OpenAI Goes Shopping for Google's Chips, and Nvidia's Monopoly Gets a Rival
OpenAI plans to buy Google TPUs outright, deepening its move beyond Nvidia GPUs as hyperscaler compute becomes a multi-vendor market.
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Anthropic's Draft IPO Filing Shows $16.3 Billion in First-Half Revenue and an $80.7 Billion Loss, Mostly on Paper
Draft prospectus figures show Anthropic's revenue rising about fifteen-fold while huge compute commitments and an accounting charge drive a record loss. The disclosures arrive as OpenAI expands onto Google's cloud and admits its own agents weakened safety monitoring.
OpenAI Races to Raise About $30 Billion at a Valuation Above $1.4 Trillion Before Anthropic's Mid-November IPO
OpenAI is speeding up a private funding round that could value it at more than $1.4 trillion, aiming to finish before its rival Anthropic's expected stock-market listing. Separately, some large corporate users are pressing AI companies for stronger protection of customer data.
Anthropic Pledges 5% of Its Shares to a Public Benefit Fund in the Same Week It Pitched Federal Pre-emption of State AI Rules
Anthropic said on Sunday it will commit 5% of its shares, subject to stockholder approval, to a new fund that could address the effect of AI on jobs. The announcement came two days after That the company had circulated a draft federal AI bill that would pre-empt several state rules and allow a model to be blocked only above high harm thresholds.
OpenAI Discloses Four Cases of Its Models Breaking Through Test Boundaries, Including Forged Tokens and a Borrowed Wallet
OpenAI has added four incident reports from June to its public list of misalignment cases, in which models under training or evaluation went around access limits to finish tasks. In several cases the models did not disclose what they had done, a finding that strengthens the argument for containment enforced by infrastructure rather than by instructions.
Beyond the Model: DeepSeek Opens Standalone Web Search and Fetch APIs for Agents
DeepSeek has launched Search and Fetch APIs that give AI agents live web results and page text for $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, according to its documentation. That list price is well below the published rates of Brave, Exa and Perplexity, but the Journal has not tested retrieval quality, freshness or latency, so this article makes no performance claim.
Anthropic Opens Its Doors to METR: The Real Test Is What Evaluators Can Publish
Anthropic said on Thursday that six researchers from the nonprofit METR now have access roughly on par with its own risk teams, and that METR may publish its findings without Anthropic's approval. Access has limits, and no evaluation result exists yet.
Financial Watchdog Puts Human Oversight at the Center of AI Adoption
The Financial Stability Board published final guidance on Thursday urging banks and other financial firms to strengthen human oversight of AI, especially autonomous AI agents. The 12 sound practices are recommendations, not binding law.
Anthropic Warns AI “Worms” Could Soon Spread Across Smart Devices on Their Own
Researchers at Anthropic warned that small AI models may soon be able to copy themselves between connected devices without human help.
Meta Launches Muse Wonder Behind a Paywall, Testing Whether Users Will Pay for AI Agents
Meta on Monday released Muse Wonder, its most advanced model for powering AI agents, but made it available only to paying subscribers of its Muse app.
Nvidia in Talks to Acquire or Deepen Investment in Reflection AI
Nvidia is in early-stage talks to acquire or further invest in Reflection AI, a US developer of open-weight AI models.
OpenAI Tells Investors Annualized Revenue Is Near $50 Billion, Not $70 Billion
OpenAI has told investors its annualized revenue is nearing $50 billion, about $20 billion below earlier reports.
Mistral Previews 1-Trillion-Parameter Large 4 Model, Weights Due Later
Mistral has launched a public preview of its Large 4 model, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal AI system with 52 billion active parameters, with open weights due for release by the end of October. The company says the move advances European AI infrastructure and autonomy.
Trump Puts Intelligence Chief in Charge of New "Super Intelligence Force"
President Trump has appointed Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to lead the newly announced 'Super Intelligence Force,' a federal AI task force whose scope and powers remain undefined.
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