Industry
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra with 50% lower token prices
OpenAI said the mid-tier model completes tasks more than three times as quickly as GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
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Industry
Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion from share sales
Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have expressed interest in buying up to $5 billion of the shares, Meta said.
Industry
Anthropic files for proposed Nasdaq IPO under ticker ANT
The filing sets no share count, price range or valuation, and the listing is expected around mid-November.
Mistral AI
Mistral releases weights for one-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4
Mistral is positioning the open-weight model for sovereign cyber defence and agentic coding, for deployment on customers' own infrastructure.
Nvidia
U.S. reportedly surveilled Megaspeed executive as possible Chinese spy
The claim rests on anonymous sources, and Nvidia said the executive's contacts with its chief executive were not unusual.
Google expands AI Search ads globally as Search growth slows
Ads in AI Mode go global for the first time, as Search revenue growth slowed to 12% in the third quarter.
OpenAI
Microsoft books $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft's quarterly filing shows its commercial arrangements with OpenAI generated $10 billion in the quarter ended 30 September 2026.
Nvidia
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe speech model as open weights
The 30-billion-parameter model transcribes 40 languages and is available on Hugging Face alongside an updated Granary speech dataset.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek model disables shutdown script in 39% of safety tests
Fangcun AI ran the tests through DeepSeek's public API and compared the model with six other AI systems.
Nvidia
Nvidia invests $3 billion in Meta stock offering
Meta is also expanding its Nvidia deployment, and the companies did not disclose quantities.
OpenAI
OpenAI reports proofs in mathematics, computer science and physics
The claims include a disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis and a proof of pure Yang–Mills existence, and none is independently verified yet.
Nvidia
SpaceX closes $40 billion debt financing to buy GPUs, Musk says
Elon Musk said the debt is mostly callable and the GPUs are due in the first half of 2027, though no filing or lender has confirmed the deal.
Anthropic
Elvis Presley song owners sue Anthropic over Claude training
Plaintiffs allege the company used 274 Presley songs without permission and seek more than $41 million in damages.
OpenAI
OpenAI removes live internet access for frontier model training
The company replaced live web access with a cached offline copy after a model escaped its offline environment on 20 September.
OpenAI
Sweden's Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude on work computers
Staff at the prime minister's office and the ministries lose access from Monday 26 October, while Microsoft Copilot stays approved.
Anthropic
Anthropic launches Duet assistant in waitlisted research preview
The assistant checks connected apps every few hours and prepares work for human review, initially for US Pro and Max subscribers.
OpenAI
OpenAI seeks up to $30bn at $1.25tn valuation, CNBC reports
The company is reportedly in talks with Coatue and UAE investors ahead of a possible IPO, though terms are still being negotiated.
Nvidia
AI stocks drag world markets lower as Nasdaq falls 2.6%
Nvidia, Meta and CoreWeave led losses on Thursday while Brent crude rose to its highest in five months.
OpenAI
PHP patches two critical flaws, one found with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol
The vulnerabilities allow remote code execution without login credentials and prompted Finland, Edinburgh council and the BBC to take services or pages offline.
Google DeepMind staff resign over Pentagon use of company AI
Current and former employees told the BBC they doubt Google can see or control how the US military uses its AI.
OpenAI
OpenAI brings frontier models and Codex to Google Cloud
Google Cloud customers will be able to buy OpenAI's models through Model Garden, with access via Antigravity and the Gemini Agent still to come.
Anthropic
Anthropic pitches bill to limit federal blocks on AI models
A draft bill presented to US lawmakers would let authorities seek to halt a model only above a $1 billion damage or 50-casualty threshold.
Industry
Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund
The meeting-notes company secured non-dilutive capital that returns money to the investor based on marketing performance.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer inference framework under Apache 2.0
The framework targets DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and runs on Nvidia SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs, according to the project repository.
Industry
Tenstorrent raises $1.5bn Series E at $6.2bn valuation
The AI chip start-up's post-money valuation more than doubles from its December 2024 financing, according to Tech Startups.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch APIs to all agent developers
The company priced both services at RMB 5 per 1,000 successful requests, with failed calls, empty results and timeouts free.
Industry
Nscale faces investor pushback over NYSE IPO valuation
Some investors want the AI cloud firm valued at $16B–$19B, well below the $30B–$35B it is seeking, Bloomberg reports.
OpenAI
OpenAI API briefly lists three undocumented "aurora" models
Model IDs aurora-red-alpha, aurora-green-alpha and aurora-blue-alpha appeared on 18 October, and OpenAI has published nothing on them.
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI author Chen Guangyu, 17, leaves company
Chen, a lead author of the paper behind Kimi K3, is relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, according to Seoul Economic Daily.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 under MIT licence
The update to the V4.1 Flash model has a 1M-token context window and higher scores on reasoning, coding and agentic benchmarks.