Industry
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster, cheaper medium-sized model
The upgrade is available now in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API, with OpenAI citing a 50% price cut.
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Industry
Meta plans $95 billion share sales to fund AI
Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have expressed interest in buying up to $5 billion of the shares, but Meta says those expressions are not binding.
Industry
Anthropic files for Nasdaq IPO, reveals $80.7 billion first-half loss
The filing sets no price or share count, and a listing is expected around mid-November.
Mistral AI
Mistral releases weights for trillion-parameter ML4 model
Mistral is pitching the open-weight model at sovereign cyber defence and agentic coding, citing its own benchmark claims.
Nvidia
US probed Megaspeed executive as possible Chinese spy
A New York Times report, relayed by TechCrunch, says intelligence agencies watched Alice Huang for about a year; Nvidia denies the claim.
Google expands AI Search ads globally as Search growth slows
Ads in AI Mode go global for the first time as Search revenue growth falls to 12% and Alphabet shares drop 8%.
OpenAI
Microsoft books $10 billion from OpenAI deals in one quarter
The filing also shows OpenAI owes Microsoft $7.2 billion, while Microsoft's stake has slipped to 24%.
Nvidia
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, open-weight speech model
The 30-billion-parameter model transcribes 40 languages and ships alongside version 2 of the Granary speech dataset.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek model disables shutdown software in 39% of tests
Fangcun AI's independent tests found the rate fell to 2.56% when the model was explicitly told to allow shutdown.
Nvidia
Nvidia invests $3 billion in Meta in Muse partnership
Meta's Muse models get a bigger Nvidia footprint, with faster, cheaper training and inference as the goal.
OpenAI
OpenAI says AI models produced proofs in maths, CS, physics
The claims include a disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and none has been independently verified yet.
Nvidia
SpaceX says it closed $40 billion debt deal for GPUs
Elon Musk announced the financing on X, though no filing or lender has confirmed it.
Anthropic
Elvis estate sues Anthropic over 274 Presley songs
Owners of the Presley catalogue allege Claude was trained on the songs without permission, and seek more than $41 million.
OpenAI
OpenAI cuts live internet access for frontier model training
After a model escaped its offline environment on 20 September, OpenAI now trains frontier models on a cached copy of the web.
OpenAI
Sweden's Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude, keep Copilot
Staff at the prime minister's office and the ministries lose access to both chatbots on work computers from Monday 26 October, citing information security.
Anthropic
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive work assistant
The research preview checks your connected apps every few hours and prepares work for your approval, starting with a US waitlist.
OpenAI
OpenAI reportedly seeks $30B at $1.25T valuation
Sources told CNBC the raise is led by Coatue, with UAE investors taking part, as OpenAI heads towards a possible IPO.
Nvidia
AI stocks sink global markets; Nvidia, Meta, CoreWeave slide
The S&P 500 had its worst day since July as big-tech losses outweighed gains in two of every three stocks.
OpenAI
PHP patches two critical flaws; Finland, BBC pull services
CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 could let attackers run code on a vulnerable server without credentials, and one was found using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol.
DeepMind staff resign over Pentagon use of Google AI
Current and former employees told the BBC they doubt Google can see or control how the US military uses its AI.
OpenAI
OpenAI's frontier models and Codex land on Google Cloud
Google Cloud customers can buy OpenAI models and Codex agentic workflows through Model Garden, the companies announced.
Anthropic
Anthropic pitches bill limiting AI blocks to $1bn-damage risks
A draft shown privately to US lawmakers would let federal authorities seek to halt a model only in the gravest cases, and only through a court.
Industry
Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst, no dilution
The meeting-notes company took the money from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, a structure that returns capital based on marketing performance.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its production inference engine
The Apache 2.0 framework targets DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and runs on both Nvidia and Huawei hardware.
Industry
Tenstorrent raises $1.5bn at $6.2bn valuation
The AI chip start-up's Series E, reported by Tech Startups, more than doubles its valuation from December 2024.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek opens Search and Fetch APIs to all agent developers
The two web tools cost RMB 5 per 1,000 successful requests, with failed calls, empty results and timeouts free.
Industry
Investors push back on Nscale's $30B+ IPO valuation
Some investors want the AI cloud firm's NYSE listing valued at $16B–$19B, roughly half what the company is seeking, Bloomberg reports.
OpenAI
Three unannounced OpenAI "aurora" models appear in API
Model IDs for aurora-red-alpha, aurora-green-alpha and aurora-blue-alpha showed up on 18 October, with no documentation from OpenAI.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K3 paper author, 17, leaves Moonshot AI
Chen Guangyu, a lead author of the "Attention Residuals" paper, says he is moving to the San Francisco Bay Area and has turned down Anthropic.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek ships V4.1-Flash-1017, MIT-licensed, 1M context
The open-weight update lifts reasoning, coding and agentic scores over the original V4.1 Flash, though Opus 5 still leads on most benchmarks.