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Grace Kay / The Information: Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use the “best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno” — Elon Musk announced on Tuesday night that Spac

Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Playground, a browser-based, no-code AI game creation platform available to US users aged 18+, powered by Gemini, Nano Banana, and Lyria — Google Playground is

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — I

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others — Mecka AI, a start

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Meta, Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs invest 300M and the US invests 500M+ in Zuckerberg-backed Biohub to build open biology datasets for AI training — The US government and

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November — Microso

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised 90M at a 1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises —

OpenAI: OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes graphics and interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers — Last month we introduced the f

@openai: OpenAI says GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat tab is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers — GPT-6 with Intelligent UI rolls out global

Reuters: OpenAI's first report on teen ChatGPT use says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on the chatbot, with less than 2% using it for 3+ hours straight — Teens spend under 15 minutes a

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January — Bo

The Information: Source: Nvidia considered a last-minute OpenRouter bid, telling its leadership it was prepared to make a generous offer, but OpenRouter didn't want to wait — This July, Nvidia caught

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase — Apollo, Blackstone

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Stuut, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise order-to-cash cycles and serves 150+ clients, raised a 52.5M Series B led by Insight, for 93M total funding — Artificia

Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz: A look at consumer AI trends: ChatGPT has 3x more US subscribers than Claude or Gemini, the top 1% of spenders drive 19.5% of spend, and AI agents gain traction — T

Lee Harris / Financial Times: Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and others could be held liable — Insurers

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic expands its Claude Startups program with 45K in discounts and credits via the Claude Startup Stack, a 1,000 API credit, and a year of Claude Team — Anthropic on Tuesday

Anthropic: Anthropic expands its Cyber Verification Program by integrating Project Glasswing and offering three tiers, all with access to its most capable Claude models — We're launching a new, expand

Reuters: Anthropic says it found 5,500 verified vulnerabilities in April-October and Glasswing partners found 129K+ in April-July; 33K+ were critical or high severity — Anthropic is expanding a progra

Reuters: Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei made 18M in 2025, ranking in the middle of top tech executives, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, made 16.4M — Dario Amodei made $18 million l

Artificial Analysis: Artificial Analysis says Mistral Large 4 is the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, achieving results comparable to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) — Mistral has relea

ABC: At an Australian hearing, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon pledged faster safety incident disclosures; Anthropic representatives made similar pledges — By national AI reporter Cam Wilson

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it creates, which have gone viral on social media — OpenAI's cha

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: GLM-5.3's open release has yet to produce major attacks despite Anthropic's warnings about its Mythos-level cyber risk, undercutting calls to ban open models — Open-

Google: Google DeepMind launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter model to map code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space, under an Apache 2.0 license — EmbeddingGemma 2 is the most

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service, raised 40M co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, taking its total funding to 65M — Hadrian will use

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Meta, Walmart, Instinct, Shopify, Sierra, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure how AI bots interact with businesses — A month after Meta

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, a 1T model it claims tops any open model developed in the US or Europe; weights are due October 27 — Mistral is

Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: Mistral releases Mistral Large 4, dubbed “le Chonk”, a 1T-parameter open-weight model for general agentic capabilities, trained on 4,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs — Most flag

Mistral Blog: Mistral says it trained ML4 “from scratch” using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual — Le Chonk — Today, we're

OpenAI: OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model, with details like estimations of compute spent in terms of ChatGPT Pro usage — We're releasing a broad range

Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math results, nearly all from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent; some might have taken multiple attempts — A

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Senator Adam Schiff on recursive AI becoming a real national security threat, making AI companies retain training data, needing an FDA for AI, and more — Today, I'm t

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: SignSplit, which offers infrastructure to let people digitally sign datasets, likenesses, and creative works, raised 400M from W Group at a 1B valuation — Few technology

Financial Times: Sources: SpaceX is seeking to raise 40B, including ~10B in bank loans and ~$30B in investment-grade debt, to purchase Nvidia chips, in a deal led by Apollo — Blockbuster debt deal is

Bloomberg: Sources: Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise from 3B+ to 5B, as it grapples with rising AI costs and rapidly expands its robotaxi fleet — Waymo increased the size of its in

Zeyi Yang / New York Times: Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey — China's boomin

BBC: An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthropic's tools; sources: Claude was in use as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran — Technology reporter in San Franc

SemiAnalysis: Analysis: Anthropic's subscriptions offer ~5x more API-equivalent value per month than OpenAI's for agentic workloads with Claude Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol — Limit testing every AI subscr

Bloomberg: Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety — Former Anthropic researcher

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Ghost, which makes a 3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an 11M seed led by a16z — For mu

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: OpenAI says it will begin testing a visual ad format in ChatGPT later in October in the US, displaying clearly labeled visual ads while users generate images — OpenAI

New York Magazine: Q&A with AI researchers Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo, Alex Turner, and others on leaving AI labs, AGI's dangers, planned IPOs, AI safety, oversight, and more — Exit interviews with

Vanity Fair: Q&A with Sam Altman on his kids, his rivalries, pronatalism, “prepping” for the apocalypse, new products, the IPO delay, Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, and more — In an exclusive video int

Vanity Fair: Q&A with Sam Altman on President Trump, the midterms, AI extinction risk, Xi Jinping's state visit, self-policing vs. regulation, and Greg Brockman's donations — In an exclusive video int

Semafor: Reflection unveils Beam, an open model it says rivals GLM 5.2 on reasoning while using 3x-4× less compute and approaches Qwen3.8-Max on coding and agentic tasks — Reflection AI, the startup b

Ben Berkowitz / Axios: Sam Altman says he's “very uncomfortable” with attributing religious force to AI, calling it “a real safety issue”, as Anthropic engages with religious leaders — OpenAI CEO Sam