AI News for October 23, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI nears $30B raise at a $1.25T valuation, led by UAE investors: OpenAI is in the final stages of raising up to $30B at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, in a round led by Coatue and UAE investors.
[NEWS] Hackers exploited PHP2Shell four days before disclosure and are now attacking widely: Amazon says hackers tried to exploit the flaws four days before disclosure, and the bugs are now "broadly exploited in the wild." Anthropic's deputy CISO warned of a coming "vulnerability tsunami" and said defenders need to "hold on for ~18 months." More than 20 cybersecurity incidents have hit in October.
[RESEARCH] Microsoft's MAI-DxO doubles generalist doctors' accuracy on hard cases, Science study finds: Microsoft's MAI-DxO diagnosed 83% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases correctly, vs.
[NEWS] Chinese hackers used AI agents to breach about 2,250 organizations via ConnectWise: China-aligned hackers broke into ConnectWise's cloud backup service and stole application credentials, giving them access to customers' Microsoft-hosted email and files.
[TOOLS] OpenAI's Decisions API, its answer to Jev, is now open to all developers: OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available.
[TOOLS] Canva launches Craft, its first image model, which plans a design before drawing it: Canva released Canva Craft, an in-house image model that works in two stages.
[TOOLS] 1Password lets AI agents sign in for you without ever seeing your password: 1Password launched 1Password for Agents.
[NEWS] AI selloff gives Nasdaq its worst day since June and stalls IPOs: Renewed fears over AI spending sent the Nasdaq 100 down nearly 3% Thursday, its worst day since June.
[NEWS] Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation: Anthropic is handing Agent Skills, its open standard for packaging specialized knowledge and workflows for AI agents, to the Agentic AI Foundation.
[RESEARCH] Google DeepMind maps the world's forest types at 10-meter resolution: Google DeepMind, Google Research, WRI and IIASA released Forest Typology (ForTy) 2020, published in Nature's Scientific Data.

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