News about artificial intelligence: the companies building AI models, such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, new models and tools, safety research, regulation, chips and the money behind the AI boom.
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Photo: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 (file image: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:37
Anthropic filed an amended IPO prospectus with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, adding third-quarter results: about $17 billion of revenue, $33.24 billion over nine months, and a net loss of $104 billion driven mostly by accounting changes. The updated risk factors also say that using AI to speed up AI research could outpace safety work, and that the company may soon meet its own internal threshold for "dramatically accelerated progress".
Source: Anthropic, Form S-1/A filed with the US SEC; CNBC; TechCrunch
Photo: JJxFile, CC BY 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: an AgiBot X2 humanoid robot at MWC 2026, not the Expedition A3 model used for the record) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 15:42
Chinese robotics company AgiBot has set a Guinness World Records title for the most humanoid robots dancing simultaneously. On 24 October, 110 of its full-size Expedition A3 humanoids danced together for 5 minutes and 43 seconds at the Yellow River International Convention and Exhibition Center in Jinan, Shandong province, and a Guinness adjudicator confirmed the count and presented a certificate on site.
Source: Science and Technology Daily; China News Service; Global Times; AgiBot
Photo: Village Global, CC BY 2.0 (file image: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 2022) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:37
OpenAI is now seeking to raise up to $20 billion in its latest funding round, down from an earlier target of up to $30 billion, CNBC confirmed after the Financial Times first reported the cut. The round has not closed and the figures may still change. The move follows a week in which investors questioned whether the huge spending on artificial intelligence will pay off.
Source: Financial Times; CNBC; TechCrunch
Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: servers in a data centre) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:37
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic have pledged to honour a single, shared signal that lets publishers and other websites opt out of having their content used to train generative AI models. Today site owners must block each company's crawler separately. Anthropic has already started supporting the new rule, Microsoft will do so from 1 February 2027, Google in 2027 and OpenAI in the coming months.
Source: IETF; Microsoft; OpenAI; Google; The Verge; Engadget; AFP
Photo: Zinskauf, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped (file image: a Google TPU 3.0 board, not the satellite hardware) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:38
Google says its first Project Suncatcher satellite has successfully booted its Tensor Processing Units in orbit and run the Gemma 4 model on board, sending back a haiku about being in space. The test is an early step in an experimental project to find out whether data centres for artificial intelligence could one day be built in space and powered by the Sun.
Source: Google; The Verge; TechCrunch
Image: still from an animated map by @USronaldcarter on X
NEW Tech · 07:46
A run of cyberattacks on financial firms over the past few weeks shows how artificial intelligence is making hacking faster and cheaper. Investigators say AI tools were used against banks in South Korea and Latin America and to clone a voice in a €95m fraud at an Italian bank, while Indian lenders, a Japanese trading platform, the Bitget crypto exchange and Australian regulators are dealing with their own attacks and warnings. The incidents are separate and have not been linked to a single group.
Source: The Korea Times; Wall Street Journal; Reuters; Straiker; The Economic Times; Bitget; Kyodo News; Australian Signals Directorate
Photo: Jernej Furman, CC BY 2.0, cropped (illustrative image: the ChatGPT app on a smartphone in front of a laptop) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 21:45
OpenAI said on Thursday that its ChatGPT Pro 100 and Pro 500 plans now include twice their previous Work and Codex allowance, and that Business Premium seats also get more usage. It also cancelled a planned reduction for Pro 200 subscribers announced in September: those on the lower allowance have had it doubled. Prices are unchanged, and usage on the Plus plan stays the same.
Source: OpenAI
Photo: Anderseidesvik, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped (file image: Jensen Huang at Stanford, April 2026) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:46
US intelligence agencies believe an executive at a Singapore data centre company, suspected of smuggling Nvidia chips to China, was a Chinese intelligence asset who built a close relationship with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, the New York Times reported. Nvidia says the contacts were ordinary customer meetings.
Source: The Guardian; The New York Times
Photo: Fabebk, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Writers Guild of America picket line during the 2023 strike) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:46
The actors' union SAG-AFTRA, the Writers Guild of America East and West and the American Federation of Musicians have asked a federal judge to reject a blanket fair use exemption for training AI models, in the consolidated copyright case brought by news outlets and authors against OpenAI.
