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OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 October 2026. The model is built for visual reasoning, computer use and writing. It costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, which OpenAI says is 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra. It has a 1,050,000-token context window and 128,000 max output tokens. It is available in the API as gpt-6.1-terra and to Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Salesforce announced on 27 October 2026 new evaluation and cost features for Agent Fabric, its agent control plane. Agent Evals generates tests before deployment and keeps checking agents, LLMs and MCP servers in production, with an Agent Kill Switch for failures. API Evals tests APIs from their specifications. A FinOps Dashboard, Model Wallet and Cost Optimization Policies set hard spending limits. Agent Evals and API Evals enter beta in November 2026 and reach general availability in January 2027.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reported on 27 October 2026 that an unreleased internal Claude model found and chained vulnerabilities in widely used software. The post describes a one-click Chrome remote code execution chain, a Safari same-origin bypass, a Pixel 9 lock screen bypass, a Windows kernel remote denial of service and a zero-click Linux root exploit. Google assigned 62 CVEs fixed in Chrome 156. All issues went through coordinated disclosure.

Anthropic filed a Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on 26 October 2026 for a proposed initial public offering of Class A common stock. It has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. The filing reports revenue of $4.6 billion for 2025 and $16.3 billion for the first six months of 2026, with a net loss of $80.7 billion in that period. Share count and price range are not yet set.

The UK Cabinet Office announced the AI Biosecurity Lab on 24 October 2026, calling it the world's first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation. The government is putting in £100 million. OpenAI commits £100 million in compute and model credits, and Anthropic up to £100 million in model credits, both with trusted model access. Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research join as research partners. The lab will focus first on early detection of biological threats and faster vaccines and treatments.

NVIDIA and Oracle announced on 27 October 2026 that NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and NVIDIA Vera CPUs are now generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and that OCI Superclusters will expand to multi-gigawatt scale. Each NVL72 rack links 72 GPUs over NVLink, and OCI's network scales across hundreds of thousands of GPUs. OpenAI is testing Vera CPUs on OCI and says it is bringing them into production.