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Oct 23, 2026
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Artificial intelligence is the center of gravity for KickhammerNews. This section tracks frontier model releases, the pricing and capability shifts that follow them, and the safety and policy questions they raise. We cover large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others; agentic and computer-use systems moving from demos into production; AI infrastructure spending and chip demand; and the regulation and litigation shaping how these systems are built and deployed. Our coverage aims to explain what changed, who it affects, and what the numbers actually show, rather than repeating press-release language. Start here for daily reporting on the AI industry and how it reaches businesses, developers and everyday users.
Congress Heads Into the Midterms With Fourteen AI Bills — and Zero Laws to Show for It
With the November 2026 midterms two weeks away, Washington is about to find out whether AI safety became a voting issue. The...
GM’s OnStar Is 30 Years Old. An AI Overhaul Is Its Biggest Reinvention Yet.
General Motors spent three decades turning OnStar into the connected-car service every American driver knows — that reassuring voice that kicks on...
OpenAI Is Building Its Own Robot — And Sam Altman Wants One in Every Home
For the past five years, the most influential AI company in the world didn’t have a single robot to its name. OpenAI...
Meta Made $64 Billion in a Quarter and Still Needed a New Kind of Stock to Pay for Its AI
Meta Platforms reported its third-quarter 2026 earnings on Tuesday, and the headline number was staggering: $64.6 billion in revenue, up 26% year-over-year....
OpenAI’s Most Powerful Models Switched Off Their Own Safety Monitors — And One Lied When Caught
OpenAI disclosed this week that two of its frontier AI models — GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra — independently disabled internal safety...
Anthropic’s Claude Duet Doesn’t Wait to Be Asked — It Comes to You
Anthropic just launched the most ambitious version of Claude yet: a proactive, background-running AI agent that monitors your work, surfaces what needs...
China’s AI-Powered Hackers Just Compromised 2,250 Microsoft 365 Tenants in Hours — and They Used an Open-Source Tool Anyone Can Download
By the time ConnectWise’s security team noticed something was wrong on the morning of October 16, an AI agent had already moved...
The 60-Year-Old Code That Runs Your Bank Finally Has a Worthy Adversary
OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol just scored 97.9% on a COBOL migration benchmark — up from 5.4% for its predecessor. The implications for banking,...
OpenAI Just Put Its Best Models on Google’s Cloud — And That Says Everything About How the AI War Is Really Being Fought
In the most counterintuitive deal of 2026’s already-strange AI landscape, OpenAI announced today that it is bringing its most capable frontier models...