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OpenAI shows how fast agents can replace classic chat tools across a whole company.

Codex share of OpenAI staff AI output jumps from under 10 to 99.8 percent in ten months.

A working paper by David Holtz, who heads AGIO Economic Research at OpenAI, shows that Codex went from under 10 percent of employees AI-driven output in August 2025 to 99.8 percent by June 2026. Legal and recruiting teams now run nearly all their AI work through the agent as well.

ExecutiveHRSales

Work & CostOctober 27, 2026MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

Open AI models get caught between new US and Chinese export controls.

DeepSeek releases its own inference stack while the US and China tighten rules on open models.

China proposed pre-approval for exporting frontier models, and the US barred DeepSeek from federal procurement. At the same time DeepSeek open-sourced its inference stack DeepInfer, estimated to earn up to 90 percent gross margin on token sales.

ExecutiveSales

Markets & CapitalOctober 27, 2026Nathan Lambert – Interconnects

A patch deadline with a warning label, once attackers get the details hours matter.

Germany's BSI warns of critical flaws in PHP and calls for an immediate security update.

All known PHP versions back to PHP 5 are affected, remote code execution is possible. Developers released patches on October 21 at 4pm German time.

ExecutiveHR

Safety & SecurityOctober 21, 2026BSI

Research spending on pharma and chips pays off more than spending on cars and machinery.

German industry puts only 20 percent of research spending into high tech sectors.

An ifo Institute study covering 18 OECD countries finds Germany's high tech share of industrial research spending fell from 32 percent in 1995 to 20 percent in 2023, while the United States rose from 57 to 68 percent.

Executive

Markets & CapitalOctober 20, 2026ifo Institut

Brussels shows which fixes are enough once a platform breaches the Digital Services Act.

The European Commission has accepted Temu's action plan to remedy its breach of the Digital Services Act.

After a 200 million euro fine in May 2026, Temu submitted five measures to curb the sale of illegal products. An interim assessment covering six months is due by November 30, 2026.

ExecutiveSales

RegulationOctober 26, 2026Europäische Kommission

ECB survey shows loans for euro area firms getting pricier, not scarcer.

ECB SAFE survey shows rising bank interest rates for euro area firms in the third quarter of 2026.

The 40th round of the ECB SAFE survey, covering 12,822 euro area firms, shows a net 46 percent reporting higher bank interest rates, up from 42 percent the previous quarter. Large firms felt it more, at a net 55 percent, than small and medium firms, at 38 percent.

Executive

Markets & CapitalOctober 27, 2026EZB Veröffentlichungen

Why visible AI reasoning steps often do not reveal what the model actually computes.

A study in Nature Machine Intelligence questions whether reasoning models honestly expose their own thought process.

Researchers led by Levy show that the visible intermediate steps of reasoning models such as GPT often do not match the actual internal computation. A review of about 1,000 safety papers found that 25 percent of authors treated these steps as reliable explanations, including in sensitive fields such as clinical diagnosis.

Executive

Models & TechnologyOctober 27, 2026Nature Machine Intelligence

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