AI News for October 26, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] SpaceX closes $40B debt deal for AI chips as Musk predicts neocloud 'guppy-level death': Elon Musk said SpaceX has closed a $40B debt deal to buy the GPUs behind its AI ambitions.
[NEWS] OpenAI offers discounts up to 90% to poach Anthropic's biggest customers: OpenAI is pulling major customers away from Anthropic with aggressive pricing.
[NEWS] SoftBank's Son plans $50B tech investment in Malaysia: Masayoshi Son has picked locations in Malaysia for $50B in technology investments, the country's prime minister said.
[RESEARCH] Nvidia open-sources Flora, cutting robot video labeling to 72 cents per hour: Nvidia's GEAR lab released Flora, an open data engine that labels robot training video for 72 cents per hour versus $88 with GPT-6 Astra.
[NEWS] Elvis Presley estate sues Anthropic over 274 songs used to train Claude: Authentic Brands Group, which owns Elvis Presley's music and likeness, sued Anthropic on Friday for allegedly using 274 Presley songs to train its models without permission.
[RESEARCH] Jack Clark moves his self-improving AI forecast up to 2027 after TasteVal results: Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark now expects recursive self-improvement, where AI systems develop their own successors, as early as 2027 instead of 2028.
[LEARN] Anthropic says one agent now beats many subagents, releases migration kit: Anthropic recommends that companies consolidate subagents into a single primary agent that loads context on demand.
[NEWS] Fields medalist stops grading homework because students use AI: A UC Berkeley math professor no longer grades homework for correctness after seeing students use AI to consistently get top scores.
[NEWS] Deloitte faces refund demand over AI-hallucinated university merger report: Western Australia's government is seeking expedited cost recovery from Deloitte after its $166,000 feasibility study on merging three universities turned up AI-hallucinated references and arithmetic errors.
[NEWS] Chinese tech giants pay up to 1M yuan for forward-deployed AI engineers: ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba are offering annual packages approaching 1M yuan ($149,739) to hire forward-deployed engineers (FDEs).

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