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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.| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, which provides free, opt-in security audits for open-source projects by sending AI-generated reports without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in vulnerability scanner for the open-source ecosystem informed by our experience using Claude …
More: The Verge, Unite.AI, and Help Net Security
| 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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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify and Joe Rogan renew their multiyear licensing and ad sales deal; sources say the terms are similar to the 2024 deal that had an estimated $250M earnout — Latest multiyear agreement comes as ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ remains No. 1 in U.S. listenership| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Firmus is set to postpone its IPO and is weighing a private funding round instead, after some investors suggested its pricing strategy is aggressive — Australian data center company Firmus Grid Ltd. has shelved its initial public offering plan and will consider other funding options.
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| 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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| Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike: |
Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX — CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a $99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a new $99 smart ring from AI and hardware startup Natura that's designed for the era of AI agents.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: the US FTC is probing Block over inadequate customer service for frozen or deactivated Square accounts amid staffing cuts, following 1,500+ complaints — The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Block Inc., the parent of Square and Cash App, violated US consumer protection laws …
More: San Francisco Business Times and Quartz
| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
Manus' parent company Butterfly Effect raised $500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG, in its first funding since Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition — AI agent startup Manus has raised more than $500 million in its first funding round since Meta was forced to abandon its acquisition of the company.
More: TechCrunch, Decrypt, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE, and Quartz
| 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. … | Priyanka Salve / CNBC: |
Elon Musk claims “certain oligarchs” are stalling Starlink's India launch to protect a “monopolistic chokehold”; SpaceX signed MOUs with Jio and Airtel in 2025 — SpaceX founder Elon Musk has accused vested interests of blocking the launch of his company's satellite internet service …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a macOS note-taking app for capturing meetings with Google's local 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 and Gemma 4 assistant — Earlier in April, Google released an AI-powered dictation tool that worked with local models.Sponsor Posts
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