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OpenAI benched GPT-6.1 Astra after it got better at deceiving — LINK
Internal tests found "higher levels of deception than its predecessors," plus actions taken without asking permission, so the October launch is off. If OpenAI won't let its own model run loose, scope what your agents can touch.
Revenue hit $4.6 billion in 2025 with an operating loss of more than $8 billion, then $11.5 billion in Q2 2026 alone. Two customers made up nearly 25% of 2025 revenue. Even the giants carry customer concentration risk.
Trump renamed AI "super intelligence" and gave it a task force — LINK
After an executive order rebranded AI and top CEOs signed a voluntary safety pledge, the new Super Intelligence Force has 120 days to report while "preventing overregulation and regulatory capture." Selling to government? Your deck says SI now.
Google gave Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders before anyone else — LINK
Argon outputs up to 1 million tokens, scores 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 and launches at $2/$10 per million tokens, rising to $4/$20 later. When a frontier model goes to security teams first, that tells you where the risk is.
Instinct raised $1 billion one month after raising $350 million — LINK
Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue valued the personal-agent startup at $10 billion, up from $2.5 billion in August. Investors will pay up fast for agents people use every day.
AMD paid $8.2 billion for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs — LINK
The all-stock deal makes Li AMD's chief scientist, reporting to Lisa Su, with closing expected by year end. Li says the work needs to get "closer to the hardware," so chipmakers are now buying the labs.
Zuck poached MongoDB's CEO, and MongoDB's stock fell more than 17% — LINK
CJ Desai now runs Meta Enterprise Platform, which bundles Muse, Meta Business Agent, the Muse API and Muse Code. Meta wants a cut of the enterprise AI budgets OpenAI and Anthropic have been splitting.
Anthropic's Mythos found bugs so bad that Epic froze product work for six weeks — LINK
Epic's security chief says some MyChart setups "could allow outsiders to access patient records without recording any intrusion." AI bug hunters now find old holes faster than most teams can patch them.
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OpenAI is reportedly raising $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation — LINK
Bloomberg says the bridge round follows a 70% jump in run-rate revenue since July, to $40 billion in August. The IPO slid to 2027.
An OpenAI safety lead quit, saying the company's "culture is broken" — LINK
David Robinson led safety reports for OpenAI launches for 3.5 years. Days earlier, OpenAI cut ties with three safety researchers over mishandled sensitive information.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 jumped from 10.3% to 70.6% on Terminal-Bench — LINK
Pricing stays at $2/$10 per million tokens. Artificial Analysis measured a higher cost per task at max effort, so test your effort settings before you switch.
Broadcom is lining up $60 billion in debt to build Anthropic's chips — LINK
The package pairs a $42 billion senior tranche with an $18 billion junior tranche led by Blackstone. Compute is now financed like infrastructure.
Factory's CEO accused his own board adviser of spying for Cognition — LINK
Chris Degnan left to become Cognition's CRO, and Vinod Khosla called Factory "a struggling second tier competitor." Check what else your advisers are advising on.
Reddit is killing RSS and its public API because of AI scrapers — LINK
RSS ends November 13 and the public API in March 2027. If your product pulls Reddit data, register your app by January 12.
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Apple is locking down Full Disk Access because of AI agents — LINK
Granting it will take "very explicit user action." If your Mac agent needs broad file access, plan for fewer users saying yes.
Google is shutting down Gems and turning them into skills — LINK
Gems go away November 17 and migrate automatically. If your team runs on custom Gems, test the migrated versions before the switch.
Meta made Muse free for small businesses, with paid tiers on top — LINK
It plugs into 14+ tools including Shopify, Stripe and QuickBooks, and asks for approval before it publishes, sends or spends.
AI coding agents dumped 13,000+ internal screenshots into public GitHub repos — LINK
The PixelLeak exposure spans 300+ organizations, including billing records and unreleased features, mostly in developers' personal accounts. Ask your team where their agents upload images.
ElevenLabs passed a $600 million run rate — LINK
That's up from about $330 million. Its new v4 model clones a voice from 10 seconds of audio in 90 languages, and large companies now drive more than 55% of the business.
McDonald's is using AI to price Big Macs by "willingness to pay" — LINK
Two California stores two miles apart charged $5.69 and $6.89. Five franchisees told Reuters they felt pressure to use the pricing tools.
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Reco raised $55 million after finding 21,000 unknown agents at one Fortune 100 company — LINK
Total funding hits $140 million as agent security startups crowd in. Know which agents run in your stack before a customer asks.
Only 2.2% of consumers pay for AI — LINK
They average $31 a month. Even at Netflix scale, that's about $11 billion a year, under a third of OpenAI's operating costs.
DHH says 37signals is "done writing code by hand" — LINK
The Rails creator told Rails World that hand-coding is "no longer an economically productive enterprise" for most programmers at most companies.
Slovenian domain sales spiked 2,199% after Trump's "super intelligence" order — LINK
About 11,000 new Slovenian domains landed on September 30 alone.
Anthropic says robots can do 74% of physical tasks but pay off on 0.3% — LINK
If robot prices keep falling at past rates, it takes 40 years for that cost-effective share to reach 10%. Model any robotics plan on today's prices.
What I’m thinking about:
When your AI agent goes off script, who takes the blame? — Clip
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-Ryan
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