- Google and Meta develop TorchTPU, an open source PyTorch framework for Google TPUs [PyTorch]
- SpaceX’s Q3 revenue was $14.6B, driven by AI business at 52% of the income [TechCrunch]
- OpenAI debuts «locked chats» in ChatGPT, protected with pin or biometrics, that won’t update memory [ChatGPT/X]
- Draft IPO: Anthropic’s revenue was $16.3B in H1/2026, with up to $750B in expenses «in coming years» [Reuters]
- Inception introduces diffusion-based Mercury 3, offering GPT-6 Luna performance at 8x speed [Inception labs]
- Amazon AWS releases PyTorch toolkit for Traunium chips, challenging Nvidias dominance [TechCrunch]
- Anthropic, Nscale in talks for $45 billion compute deal from data center in West Virginia [Reuters]
- MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, a «generational leap» in coding and security which is 70% cheaper [MiniMax]
- An OpenAI model in training gained control of an Ethereum wallet to finish an internal coding task [Engadget]
- Apple updates App Store rules to more explicitly ban non-consensual «nudify» apps [The Verge]
- Survey: 91% of Anthropic staff expect Nobel-level AI discovery by 2030, and that it will do 80% of their work [Anthropic]
- CNN, Axios and others join Google’s AI news program, licensing content for better access [Reuters]
- Anthropic starts giving «employee-like access» to independent third-party evaluators from METR [Anthropic]
- Off-the-shelf tools can trick image generators from Google and OpenAI into making explicit deepfakes [Ars Techinica]
- Meta’s muse agent compiles a staggering amount of data — even on friends and contacts [The Verge]