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Week 44 · 2026

October 26 – November 1

107 events

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

Interviews about AI use at Proton could affect continued employment

According to an internal email obtained by 404 Media, Proton is preparing interviews about AI use for some employees. They are scheduled to take place from 4 to 11 November, and the assessments may contribute to changes in job roles and decisions about continued employment.

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

IEEE releases a paid AI assistant for searching scientific literature

IEEE has made IEEE Xplore AI Research Suite available as a paid add-on for institutional subscribers. The tool enables conversational search across millions of full-text scientific publications and selected metadata.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Marketing 1 source

Fanatics uses OpenAI technology to recommend complementary apparel

Fanatics uses OpenAI technology in its Shop the Look feature, which helps customers complete an outfit for a game. According to the source article, testing on approximately 30 000 MLB products showed 10 % higher engagement.

Importance: monitoring Local AI 1 source

Study describes deployment of the LLENS platform for AI agents within a closed hospital network

The study authors deployed the LLENS platform within the closed network of Hokkaido University Hospital. It runs on eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs with the Kimi K2.6 model. When working with hospital documents, they measured accuracy of 97.2 % with an interactive approach compared with 81.3 % with fixed retrieval.

Importance: major OpenAI New models update ✓ 4

GPT-6.1 Terra has half the API input and output rates of GPT-6.1 Sol

GPT-6.1 Terra costs 1 USD per million input tokens and 5 USD per million output tokens through the API, half the rates for GPT-6.1 Sol. According to OpenAI, it focuses on office tasks, visual reasoning and automated software operation.

New: GPT-6.1 Sol costs 2 USD per million input tokens.; GPT-6.1 Sol costs 10 USD per million output tokens.; GPT-6.1 Terra has half the input and output token prices of GPT-6.1 Sol.

Importance: important Security ✓ official

New paid Generate Content API projects store requests by default

New projects on the paid tier of Generate Content API now have store=true enabled by default. Storage can be disabled for individual requests or in the logging settings. Existing projects retain their previous settings.