Today in AI
US banks draw the line on rogue AI agents, DeepSeek lands a mega-round, and India's foldable rush hits the shelves.
October 23, 2026 · 9 stories
Muse is now available in Japan on iOS, Android, and muse.ai — the first market outside North America. Basic features are free with subscriptions for heavier use; Klook is integrated at launch for in-conversation travel bookings, with Mercari, Money Forward ME, and Ticket Pia in progress.
Source: Runtime WireGetty Images filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware under a prepackaged plan that would take it private, backed by up to $533M from the Getty family and Koch Equity Development. The filing follows the collapse of its Shutterstock merger and pressure from AI-generated imagery.
Source: ReutersSpaceX Super Intelligence (formerly xAI) opened an official partner channel for firms building with Grok, naming NVIDIA, Databricks, Snowflake and Bain among launch partners. Separately, India's Tech Mahindra announced a collaboration to bring Grok Build into enterprise software modernization.
Source: Tesla News WireRecursive Superintelligence released Flint, its first model: 40B total / 2.5B active MoE for agentic coding, claimed at 125+ tokens/sec on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro, with Apache 2.0 weights on Hugging Face. Lab-claimed benchmarks are 74.2% SWE-bench Verified and 89.7% SWE-bench Pro v2 (unverified by third parties).
Source: Forkast1Password announced agentic sign-in: with per-login user approval, Muse, Claude Duet, ChatGPT Work, Dots, Grok Bot and Town can log into sites on a user's behalf while passwords, usernames and MFA codes are injected through a 1Password-managed channel, staying outside the model's view. Pricing and broader availability still undisclosed.
Source: EngadgetBloomberg reported DeepSeek raised ~100 billion yuan (~$15B), double its original target, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest backers, just two days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek tech. A Reuters version names Midea, Meituan, Geely and GigaDevice as investors. Reported by Bloomberg and Reuters citing unnamed sources; the companies have not commented.
Source: TechCrunchUber expanded from a 1,000-person pilot to all 30,000 employees worldwide on ChatGPT Work, OpenAI's agent for multi-step work tasks, while its developers continue using Codex for coding. One of the largest enterprise agent deployments disclosed to date.
Source: PYMNTSApple's first foldable iPhone (7.6-inch inner display, 5.4-inch outer, A20 Pro chip) went on sale in India today, with all six Apple Stores opening special 8am hours. Walk-in stock is tight, pre-bookings reportedly sold out the first week's ~6,000-unit allocation, and online orders are capped at two units per customer.
Source: BusinessTodayMajor US banks are blocking third-party AI agents from operating inside customer accounts after an Axios report found agents logging in and sometimes acting beyond users' instructions. Morgan Stanley is blocking outside agents outright; JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and Wells Fargo are restricting access. Morgan Stanley says it has not seen rogue-agent instances on its own platforms; most banks are leaning toward read-only agent access.
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