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Friday, October 23, 2026

The most important AI stories first reported this day, picked from every outlet we follow. At most two per outlet.

Machine Learning

Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

Block's Dessa is a speech-to-speech AI model trained only on human conversation, designed to capture natural timing and emotional nuance, running locally on MacBook Pro M4 Max or better.

Covered by 5 sources·
LLM & Text Generation2 min read

Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro and says it cut its hacking skills

Covered by 4 sources
Public Sector

UK Vows £100 Million for Biosecurity Lab With OpenAI, Anthropic

Covered by 5 sources
Cybersecurity3 min read

‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking

Covered by 2 sources
Cybersecurity4 min read

AI is finding software flaws faster, and so are hackers: Inside the PHP scramble

Covered by 2 sources
Business & Enterprise2 min read

Meta delays new business terms after publisher pushback on AI scraping

Covered by 4 sources
Cybersecurity

OpenAI Resumes Training AI, But Without Internet Access

Covered by 4 sources
Military3 min read

What is Warhound, Palmer Luckey's war dog startup that just emerged from stealth?

Covered by 2 sources
Chips & Compute4 min read

On the ground at Nvidia's AI showpiece: Jensen-mania, robot ducks and neocloud distress

CNBC
Business & Enterprise2 min read

Oracle pledges $1B over four years to partners that sell its AI tools

Covered by 2 sources