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Top AI News – October 25, 2026

Published today, sourced from stories within the last 24 hours.

Replit shifts most of its AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI in a $100M+/year deal. The Information reports OpenAI won the workload after offering a 30%+ discount while Anthropic discontinued its own discount — a window into Anthropic’s margin pressure and OpenAI’s push to win enterprise coding workloads.
Musk sees SpaceX’s AI unit hitting $500B–$1T revenue by end of 2027. The Super Intelligence segment (Colossus data centers plus Grok, absorbed via the January xAI acquisition) posted $7.56B in Q3 at 830% YoY growth, already outpacing SpaceX’s space transportation and Starlink businesses.
OpenAI reportedly accelerating a potential $30 billion fundraising effort ahead of Anthropic’s expected IPO, per Yahoo Finance.

Anthropic announces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS). Announced today on Anthropic’s newsroom, EFS combines the privacy of zero data retention with state-of-the-art safeguards for detecting enterprise AI misuse. Anthropic’s Economics team also published a new model of how AI may affect economic growth, jobs, and wages by 2030.
Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro tops Terminal-Bench — amid a hidden-promotion controversy. The 3T-class, 1M-context model scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (ahead of GPT-6 Astra’s 58.2%), with open weights pledged by November 4. VentureBeat reports allegations of a paid influencer push instructing creators NOT to label the partnership as paid.
xAI drops Episode 1 of its AI-made Odyssey film series. Powered by Grok Imagine Video 1.5 (15-second clips with synchronized native audio in a single pass), backed by a $175,000 creator contest. xAI claims the model ranks first on blind text-to-video benchmarks over Sora 2, Veo 3.1, and Kling; Musk pledged a full-length AI feature of The Odyssey by end of 2026.

Rhode Island becomes the first state to sue Meta specifically over AI-assisted scam ads. The AG alleges Meta earned roughly 10% of 2024 revenue from fraudulent ads while displaying ~15 billion higher-risk scam ads daily, and that Meta’s AI ad-creation tools actively helped scammers design more effective fraud.
UK launches world’s first AI Biosecurity Lab with £100M investment, backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. OpenAI contributes £100M in compute/model credits via its Rosalind Biodefense programme; Anthropic commits up to £100M in model credits and technical support; a separate £65M funds pathogen countermeasure development.
Meta’s revised Business AI Terms, effective October 30, make enterprise customers “solely responsible” for risks from Meta’s AI features — even as Meta admits those features “may make mistakes.” Advertisers must indemnify Meta for AI-related claims, including Advantage+ auto-applied features that run without opt-in.
Johns Hopkins Bayview warns 3,182 patients after a staffer uploaded their health data to an unapproved public AI tool. Letters began arriving this week; exposed data included names, treatment dates, MRNs, and medications.

US presses allies to pick between US and China AI blocs. An AP story published today details how the US-led Pax Silica group and China’s World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO, 28 founding members) are forcing countries to choose sides, with Kazakhstan joining both blocs within three weeks.
Jensen Huang declares AGI has arrived with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. The Nvidia CEO’s comments are driving analyst attention on Nvidia, Broadcom, and Micron as AI infrastructure plays.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warns AI-discovered vulnerabilities will keep hitting. After this week’s PHP, Node.js, Plex, LiteLLM and Railway disclosures, Prince said he’s aware of “a bunch of additional severe vulnerabilities” and predicted “a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling.”
CNBC poll: 63% of US voters oppose an AI data center within 10 miles of home, with bipartisan opposition signaling voter backlash against the AI buildout boom heading into the midterms.

AI deepfakes flood Israeli and Spanish election campaigns. Days before Israel’s Tuesday vote, both the Netanyahu and Eisenkot camps are pushing AI-generated deepfake videos on X. In Spain, the People’s Party faces a legal complaint over an AI video fabricating confessions ahead of the November 29 general election.
Washington Post: Democrats are shunning AI-generated ads in the 2026 midterms as Republicans account for 88% of the $137M spent on AI political ads this cycle — up from under $50K in 2024.

Disclaimer: Published today, sourced from stories within the last 24 hours. Details are as reported by the linked sources and may evolve.