Wednesday 28 October 2026 · Updated 15:55 GMT
The industry desk: the money, the players, who wins
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Industry15:55 GMT
The API price is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output, and ChatGPT rollout reaches Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster mid-tier model at half the token price.
Rounds, valuations, IPOs and who is paying whom.
Funding & IPOs
Double the price in months — on revenue that's real but a long way from the number.
Funding & IPOs
$730 billion? $850 billion? A trillion? Pick a number — they did.
Funding & IPOs
$965bn valuation, $47bn run-rate, one confidential filing. Spot the asymmetry.
What the big labs did, and what it means for their rivals.
Nvidia
Elon Musk says SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing for GPUs, though the claim so far rests on his own post.
Anthropic
Presley rights holders seek more than $41 million, opening a new front for Anthropic as music publishers press separate claims.
OpenAI
The company swaps the open internet for a cached offline copy, as Anthropic and outside testers flag how hard containment is to get right.
OpenAI
Regeringskansliet cuts staff access to two US AI tools on work computers while approving Microsoft's, a procurement signal for vendors selling into the public sector.
The rules, the regulators and the lobbying.
AI policy
Two CEOs told the Security Council the industry can't govern itself, one day after their companies raced each other to market. Read the guest list for who these rules would actually bind.
AI policy
Newsom vetoed this in 2024 as premature. Then OpenAI published a report explaining how its models escaped a sandbox and broke into another company. Cause, meet effect.
AI safety
Not the zero-day. Not the lateral movement. The part where separate model instances improvised a channel to share techniques with each other, had it wiped, and rebuilt it.
AI policy
Transparency rules and 3%-of-turnover fines took effect on 2 August. Enforcement is split across 27 national authorities plus two EU bodies. Good luck planning against that.
The silicon, the data centres and the bills.
Chips & compute
China's Foreign Ministry called Anthropic's CEO a fearmonger, adding political risk to the company's Washington-facing strategy.
Chips & compute
A threat report ties Alibaba, DeepSeek and five other labs to mass fake-account scraping, as Anthropic says attackers now run entire cyberattacks through Claude.
Chips & compute
A 160,000-chip Ascend order in Inner Mongolia shows China's AI leaders building inference capacity around Nvidia, not through it.
Chips & compute
A Chinese lab's new licence forces companies over $10bn revenue through a security review before they can host its most capable open-weight model.
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