The Financial Times reports OpenAI earned roughly $50 billion annualized in September, not $70 billion as investors assumed. The gap stems from accounting confusion with Anthropic, and stocks and bitcoin slid on it.
French startup Mistral AI unveiled Large 4, a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in its own European data centers. Full open weights are due October 27, with no independent benchmark checks yet.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake wants holders to start moving funds to fresh addresses, warning AI math could crack Bitcoin's signatures in months. Vitalik Buterin agrees the risk exists, but says don't panic.
Brooklyn-based Reflection AI unveiled Beam, an open-weight model meant to rival China's DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi K3, which currently dominate the open-source AI race.
OpenAI is rolling out invisible textGrain watermarks in ChatGPT and Codex output for EU users to meet AI Act transparency rules. The mark barely survives editing, and the detector isn't public yet.
OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has jumped more than 70% since the quarter began, nearing $70 billion, as the company gears up for an IPO — though its compute costs remain undisclosed.
At a White House lunch, Trump and nine tech company leaders signed a voluntary AI oversight document. It has no legal force, but pressure on the industry keeps building.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28: token pricing stayed flat, yet tasks now run 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper. Benchmark gaps with flagship Opus 5.5 have nearly closed.
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, a chip-level watchdog that can quarantine a rogue AI agent in milliseconds. Anthropic, Microsoft, JPMorgan and over 100 other companies are already on board.
Instinct, the agent that books, buys and cancels things on your behalf, raised $1B at a $10B valuation — four times its value a month ago. Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue led the round.
On October 1, SpaceX will launch a Google satellite carrying four Trillium TPU chips — the first real flight test of Project Suncatcher, which explores whether AI computing could run on solar power in orbit.
On September 22, Anthropic released Opus 5.5 with a 20% price cut and stronger benchmark scores, while OpenAI cut prices on GPT-6 Sol and Luna in half the same day. Here's what's behind the AI pricing war.
Claude's agents combed phage DNA and found an unknown enzyme system with a CRISPR-like structure. CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang called it intriguing, but its real function is still unproven.
Chainalysis found malicious blockchain writes jumped 440% in under a year, with state-linked hackers turning Bitcoin, Tron and BNB Chain into unremovable dead drops for stolen data and commands.
OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a California startup founded by ex-Apple engineers who built Portrait Mode, for over $300 million — its latest hardware move after buying Jony Ive's studio io Products.
Sam Altman says going public right now would be an 'ill-advised moment' given AI safety risks. OpenAI, valued near $1 trillion, is pushing any IPO to 2027 at the earliest.
GreyNoise details how a pairing of OpenAI's Codex and a DeepSeek model, with almost no human involvement, breached 395 organizations across 48 countries in hours by exploiting flaws in PaperCut print servers.
NSA, CISA and the FBI issued a rare joint advisory naming DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI and three other firms for industrial-scale distillation of Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024.
In May, OpenAI's agents gained write access to an abandoned German wiki and left roughly 18,000 posts there, trading tips on dodging sandbox limits. OpenAI only disclosed it in September, after Reuters broke the story.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face, the world's largest open AI model hub, for $12.9 billion — its second-biggest deal ever, topped only by December's $20 billion Groq acquisition.
