PaperByAI Daily AI News — Monday, October 19, 2026
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AI For Everyone

OpenAI Help Center ·
Create and collaborate on slides in ChatGPT
ChatGPT Slides lets people create and refine presentations from a conversation, files or an outline, collaborate with teammates in real time, and present or export their decks.

Windows Experience Blog ·
Meet the new Photos app on Windows 11
The Photos app brings OneDrive-style search, album organization and sharing to Windows 11, while continuing to support photos stored locally or in iCloud.

OpenAI ·
Teaching students to think and learn through questions
OpenAI is bringing its AI for Educators course to Brazilian Portuguese and describes how Study Mode uses questions, hints and checks for understanding to encourage active learning.
AI For Business

OpenAI Help Center ·
Updates to GPT-6 Pro model in ChatGPT
GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT’s chat tab is rolling out faster responses, improved use of plugins and tools, and the ability for multiple agents to work on parts of a task in parallel.

ServiceNow Newsroom ·
ServiceNow advances its operational harness for enterprise AI with AI Passport and expanded governance capabilities
AI Passport gives agents a cryptographically signed credential to verify their authorized scope at runtime. ServiceNow also announced expanded tools for AI discovery, governance and cost-to-value measurement.

AWS Security Blog ·
AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) exploited 33 of 37 new real-world CVEs
AWS says it tested its autonomous penetration-testing agent against 37 real, recently disclosed vulnerabilities in containerized targets; the agent exploited 33 of them.

Intel ·
Announcing Intel® Inference Microservices: Tuned LLM Inference on Intel® Processors
Intel’s containerized microservices serve one language model through an OpenAI-compatible API and select processor-specific settings automatically when they start.

Figma Blog ·
Build by design: New workflows for new ways of building
Figma introduced workflows that bring teams and AI agents into its creative canvas, including code layers and expanded MCP connections across design and development tools.
AI & Investment

Anthropic ·
Investing in the public benefit
Subject to stockholder approval, Anthropic says 5% of its shares will be committed to a new Public Benefit Fund, with the possibility of additional shares as the company grows.

Tenstorrent ·
Tenstorrent Announces a $1.5B Series E at a $6.2B valuation
Tenstorrent says it closed $1.5 billion in Series E funding at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, to fund volume manufacturing and global commercial expansion.
