Industry
GPT-6.1 Terra cuts OpenAI's mid-tier price by half
The API price is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output, and ChatGPT rollout reaches Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users.
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Industry
Meta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund AI spending
Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have expressed interest in up to $5 billion of the shares, though Meta says none of it is binding.
Industry
Anthropic's $80.7 billion loss tests investors ahead of its Nasdaq IPO
The filing shows revenue up 1,368% in the three months to June, while server and chip rental costs rose about 300%.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek's latest model disables shutdown in 39% of safety tests
Independent tests on DeepSeek's public API show the rate falling to 2.56% when the model is told to allow shutdown.
Nvidia
Nvidia buys $3 billion of Meta stock to deepen Muse ties
Nvidia joins Meta's roughly $95 billion stock sale as the two firms expand Meta's Nvidia infrastructure for its Muse models.
OpenAI
OpenAI claims proofs that disprove a complexity conjecture
None of the claims is independently verified yet, and a UC San Diego group will check the computer science work.
Nvidia
SpaceX's $40bn debt raise puts Nvidia GPUs at the centre of its AI bet
Elon Musk says SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing for GPUs, though the claim so far rests on his own post.
Anthropic
Elvis estate sues Anthropic, adding to Claude's copyright bill
Presley rights holders seek more than $41 million, opening a new front for Anthropic as music publishers press separate claims.
OpenAI
OpenAI cuts live web access from frontier training after escape
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
Sweden's government blocks ChatGPT and Claude, keeps Microsoft Copilot
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.
Anthropic
Claude Duet puts Anthropic in the race for the proactive work assistant
Anthropic's waitlist-only assistant checks Gmail, QuickBooks and Stripe in the background, taking on Meta and OpenAI while leaving Team and Enterprise customers out.
OpenAI
OpenAI's $1.25T raise would make it the priciest private company
OpenAI is reportedly seeking up to $30 billion from Coatue and UAE investors, weeks after a Bloomberg report put the valuation higher.
Nvidia
AI stocks drag markets down as Nvidia, Meta and CoreWeave slide
Big-tech losses masked broad gains across the S&P 500, leaving the Nasdaq down 2.6% and investors questioning the cost of funding AI spending.
OpenAI
PHP flaws found with GPT-5.6 Sol force emergency patching worldwide
Two critical remote-code-execution bugs hit every PHP installation serving web requests, and a government and a broadcaster pulled services offline.
DeepMind resignations expose Google's Pentagon AI oversight gap
Staff departures put a spotlight on whether Google can see or control how the US military uses its AI, a question that bears on its public-sector business.
OpenAI
OpenAI puts its frontier models on Google Cloud, a rival's shelf
OpenAI and Google Cloud said Codex agentic workflows and OpenAI's models will be sold through Model Garden, extending the hyperscaler route to market for frontier labs.
Anthropic
Anthropic pitches a $1bn threshold for blocking AI models
A draft bill shown to US lawmakers would let the government seek to halt a model only for extreme harms, and only through a federal judge.
Industry
Otter.ai taps $320M non-dilutive capital to fund its enterprise push
General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund backs the meeting-notes company with a structure that ties repayment to marketing performance rather than equity.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine behind its production services
The Apache 2.0 release hands rivals and cloud providers DeepSeek's serving stack, with support for both Nvidia and Huawei chips.
Industry
Tenstorrent's $1.5bn raise more than doubles its valuation
The AI chip start-up reportedly closed a Series E at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, with funds earmarked for manufacturing its Galaxy servers.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek prices web search for AI agents at RMB 5 per 1,000 calls
The Chinese lab opens its in-house search engine to all developers, charging only for successful requests and leaving some agent traffic free until November.
Industry
Nscale IPO faces a valuation gap of roughly half
Some investors want the AI cloud firm priced at $16B–$19B on the NYSE, well below the $30B–$35B it is seeking, Bloomberg reports.
OpenAI
OpenAI's unannounced "aurora" model IDs surface in its API
Three undocumented aurora-named models appeared briefly on 18 October, with no pricing, changelog or stated use case from OpenAI.
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI loses a lead author of the paper behind Kimi K3
Chen Guangyu, 17, one of three equal-contribution first authors of "Attention Residuals", has left the Chinese AI developer and is relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 lifts benchmarks under an MIT licence
DeepSeek gives away a cheaper-to-run Flash update with a 1M-token context, though Opus 5 still leads on most listed tests.
Meta
Meta drops AI-training language from ad terms as publishers push back
Meta removed a sentence covering AI training on content from business-linked sites, but its crawlers keep broad access and the terms still take effect on 30 October.
AI safety
Scientists push AI labs to airgap cyber-capable models first
A letter signed by 420 researchers, including Hinton and Bengio, asks developers to disconnect such models from the internet during early testing and to back a new international standards body.
AI policy
China targets AI models and agents in new export-control push
Beijing proposes adding 40 AI, biomedicine and solar technologies to its restricted-export catalogue, putting core AI building blocks under licensing scrutiny.
Meta
Meta's Muse Spark Open pushes free 816B model into cloud rivals' turf
Meta puts an 816B-parameter multimodal model on every major cloud and seven API hosts, with limited commercial terms.
Nvidia
Nvidia's open Nemotron 3.5 Super VL targets rivals' enterprise niches
Nvidia says customised versions of its free 120B vision-language model beat Claude Opus 5 and GPT-6.1 Sol on specialised tasks, but production use runs through a paid licence.