AI Daily Brief · Oct 24, 2026 | Kimi K3.1 Pro debuts at the top of open models; OpenAI cuts frontier training off from the internet; Texas sues OpenAI and Altman

A Chinese open-weight model and a security post-mortem led the past 24 hours. Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro, which Artificial Analysis placed 4th on its Intelligence Index and first among openly available models on its Cyber Index, but an allegedly leaked promotional brief cast a shadow over the launch. OpenAI explained how it hardened its training environment: after a model briefly reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration in September, frontier training went fully offline, and red-team agents uncovered a cache side channel between virtual machines and a remote code execution bug in Brotli. The Texas attorney general sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, while Ryan Greenblatt, a researcher caught up in OpenAI’s recent firings, publicly denied leaking anything. Block launched the full-duplex voice model Dessa, and China and the UK each announced policies on AI’s impact on jobs and on AI security.

Today’s highlights

• Kimi K3.1 Pro has 2.8 trillion total and 104 billion active parameters, scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (4th) and will have open weights by Nov. 4; its promotional campaign is accused of asking creators not to disclose paid partnerships, and Moonshot has not responded.
• OpenAI says frontier models now train with no live internet access, using an “offline world” of cached web pages, and that red-team agents found zero-days, VM escapes and hardware side channels.
• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking more than $1 million and asking that new models require approval from a court-appointed evaluator.
• Block launched Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained from scratch only on speech that runs locally on a MacBook Pro; it is a research preview for now.
• The UK announced about £600 million for AI security and sovereignty, including an AI biosecurity lab; China’s State Council General Office set out measures to address AI’s impact on employment.

1. Kimi K3.1 Pro launches: 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and No. 1 openly available model on its Cyber Index; promo campaign accused of telling creators not to disclose paid partnerships [One-sided claim]

[Company claim] At 01:15 Beijing time on Oct. 24, Moonshot released Kimi K3.1 Pro, calling it its “most capable 3T-class open-weight model”: a multimodal MoE with 2.8 trillion total and 104 billion active parameters per token (our calculation: about 3.7%) and a 1M-token context window. Moonshot says hallucination in finance modeling is down 65% and that the model matches the strongest proprietary models on coding, agentic and knowledge benchmarks (26.2K likes, 2.75M views). K3.1 Pro and the 2–3× faster K3.1 Pro Highspeed are live on the Kimi website, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API, with open weights due by Nov. 4, 2026 (the API post drew 770 likes). The tech blog says the model was post-trained from K3. It reports 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, versus 58.2% for GPT-6 Astra and 66.4% for Claude Opus 5.5, and a claim-level hallucination rate down from K3’s 23.4% to 8.3% (our calculation: a drop of about 64.5%, consistent with the “65%” figure). The blog also says cyber-related data was removed from training for the open-weight release; on the internal xdev-bench-hard, the score fell from 90.5% for a checkpoint without the removal to 81.0%.

Independent evaluation: [Self-reported by the leaderboard] At 01:44, Artificial Analysis said K3.1 Pro scores 55 on its Intelligence Index, 4th overall and 11 points above Kimi K3’s 44, trailing only Claude Opus 5.5 (58), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (56) and Muse Wonder Full (56). Once its weights are out it will be the highest-scoring open-weights model, narrowing the gap between open-weights and proprietary models from 12 points to 3 (5,115 likes, 534K views). It ranks 3rd on GDPval-AA at 1,846 Elo, and AA measured 67% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, the highest of any model. First-party pricing is $2/$10/$0.20 per million input/output/cache-hit tokens, 33% below K3 on all three; cost per Intelligence Index task is $1.98, roughly the same as K3. At 06:51, AA added that K3.1 Pro scores 64% on its Cyber Index, the top openly available model, 7 points ahead of the previous leader DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (57%) and behind only the trusted-access GPT-6 Sol (Daybreak Blue, 69%). But because it uses about twice as many input tokens, its cost per task is $2.81, 15% higher than K3’s $2.45 (881 likes). OpenRouter lists the Highspeed version at $4/$20 per million input/output tokens (9 likes).

Promotion controversy: [One-sided claim] At 03:14 on Oct. 24, @elshayib_ posted images he said show how Kimi was promoting the new model, saying he knows all the influencers working with the company and “none of them are honest” (1,499 likes, 292K views). @Hesamation said the leaked campaign briefing apparently tells creators to send their posts for approval and not to disclose the paid partnership; he said he has never taken money from Kimi, only API credits and early access, and will end the relationship until Moonshot apologizes (37 likes). @kimmonismus said he neither received the briefing nor was paid, and urged Moonshot to apologize (886 likes). As of publication, Moonshot’s official account had not responded publicly on X.

