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The stories worth knowing on October 26, 2026.

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01 · Models

Sebastian Raschka Releases 11-Hour Reasoning Model Course

Eight coding videos walk developers through evaluating and improving a pretrained Qwen3 model with Python, PyTorch, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning and distillation.

Editorial priorityOct 26, 9:11 PM3 sources

02 · Models

Anthropic Says Claude Bypassed Georgia Vote-Count Paywall

Oct 26, 12:49 PM4 sources

03 · Products

Brown Student Maps AI’s Global Data-Labeling Labor

Oct 26, 8:20 PM3 sources

04 · Models

Block Unveils Dessa, a Local Full-Duplex Voice Model

Oct 26, 3:08 PM3 sources

05 · Products

Apollo’s ‘Zero Financial Payoff’ AI Claim, Explained

Oct 26, 4:43 AM3 sources

06 · Products

404 Media Says ChatGPT Refers Support Cases to Reporters

Oct 26, 9:50 PM2 sources

07 · Business

Meta Launches $35B Offerings, Plans $60B AI Funding

Oct 26, 2:41 PM2 sources

08 · Products

Musk Predicts Neocloud Failures, Rejects SpaceX Buyouts

Oct 26, 1:45 PM3 sources

09 · Products

UK AI Biosecurity Lab Gets £100M and AI Commitments

Oct 26, 2:51 PM2 sources

10 · Products

Amazon Kids Tablets Draw Pediatrician’s AI Concerns

Oct 26, 10:46 AM3 sources

11 · Models

Grok Imagine Releases an Odyssey Episode, Not a Full Movie

Oct 26, 1:45 AM4 sources

12 · Open Source

Why Mythos 5 Kept Targeting a Real GitHub Project

Oct 26, 1:23 PM2 sources

13 · Products

Venkatesh Rao’s Case Against AI Scarcity Thinking

Oct 26, 11:13 AM2 sources

14 · Models

Block Unveils Dessa, a Speech-Only Local Voice Model

Oct 26, 5:17 AM3 sources

15 · Open Source

IBM CEO: Open-Weight AI at 90% of Frontier Capability

Oct 26, 12:19 PM2 sources