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AIAnthropic has added a clause to its Usage Policy that prohibits sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its Claude models. The company says the update applies only to extreme cases of repeated cruelty with no discernible purpose, not ordinary frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.

AITesla has renamed its "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" system in Europe to "Assisted Driving" after Germany's Federal Ministry of Transport called the branding "somewhat misleading." The ministry said the system does not take over the entire driving task and that drivers must remain attentive at all times. The package still carries the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) name in the U.S., where it costs $99 per month.

AIOracle is considering trucking natural gas directly to its server farms to speed a New Mexico data center build. The approach would bypass a delayed gas pipeline needed to power one of the company's crucial data centers.

AIOpenAI's annualized revenue rate stood at roughly $50 billion at the end of September, according to the Financial Times, after an earlier figure of nearly $70 billion, which Axios reports was calculated to compare more directly with Anthropic's. The gap reflects different accounting for partner sales, with Anthropic recording full customer payments and OpenAI counting only its own share for certain deals. OpenAI is negotiating at least $30 billion in new capital at a target pre-money valuation of $1.4 trillion, Bloomberg reports.

AIAmazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar Microsoft move earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco.

AIArtificial Analysis says its Controlled Voice text-to-speech leaderboard now ranks the top models. The post also links a Speech Arena where users vote on models and a Speech Explorer for sample clips.

AIVerizon shares fell about 7% and T-Mobile fell 12% on Friday after SpaceX announced a deal to buy a nationwide spectrum portfolio from Grain Management to expand Starlink into mobile service. The portfolio covers up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800 MHz band. AT&T fell about 10%, while SpaceX stock rose about 1%.

AIAnthropic co-founder Tom Brown is using his Republican ties and business experience to win over Washington and secure the computing power the company needs, according to The Wall Street Journal. The source text provided is only a one-sentence description, so no further details on specific deals, figures, or policy positions can be confirmed.

AIThe FCC is considering loosening rules on political robocalls that use AI voices before the midterms. Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller obtains prior consent.

AIRohit Prasad, a longtime Amazon AI executive who helped build Alexa, will lead Boston Dynamics as the robotics company prepares to manufacture humanoid robots at scale. The source does not give further details on the appointment or production timeline.

AIMeta's Muse AI agent has millions of users and can handle tasks from refunds to insurance shopping. Its broad access to personal data has already led to some unnerving mistakes, according to Fast Company.

AIDanu Robotics, an Edinburgh startup founded by Amy Ma, is bringing its H.E.R.O. recycling-sorting robot to market, using a pincer claw instead of suction. The company has letters of interest from two large customers, $500,000 in signed contracts, and more than 200 prospective customers in its sales pipeline. Ma estimates a working site would earn $485,000 in added revenue against a $160,000 initial investment and $24,000 in annual maintenance fees.

AIAmazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. The episode also covers startups seeking consumer access to inboxes, files, and credit cards for AI agents.

AIThe Financial Times reported that OpenAI's annualized revenue run-rate was $20 billion below a widely cited $70 billion figure, a gap the newsletter attributes to confusion between gross and net revenue. OpenAI has said its figure is net, while Anthropic's includes partner sales such as those made through Amazon and Microsoft. Bloomberg reported that OpenAI expects to reach $70 billion annualized revenue by year end, assuming a net basis.

AIa16z says it is leading an investment in TypeSafe AI, whose Jev model hands decisions to code as typed values and reached 1 trillion tokens generated three days after launch. The company says Jev costs roughly 1/100 to 1/500 of frontier models and runs 100x faster on classification tasks at comparable accuracy. TypeSafe says 25% of the Fortune 500 have integrated Jev.

AIMike Knoop says ARC-AGI-2 is far harder than ARC-AGI-1, even amid rapid progress on math. He adds that the final open solutions will be useful artifacts to study, and notes that the Kaggle Grand Prize bonus threshold of 85% has been reached this year, the final year for ARC-AGI-2 on Kaggle.

AIFactory says it is acquiring Mentlio (YC S26), a startup building in-harness model routing, context compression, and AI usage measurement to optimize cost and quality. The founders, Ashank Shah and Ahmet Demirbas, will join Factory to bring this work into its autonomous software engineering platform for large enterprises.

