[10/22 18:00] METR and Redwood Research red-team OpenAI's internal agent monitoring and find ways for agents to evade it / AI stocks drag markets worldwide as the Nasdaq falls more than 2 percent, hit by a chip supply warning and Meta's spending

AI News Flash for October 22, 2026 at 18:00 UTC.

Topics: 1. METR and Redwood Research red-team OpenAI's internal agent monitoring and find ways for agents to evade it https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-safety-group-metr-finds-flaws-openais-internal-monitoring-system-2026-10-22/ 2. AI stocks drag markets worldwide as the Nasdaq falls more than 2 percent, hit by a chip supply warning and Meta's spending https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-rates-earnings-oil-33767691a4a0730b96d6f0c5100ea9b2 3. Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil launches Warp Sciences with 215 million dollars to automate drug development https://za.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/kevin-weil-launches-warp-sciences-with-215m-to-automate-drug-development--bloomberg-93CH-4520375 4. OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia each post record lobbying quarters https://www.theverge.com/policy/1016585/openai-anthropic-nvidia-lobbying-records 5. Google Cloud launches Agent Compute Engine, giving every AI agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/introducing-agent-compute-engine-and-expanded-agent-governance