Good morning. Here is what mattered in AI on Monday, October 26, 2026. The day’s lead is a reported price war between OpenAI and Anthropic for enterprise customers, alongside an economist’s argument that AI returns are still concentrated in the biggest technology companies.
Elsewhere, Nvidia’s chief executive floated a per-GPU software fee for running agents, Anthropic’s free OSS Scanner gives open-source maintainers AI-assisted security scans, and Hugging Face released an open model that reads both DNA and text. Our explainers, papers and guides follow the news.