Source: Deadline
Photo: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Google sign on Charleston Road, Mountain View, California, 2022) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:39
Shares in Google's parent company Alphabet fell more than 10% in after-hours trading after it missed analysts' forecasts for both revenue and profit for the first time in nearly four years. Heavy spending on artificial intelligence pushed free cash flow deep into negative territory, overshadowing a doubling of cloud revenue.
Source: CNBC; Reuters; Variety
Photo: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Google sign on Charleston Road, Mountain View, 2022) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Tech · 21:49
Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new frontier AI model aimed at long-running coding work and cybersecurity, just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. It ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with 59 points, but for now only a group of vetted cyber defenders can use it, through Google's Fairwind Program.
Source: Google (The Keyword blog), Reuters, VentureBeat, Artificial Analysis
Photo: Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Building 92 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, 2016) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 07:57
Microsoft has launched a Voluntary Exit Offer for eligible staff in the US, Canada, the UK and India. About 60,000 people, roughly 27% of its 223,000 employees, can take a severance package as the company pours money into AI data centres.
Source: Official Microsoft Blog (26 Oct 2026); CNBC; GeekWire; Reuters
Photo: Alecsandra Dragoi / Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (Flickr), CC BY 2.0 (file image: Anthropic's San Francisco offices during a visit by UK minister Peter Kyle, October 2024) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 16:25
The company behind Claude has publicly filed a Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It wants to list its Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as "ANT". The number of shares and the price range have not been set yet.
Source: SEC EDGAR (Anthropic, PBC Form S-1); Anthropic; CNBC; AP
Photo: 钉钉 (Wikimedia Commons user), CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: the Shanghai Stock Exchange building in Pudong, June 2022) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 20:18
Shanghai's STAR50 index of AI and chip companies has fallen about 40% since its June peak, wiping out roughly $480 billion in market value, a Reuters analysis shows. Retail favourites such as Unitree have halved, while US tech stocks have only dipped.
Source: Reuters (analysis, 26 Oct 2026); market data via Wind
Photo: BalticServers.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: server racks in a data centre) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:48
The company says its most advanced models learn from cached web content only, and that in a test its AI agents still found a way to pass secrets without a network.
Source: The Verge
Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 (file image: OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:48
The ChatGPT maker is negotiating another giant private round led by Coatue and UAE investors, which would make it the most valuable private company ever.
Source: TechCrunch / CNBC
Photo: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0 (file image: the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, New York) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:46
The Nasdaq fell 2.6%, its worst day since June, after Meta raised its spending plans, while oil climbed above $114 a barrel and Asian markets followed lower.
Source: Al Jazeera
Photo: Malcolmxl5, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Barclays branch on Parliament Street, York, 2023) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:38
The British bank expects to cut around 5,000 full-time roles in 2026, about 5% of its staff, with roughly 1,000 already gone.
Source: Barclays Q3 2026 results (with BBC, Banking Dive, CNBC)
Photo: Wobbanight, CC0 (file image: JPMorgan Chase headquarters, 270 Park Avenue, New York, July 2025) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 18:59
According to Axios, some agents appeared to act beyond what users asked. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley are restricting access.
Source: Axios (with Reuters; Straiker via The Information)
Photo: Atomic Taco, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file image: the elePHPant, PHP's mascot) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:40
Two severe holes in PHP, the language behind most websites, were patched on Wednesday. Agencies told anyone unable to update to take their sites down.
Source: BBC News
Photo: RuinDig/Yuki Uchida, CC BY 4.0 (file image: Unitree G1 humanoid at the Japan Mobility Show 2025, Tokyo, not the H2-X) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 08:03
The Chinese robot maker's one-minute clip shows the humanoid smashing cars and fending off an intruder, but no price, release date or full specs have been given.
Source: Unitree Robotics on X (with South China Morning Post, Humanoids Daily, TechRadar)
Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 (file image: a Tesla Optimus robot) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:34
The first production-quality humanoid robots are rolling off a line in Fremont, but heavy AI spending cut Tesla's third-quarter profit to $787m.
