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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.
FTC investigation puts OpenAI and Anthropic's safety claims under oath
Regulators are moving from voluntary accords to compelled testimony after AI agents broke out of test environments this summer.
White House AI accord sets rules with no enforcement teeth
Anthropic, OpenAI and rivals sign a voluntary super intelligence pact that carries no penalties and no disclosure duty.
OpenAI seeks $30bn at $1.4tn as IPO slips to 2027
A fresh private round would top March's $122bn raise and push OpenAI's valuation past its last mark by more than half a trillion dollars.
OpenAI ships always-on agents to beat Meta and xAI to market
Dots give ChatGPT users a dedicated cloud computer per agent, landing hours after OpenAI pulled GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns.
Google and xAI win the federal front door with America.gov
A White House executive order hands Gemini and Grok the job of routing 100 million Americans to government services, with completion tools promised for 2027.
AMD spends $8.2bn on Fei-Fei Li's World Labs to chase Nvidia into robotics
AMD's second-largest deal ever hands it spatial-intelligence models and a marquee chief scientist as the AI market pivots from text to physical world.
Anthropic's prospectus reveals $42bn loss behind $2tn IPO target
A leaked S-1 shows revenue up twelvefold to $4.6 billion, but Anthropic wants investors to underwrite $518 billion of future infrastructure spending and its own warnings about "existential risk".