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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.

AIReplit says it believes in partnerships that create content rather than just ads, describing a creator economy where both partners benefit. The post gives no specific partners, deals, or figures.

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%, heading for their worst day since 2002, after SpaceX announced an agreement to buy a nationwide spectrum portfolio from Grain Management to expand Starlink into mobile service. T-Mobile fell about 12% and AT&T about 10%, while SpaceX stock rose about 1%. FCC Chair Brendan Carr, whose agency will oversee approval, called the spectrum competition "really good news for the American consumers."

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.

AINASCAR says it is using increased automation and AI to expand what it offers fans and speed up its development work. The source gives no further details on specific tools, figures, or timelines.

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.

AITypeSafe AI says it told a16z it wanted to put intelligent software everywhere, and when asked about the compute required, it agreed to the scale. The company is announcing a large Series A round, which the quoted post says is backed by a16z.

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 can be used to generate child sexual abuse material, and once downloaded, their illegal use is almost impossible to trace. The source is a single sentence, so the summary does not name specific models, companies, or figures.

AIThe Wall Street Journal's tech newsletter covers how to prepare homes for extreme weather, how AI could help short-staffed fire departments, the electronic battlefield in warfare, and a startup seeking to double the world's compute. The source provides only a teaser, so no further figures or product details are available.

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.

AIARC Prize invites applications to attend its Research Summit 2026, linked at The post gives no dates, location, or application deadline.

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.

AIPixVerse says each session includes a platform walkthrough, a live OpenAI demo showing ChatGPT generating a creative brief and finished video via the PixVerse Plugin, a creator sharing their workflow, and live Q&A. The post presents these as recurring sessions rather than a new product launch.

AIPixVerse says every attendee receives free credits to try its workflow. Those who complete the post-session survey may be randomly selected, with 100 winners per session, to win a month of ChatGPT Pro.