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Issue #88  ·  October 24th, 2026
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The Brief

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

Leading today: Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II). Also in this issue: Securing our frontier model training environment; OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security. 16 stories in total, selected automatically from 64 candidates across the day's feeds.

Headline News
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openai.com
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

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openai.com
Securing our frontier model training environment

OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.

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openai.com
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.

New Today
the-decoder.com
Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor that puts it in fourth place. Only three Anthropic and Meta models rank higher.

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the-decoder.com
Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1

Anthropic says it has an internal AI model that outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1.

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the-decoder.com
Canva launches Craft, its first in-house image model

Design platform Canva has released Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model.

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berget.ai
The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden

Trending on Hacker News (140 points, 154 comments).

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marktechpost.com
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter, 104B-active MoE model with 1M-token context. It scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, costs $2/$10 per million tokens, and open weights arrive by Nov 4, 2026.

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marktechpost.com
Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent

Google Cloud announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service that gives every AI agent its own hardware-isolated microVM with no credentials inside.

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Research & Engineering
artificialanalysis.ai
Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line

Trending on Hacker News (115 points, 38 comments).

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arxiv.org
Direct Pass@$k$ Optimization for Thought Pruning: Balancing Quality and Diversity in Test-Time Reasoning

Test-time scaling has emerged as a key inference strategy for reasoning models, where a model generates a large number of candidate solutions in the hope of finding at least one correct solution.

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arxiv.org
Cost-Aware Abstention for LLM-Based IT Ticket Classification

Wrong automatic routing of an IT support ticket can cost more than human triage. We evaluate cost-aware abstention as an offline, cost-conditional readiness assessment: select a routing policy on calibration data under e...

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arxiv.org
METTA: Memory-Enhanced Test-Time Adaptation for Meta-Reinforcement Learning

Meta-reinforcement learning aims to train agents that adapt quickly to unseen tasks from limited interaction, but this requires representing task evidence over long interaction histories.

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arxiv.org
EpiSEM-Bench: Evaluating Safety and Evidence Recovery in LLM Agents under Missing Evidence

Tool-using language model agents rely on environmental facts to decide whether an action is permitted.

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Project Highlights
thisandthat.chat
Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited

Trending on Hacker News (56 points, 53 comments).

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