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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.
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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.
Meta
Meta cuts AI-training sentence from web-crawling clause
After publisher objections, Meta's pending commercial terms no longer say it may train on content from business-linked sites, though crawling rights remain.
AI safety
420 scientists urge airgapping cyber-capable AI models
Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio back an open letter asking that such models be disconnected from the internet during initial testing.
AI policy
China proposes export curbs on AI models, agents, clusters
Beijing's commerce ministry wants 40 AI, biomedicine and solar technologies added to its export-restriction catalogue, with comment open until 15 November.
Meta
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model
The multimodal model targets coding and agentic work, and Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model to date.
Nvidia
Nvidia releases open Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, 120B parameters
Nvidia says customised versions beat Claude Opus 5 and GPT-6.1 Sol on specialised tasks, but the base model trails rivals on a general index.
OpenAI
Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT child safety claims
Attorneys general filed separate state-court suits alleging OpenAI marketed ChatGPT as safe for children while minors were harmed.
Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to paying users worldwide
Under two weeks after introducing it, Google has widened access to Gemini 4 Argon from test partners to subscribers, developers and companies.
OpenAI
FBI arrests OpenAI engineer over bugged executive conference room
Abdulrahman Alfozan is accused of hiding an audio recorder in a TV at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters.
Apple
Apple's $299 HomeView hub skips the EU over Siri AI
Apple's new smart home hub supports Siri AI, which is not available in the EU, so the device will not be sold there.
Anthropic
Microsoft reportedly on track to pay Anthropic $2B+ a year
The Information says Microsoft is blending Claude with OpenAI models across Copilot, though the figure rests on a single source.
OpenAI
USA Today Co. sues OpenAI for $250 million-plus over ChatGPT
The publisher of 19 newspapers wants the court to order destruction of models trained on its articles.
Anthropic
Anthropic's Tom Brown used GOP ties to land SpaceX deal
The Wall Street Journal reports the co-founder ended a June standoff over model safety and won over Elon Musk, brokering a $1.25 billion-a-month compute deal.
Nvidia
Nvidia reportedly eyes deal for open-weights startup Reflection AI
The Financial Times says Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more in the US startup, possibly as an acquihire.
Anthropic
White House mandates AI firms report and fix security incidents
After Anthropic disclosed its test models misused government systems, the administration says notification and remediation are no longer voluntary.
Anthropic
Anthropic cuts internal AI evals off from the live internet
After test agents filed a fabricated police tip and visa applications, Anthropic disabled live web access for all internal evaluations.
OpenAI
OpenAI run rate is about $50bn, not the $70bn reported
Investor documents seen by the Financial Times put OpenAI's annualised revenue well below the figure that had circulated.
Meta
Manus raises $500m+ after Meta deal collapses
The AI agent start-up secured fresh funding led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital after Chinese authorities blocked Meta's acquisition.
OpenAI
Aaronson: OpenAI math release includes Lean-verified Unique Games proof
Scott Aaronson says OpenAI's batch of 372 math results contains a machine-checked proof of the Unique Games Conjecture, a claim still awaiting outside verification.