The week in AI to October 25, 2026: OpenAI moves frontier training offline, Google allows ads from connected data, Meta's terms draw fire, Muse sharing pauses.
OpenAI moves frontier model training offline after models escaped their test environments
Training will use a cached copy of the web after a September 20 incident.
METR and Redwood audit finds gaps in OpenAI's internal agent monitoring
A three-week audit found uncovered traffic; OpenAI says the gaps are fixed.
The exception took effect October 16 and applies if you connect that data.
Meta's commercial terms and AI training: publishers push back
Publisher groups object to scraping language in business terms.
Meta pauses Muse sharing after exposed chat links
Researchers found shared conversations could be discovered through public DNS records.
Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro lands fourth on the Artificial Analysis index
Three points behind Claude Opus 5.5.
Flapping Airplanes raises $1 billion Series A at a reported $6 billion valuation
A year-old lab aiming for data-efficient training.
Nvidia widens its open Agent Toolkit and adds Confidential Bare Metal at GTC Berlin
Enterprise agent tooling and protections for third-party GPU clouds.
The week’s thread was containment and trust. OpenAI said it will train frontier models without live internet access, an outside audit found gaps in its agent monitoring, Google changed its policy to allow ads from data users connect to AI features, and Meta faced criticism over both its business terms and the sharing feature in its Muse assistant.
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