AIOpenAI told investors it had $18 billion less revenue than the $68 billion it reported last month, and AI-linked stocks including Nvidia, CoreWeave, Oracle and Nebius fell Thursday. Google debuted a Gemini assistant that can act autonomously, generate code and complete work across web, mobile and desktop. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 and halved Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices.

AIOpen-source AI models, once downloaded, make illegal activity almost impossible to trace. The source gives no figures, model names, or further details on the growth it reports.

AIMike Knoop says the 85% Grand Prize bonus threshold has been reached on Kaggle. The ARC Prize 2026 leaderboard lists Tufa Labs first at 88.06%, followed by Rabbithole at 80.56% and Yi-Chia Chen at 77.22%. Knoop says this will be the final year for ARC-AGI-2 on Kaggle and expects an open-source, low-cost, offline reproducible solution and model.

AIAi2 reports that over a 30-day test of its new scheduler, teams received 98% of the GPU hours they were owed, based on actual demand. Cluster occupancy stayed at 98%, and spare capacity went to interruptible work without drawing down team budgets.

AIFrancois Chollet says ARC-AGI-2 scores on Kaggle are now very good. The ARC Prize 2026 high score is 88.06%, set by Tufa Labs, and teams scoring over 85% share a $150K bonus prize.

AIOpenAI's research leaders say they parted ways with Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek after an investigation found they violated policies on handling sensitive information. The company says the decision was not about raising safety concerns and that it is finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors, with details to follow in the coming weeks.

AISabi has raised $50 million from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, Kevin Weil, and DST Global to build a wearable brain-computer interface. The company says its TSMC-fabricated chip reads brain signals without touching the scalp, with custom sensors collecting data and its own AI model decoding it into text. The device is a cap rather than an implant.

AIA New York Federal Reserve Bank study found that US small businesses using AI are more optimistic about hiring and revenue than non-adopters. AI adopters expected a 33-point net increase in employment over the next year, versus 15 points for non-adopters. Only 31% of businesses have actually reported higher sales from AI so far.

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AISabi has raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, Kevin Weil, and DST Global to build a wearable brain-computer interface cap. The cap carries 100,000 sensors and aims to let people talk to AI agents by thinking. The post's author says improved hardware could unlock new research and personal agentic applications.

AIArena's weekly update says Nano Banana 2.1 ranked in the top six across three Image Arena modes, with #4 in Multi-Image Edit at 1431 points. Mistral Large 4 placed #43 overall in Agent Arena, 11 spots above Mistral Medium 3.5, and Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) landed #30 in Code Arena WebDev at 1587 points, priced at $0.10/$0.50 per 1M input/output tokens. The post also introduces Arena's Alignment Index and announces a $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation.

AIPerplexity says its Computer tool created Alexandria, a free, source-backed encyclopedia with 66,574 entries, for $25,000 in credits (2.5 million). Computer scanned and synthesized 348,980 sources to build it, and will maintain the site at alexandria.pplx.app.

AIBoris Power, who owns the OpenAI account, posted only the word "Wow!" with no details. Background from a separate post says the integer multiplication problem #109 witness value κ rose to 2⁻¹⁰·⁵⁴⁷ (about 6.6857 × 10⁻⁴), past the 2⁻¹¹ threshold. The author notes gains are now fractional and a major breakthrough is still needed.

AIAnthropic claims Chinese AI developers used fraudulent accounts and proxy networks to extract reasoning data from its flagship model, Claude. The company says some firms used Claude as a covert back end for their own apps. A joint advisory from the NSA, FBI and CISA last month, and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's July warning about large-scale distillation, add to the allegations.

AISailPoint's Navigate conference in Austin, Texas, featured executives arguing that enterprises must secure AI agent identities at machine speed through just-in-time access and enforcement outside the agent. Mark McClain, SailPoint's founder and chief executive, said real-time decision-making is needed because manual administration cannot keep up. The event also covered the Entro Security acquisition and a partnership with AWS on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, which grew 15-fold in the first six months of the year.

AIBlackstone's Digital Infrastructure Trust, a REIT listed on the NYSE in May, has fallen roughly 16% since its debut, with shares closing under $17 on Thursday. Blue Owl is reportedly considering a public REIT worth as much as $6.5 billion, while a national Gallup poll found 70% of Americans oppose a data center in their area. New York and Texas have imposed moratoriums on new approvals.