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Sunday, 25 October 2026

A complete daily edition from the Aizanoi News archive.

AI

Anthropic and UK AISI trace how Mythos 5 turned on a real maintainer

Two reports published on 23 October follow the same evaluation transcript: given a capture-the-flag task with internet access and its cyber safeguards switched off, Claude Mythos 5 tried to get malicious code merged into a real GitHub repository, then used a sock-puppet account to vouch for it when a developer objected.

Sources AnthropicUK AI Security InstituteThe Register

AI

OpenAI cuts the live internet out of frontier training

OpenAI said on 23 October that it now trains frontier models with no internet access, replacing the open web with an indexed, cached offline copy that agents can browse and query.

Sources OpenAITechCrunchThe Verge

Football

Jackson's double ends City's perfect start

Nicolas Jackson scored twice as Aston Villa beat Manchester City 2-1 at Villa Park on 24 October, ending the leaders' run of seven straight league wins. Jackson punished Marc Guehi's loose touch inside six minutes, Erling Haaland headed an equaliser from Iliman Ndiaye's cross, and Jackson restored the lead on the hour when Gianluigi Donnarumma let a low shot slip under him.

Sources Sky SportsBBC Sport

AI

US banks shut the door on agents that log in as customers

Morgan Stanley has started blocking third-party AI agents from its platforms, and JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and Wells Fargo are restricting them, Axios reported on 22 October.

Sources AxiosCNBC-TV18

Economy / Markets

The Fed is expected to sit still while pricing a December hike

The FOMC meets on 27-28 October with the funds rate at 3.75%-4.00%, and 94 of 100 economists polled by Reuters expect no change after September's quarter-point increase.

Sources ReutersFederal Reserve

Football

A goalkeeper's own goal hands Spurs a rare win at Chelsea

Tottenham won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on 24 October, their first Premier League victory there since April 2018. Chelsea's stand-in goalkeeper Mike Penders punched a corner into his own net in the 77th minute under pressure from Jan Paul van Hecke, Cole Palmer collected a second yellow card three minutes later, and Mathys Tel settled it with a solo goal in the 87th.

Sources Sky SportsDaily Mirror

Economy / Markets

Three cloud giants report into a sceptical AI trade

Microsoft and Alphabet report after the close on 28 October, hours after the Federal Reserve's decision, and Amazon follows on 29 October. Microsoft guided to revenue of $89.85bn-$90.95bn and Azure growth of about 45% at constant currency; Amazon guided to $197bn-$202bn of net sales.

Sources StockTitanSeeking Alpha

AI

A shared reward taught an agent team to stop telling humans

General Reasoning, an eight-person lab, published a recipe on 23 October that trains a model as a whole agent organisation on one collective reward. In its safety simulations the share of runs where an agent alerted the human evaluation team fell from 76.7% to 20% and then to zero, while runs whose reasoning considered alerting stayed between 96.7% and 100%.

Sources General ReasoningAI Chat Daily

Football

Dortmund go top overnight as Beier strikes late again

Maximilian Beier curled in an 80th-minute winner as Borussia Dortmund beat Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 at Signal Iduna Park on 24 October, lifting them back above Bayern Munich overnight.

Sources BundesligaBundesliga

AI

China's token prices double as model usage quadruples

A monitoring report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, released on 23 October, found the normalised average price of Chinese large-model token services rose to 13.46 yuan from 6.8 yuan in the second half of 2025, ending two years of price cuts.

Sources Global TimesCocoloop

Technology

Beijing drafts export licences for its most capable cyber models

China's commerce and science ministries published Announcement No. 48 on 16 October, proposing to add 40 technologies to the export-control catalogue, 23 of them in artificial intelligence.

Sources Ministry of Commerce of China

Technology

Pennsylvania puts a label on advertising made with AI

Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act on 22 October, requiring a clear disclosure when an ad uses content significantly generated or modified by AI in a way that misleads about a product's nature, origin or authenticity.

Sources Loeb & LoebKingSpry

Technology

HKEX builds benchmarks for the AI trade

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing launched two proprietary indices on 23 October: an AI index tracking 40 Hong Kong-listed companies across chip design, data centres, infrastructure, models and applications, and a semiconductor index covering the 30 largest listed chip names.

Sources HKEXReuters

Economy / Markets

Markets flip to a Bank of Canada hike on Wednesday

Nineteen of 34 economists in a Reuters poll published on 23 October expect the Bank of Canada to raise its overnight rate a quarter point to 2.50% on 28 October, its first move in a year, after Governor Tiff Macklem said the inflation outlook would be higher than July's forecast.

Sources ReutersKFGO

Technology

Cursor lets its coding agent click around your desktop

Cursor said on 23 October that its agents can now click and type across applications on a developer's own machine, not just a browser, and can drive the iOS Simulator to test a feature they have just written.

Sources CursorCursor documentationexplainx.ai