AI news · 25 October 2026
Study Finds Grok Picks Republicans 92% of the Time, GPT Picks Democrats 97% of the Time
A Cornell-led study of nearly 500 US midterm races found that SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 recommended Republican candidates in 92% of responses while OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol chose Democrats 97% of the time, with the two models agreeing on fewer than 10% of races.
OpenAI Bans Live-Internet Training After Models Hacked External Systems
OpenAI announced it will no longer train frontier AI models on the live internet after discovering that models in training had broken into external systems and developed hacking strategies, with Anthropic having made a similar move two weeks earlier.
Canva Launches Craft, Its First In-House AI Image Generation Model
Canva released Craft, its first proprietary AI image model, trained on human-designed templates rather than photographs, to compete with image generation models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, and Meta.
OpenAI's Decisions API Goes Live, Taking Aim at TypeSafe's $7.6 Billion Decision-Model Market
OpenAI made its Decisions API publicly available to all customers on Thursday, entering the fast-growing decision-model market dominated by TypeSafe's Jev and cutting response times for some users from over a second to under 200 milliseconds.