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| Financial Times: |
Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, well below the $70B reported by the media based on investor docs — AI giant recently told investors the key figure was approaching $50bn in September, far less than the $70bn that was widely reported
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| CNBC: |
Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, and other AI stocks fell after a report that OpenAI's annualized revenue at September's end was $20B less than previously reported — Shares of Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and other artificial intelligence names sank lower on Thursday after the market learned more details about OpenAI's revenue.| Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Reuters: |
The US suspends Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, and others from a program that lets skilled foreign workers gain permanent residency, citing alleged fraud — US Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the federal government was suspending Microsoft from a program …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning an event on or around October 27 for its first touchscreen MacBook, an OLED iPad mini, a 14" MacBook Pro with M6, and an iMac with M6 — Apple Inc., already set to introduce a revamped smart home strategy next week, is planning a second launch in October to introduce … | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a “Welcome home” event on October 13 at 9am ET in NYC, where it is expected to unveil a “HomePad”, a new Apple TV, LG home accessories, and more — Today Apple announced a special event happening next Tuesday, October 13 with the tagline 'Welcome home.
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Anthropic updates its usage policy to ban “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude; ending chats is “the primary enforcement mechanism” — The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.
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| Mikita Balesni / @balesni: |
AI researcher Mikita Balesni says he believes OpenAI fired him, Tomek Korbak, and Jasmine Wang for “prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI” — Two other safety researchers and I were fired from OpenAI last week. We wrote this letter to leadership. I believe we were fired for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI as a corporation.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Google Cloud unveils the Gemini agent, which can handle multiday enterprise workflows in Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack using Gemini and other AI models — Google is unveiling a new universal AI agent for the workplace that can research information, create documents, write code …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Anthropic debuts the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site engineers, starting with CrowdStrike and others — Anthropic is launching a new cybersecurity initiative designed to bring its most powerful AI models and engineers … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon retires the Fire brand for tablets after 15 years, replacing it with Alexa Tablets that run Android and ship from October 14, including the $499 12 Pro — They're powerful, priced to move, and filled with AI ideas. Don't you dare call them Fire tablets.
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| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX agrees to acquire a low-band spectrum portfolio to help Starlink “become a major mobile carrier in the US”; AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon fall 6%+ after hours — Elon Musk's SpaceX said it acquired low-band spectrum that will enable it to use its Starlink satellites to become a … | Priyanka Salve / CNBC: |
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| The Verge: |
Xbox launches XP, a unit that will manage four non-gaming “investment areas”: Xbox Pictures for film and TV, Xbox Products, Xbox Places, and Xbox Partnerships — Xbox's new ‘XP’ arm will oversee Xbox experiences outside of video games, including movies, consumer products, and live events.
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| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
President Trump awards Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Sergey Brin the National Medal of Science at a White House summit promoting innovation — President Donald Trump joined Michael Kratsios to award the Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su and Sergey Brin amid announcements about new science funding.
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| Bloomberg: |
USV raised $900M, including a $500M early-stage fund, up from $275M in 2024, cuts its general partnership to four investors, and aims to lead more AI rounds — New York City-based venture firm Union Square Ventures is reinventing itself to better compete in the artificial intelligence race … | Felix Ng / Cointelegraph: |
Vitalik Buterin says “we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously”, replying to a “bunker mode” call for the blockchain industry — Ethereum researchers say crypto users should consider moving funds to fresh addresses …
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| Scott Aaronson / Shtetl-Optimized: |
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| Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump@truthsocial.com: |
Trump says the WH considers as “THE ENEMY” anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence, not “the highly accepted” and “more accurate” Super Intelligence — The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple promotes Carson Oliver to VP of the App Store and names Steve Smith as M&A chief, replacing Adrian Perica, who keeps iCloud, Fitness+, and News — Apple Inc. is naming a new mergers and acquisitions chief, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| AHM: |
The Association for Human Mathematics says OpenAI's new math documents show power, not scholarship, and urges mathematicians to stop working with the startup — Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI - which is currently defending lawsuits against accusations of illegal plagiarism …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
OpenAI disrupts a Russian influence campaign tied to the Politology network that targeted schools, media, and foreign officials, and gives it a 5/6 impact score — OpenAI says the campaign is the most far-reaching influence operation it has disrupted. — A Russian propaganda operation tricked schools …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Flock plans to let go of ~270 employees, or 18% of its staff, at the end of October; the layoffs come after a voluntary buyout program in September — Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday … | Bloomberg: |
Hone, founded by former OpenAI and Cognition staffers to create AI agents that can help run a business, raised a $60M seed at a $285M valuation — A group of former employees from some of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI and Cognition AI Inc. … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index — Arena Intelligence Inc., the startup behind a popular artificial intelligence model leaderboard, has raised $200 million in funding …
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta bans ByteDance ads and paid marketing, plus third-party campaigns linking to TikTok, in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam — Meta Platforms Inc. banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance Ltd., the former controlling owner of TikTok, intensifying the competition with the popular social video site.| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks — Justin Zheng is pretty sure Dylan Iskandar took his money the first time they met as teenagers, over a poker game in 2019 at a conference run by economist Tyler Cowen.| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Quantum startup Oratomic raised a $475M Series B at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.5B after raising a $300M Series A in July, taking its total funding to $775M — Oratomic's latest raise brings the company's total funding to $775 million — Quantum computing startup Oratomic raised $475 million …
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