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October 23, 2026, 10:20 AM
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Kate Rooney / CNBC:
Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an “opportunistic” bridge ahead of an IPO  —  OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead …
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier in October, after facing resistance from some investors  —  AI lab floated $1.4tn price tag earlier this month, according to documents seen by the FT  —  OpenAI has cut its valuation target …
Associated Press:
The US Treasury proposes a rule to crack down on US high-tech investments in areas like AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern”  —  The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to crack down on American high-tech investments such as supercomputing …
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges  —  OpenAI made its Decisions API model widely available to users for the first time, entering the market for fast …
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Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats  —  The company fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information.  They had been fighting to keep the workings …
P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal:
SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing “market conditions and share price trends”  —  SK Hynix's shares fell as much as 4.2% in early trade in Seoul  —  SK Hynix halted plans to list its memory-chip unit in the U.S. …
Anthropic:
Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove useful security properties at the assembly code level across 123 open-source libraries  —  Introduction  —  Even mature, heavily tested software contains bugs, and LLMs are increasingly adept at finding them.
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune:
a16z rebrands “a16z Crypto” as “a16z Frontier” and expands the $2.2B fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies  —  In 2018, Andreessen Horowitz made a splash in the venture capital world by launching a spin-off dedicated to digital assets called a16z Crypto.
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
An interview with Intel's leadership, including CTO Pushkar Ranade, on AI chip demand, lessons from 10nm, whether Intel can catch up to TSMC, Terafab, and more  —  What I learned from touring Intel's most advanced fab and talking to its leadership.  —  I spent two days touring Intel's …
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains and helps automate PHP patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities  —  On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites.
Matthew Prince / @eastdakota:
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit attempts on its network rose from thousands in the 10 hours before the disclosure to millions afterward
Reuters:
Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints  —  Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein (0625.HK) has agreed to pay $100 million to settle an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission …
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch  —  SpaceX aims to secure a minimum of 80,000 cell sites across the US, and it's in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure company …
Anthropic:
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025  —  Today, we're donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors  —  'We're going to build something that is indistinguishable from human performance ... in the next couple of years,' Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, and plans to support third-party chatbots  —  Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Warp Sciences, founded by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to speed up drug development using AI, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation  —  Kevin Weil, the former OpenAI executive who led the ChatGPT maker's AI-for-science efforts, is launching a new startup aimed …

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From Mediagazer

Esther Addley / The Guardian:
Axel Springer's Telegraph begins layoffs, pledging to become an “AI-powered” global business; sources: up to 100 jobs will go, with culture and sports hit hard

Associated Press:
A federal judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11, or face sanctions up to dismissal of the lawsuit

Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR plans to move its public editor partnership from the Poynter Institute to the University of Maryland in 2027, as public editor Kelly McBride leaves the role

More News

Wall Street Journal:
US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds
Jay Peters / The Verge:
The Browser Company says it will shut down its Arc browser on December 22, launched in 2023, shifting attention to its AI-focused Dia browser, launched in 2025

Earlier Picks

Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:
METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: Elon Musk has invested ~$1B in Ellisons' Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take Twitter private
Madison Mills / Axios:
Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of users' instructions
Abhirami G / Reuters:
eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and launches 1Password for Agents
AJ Vicens / Reuters:
Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations
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