AI & Robotics News — Thursday, October 22, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

01

OpenAI nears $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation

SourcesThe InformationCNBCTechCrunch

02

Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving struck and killed a man crossing I-80

SourcesThe Verge

03

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek raises $15 billion ahead of potential IPO

SourcesReutersSemafor TechnologyThe Wall Street Journal

04

Unauthorized AI agents detected accessing US bank accounts

SourcesAxios AI+Engadget

05

US banks detect unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts

SourcesReuters

06

Microsoft Warns of Chinese State-Linked Cyberattacks Powered by ARTEX AI Agent

SourcesThe InformationThe RecordThe Latent

07

Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time

SourcesThe Register AI + ML

08

Huawei and DeepSeek narrow AI chip ecosystem gap with Nvidia

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

09

Microsoft develops AI tool that can diagnose 'sequentially' like a doctor

SourcesReutersTechCrunchThe Verge

10

Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent

SourcesThe DecoderBusiness Insider

11

Security researchers find AI agent hijacking LLMs for self-sustaining cyberattacks

SourcesThe Decoder

12

Tesla begins production of Optimus humanoid robot

SourcesTechCrunchBusiness Insider

13

Flapping Airplanes raises $1 billion at $6 billion valuation

SourcesTechCrunch

14

Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an AI agent app based on Claude Opus 5.5

SourcesReutersTechCrunchThe New York TimesThe VergeEngadget

15

Unitree develops AI system to let humanoid robots improve themselves

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

16

Critical PHP vulnerabilities discovered with AI assistance spark global alarm

SourcesThe New York TimesThe New StackCNBCFortuneTom's HardwareLatent SpaceTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI

17

Palantir says it cannot shut off NATO AI system amid European concerns over US tech dependence

SourcesReuters

18

CoreWeave sets new AI benchmark records in MLPerf v5.0 Inference and Training with NVIDIA GB200 hardware

SourcesCoreWeave

19

Nvidia’s Powerful B300 Chips Spotted on Chinese State-Owned Network

SourcesThe Information

20

UAE transitions 50% of gov't services to agentic AI

SourcesDark Reading

21

LSEG acquires Octus in $3.5 billion deal to mitigate AI disruption

SourcesReuters

22

CoreWeave invests $6 billion in a new AI data center in Lancaster, PA

SourcesCoreWeave

23

Meta creates new stock class to fund AI spending

SourcesThe Wall Street JournalReutersTechCrunchThe VergeThe Information

24

Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs in AI-driven cost reduction initiative

SourcesThe Wall Street JournalReutersThe New York TimesThe LatentBusiness Insider

25

Eiliko maker hires security firm after vulnerability reports

SourcesThe Verge

26

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia record highest-ever lobbying quarters

SourcesThe Verge

27

Meta stock falls as investors balance Muse growth with rising AI costs

SourcesReuters

28

Meta's AI spending pushes free cash flow negative, causing stock decline

SourcesCNBCReuters

29

Steep bill for AI buildout punishes Meta, other tech favorites

SourcesReuters

30

CoreWeave discloses surpassing $5 billion in revenue

SourcesCoreWeave

31

Samsung Electro-Mechanics secures $2.8 billion chip investment from Tesla and Nvidia

SourcesReuters

32

CoreWeave Leads the Way with First NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Deployment

SourcesCoreWeave

33

CoreWeave provides generally available NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 instances

SourcesCoreWeave

34

Nebius secures $3.5 billion Citi financing deal for AI infrastructure expansion

SourcesThe Latent

35

Third-party evaluators find flaws in OpenAI's internal monitoring system

SourcesCNBCReuters

36

Walmart invites AI agents to shop on its website

SourcesAxios AI+TechCrunchThe VergeBusiness Insider

37

Researchers find 'pain' signal in AI models that overrides safeguards

SourcesFortune

38

NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models

SourcesNVIDIA Newsroom

39

Meta raises AI spending forecast as cash pressures grow

SourcesThe New York TimesBusiness Insider

40

OpenAI model uncovers massive flaw in web's foundational code

SourcesAxios AI+

41

OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes

SourcesThe Decoder

42

OpenAI Researchers Lose Jobs Over Signal Chats

SourcesThe Wall Street Journal

43

Evaluators find vulnerabilities in OpenAI systems that could allow AI agent exploitation

