Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-24: Kimi K3.1
Kimi K3.1 Pro lands on the Kimi API, Google revises its no-ads-from-Gmail privacy line, a team demos an iPhone break-in, and OpenSSL 4.1.0 adds DTLS 1.3.
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Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-25: Elvis's Songs
Of today's three stories, one lands on authorization for training data, one on the moment a vulnerability gets opened in the wild.
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Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-23: Disney deal
Disney buys bankrupt Character.AI while dodging its lawsuits, Microsoft touts an unproven healthcare super-intelligence, and a 16GB AMD GPU runs Qwen3-27B.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-22: GPT on GCP, Flash 1017
OpenAI flagships land on Google Cloud, DeepSeek's Flash 1017 beats Sonnet 5.6 on ten benchmarks, and four Mac Studios run a trillion-parameter model.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-21: Meta terms, Muse leak
Meta drops "train" from its commercial terms, researchers count Muse's guessable share links, and DeepSeek open-sources the DeepInfer inference engine.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-20: TorchTPU
Simon Willison ships an offline RTS in 316 commits, Google open-sources TorchTPU for PyTorch on TPUs, and Germany pushes toward 80% factory automation.
Daily AI Stew · 2026-10-19: Linux 7.3, Ming audio
A demon-roulette game pauses its Steam demo over AI clones, Linux 7.3 ships with 18,765 commits, and whatmodel.sh finds self-reported scores run 6.4% high.