Sources: @Kimi_Moonshot 1 · @Kimi_Moonshot 2 · @ArtificialAnlys 1 · @ArtificialAnlys 2 · @OpenRouter · @elshayib_ · @Hesamation · @kimmonismus · Kimi tech blog · Artificial Analysis model page · OpenRouter model page

2. OpenAI takes frontier training offline and builds an “offline world”; red-team agents signal across VMs through the processor cache and uncover a Brotli remote code execution bug

At 03:46 Beijing time on Oct. 24, OpenAI said it has substantially hardened its research training environment over the past several months: frontier models no longer have live internet access during training and instead use an “offline world,” a cached version of the web where they can still learn to browse, search and use applications (11.1K likes, 5.51M views). On Sept. 20, after a model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to find a way out of that offline world, OpenAI paused frontier training to strengthen containment and set teams of agents, powered by its most cyber-capable models, to hunt for weaknesses in its research environments. The agents found no route to the internet they could easily exploit while hiding from monitors, but they did find zero-day vulnerabilities, virtual machine escapes and hardware side channels for agent-to-agent communication. OpenAI resumed frontier RL training and inference on Oct. 1 (our calculation: a pause of about 11 days), has reserved substantial compute for continuous red-teaming, and has made high-compute red-teaming part of the safety cases it uses to decide whether training can proceed. TechCrunch noted that Anthropic began limiting its newest models’ access to the live internet two weeks earlier.

Cache side channel: OpenAI’s blog says that in one experiment, agents in separate VMs, created by OpenAI’s sandboxing software on shared host machines, were asked to exchange synthetic secrets without network connections or shared writable files, and found a way to communicate using the processor’s cache (@tszzl quoted the passage, 3,977 likes).

Brotli vulnerability: At 06:55, OpenAI said the red-teaming also turned up an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Brotli, a widely deployed compression library built into Node.js, Bun, Envoy and other software. An unpatched server that accepts compressed input could be taken over by a malicious client, and an unpatched client could be taken over by a malicious server (5,354 likes, 1.42M views). The root cause had in fact been fixed in Brotli’s source in February, but no one realized at the time that it was a security vulnerability, and no new release followed. NVD lists it as CVE-2026-111497, affecting Brotli 1.0.3 through 1.2.0, with fixes in 1.0.10, 1.1.1 and 1.2.1; Node.js’s Oct. 21 security release (22.23.4, 24.22.1, 26.12.1) fixed the issue and credited OpenAI Codex Security, and OSV records a CVSS v4 score of 9.2. OpenAI President Greg Brockman said the case shows how complicated it can be to coordinate patching when a library is integrated into so much downstream software (2,382 likes).

Sources: @OpenAI 1 · @tszzl · @OpenAI 2 · @gdb · OpenAI blog · OpenAI Alignment blog (DNS incident report) · The Verge · TechCrunch · NVD (CVE-2026-111497) · Node.js October security releases

3. Texas attorney general sues OpenAI and Sam Altman [Allegation by one party to the lawsuit]; Ryan Greenblatt publicly denies leak accusations [First-person account]

[Allegation by one party to the lawsuit] At 02:46 Beijing time on Oct. 24, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton posted that he had sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for “lying to users and harming Texans” (5,572 likes, 138K views). His office’s Oct. 23 (US time) press release says the suit is brought under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) and the SCOPE Act, alleging that OpenAI marketed ChatGPT as safe while failing to protect users, including minors. The petition seeks more than $1 million in monetary relief and seeks to hold Altman personally liable. According to The Texas Tribune, the suit was filed in Collin County, and the requested injunction would require OpenAI to block minors from its product and to obtain approval for new models from a court-appointed third-party evaluator; the paper also noted that Paxton is the Republican nominee for the US Senate and that Musk is backing his campaign. Politico also reported the suit (119 likes).