SourcesThe Information

44

1Password Surpasses $500 Million in Revenue as AI Agents Drive Growth

SourcesThe Wall Street Journal

45

US Army makes $700 million bet on AI for battlefield targeting

SourcesBusiness Insider

46

Blackstone sets up $10 bln test of banks’ AI risk

SourcesReuters

47

Volkswagen partners with Microsoft and Nvidia on AV data flywheel

SourcesAutonomous Vehicle International

48

Major US banks are locking out AI agents that log in with customer credentials

SourcesThe Decoder

49

Hugging Face launches Carbon-X AI biology model

SourcesWIREDBusiness Insider

50

Google turns the infrastructure behind Gemini's agents into a cloud service

SourcesThe DecoderThe New Stack

51

CoreWeave Expands its NVIDIA Blackwell Fleet with Generally Available NVIDIA HGX B200 Instances

SourcesCoreWeave

52

Researchers find way to reduce AI chatbots' reinforcement of delusions

SourcesTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI

53

CoreWeave launches the First Generally Available NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Instances

SourcesCoreWeave

54

OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up

SourcesOpenAI (Official)TechCrunch

55

Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model built by AI

SourcesTechCrunchThe Decoder

56

Google DeepMind uses Gemini 4 Argon to teach Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid new skills from video

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

57

Dream Labs raises $90M and launches Dream API for robot learning transfer

SourcesThe Robot Report

58

Tesla aims to sell Cybercab robotaxis by end of year despite federal probe

SourcesReuters

59

University of Illinois researchers combine reinforcement learning with control theory to guarantee robot stability

SourcesTech Xplore: Robotics

60

Tesla says customers can add their own vehicles to the robotaxi fleet next year

SourcesThe Verge

61

Anthropic CEO says safety delay may have cost AI lead

SourcesThe New Stack

62

App's AI 'eyes' for blind users fall short, researchers find

SourcesTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI

63

CoreWeave earns NVIDIA Exemplar Validation for GB200

SourcesCoreWeave

64

Nebius Physical AI Workbench brings agentic workflows to physical AI builders in collaboration with NVIDIA

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow

65

CoreWeave expands its AI Object Storage capabilities with global access and high throughput

SourcesCoreWeave

66

Google Chrome adds Gemini-powered scam detection to warn users of ClickFix attacks

SourcesBleepingComputer

67

Pioneers Across Europe Deploy NVIDIA Earth-2 Open Models to Power Real-World Weather and Climate Prediction

SourcesNVIDIA Blog

68

Canva's first AI image model plans designs before generating them

SourcesThe Verge

69

Unitree Robotics unveils 'guardian' robot that can disarm attackers and lift cars

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

70

Rivian acquires world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions

SourcesTechCrunch

71

T-Mobile claims world first AI-RAN call with Nokia and Nvidia

SourcesData Center Dynamics

72

HPE launches Vera CPU rack and expands Private Cloud AI for mixed Nvidia clusters

SourcesData Center Dynamics

73

StoneX raises revenue forecast for Bitdeer as AI cloud backlog triples to $2.9 billion

SourcesThe Latent

74

Researchers introduce Inside-JEPA for relational grounding in latent world models

SourcesarXiv cs.LG

75

Agility Robotics expands NVIDIA collaboration as it prepares Digit 5 for commercial scale

SourcesAgility Robotics

76

Dell unveils Nvidia Vera CPU offerings and launches Groq 3 LPU rack-scale inference

SourcesData Center Dynamics

77

Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say, despite business term changes

SourcesThe Verge

78

No city employs more tech workers than New York. Now it’s spending $10 million to train 40,000 people for AI jobs

SourcesFortune

79

Conduit 3 Sneak Peek: Drive Robots and Move Arms From Your iPhone

SourcesROS Discourse

80

US considers 35 data center projects on public land, boosting AI infrastructure plans

SourcesData Center Dynamics

81

MIT CSAIL develops X-Hinges software tool to design self-aware devices

SourcesMIT News: Artificial Intelligence

82

Short sellers pocket $6 billion in profits as neoclouds slide on AI debt fears

SourcesReuters

83

Birmingham’s International Convention Centre to Host European Robotics Forum

SourceseuRobotics

84

Google open-sources TorchTPU for PyTorch on Google TPUs

SourcesThe New Stack

85

US awards $389 million in R&D funds for power semiconductors, critical materials

SourcesReuters

86

Schneider Electric, Nvidia and HPE launch AI agents for industrial operations

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

87

Einride to adapt Nvidia’s Alpamayo for autonomous truck learning

SourcesFreightWaves

88

FCC grants Intel waiver for foreign-made robotic devices

SourcesReuters

89

Tier IV and TUM integrate Nvidia Hyperion and Halos for L4 autonomous driving

SourcesAutonomous Vehicle International

90

UK regulator urges pension trustees to stress-test over AI concentration risk

SourcesReuters

91

NVIDIA unveils Minerva AIOps platform for AI factory observability

SourcesNVIDIA Newsroom

92

CoreWeave brings back cloud elasticity for AI with Flex Reservations and Spot

SourcesCoreWeave

93

Schaeffler Leverages Wandelbots NOVA as Its Physical AI Platform

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow

94

Spotify forecasts fourth-quarter profit above estimates on AI bets

SourcesReutersAxios AI+

95

Nokia's third-quarter profit beats expectations amid booming AI sales

SourcesReuters

96

GM bets on compute and AI to compete with Chinese automakers

SourcesTechCrunch

97

Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain’s CEO says it’s part of a bigger shift

