[10/22 21:00 UTC] OpenAI nears a funding round of up to 30 billion dollars at a 1.25 trillion…

AI News Flash for October 22, 2026 at 21:00 UTC. Topics: 1. OpenAI nears a funding round of up to 30 billion dollars at a 1.25 trillion dollar valuation, led by UAE investors and Coatue https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/openai-funding-round-uae-investors.html 2. Microsoft publishes a Science paper showing its multi-agent diagnostic system far outperforms doctors on hard cases https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1016690/suleyman-microsoft-diagnostic-orchestrator-science-medical-superintelligence 3. A Cygnal poll of nine Senate battleground states finds 76 percent of voters back candidates who support AI guardrails https://www.cygn.al/news/senate-battlegrounds-poll-amid-14-point-shift-toward-democrats-76-of-voters-back-candidates-who-support-ai-guardrails/ 4. Canva releases Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model, trained on human-designed templates https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generation-model/ 5. The University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design and Nvidia release RFD4-Proteina, an open protein design model https://www.genengnews.com/topics/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-uw-institute-for-protein-design-unveil-open-source-protein-design-ai-model/