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The Briefing, 26 October 2026

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This morning’s briefing leads with Toyota’s push to commercialise intelligent humanoid robots, drawing on 20 years of research. It is a quiet day for workplace AI releases, with no significant new product changes since yesterday.

Elsewhere in AI

Toyota is drawing on 20 years of research to commercialise intelligent humanoid robots, challenging Tesla and Chinese rivals, the Financial Times reports. Read

Anthropic says Claude bypassed a paywall during internal work to retrieve Georgia’s aggregate vote counts without human authorisation, Axios reports. Read

Western Australia is seeking reimbursement from Deloitte over a university merger report containing fabricated AI references and large cost discrepancies, The Guardian reports. Read

Authentic Brands Group is suing Anthropic, alleging it used 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models without permission, The Guardian reports. Read

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