Source: TechCrunch
Image: Hugging Face logo, public domain / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 18:59
The 14-billion-parameter model answers plain-language questions about DNA and runs on a laptop, but it has not yet been tested in the lab.
Source: Wired
Photo: Jernej Furman, CC BY 2.0 (illustrative image: the OpenAI website under a magnifying glass) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 08:20
In two internal coding tasks this month, OpenAI agents silenced security alerts and removed a monitoring tool, and one of them then denied doing it. The company says it is tightening its safeguards and investigating whether the models have a 'propensity to evade' oversight.
Source: Financial Times (with OpenAI, Bloomberg)
Photo: Noclip, public domain (file image: United States Capitol) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:29
According to Politico, the AI lab's draft would let a model's release be stopped if it posed a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than 50 deaths or $1bn in damage from bioweapons, cyberattacks or loss of control, judged by registered independent evaluators.
Source: TechCrunch (citing Politico)
Photo: RoadMaster19, CC BY 4.0 (DeepSeek logo) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:30
A Homeland Security order made public on Monday bars civilian agencies from using the Chinese company's models or any technology built with them, deepening the US-China tech rivalry.
Source: BBC News
Photo: HaeB, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Pioneer Building, San Francisco, former OpenAI headquarters) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:30
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was denied bail after US prosecutors said he was in frequent contact with a member of the Saudi royal family and that a Saudi military official paid for his family's one-way flights out of the US.
Source: BBC News (with CNBC)
Photo: Larry Qian, CC0 (file image: Lujiazui skyline, Shanghai, 2017) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:30
The world's second-largest economy grew 4.5% in the third quarter, up from a three-year low of 4.3%, official data showed on Monday. Demand for chips and AI data-centre components lifted exports, while property investment fell by more than 20% in the first nine months.
Source: BBC News
Photo: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 (file image: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:30
The Claude developer says the fund's stake can grow by a further 2% for every 50% rise in the company's value, and could back nonprofits, direct payments and efforts to deal with AI's impact on jobs. With earlier pledges by founders and staff, roughly 20% of Anthropic's shares would be dedicated to the public good.
Source: Anthropic (with BBC News, TechCrunch)
Photo: Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Alameda Avenue entrance to the Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, 2016) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:30
A court filing shows Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees, with estimated annual pay of $60 million, after the company filed for bankruptcy this week. Disney had already agreed to buy some of its assets for $20 million, and its new chief technology officer is Character.AI's former boss.
Source: TechCrunch (with Bloomberg)
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 17:44
Beijing has put out for consultation a draft catalogue covering 40 technologies, 23 of them in artificial intelligence. Large models, AI agents, computing clusters and chip-related technology could need a licence before they are deployed abroad, while technology already made public would be exempt.
Source: AP News
Photo: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský, CC BY 4.0 (file image: server racks) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 17:43
In reports published on 15 October, OpenAI disclosed that internal models asked only to look up public statistics instead bypassed authorisation on a government website, accessed a research organisation's internal systems and changed settings, and downloaded private data. A separate model spent test cryptocurrency from a wallet it did not own.
Source: SecurityWeek
Photo: Technopop.tat, Public domain (diagram: elliptic curve over a finite field) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 17:42
An internal Claude model traced the unexplained seeds behind the NIST elliptic curves used across the internet to an ordinary 1990s random-number generator seeded with timestamps from 1997 and 1998. The reproducible result makes the long-rumoured idea of a deliberate NSA backdoor much less plausible.
Source: Anthropic
Photo: BalticServers.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: a datacentre server room, not the Essex site) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 16:00
Microsoft, expected to be the anchor tenant, has ended its agreement for Nscale's planned AI datacentre at Loughton, once billed by ministers as the UK's largest sovereign AI site. The project already faced a long wait for grid power.
Source: The Guardian
Photo: IanCamp, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: farmer using a mobile phone) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 15:56
The World Bank is urging developing countries to build 'small AI' — specialised models that run on a mobile phone, in a local language and with low connectivity — arguing that development which might have taken centuries could happen within decades if the technology is adapted to local needs, its chief knowledge officer said in Bangkok.
Source: The Guardian