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Grace Kay / The Information: At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more — Earlier this

Amir Efrati / The Information: Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less” — OpenAI

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues — It's only th

Erin Griffith / New York Times: PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes — As the

Bloomberg: Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as 3.5B in financing, including 2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO — Nscale, a cloud computing firm f

Artificial Analysis: Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index: GPT-6 Astra scored 67, roughly equal to Claude Opus 5, Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.3, but trailing leader Fable 5.1's 70 — Fable 5.1 in Claud

Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes: Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals — Most of

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

Clara Hernanz Lizarraga / Bloomberg: Big Tech companies say a $90B data center buildout in Spain's Aragón, one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs, should be an EU model, as local residents push back — B

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a 65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a 15M Series A led by Benchmark — The popular open sou

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to 350M — Buzzy startup Instinc

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised 200M at a 3.1B valuation, up from 1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., th

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers — OpenAI said on

Financial Times: Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of 278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from 36B this year to $350B in 2030 — AI start-up has projecte

Chris Metinko / Axios: Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a 35M Series A led by CRV — AI agent monitoring platform

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Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes: Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals — Most of

Financial Times: Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads — US businesses far beyond Si

Artificial Analysis: Artificial Analysis launches the Cyber Index Alliance with partners Collinear, IBM, Nvidia, and Vercel to evaluate how AI agents find and fix vulnerabilities — The Artificial Anal

Paul Sawers / The New Stack: OpenAI says Plus and Pro subscribers can use their existing plan allowance with 16 launch partners, including Vercel and Devin, via Sign in with ChatGPT — OpenAI has annou

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents — OpenAI has informed more than 1

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B — Su

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes can

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

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

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

New York Times: Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Polic

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes — Our experiments suggest that