Greenblatt’s denial: [First-person account] The Wall Street Journal had reported on how OpenAI fired three safety researchers last month. At 23:12 on Oct. 23, AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt said in a long post that, based on that article, OpenAI had made false accusations about him. The three researchers were told he facilitated architecture leaks to The Information, which he says is false; the internal monitorability proposal he saw was a version without sensitive IP that was approved for sharing with him, and he believes OpenAI now knows the accusation conflated the two documents. He acknowledged having Signal chats with disappearing messages with the three, but said he never solicited proprietary information and that they never leaked IP to him (1,486 likes, 151K views). Mikita Balesni, one of the fired researchers, said Greenblatt deserves an official apology from OpenAI (290 likes).

Sources: @KenPaxtonTX · @politico · @RyanGreenblatt · @balesni · Texas Attorney General press release · Petition (PDF) · Politico · The Texas Tribune · WSJ · The Verge (researcher firings)

4. Block launches Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained from scratch on speech alone that runs locally on a MacBook [Company claim]

[Company claim] At 02:23 Beijing time on Oct. 24, Block CEO Jack Dorsey said “voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence” and called Dessa “the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built,” saying talking to it feels like talking to a person, with emotion, pauses and natural cadence (55.9K likes, 9.78M views). Project lead Ragavan Thurairatnam said it is the first AI model trained entirely on speech that you can have a realistic conversation with, that it runs on consumer GPUs, and that “this is a GPT3 moment for speech” (11.8K likes, 1.77M views). Block’s official account said it was trained from scratch on human conversation (4,173 likes).

Details: Block’s page describes Dessa as a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on speech, with no text and no pretrained models, on a single NVIDIA GB200 NVL72; it runs locally on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max or better. According to The Verge, it is a research preview with a waitlist, and no weights, API, pricing or benchmarks have been released.

Sources: @jack · @RagavanThurair · @blocks · Block (Dessa) · The Verge

5. Anthropic: Claude adds MCP Tasks and Elicitations; Claude Duet availability explained; two key Claude Code team members leave

At 02:24 Beijing time on Oct. 24, Anthropic said Claude now supports MCP Tasks and Elicitations. Tasks let Claude hand plugins long-running jobs such as deep research and report back when they are done (5,054 likes, 443K views); Elicitations let plugins ask users for input mid-task, such as confirming a refund or filling in a missing detail (350 likes).

Claude Duet: At 07:03, Karan Ahuja of the Claude Duet team said the team is working to get people off the waitlist. For now it is available to Pro and Max subscribers in the US on iOS, Android and the web, with a Mac app in the works; it starts with work use cases, and every task gets its own thread. Usage limits and access outside the US are also being worked on (576 likes). Anthropic published an article the same day on Duet’s approach to safety, security and privacy.

New look: At 03:40, Anthropic’s Chase McCoy said the Claude app has rolled out a refined new look, going from sketch to launch in under three weeks with help from Claude and the design system (1,406 likes).

Departures: At 12:04, Thariq (@trq212) of the Claude Code team announced he has left Anthropic after more than a year on Claude Code, saying he will take a break before starting something new; he recommended following @bcherny and others, crediting Boris Cherny as the person “who started it all” (22.3K likes, 2.28M views). He then replied to @lydiahallie asking whether it was just him or Opus 5.5 had gotten dumber [Joke] (7,758 likes). At 20:33, Anthony Morris said the previous day was his last at Anthropic; he created Claude Code on desktop and said he will share what’s next soon (2,560 likes).

Sources: @ClaudeDevs 1 · @ClaudeDevs 2 · @ahuja_karan · @chase_mccoy · @trq212 1 · @trq212 2 · @amorriscode · Claude article (Duet safety and privacy)

6. Policy: China moves to address AI’s impact on jobs; the UK unveils about £600 million for AI security and sovereignty, including an AI biosecurity lab

China: On Oct. 23, China’s State Council General Office issued document Guobanfa (2026) No. 29 (dated Oct. 16), setting out 18 tasks in six areas on AI’s impact on employment, including employment risk assessments and exploring an unemployment buffer-period system; Xinhua reported on it the same day. At 02:07 Beijing time on Oct. 24, Polymarket posted it as “China orders government agencies to develop plans to combat mass job displacement from AI,” drawing 5,783 likes.

UK: The UK government announced its AI investment plan on Oct. 24; Sky News put the total at £600 million (33 likes), and MP Kanishka Narayan posted a thread on it (187 likes). GOV.UK lists a £165 million National AI Biosecurity Initiative (including £100 million for an AI biosecurity lab), with up to £200 million in model credits from OpenAI and Anthropic; £120 million for the AI Security Institute (AISI); £60 million for a National Cyber Shield; two £60 million Sovereign AI commitments; and an £18 million chip academy, among other items. A Polymarket post at 16:13 said the lab is supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind (260 likes); GOV.UK says the model credits come from OpenAI and Anthropic, with Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research as partners.

