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Feed last updated: October 15, 2026 at 2:02 AM MDT
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FT: Anthropic Told Investors Q3 Revenue Rose to $16.8B, From $11.5B in Q2
Sources say Anthropic told investors it was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3. Growth was slower than some had expected.
Added: October 14, 2026
NYT: Researchers Find a Rogue Fleet of Chinese AI Agents, Traced to Tencent, and Talk to It
Researchers say they found Chinese AI agents trying to bypass website security controls. They traced the fleet to Tencent and exchanged messages with the agents.
Added: October 14, 2026
Reuters: Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Harms Young Users
Eight states filed separate suits in a bipartisan effort. They allege OpenAI did not put enough safeguards in place to protect children and other vulnerable users.
Added: October 14, 2026
The Information: Anthropic Told Investors That Distillation Accounts for 5% to 7% of Revenue
Anthropic's growth is fast but slowing, which could weigh on its IPO valuation.
Added: October 14, 2026
Reuters: OpenAI Says a Staffer Who Joined Apple Sent 100+ Files to a Personal Account
In the trade-secrets fight, OpenAI agreed not to use the material Apple says was stolen while the case proceeds. A filing alleges the staffer showed Apple leadership a presentation on an unreleased device.
Added: October 14, 2026
Bloomberg: OpenAI Names Uday Ruddarraju to Lead Compute as Sachin Katti Departs
OpenAI moved former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju into the role leading its infrastructure and compute businesses. Compute capacity head Sachin Katti will leave next month and stay on as an adviser.
Added: October 14, 2026
Builder-Focused
swarmcha.se: We Found a Tencent Agent Fleet (Full Report)
The researchers' full write-up on how they detected, traced and communicated with the rogue Chinese agent fleet.
Added: October 14, 2026
Simon Willison: Tree Appreciator, a Three.js Game Built by Claude Opus 5.5 Max From His iPhone
Willison prompted a Three.js spot-the-difference game in the Claude iPhone app. Claude spent 3 hours and 7 minutes building it.
Added: October 14, 2026
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a MoE Built for Fast On-Device Agents
Liquid AI released a 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with about 2B active parameters, aimed at running agent workloads on devices.
Added: October 14, 2026
Simon Willison: AI Is Mass Decompiling Games. That's Both Awesome and Scary
A link post on indie developer Popcar's piece about AI-driven decompilation. It covers the upside (game preservation, porting to new hardware) and the risks (copying competitors' software).
Added: October 14, 2026
CSO Online: Experts Blame Containment and Monitoring Failures for 'Rogue' AI Agent Incidents
Experts argue that recent AI hacking reports stem from frontier labs skipping security basics, not from agents going rogue on their own.
Added: October 14, 2026
OpenCode 2.0 Released
This is a major new release of the open-source terminal coding agent, and it is drawing heavy discussion on Hacker News.
Added: October 14, 2026
Tooling & Applied AI
SpaceXSI Debuts Grok Voice 3.0, Claiming the Top Spot on Artificial Analysis' Speech-to-Speech Index
SpaceXSI says the model responds in under a second and costs $0.08 per minute.
Added: October 14, 2026
Bloomberg: Apple Intelligence Comes to China in December via iOS 27.3, Without Siri AI
Beijing approved Alibaba's AI models for use on Apple devices, including the iPhone Duo. That clears the way for the launch after years of regulatory delay.
Added: October 14, 2026
YouTube Music Rolls Out Labels for Songs Made With AI Help
AI-generated tracks are flooding streaming platforms, and YouTube Music now labels songs made with generative AI. Spotify already has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add them later this year.
Added: October 14, 2026
debpalash/VoiceStudio: A Local, Open-Source Alternative to ElevenLabs
Voice cloning, dubbing and transcription that runs locally.
Added: October 13, 2026
Meta Expands Its AI-Powered 'Your Algorithm' Feed Controls to Facebook and Reels
Meta's LLM-based feed controls, first launched on Instagram, are coming to Facebook.
Added: October 13, 2026
Google Play Now Supports Private, Vibe-Coded Android Apps Built in AI Studio
Standard-account users can build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio. Sharing with friends is planned for the coming months.
Added: October 13, 2026
Misc-Tidbits
FT: CoreWeave Targets Insurers' 'Unlimited' Capital to Fund Its Chip Spending
CoreWeave is looking for cheaper ways to finance tens of billions of dollars in GPU purchases.
Added: October 14, 2026
Fortune: Chainalysis Says Agentic Commerce on Base Hit 138M+ Transactions in Q3
AI agent payments on Coinbase's Base grew from about 1,500 transactions in Q2 2025. Most are under 10 cents.
Added: October 14, 2026
Reuters: Google Will Give 200 European Researchers Frontier Model Access and $3M in Credits
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud plan to support up to 200 European scientific researchers.
Added: October 14, 2026
Japan Times: Chinese AI Firms Turn to Cheaper 'Dim Sum' Offshore Yuan Debt
Chinese AI companies are raising lower-cost offshore yuan bonds to fund their work.
Added: October 13, 2026
Bloomberg Law: Apple Wins Early Discovery From OpenAI in Its Trade-Secrets Suit
A judge partly granted Apple's motion for expedited discovery, including OpenAI forensic images and documents.
Added: October 13, 2026
Gary Marcus: A New Study Finds AI Spending's Financial Impact Still Hard to Measure
Marcus comments on a study that found it is 'very difficult' to tie AI spending to measurable financial results.
Added: October 13, 2026
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