AI news for Tuesday, October 20, 2026
15 stories
- Claude Opus 5.5 Claude
- LINE Yahoo’s true intent in considering Kakaku.com acquisition AI in Japan
- FSA selects companies for generative AI demonstration project AI in Japan
- Anthropic cloud partnership moves amid uncertainty TechCrunch AI
- Gemini’s personal AI expands to cars Ars Technica AI
- Mistral AI unveils Voxtral 3 with voice agent SDK Other labs’ models
- Salesforce accelerates AI enhancements with Braze acquisition Reuters (AI)
- DeepSeek opens inference tools to boost cost efficiency Open models
- Canada gains cross-region GPT access via Bedrock AWS Machine Learning
- ASI reaches $3B valuation after funding AI funding & deals
- Eka Robotics raises Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz AI funding & deals
- Deploy AI Agent Environment for Government Staff ITmedia AI+
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center Accelerates Regional Innovation NVIDIA
- AI Browser Vulnerabilities and Data Theft Risks ITmedia AI+
- OpenAI to Acquire Orchestra Bio to Expand Drug Discovery OpenAI (official)