Data Centers Raise Texas Pollution. OpenAI Moves into Drug Development. Claude Duet Targets Professionals. Gemini Lands on CarPlay.

The AI news for October 22nd, 2026 Here are the details of the day's selected top stories: Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains Source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1015958/data-center-pollution-rising-report OpenAI acquires the pharma startup Orchestra Bio and goes deeper into drug development. Source: https://the-decoder.de/openai-kauft-pharma-startup-orchestra-bio-und-steigt-tiefer-in-die-medikamentenentwicklung-ein/ Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent Source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1015843/anthropic-claude-duet-ai-agent Conversational Gemini navigation comes to Apple CarPlay Source: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1015281/gemini-ai-apple-carplay-voice-google-maps