AI News for October 25, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they leaked: Three OpenAI safety researchers fired over alleged leaks deny sharing confidential information.
[NEWS] Chainguard's CEO apologizes for leaking PHP flaws early, says they were already being exploited: Chainguard's CEO published details of the PHP flaws before the coordinated fix was ready, triggering urgent warnings from cyber agencies in Europe, the US, the UK, Australia and Canada.
[RESEARCH] Grok 4.7 picks Republicans 92% of the time, GPT-6.1 Sol picks Democrats 97%: A Convovo study asked SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 and OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol, via their APIs, who to vote for in nearly 500 midterm races.
[NEWS] UK chancellor pledges hundreds of millions for a 'distinctively British' AI push: The UK chancellor will use Wednesday's budget to commit hundreds of millions of pounds to AI.
[NEWS] Pennsylvania signs law requiring labels on AI-generated ads: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act.
[RESEARCH] Study: fancy coding-agent harnesses buy 'mostly tokens', not better results: Shandong University researchers ran five models through Claude Code, OpenCode and the bare-bones mini-SWE-agent while holding each model fixed.
[RESEARCH] OpenMobile-2 open-sources smartphone agents that rival proprietary models: Researchers from Nanjing University, SenseTime and other universities released OpenMobile-2, two smartphone agent models built on Qwen3.5-9B and Qwen3.6-27B.
[RESEARCH] AI makes junior patent attorneys better, but they lose the gains without it: A three-month NBER randomized trial with 133 patent attorneys at 11 US IP firms gave two-thirds of them InFlow, an unreleased Google Labs assistant.
[LEARN] Cerebras explains how it runs 3T-parameter Kimi K3 at 1,000-2,000+ tokens/sec: Cerebras detailed how it splits trillion-parameter models across multiple WSE-3T wafers, each holding only 44 GB of on-chip memory.
[OPINION] Apollo's chief economist: AI has delivered zero payoff outside tech: Apollo's chief economist says revenue per worker and profit margins are rising for the Mag 7 but flat for the S&P 493, with no sign of AI lifting productivity.

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