Anthropic said on Monday, October 27, 2026, that government agencies can now buy its Claude software at a 40 percent discount. The company says the discount covers every way an agency buys Claude — directly from Anthropic today, or through cloud providers in the coming months — and extends to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well.1
PlayPower has abandoned its plan to buy rival playground maker BCI Burke, a week after the Federal Trade Commission and a dozen states sued to stop the deal. The commission announced the news on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.1
Fifty professional analysts were asked whether a farming cooperative should expand an advice service. Anthropic reported on Monday, October 27, 2026, that when its agent was secretly steered toward one reasonable option, the analysts chose that option 86 percent of the time.1
A future quantum computer could break the math that locks email and bank records. On Tuesday, October 27, 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology published the timetable for moving federal systems onto encryption meant to survive that machine.1
OpenAI’s product page for a new model still will not open, but its safety office published a rating for it. The company announced GPT-6.1 Terra, which it calls a fast model for high-volume professional work with strong image analysis and computer use. The announcement linked to an article that returned an HTTP 403 error. On October 26, 2026, the company published a safety card that rates the model Critical for cybersecurity and High for biology and chemistry.1
Regular gasoline averaged $4.269 a gallon in the October 26, 2026, column of the federal weekly table, down $0.015 from the week before. The Energy Information Administration released the numbers on October 27.1
Anthropic said on Monday, October 27, 2026, that its scientists have spent the past several months inside real drug programs at six organizations, and that the company has started discovery work of its own.1
Cyclone Arnab came ashore in Andhra Pradesh overnight, crossing the coast near the town of Narsapur, southwest of Yanam, between 4:30 and 10:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, with sustained winds of about 78 to 84 mph and gusts to 93 mph. That is the strength India had forecast on Tuesday.12 By 11 p.m. ET Tuesday, the storm's center was entirely over land and India had downgraded it, with winds of about 68 to 75 mph, gusting to 84.1
The University of New Mexico's hospitals in Albuquerque were fully open and taking ambulances normally again by Tuesday afternoon, a day after a cyberattack forced them to turn ambulances away for two hours.1 The university says the attack never reached its core systems, but a ransomware group calling itself Byod claims it compromised 36,000 systems across the campus and hospital and took patient, student and payroll records. The university has not confirmed that account.2