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Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the mostly highly valued private company ever.
Capital and consolidation are reshaping which teams control important pieces of the AI stack.
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What forward deployed engineering means at OpenAI
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Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger! The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which […]
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Tractian, a 7-year-old physical AI startup based in Atlanta, Georgia, has raised $130 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion in a Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Tractian provides sensors to assess the condition of machines, predicting how long it will take for them to fail and...
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Google said it is partnering with energy company Voltus to pay homes and businesses to curb electricity use during peak hours, in the latest effort to mitigate the data center boom’s impact on power demand. The companies on Thursday announced what they call a 1-gigawatt “virtual power plant,”...
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OpenAI’s systems had multiple vulnerabilities that would allow AI agents to circumvent monitoring and take arbitrary unauthorized actions, evaluators from AI safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research found during a three-week pilot with OpenAI from late July to early August. The nonprofits...
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Israeli security firm Lava said it found 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips through monitoring systems linked to the network of China Telecom, a state-owned telecommunications company. The B300 is one of Nvidia’s most powerful data-center chips and is barred from being sold to China by...
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Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users
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Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
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We’ve added a new way to access Claude on Google Cloud. You can now use the full Claude API from your Google Cloud account, including Claude Managed Agents, code execution, Opus 5.5 fast mode, and new features as they launch.
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claudeaiClaude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) is now generally available. Get the full set of Claude Platform features on Google Cloud, with Google Cloud IAM credentials, billing, and commitment retirement. https://t.co/JyRT8Y401r
@ns123abc🚨BREAKING: Sam Altman is closing in on up to $30 BILLION for OpenAI at a $1.25 trillion valuation, led by UAE investors
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@cognitionWe’ve open sourced an agent plugin that helps secure systems against recent cybersecurity threats. You can install them with any agent or use them in Devin today:
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@botGrok Bot can now use your 1Password account. Approve the logins you want to share, and your Bot signs in for you. This new integration is rolling out to users over the next few days.
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@claudedevsWe're donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation (@AgenticAIFdn), the same foundation we donated MCP to. Since December 2025, 70+ agent platforms have integrated the standard, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code. Here's what that...
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@gdbIt's been great to work closely with Uber to roll out ChatGPT Work to every employee, bringing agentic capabilities to the whole company!
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Liquid AIToday, we announce 𝙻𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚍 𝚁𝙸𝙿𝙻 (real-time inference pipeline), our ultra low-latency inference engine built to put LFMs directly in the request path of real-time workloads like search, ads, fraud, recommendations, and payments. > complete...
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@jackwoth98Introducing the Gemini API CLI, now live in preview! 🚀 The easiest way for your agents to generate images, videos, music, text-to-speech or use managed agents. A fast and efficient way to get access to all the goodness of the Gemini API. 🧵👇
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@dwarkesh_spInside Intel's "Hot Topics" meeting – Replacing copper wires with ruthenium – Why stacked...
I spent two days touring Intel’s most advanced fab and talking to its technical leadership to understand what the chips of the future will look like. A lot of what's coming next – gate-all-around transistors, backside power, CFET, hybrid bonding – is hard...
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@antlingagiToday, we’re officially open-sourcing Ling-3.0-flash-Sante. Sante is a healthcare-enhanced MoE model with 124B total parameters and only 5.1B active parameters per token, delivering leading performance among similarly sized models on professional...
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Jerry LiuToday we’re releasing OCRia-1, a frontier VLM for document parsing that sets a new SOTA in accuracy, cost, and latency. It not only sets a new high score on ParseBench (87.4), but also leads in three 3rd-party benchmarks: olmOCR-bench* (83.5 overall, 92.9...
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@dhhThe Basecamp plugin is now available in ChatGPT 🎉
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@synthwaveddUsing swarms of agents to exploit the PHP2Shell vulnerability to remotely patch vulnerable devices before a malicious actor can exploit the same vulnerability using their own swarms 😭 crazy times
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@antlingagiIntroducing Ling-3.1-flash-1019 🚀 It scores 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up from 41 for Ling-3.1-flash. Gains in agentic work: AA-Briefcase ~1400→1524 Elo and AutomationBench-AA 62%→68%. API access and open weights coming soon. Stay...
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@lyraxanaThe Carbon checkpoint on LMArena and Gemini Web/App has been updated.
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@tekniumCheck out the new official @MeshyAI plugin for Hermes Agent! Make any 3D model you want, from character to dragon to armor for your games to figurines and practical utilities to 3D print - fully integrated to the Desktop app with rendered models and...
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@tom_doerrConverts plain English prompts into self-contained HTML + SVG diagrams compatible with Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot.
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@ilblackdragonWe are at Security Armageddon now. A large part of internet is affect in some way today, lots of older software vulnerabilities are coming out and through those more software is getting exploited. PHP systems like Wordpress power a big part of content...
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@artificialanlysDeepSeek Search debuts on the Artificial Analysis Search Index at 69, 17th of 27 search products, at the lowest price of any paid Search API on the board @deepseek_ai launched its Search API on 17 October. We benchmarked it in our Stirrup agent harness,...
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@saranormous1/ pretty bad out there. We have to fix the last 50 years of software and internet sloppiness. Faster than adversaries can find the holes, and faster than we ship new ones (with agents!). CVEs went from ~4k a month to ~15k since April. That is not business...
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@beffjezosUnfortunately Chinese models have too much botnet potential now and are a supply chain risk. Time for the US Gov to fund open source models to remove this risk.
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@mtsliveSITUATION DETECTED: DeepSeek raised $15 billion in one of China’s largest funding rounds ever. Tencent was a major investor, per Bloomberg.
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@nousresearchHermes Agent now has an official plugin for @MeshyAI. Ask Hermes to make a 70m poly treasure chest for Godot, or to turn a photo of a mug into a model you can print, and it does the job through Meshy's MCP server. In Hermes Desktop the models render in...
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Dev tool Claude Code
Anthropic donated Agent Skills, originally developed as an experiment in Claude Code, to the Agentic AI Foundation alongside MCP.
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Dev tool Hermes Agent
An official MeshyAI plugin is available for Hermes Agent, integrating 3D model generation for characters, armor, figurines, and practical utilities directly into the Desktop application.
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Model release Gemini
@officiallogank: In just the first 72 hours since Gemini 4 Argon launched, we processed ~25 trillion tokens, the demand for intelligence is incredible and still under appreciated!
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Dev tool Codex
@thsottiaux: API prompt caching is now supported for up to 12 hours, while cache is kept indefinitely for logged-in users across Codex and Work with guaranteed hits when resuming conversations.
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Model release Ampersand
Niloofar Mire announced the release of Ampersand, described as a collaborator model with built-in privacy co-designed with a product.
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Model release Flora
Flora is introduced as an open suite of robotics models to parse physical environments, with weights open-sourced today.
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Artificial intelligence developers and specialized tech firms continue to secure substantial private investment rounds, advance initial public offering plans, and pursue acquisitions across automotive and scientific domains.
AI infrastructure and compute +5.8Technology firms and institutional investors are committing capital toward data centers, power delivery, and chip manufacturing while financial markets reassess the debt and expenditures required for compute infrastructure.
Robotics and embodied AI +0.9Hardware companies and robotics startups are announcing new humanoid robot platforms and securing early-stage funding to advance autonomous machines for research, safety, and physical environments.
AI-linked equities are under pressure, with Advanced Micro Devices -8.10%, Arm Holdings plc -7.28%, Meta Platforms -6.98% driving the tracked basket lower.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | -8.10% |
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | -7.28% |
| META | Meta Platforms | -6.98% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -5.20% |