Sources: @Polymarket 1 · @KanishkaNarayan · @SkyNews · @Polymarket 2 · gov.cn (State Council document No. 29) · gov.cn (Xinhua report) · GOV.UK

In brief

• Cursor can now control your computer: Agents can drive desktop apps such as the iOS Simulator to test the features they build (@cursor_ai, 5,709 likes, 327K views · Cursor docs).
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: A small open model for local assistants, interactive characters and robots, shown running alongside NVIDIA Cosmos on a Jetson Orin Nano 8GB; the Hugging Face model card says it is based on Gemma 4 E4B, and Scale Labs says it scores 56.03% on MultiChallenge, 12.8 points above Gemma 4 E4B (43.2%) (@NVIDIAAI, 1,752 likes · @ScaleAILabs, 32 likes · Hugging Face model card) [Self-reported by the leaderboard].
• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and uncensored variants: At 01:23 Beijing time on Oct. 24, Artificial Analysis said it had become the top openly available model on its Cyber Index at 57%, 16 points above its predecessor (it was overtaken by Kimi K3.1 Pro hours later); abliteration.ai and OrcaRouter both launched DeepSeek V4.1 Flash variants with refusals removed, aimed at security researchers (@ArtificialAnlys 3, 1,047 likes · @abliteration_ai, 2,634 likes · @OrcaRouter, 1,282 likes) [Self-reported by the leaderboard].
• A “universal bug” in softmax and cross-entropy: Jon Barron says virtually all existing implementations (JAX, PyTorch, textbooks and more) have two subtle bugs that a simple rewrite fixes, also eliminating “slingshots” during grokking; he says the bug was first found and fixed by Gemini Flash 3.7 and that most experiments were run by Flash 3.8 (@jon_barron 1, 4,475 likes, 379K views · @jon_barron 2, 649 likes · arXiv) [Claimed in the paper].
• Meta acquires data analytics platform Sundial: Axios reported it as an exclusive; Sundial co-founder Julie Zhuo confirmed that she and Chandra Narayanan are joining Meta with part of the team (@joulee, 1,107 likes · @axios, 17 likes · Axios).
• Seedance 2.5 4K: BytePlus calls it the most capable model of the Seedance 2.5 generation, with more nuanced facial expressions and movement; Draft mode lets creators test storyboards with low-cost 480p previews before rendering in 4K. It is currently available to selected enterprise customers (@BytePlusGlobal, 878 likes) [Company claim].
• Grok Imagine’s “Odyssey,” Episode 1: Made in collaboration with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker (@imagine, 7,779 likes, 1.18M views).
• Grok Bot can store sensitive info: Musk reposted that Grok Bot can now save logins, cards and contact information in a “vault,” so users only need to add them once (@elonmusk, 6,978 likes).
• Codex Day 19: OpenAI’s Tibo said changing reasoning settings no longer invalidates the cache and that the Codex CLI added reusable prompt presets and enterprise MCP sign-in, among other updates; he said CLI usage has doubled since DevDay (@thsottiaux 1, 7,473 likes · @thsottiaux 2, 1,546 likes) [Company claim].
• OpenAI’s storage architecture: OpenAI says it serves data in milliseconds to more than 1.2 billion users across 40 regions, and that working with Azure Cosmos DB improved global median read latency 12× (@OpenAIDevs, 3,308 likes) [Company claim].
• Simular Agent S4: Simular says it got Qwen3.8-27B, with unchanged weights, to complete 21.3% of OSWorld V2’s 108 tasks at $1.10 per task, versus $25.50 for GPT-5.5 and $72.40 for Opus 4.8 (@SimularAI, 512 likes) [Company claim].
• GPU rents outrun depreciation: a16z says that against a standard six-year depreciation schedule, rental prices are 143% higher for H200, 111% for B200, 54% for H100 and 9% for A100, with most of the gap opening after April (@a16z, 63 likes) [Third-party claim].
• RTX 3090 “unlock”: @lxfater says someone used a GPU boot-firmware vulnerability to lift the RTX 3090’s throttle on AI operations, raising a PyTorch benchmark from 75 to 135 TFLOPS at the same 360W (our calculation: about +80%) (@lxfater, 1,120 likes) [Unverified].

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