24 October 2026 AI Deep Dive

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! AIdea Daily, Saturday 24 October 2026. TOP STORIES Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, which scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis index, behind only Claude Opus 5.5 and two other models. https://the-decoder.com/chinese-ai-model-kimi-k3-1-pro-is-closing-in-on-anthropics-claude-opus-5-5/ Google updated its privacy policy so data from Gmail, Drive and Photos shared with AI search tools may feed personalized ads. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017600/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-policy-ads-update Anthropic and partner Theorem used Claude to generate formal proofs of correctness for existing code in 123 open-source libraries. https://the-decoder.com/anthropics-claude-now-writes-code-and-proves-it-safe-automatically/ Several major US banks are restricting AI agents that access accounts using customers' own login details, Axios reports. https://the-decoder.com/major-us-banks-are-locking-out-ai-agents-that-log-in-with-customer-credentials/ Google announced Agent Compute Engine, a service that runs each AI agent in its own isolated virtual machine, with preview opening in the coming months. https://the-decoder.com/googles-agent-compute-engine-gives-every-gemini-agent-its-own-hardware-isolated-micro-virtual-machine/ ALSO IN THIS EPISODE Securing our frontier model training environment · Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude (unconfirmed) · Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover critical vulnerabilities · Fancy harnesses make coding agents more expensive but not better, study finds · Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1 · Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping · Introducing the Vals Inference Provider Index: does it matter where you run an open-weight model? · John Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain’s security · Experts cast doubt on Anthropic report detailing how AI has altered work at the company · LLMs Are Still Making Election Deepfakes Just Days Before the US Midterms · Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend · Retro gaming is being overrun with AI · Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited (unconfirmed) Today's stories came from The Decoder, Simon Willison, Latent Space, The Verge, Ars Technica, Semafor, OpenAI, TechCrunch, Hacker News, The Guardian, Vals, BBC Technology and Tech Policy Press.