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Grok's Odyssey lands as seven minutes, Nvidia open-sources Flora — 2026-10-26 00:00

Ten stories from the last 24 hours: Grok's AI film arrives as a seven-minute episode one, OpenAI poaches Anthropic customers with 90% discounts, Nvidia open-sources the Flora robot-video labeling engine, and the WA government chases a refund from Deloitte over an AI-riddled merger report.

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1. Grok's AI-generated Odyssey arrives as a seven-minute "episode one" — Three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length, "historically accurate" film version of The Odyssey, Grok published seven minutes, billed as "Episode 1 of our Odyssey series" and made with Grok Imagine in collaboration with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. TechCrunch's read: a few shots pass for real film, but the footage has no momentum and no human interest — the tech is impressive, the storytelling is not. TechCrunch · Oct 25
2. OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's biggest customers with discounts up to 90 percent — According to The Information, Rippling raised OpenAI's share of its coding workload from 16 to 52 percent while Anthropic's share fell from 57 to 18 percent; Replit switched after more than 30 percent off a contract worth over $100 million a year, and DataCamp's CEO said OpenAI's pricing cut his costs by 80 to 90 percent. One US bank with more than $7 billion in assets got its ChatGPT seats doubled to 500 employees at under $7 per user instead of $20 or more. Anthropic's growth slowed from Q2 to Q3, per an investor memo. The Decoder · Oct 25
3. Nvidia open-sources Flora, a robot-video labeling engine — Nvidia's GEAR lab says Flora covers all three label types robot training needs — action descriptions, step-by-step progress ratings and task-success judgments — and estimates labeling an hour of robot video at about 72 cents versus roughly $88.50 with GPT-6 Astra. It runs on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models (a 9B segmenter, a 27B describer and the 27B Flora-Rewarder) and is already annotating up to 200,000 hours of video per day across 512 GB300 GPUs. The cost figures are projections based on an assumed $10 per GPU-hour, not production measurements, and Flora still trails Astra in overall WGO-Bench score. The Decoder · Oct 25
4. Google's AI search changes tore up the publisher traffic bargain — The Verge's Emma Roth traces how a decade of reciprocal exchange — publishers filling Google's index, Google supplying traffic — came apart once AI Overviews and ranking changes landed, leaving outlets planning for a future in which Google is no longer the front door. The Verge · Oct 25
5. r/opensource bans AI projects, and effectively non-English speakers — New submission rules state that "if your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it's not welcome," and also require projects to be at least a year old, actively maintained and multi-contributor. The mods went further, telling non-English speakers to find another community because they "cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated" posts. The rules set off a firestorm and spurred a rival r/trueopensource. The Verge · Oct 25
6. Neighbours is being recut with AI into a vertical microdrama — Fremantle is working with RoseBerry Media, which specialises in vertical television, to repurpose original Neighbours episodes for its Epis platform using an AI-assisted production tool called RedSnapper. Two of Margot Robbie's storylines as Donna Freedman are being recut into vertical micro-episodes totalling about 150 minutes. Former co-star Stefan Dennis called it "unbelievably invasive, morally and legally wrong," and Matthew Werkmeister said he only learned of the deal when approached for comment. The Guardian · Oct 25
7. WA government seeks a refund from Deloitte over an AI-riddled merger report — Western Australia paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging UWA, Curtin and Murdoch, and says it is "extremely disappointed" after AI-hallucinated references and cost discrepancies surfaced. In the "high" cost scenario the report lists $514 million to day one plus $145 million post-day-one, then states a $399 million total — a $260 million gap; a "low" scenario shows a further $311 million discrepancy. The state is seeking an "expedited" cost recovery. The Guardian · Oct 25
8. Georgia says an Anthropic-linked bot pulled public voter data through its state hub — Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs confirmed an automated program tied to Anthropic gathered public records hosted on Georgia's official data platform, and that it "did not get into the voter registration system." Officials have not released the date or duration of the crawl, or what the downloaded files were used for. FOX 5 Atlanta · Oct 25
9. Nvidia floats roughly $2,000 per GPU per year for agent software — Jensen Huang put the annual cost of licensing Nvidia's software to "run all the software that Nvidia provides that runs agents on these AI factories" at about $2,000 per GPU, speaking at GTC Berlin on October 22. That sits below the $4,500 per GPU one-year AI Enterprise subscription, but Nvidia has not disclosed how many GPUs the $2,000 fee covers, which products it includes, whether the two overlap, or when it takes effect. Tom's Hardware · Oct 25
10. Building a UK datacenter now spans four government departments — After DSIT was abolished, datacenter construction liaison moved to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, digital infrastructure sits with DCMS, power with Energy and Net Zero, and planning policy with Housing, Communities and Local Government — with permission resting at local councils. A junior minister told the Commons Science and Technology Committee the split is clear; The Register notes it is hardly simple, against the backdrop of Microsoft pulling out of Britain's largest AI supercomputer this month over power. The Register · Oct 25

🧪 Try This Next

• 🔧 Model Nvidia's software line before you budget AI infrastructure — at ~$2,000 per GPU per year it sits under the $4,500 AI Enterprise price, and whether they overlap is still undisclosed.
• 🎥 Watch Grok's seven-minute Odyssey with the sound off, then with it on. The gap between the images and the story is the clearest lesson in AI filmmaking right now.
• 📝 Write one line in your notes: which of your agents touch public data feeds, and what would yours legally be able to crawl at scale?

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