# AI news, Monday, 26 October 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's AI news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/ai-news/2026-10-26/

## Nanbeige releases open 33B agent model under Apache 2.0

Models. On its own tests the BOSS Zhipin lab's model beats Qwen3.8-27B on most coding and office-task agent benchmarks, with a 512K context. Teams wanting a self-hosted coding agent get a permissive option that runs on 1 GPU at 4-bit.

Source: Nanbeige (Hugging Face), https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B

## Study finds GPT-6.1 Sol picks Democrats and Grok 4.7 Republicans when forced to choose

Communication. Convovo tested nearly 500 US midterm races through the APIs with search on. The models agreed under 10% of the time, and Grok requests carried about 1,240 hidden input tokens, so teams building on these APIs inherit leanings and instructions they cannot see.

Source: Convovo, https://convovo.ai/ballot/

## Sweden's Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from 26 Oct

Policy. Staff are directed to approved tools such as Microsoft Copilot, citing security risks from services without contracts. The Swedish Tax Agency has done the same, a sign that public-sector AI use is moving onto contracted platforms.

Source: Sveriges Radio, https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/chat-gpt-och-claude-forbjuder-regeringskansliet