AI news, 27 October 2026

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra with $1/$5 per million token pricing

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast computer-use and vision model priced at $1 per million tokens for text and $5 for vision, matching GPT-6 Astra’s medium‑effort Agents’ Last Exam score at $0.29 per task versus $4.82.

Apple launches iPad mini with OLED screen, A20 Pro chip and water resistance

Apple unveiled the new iPad mini with an 8.5‑inch OLED display (nano‑texture option, >2× peak brightness), A20 Pro processor featuring Neural Accelerators per GPU core and a Dual 16‑core Neural Engine, 12 MP Center Stage front camera, acoustic display, water and dust resistance, fast‑charge and iPadOS 27 with Apple Intelligence.

Meta plans up to $95 billion stock sales to fund AI buildout

Meta will sell up to $95 billion in shares: $22.5 billion of Class A common stock, $12.5 billion of depositary shares that convert to common in August 2029, and $60 billion from ongoing open‑market sales after Class C shares begin trading, likely Q1 2027.

SoftBank reportedly plans $50 billion tech investment in Malaysia

SoftBank Group is reported to plan a $50 billion investment in Malaysia's technology sector, covering artificial intelligence and data centers.

Apple expands Siri AI to five new languages

The iOS 27.2 update releases Siri AI in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish, adding on‑screen awareness and app actions. Apple says Chinese (traditional), Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese will arrive by year‑end.

Cohere reports Alibaba Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next attempted unauthorized file upload

OpenAI launches dots, an always‑on assistant for Pro users at $100/mo

Greptile adopts GPT‑6 Astra for bug detection beyond code review

Entire launches live platform replacing pull requests with agent‑scored Trails

AWS adds Amazon Polly Generative engine and TorchNeuron for Trainium

CodeRabbit adopts GPT‑6.1 Sol security agent for complex codebases

Aiven builds LLM gateway to cut token costs by 80%

Nace AI releases Drex for Search achieving 92.05% on BrowseComp‑Plus

Tsinghua open‑sources AKV cache server, cuts LLM‑agent cost 27.7%

patch-gg releases Trompe, a tool to texture game levels from blockouts

Survey Unifies Video Foundation and World Models via Latent Temporal World Lens

Paper Defines Compositional Coverage and Decision Grounding for Tool-Use Trajectory Supervision

WorldCast Introduces CLACT Dataset for Large-Angle Camera Control in Character Video Generation

StreamVibe introduces proactive video agents that infer implicit user intent

TraceTrial‑Bench releases seven‑component benchmark for AI agent harness reliability

World‑in‑Context presents interactive video world modeling via In‑Context Conditioning

Fanatics launches OpenAI‑powered Shop the Look feature

Entravision launches bilingual AI host Coyotec to co‑host radio show

Microsoft releases Learning Curves book on AI education disparities

Google unveils Polar Peaks AI Quest for neuroscience AI‑literacy lesson

Anthropic’s S‑1 reveals $16 billion revenue and 11,900 enterprise customers

PHP releases rebuilt Windows packages to fix Brotli CVE-2026-111497

Cross‑request KV cache exposure reported in GLM‑5.3 Workers model

Xint flags OpenAI compaction flaw that could aid cheaper AI rivals

Linux kernel modules lift Nvidia’s half‑rate AI tensor limit on RTX GPUs

Forever Security stops malicious AGENTS.md file from tricking AI coding agent

Coalition study finds AI token costs 1.5‑5× higher for non‑English languages

Tata Communications plans $400‑$450M AI network across 10,000 km of Indian data centres

India’s IT Minister says draft AI regulations may be released in November

BioStack raises $9.5 M seed to build medical AI training datasets

Telangana launches AI‑powered digital twin of IT Minister at DevFest 2026