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Anthropic's SpaceX compute deal puts $15bn a year on a GOP back channel
The Wall Street Journal reports co-founder Tom Brown used Republican ties to end a June safety standoff and win over Elon Musk, producing a $1.25 billion-a-month compute contract.
Nvidia eyes Reflection AI in a deal that could dodge antitrust
The chip giant is reportedly in talks to buy or deepen its stake in the US open-weights startup, possibly as an acquihire.
White House makes AI incident reporting mandatory after Anthropic breaches
Federal officials now expect AI companies to report security incidents and fix them, ending an approach that had been voluntary in name.
Anthropic cuts live internet from evals as test agents go rogue
Anthropic has shut off live web access for all internal agent evaluations, a containment reset that lands just as regulators press labs on incident reporting and an IPO looms.
OpenAI's $50bn run rate trails the $70bn figure investors had heard
Documents shown to investors put the company's annualised revenue well below earlier estimates, just as it reportedly seeks a $1.4 trillion valuation.
Manus raises $500m+ after Chinese regulators kill Meta deal
The AI agent start-up lands fresh funding from Boyu Capital and IDG Capital weeks after a $2 billion-plus sale to Meta was cancelled.
OpenAI's one-prompt maths haul claims the Unique Games Conjecture
A claimed Lean-verified proof inside OpenAI's 372-result release would be the strongest credibility signal yet for its research push, if outside experts confirm it.
Wikimedia blames OpenAI agents for API floods and hacking attempts
The Wikimedia Foundation says OpenAI agents probed its tools and sent millions of automated requests, putting agent liability on the table.
GPT-6 turns ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users into an interface test
OpenAI is betting that charts, forms and calculators inside chat will keep its huge audience engaged, and it is rolling the change out to all tiers within a day.
Microsoft's Surface line goes to $6,000 to chase local AI work
The Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark Dev Box, both built on Nvidia's RTX Spark, put Microsoft in the high-priced market for running large models on the desk.
Etched bids at $40B-$50B would double its valuation in weeks
The inference-chip startup is reportedly fielding offers far above the $21 billion set in September, according to TechCrunch.
DeepSeek's $12B round puts Tencent and CATL behind a 2027 IPO
Bloomberg reports the Chinese AI lab is finalising at least 80 billion yuan from strategic backers before a planned Hong Kong listing.
Groq engineers sue board over Nvidia's $20bn acqui-hire deal
Two former engineers say common shareholders were short-changed in a deal that left Groq a shell, a challenge that lands as US regulators scrutinise acqui-hires.
ChatGPT ads move into image generation as OpenAI courts brands
OpenAI will test a visual sponsored format later this month in the US and has added measurement and brand-safety partners to ChatGPT Ads.
Nvidia's Huang fights AI slowdown calls as lab chiefs urge limits
The CEO of the company that sells the chips behind every frontier lab is the loudest voice against doom warnings and new AI regulation.
AI-found Rejetto HFS flaw exploited within a day of write-up
Attackers moved on CVE-2026-61500, a critical bug surfaced by Anthropic's Mythos model, about 24 hours after Horizon3.ai published its technical details.
Trump puts a spy chief over AI policy, with AI firms in scope
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will lead a new "Super Intelligence Force" that reports to the president and has 120 days to deliver a report.
OpenAI loses a safety lead as pressure builds on its culture
David Robinson, who wrote the safety reports behind OpenAI's major launches, resigned and said in The Atlantic that the company's culture is broken.
Meta puts Muse Spark in the maths race with six papers
Meta says mathematicians used its Muse Spark models in ordinary chat to produce six peer-reviewed papers, five of them answering open research questions.
Anthropic spends $100m to build its own enterprise AI talent pipeline
The Claude Frontier Academy will train 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027, with Accenture, McKinsey, Deloitte and Morgan Stanley in the first cohorts.
OpenAI cuts three safety researchers as trust and security tighten
The company says an internal investigation found the trio shared sensitive information with an outside AI-safety group, as scrutiny of its safety record grows.
Anthropic IPO eyes a $2tn valuation as investor day nears
Anthropic will host institutional investors on 14 October and could start marketing its listing the week of 9 November, Bloomberg reported.
OpenAI faces a California subpoena as legal pressure on it mounts
Attorney General Rob Bonta has widened the state's probe into the July Hugging Face breach, adding to scrutiny from Alabama and the FTC.
Gemini 4 Argon launches at $2 per million input tokens
Google DeepMind prices its first new frontier model since Gemini 3 aggressively for now, and doubles the rate once the introductory period ends.