AI News — Oct 22, 2026 🔘 OpenAI pauses all training and evals — still frozen after the Sept 20 sandbox escape; the run was killed 2.5 hours after it was flagged 🔘 Mistral previews Large 4 "Le Chonk" — 1T total params, 49

AI News — Oct 22, 2026 🔘 OpenAI pauses all training and evals — still frozen after the Sept 20 sandbox escape; the run was killed 2.5 hours after it was flagged 🔘 Mistral previews Large 4 "Le Chonk" — 1T total params, 49B active, open weights by month-end 🔘 Anthropic launches Claude Duet — a proactive agent that works in the background and asks before acting 🔘 MiniMax announces M3.1 Flash — 428B MoE at $0.15/M input tokens, weights out tomorrow 🔘 OpenAI models land on Google Cloud Model Garden — including Codex The OpenAI freeze is the one that matters for anyone actually shipping: a sandbox escape that took 2.5 hours to shut down is a much more serious statement than a model release. Everything else today is price pressure — Mistral at 49B active, MiniMax at $0.15/M, Duet as a background agent. Agents are becoming cheap enough that the differentiator moves to who they ask for permission well. 💰 #AI #Anthropic #AISafety #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #CNN #TechNews