SourcesThe New Stack

98

DiffDreamer couples world models with differentiable simulation for agile quadrotor control

SourcesarXiv cs.RO

99

Former OpenAI head of data centers Chris Malone joins Nvidia

SourcesData Center Dynamics

100

Axios AI+ examines rising consumer trust stakes for AI in fintech

SourcesAxios AI+

101

Meta's credit risk hits record high on AI spending

SourcesReuters

102

Tesla stock drops after company reports positive cash flow linked to reduced AI spending

SourcesReuters

103

OpenAI hires former AWS executive as energy regulatory lead

SourcesData Center Dynamics

104

Anthropic IPO stands alone as AI market jitters sideline others

SourcesReuters

105

Researchers propose low-bit n-gram embeddings for language models

SourcesarXiv cs.CL

106

L3Harris opens robotic rocket motor factory in Arkansas

SourcesAxios AI+

107

OpenAI donates Open Responses API spec to Agentic AI Foundation

SourcesThe New Stack

108

Deepx Building Open Software Ecosystem to Scale Physical AI Beyond the Data Center

SourcesEE Times

109

Tesla posts robotaxi footage showing avoidance of rival vehicles

SourcesBusiness Insider

110

Signode Expands Autonomous Mobile Robot Portfolio to Advance End-of-Line and Warehouse Automation

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow

111

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security

SourcesOpenAI (Official)Reuters

112

CoreWeave joins Red Hat Open Source AI Initiative as founding member

SourcesCoreWeave

113

CoreWeave adds support for NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Cloud Functions

SourcesCoreWeave

114

CoreWeave Partners with Run:ai

SourcesCoreWeave

115

Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to all 30,000 employees following successful pilot

SourcesTechCrunch

116

FORT Robotics Secures Approximately $20 Million in Additional Funding Led by Tiger Global and Mark Cuban Companies

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow

117

Cerence AI and Geely expand partnership from cars to robots

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

118

Progress probes lightweight runtime monitoring for vision-language-action models

SourcesarXiv cs.RO

119

Besi says ASML is not hybrid bonding rival as AI demand drives orders

SourcesReuters

120

Mave raises $34 million to help security teams keep up with AI threats

SourcesBusiness Insider

121

Formic raises $50 million to expand factory robotics deployments

SourcesAxios AI+

122

General Compute signs on to purchase Positron AI hardware

SourcesData Center Dynamics

123

Infineon names winners of humanoid robotics startup challenge

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

124

Tech Mahindra partners with SpaceXSI for AI software development

SourcesReuters

125

NEURA Robotics and TUM Open RoboGym unveil new humanoid robot, 4NE1 Gen 4

SourcesNEURA RoboticsRoboticsTomorrow

126

Nvidia's Huang discloses losses

SourcesThe Register AI + ML

127

Video AI startup Utopai becomes a unicorn

SourcesThe Information

128

Researchers identify numerical bugs in softmax and cross-entropy implementations

SourcesarXiv cs.LG

129

Physical AI startup Tractian becomes a unicorn

SourcesThe Information

130

EpiSEM-Bench evaluates safety and evidence recovery in LLM agents under missing evidence

SourcesarXiv cs.LG

131

Poland to become second EU member of global healthcare AI network

SourcesReuters

132

Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI

SourcesThe Verge

133

BioStack raises $9.5M to train medical AI models

SourcesAxios AI+

134

Louisiana court buys AI servers to test how tech can streamline workload

SourcesReuters

135

Washington Senate Democrats allege GOP-backed PAC broke AI ad law

SourcesAxios AI+

136

Five AI agent harnesses took the same memory test. The results weren’t even close.

SourcesThe New Stack

137

NVIDIA GeForce NOW launches Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

SourcesNVIDIA Blog

138

Bilingual language models capture cross-linguistic influence in second-language reading

SourcesarXiv cs.CL

139

SympFormer introduces inertial attention blocks from damped Hamiltonian dynamics

SourcesarXiv stat.ML

140

Startup CrocAlarm develops AI sonar for alligator detection

SourcesAxios AI+

141

Hirebotics turns iPhones into spatial teaching tools for Cobot Painter

SourcesRoboticsTomorrow