight mixture-of-experts model
OpenAI in talks with UAE funds and BlackRock on a $30 billion round, Bloomberg reports
OpenAI publishes 722 math manuscripts produced by an unreleased internal model
Some mathematicians criticize the bulk release's effect on early-career researchers working on the same problems; OpenAI's repository is unchanged.
Anthropic expands Claude Code Projects, which coordinate parallel cloud threads on one goal
Docs describe a coordinator that spawns threads on separate branches that keep running while the user's computer is off; access is a beta for Pro and Max.
FDA approves Teva's Weltruza, a once-monthly subcutaneous olanzapine for schizophrenia
The FDA approval letter is dated October 8; Teva says U.S. availability follows in the coming weeks.
FDA approves tucatinib with trastuzumab and pertuzumab as HER2-positive breast cancer maintenance
In HER2CLIMB-05, median progression-free survival was 24.9 months versus 16.3 with placebo; overall survival data are immature.
Google signs 20-year deal with Constellation for 890 MW of new nuclear capacity on PJM grid
Minerva Humanoids unveils Roger, a VR-piloted humanoid for bomb disposal and offshore energy work
DEEP Robotics tests waterproof DR02 humanoids directing traffic in rainy Hangzhou
Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine for optogenetics
Super Micro-linked contractor pleads guilty to diverting Nvidia AI servers to China
Ting-Wei Sun pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to four counts; prosecutors allege about $2.5 billion in AI hardware was shipped without licenses.
Google Cloud previews Gemini agent coworkers with their own email, calendar and Drive
Announced at Gemini at Work 2026, the agents act under their own Workspace identity; it is a private preview with no pricing or GA date.
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, its fast low-cost model
Aimed at classification, extraction, routing and coding subagents; available in the Claude API, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.