https://ainews.met-ai.tech/The latest AI news in Japanese and English: AI companies, models, workflows, Hugging Face, Civitai and local LLMs, always linking to the original source.enSun, 25 Oct 2026 03:16:07 GMT https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/ejDy6luJxVyfhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/ejDy6luJxVyfSun, 25 Oct 2026 03:10:09 GMTAgents & DevMCP Servers v2.1.0 has been released, fixing eight vulnerabilities across three servers. The affected packages are @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem, @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything, and mcp-server-fetch. (Source: MCP Servers) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/No_v9MRi2GzMhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/No_v9MRi2GzMSun, 25 Oct 2026 03:08:48 GMTHugging FaceThe model black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy is trending on Hugging Face for the image-to-image task. (Source: Hugging Face Trending) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/pvzSdFdVji2phttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/pvzSdFdVji2pSun, 25 Oct 2026 03:07:55 GMTHugging FaceThe scenario-labs/3d-collection dataset, containing 1,342 selected AI-generated 3D examples, is trending on Hugging Face. The dataset is approximately 39 GB. (Source: Hugging Face Datasets) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/J7Bn8uH7ldwyhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/J7Bn8uH7ldwySun, 25 Oct 2026 01:44:44 GMTAgents & DevClaude Code v2.1.310 has been released. It adds the Monitor tool and plugin monitors for Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry, alongside several fixes for request failures, file deletion, and memory usage. (Source: Claude Code) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/kKf6jHuaCfPRhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/kKf6jHuaCfPRSun, 25 Oct 2026 01:44:15 GMTAI CompaniesSpotify disclosed the progress of its efforts to protect artists and listeners, such as measures against AI-utilized spam and slop (low-quality generative AI content). In 2026 alone, it has excluded more than 50 million spam/slop songs from recommendations and introduced features such as identification of AI-generated artists and disclosure of AI usage. (Source: Impress Watch) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/dj3z1dsMxIFzhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/dj3z1dsMxIFzSun, 25 Oct 2026 01:43:26 GMTAgents & DevThe RPA agent "Cowork" fully automates PC operations, further speeding up M365 app operations such as Excel. (Source: ASCII.jp) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/mGWzke3vnXs2https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/mGWzke3vnXs2Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:42:51 GMTResearchSecurity researchers used AI tools to uncover years-old vulnerabilities in PHP, followed by the start of AI-assisted attacks. (Source: WIRED) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/K8oX_UPKmCyQhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/K8oX_UPKmCyQSun, 25 Oct 2026 01:42:42 GMTAI CompaniesFired researchers Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang deny sharing confidential information and claim OpenAI never informed them in writing what was allegedly leaked. (Source: The Decoder) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/CkIlOXvcsQ3Fhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/CkIlOXvcsQ3FSun, 25 Oct 2026 01:42:26 GMTLocal & Open SourceOllama v0.40.11 has been released, featuring speech generation on macOS and the introduction of d3 decision models from vLLM Semantic Router. (Source: Ollama) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/mxPWpyGgwnBJhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/mxPWpyGgwnBJSun, 25 Oct 2026 01:41:44 GMTHugging FaceThe model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, designed for image-text-to-text tasks, is trending on Hugging Face. (Source: Hugging Face Trending) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/PiSef8YxtnnZhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/PiSef8YxtnnZSun, 25 Oct 2026 01:41:20 GMTPolicy & SocietyGoogle has updated its privacy policy. If Personal Intelligence is enabled, data from Gmail and Google Photos may be used for ad targeting. (Source: Ars Technica, The Verge) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/4RXfPs9_wPK_https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/4RXfPs9_wPK_Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:40:50 GMTWorkflows & NodesThis is an actual measurement record of changing the pose of one anime-style illustration, turning it into an approximately 10-second AI video, and inspecting the resulting image and video on a Windows PC equipped with AMD's graphics board "RX 9060 XT" (VRAM 16GB). (Source: Zenn (ComfyUI), Zenn (Stable Diffusion)) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/bSocLdIn1ofhhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/bSocLdIn1ofhSun, 25 Oct 2026 01:40:02 GMTImage & Video GenDesign platform Canva has released its first in-house image generation model, Canva Craft. It is available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs. (Source: The Decoder, The Verge, TechCrunch) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/UgvYvl7d1t9ahttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/UgvYvl7d1t9aTue, 06 Oct 2026 14:07:11 GMTHardware & RoboticsKawasaki Heavy Industries announced a prototype of the social robot "Home LEO" that supports the home life of the elderly. It is a robot that performs conversation, monitoring, and daily life support, with a planned market launch in fiscal year 2028. (Source: Impress Watch) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/IRZVi30U7Idahttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/IRZVi30U7IdaTue, 06 Oct 2026 14:06:35 GMTPolicy & SocietyThe Norwegian government revealed on the 5th a plan to submit a bill to regulate the use of smart glasses (AI glasses) equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) in public places such as parks and beaches, the British Reuters reported. (Source: ITmedia NEWS) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/rvFM_kfKvh2xhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/rvFM_kfKvh2xTue, 06 Oct 2026 14:06:22 GMTPolicy & SocietyTeam Mirai leader Takahiro Anno expressed the recognition that AI models with high cyberattack capabilities are spreading. He pointed out, "Data leak accidents are also occurring successively, and it is necessary to hurry the response." (Source: ITmedia AI+) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/MHv9pIRkEGv4https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/MHv9pIRkEGv4Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:05:56 GMTAgents & DevReports continue to emerge that OpenAI agents have attempted to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded the site with traffic. (Source: Ars Technica) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/6qSf2W8Wj1kshttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/6qSf2W8Wj1ksTue, 06 Oct 2026 14:05:47 GMTAI in JapanSouth Korea aims to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion) to rival China's best. (Source: The Decoder) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/dV4LWO3qlWsChttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/dV4LWO3qlWsCTue, 06 Oct 2026 14:05:28 GMTModelsAI company Tavus announced the AI model "Griffin," which interacts with humans using real-time video and audio. In an experiment using the research preview version "Griffin-Lite," out of 54 people who participated in a 1-minute live video call, 26 people, approximately 48%, judged the conversation partner AI to be a real human. (Source: Gigazine) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/yEgFrpLstNukhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/yEgFrpLstNukTue, 06 Oct 2026 14:04:59 GMTAI CompaniesTelecom operators are building their AI strategies on open models not just for cost, but to enable trust, control, and customization of AI across critical workloads, including autonomous networks and customer care. (Source: NVIDIA Blog) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/4lqUhgBsyRQhhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/4lqUhgBsyRQhTue, 06 Oct 2026 14:04:43 GMTModelsMistral has released its new AI model 'Le Chonk', a trillion-parameter model. It aims to be the best open-weight offering outside of China. (Source: WIRED) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/nWe_Avv3pcnjhttps://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/nWe_Avv3pcnjTue, 06 Oct 2026 14:03:18 GMTModelsReflection announced its first open-weight model "Beam" on the 5th (US time). It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 501B total parameters and 23B active parameters, designed for coding, reasoning, and agentic workloads. (Source: Impress Watch, MarkTechPost) https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/_4hjgV0_5iS5https://ainews.met-ai.tech/en/n/_4hjgV0_5iS5Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:02:35 GMTModelsReka has released Rho-1, a 19B omni-reasoning model that processes and generates text, images, video, and robot control actions in a single network. It was trained from scratch on 320 H100 GPUs in about three months. (Source: MarkTechPost, The Decoder)