AI helped find the PHP flaws that pushed websites offline
Researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon found two bugs that let a stranger run code on PHP servers; agencies told unpatched sites to go offline.
AI news, 22 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 01:30 UTC, 10 stories
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Meta · AI spendingMeta creates non-voting shares to pay for its AI build-out
Meta will hand every shareholder a new non-voting share for each one they hold, giving it stock to sell for cash while Mark Zuckerberg keeps control.
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Anthropic · agentsAnthropic’s Claude Duet works in your apps while you are away
The new agent app sends a morning brief, watches email, calendars and business tools, and asks before it pays, sends or deletes anything.
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OpenAI · advertisingChatGPT ads reach 89 countries, with AI rewrites on by default
OpenAI added 26 countries and says over 100,000 advertisers have used its ads, and from 29 or 30 October it adapts self-serve ads itself unless you opt out.
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OpenAI · Google CloudOpenAI’s GPT-6 models arrive on Google Cloud
GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna enter Google’s model catalogue in private preview, billed on the customer’s Google Cloud invoice.
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Legora · fundingLegal AI firm Legora raises $550 million at $8.8 billion
The Stockholm start-up, whose AI agents draft and check legal work, says its yearly revenue passed $200 million and in-house legal teams made up over 40 per cent of its new customers last quarter.
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Nvidia · GTC BerlinNvidia packs AI data centres into containers and fences in agents
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia showed factory-built AI data centres that it says can go live at a prepared site in as little as 14 days, plus a blueprint that confines AI agents in hardware.
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Recursive · open modelsRecursive says AI built most of its new laptop coding model
Flint, a free coding model that runs on a laptop, came out of a research system that proposes and runs its own experiments, Recursive says.
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Flapping Airplanes · fundingFlapping Airplanes raises $1 billion to train AI on less data
The year-old San Francisco lab has no product yet; investors put its value at $6 billion, Bloomberg reported, four times its January price.
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Blacksmith · fundingBlacksmith hits $1 billion as AI-written code swamps checks
Sequoia led a $66 million round in the company that runs the automatic checks code must pass before release, two months after it was valued at $550 million.
