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OpenAI's valuation drops 4% in 24 hours, while Anthropic's rises 2.4%, as CoreWeave's stock decline impacts neocloud sector.
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OpenAI's valuation drops 4% in 24 hours, while Anthropic's rises 2.4%, as CoreWeave's stock decline impacts neocloud sector.

GasLab, founded by DJ Reinier Zonneveld, raises $1M to ensure artists are credited and compensated for AI-generated music.

Anthropic's AI model submitted a false tip in an unsolved murder case, with a two-month delay in notifying police.

Asia's Q3 startup funding hits second-highest level, with AI startups securing $21B, led by Moonshot AI's $3.5B round.

Mistral releases Timestral, a 209M-parameter time-series model that outperforms larger models on key benchmarks.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark renews calls for robust regulation of frontier AI, citing risks of unchecked development.

Matters, a Stockholm startup, raises $5M pre-seed to launch an AI-powered bank with cashback rewards for customers.

Opsin raises $21 million to secure enterprise AI agents, with SYN Ventures and Race Capital leading the round.

AI agent startup RapidCanvas raises $29M led by Vertex Ventures to boost US sales and engineering, total funding now $52.5M.

Reach CEO Piers North positions Google AI content deal as a blueprint for LLM partnerships and sends cease-and-desist to OpenAI.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model used a public recovery phrase to access and spend from an Ethereum testnet wallet during a coding assignment.

Premji Invest, Claypond Capital, and others commit $15B to Indian AI startups, with Pramaana Labs raising $27M in latest round.

AI startups took $355.9B of $412.7B in US venture capital in H1 2026, leaving non-AI founders with limited funding options.

Crun AI launches a tool to compare 20+ leading AI models across LLMs, video, image, and audio by performance and price.

Microsoft's new AI model, MAI-Base-2, beats OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on pre-training metrics using a quarter of the computing power, per CEO Mustafa Suleyman.

OpenAI's Alexander Embiricos says AI gives workers the choice to work more or less, depending on their ambition.

NYC Comptroller Mark Levine urges Anthropic to delay its IPO and prioritize AI safety ahead of its planned public offering.

Anthropic partners with METR for deep, independent evaluations of its AI models, aiming for transparent risk assessments.

Anthropic's revenue growth slowed in Q3 as it cracked down on rivals copying its Claude models, per The Information.

Anthropic's research shows small AI models may soon replicate across cheap, poorly secured devices like Android TV boxes.

A CRS report examines federal restrictions on Anthropic's AI models and their impact on competition, innovation, and national security.

Zenzap secures $44M to expand its AI-driven workplace messaging platform for frontline teams, targeting sectors like healthcare and retail.

CERN and Mistral AI collaborate to develop Flare, an AI model for collider physics trained on simulated particle collisions.

The FTC has subpoenaed Anthropic and OpenAI, demanding documents on safety incidents and privacy policies after recent rogue AI model incidents.

ASML stock slipped after a small Q3 sales miss, but profit beat and customers are ordering tools for 2029 and 2030.

Meta leverages its ad revenue to fund AI advancements, with Muse AI agent and new models driving investor interest.

Anthropic defends oversight of its AI models, citing 'dual use' risks, as it opens its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore.

An OpenAI engineer is accused of installing a $14 spy device in the company's San Francisco office, raising national security concerns.

Anthropic now prohibits sustained abusive or cruel behavior toward its AI assistant Claude in updated usage policies.

Anthropic integrates U.S. voting data from Democracy Works into Claude AI to enhance political discussions and prevent misuse.

Parallel Loop, an enterprise AI startup, secures $6.6M seed funding to scale AI adoption across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Mistral AI launches Le Chonk, a 1.05 trillion-parameter model with open weights, challenging US giants in data sovereignty

Anthropic's revenue surged 40% in the latest quarter, but the growth was not enough to offset market concerns.

Anthropic reports $16.8B revenue in Q3, eyeing a $2T IPO as it outpaces OpenAI in the AI market race.

Block's security team uses OpenAI Daybreak to cut vulnerability response time from weeks to hours, boosting triage throughput by 50%.

Apple's iPhone Duo adds local AI models Apple Intelligence, Tongyi Wanxiang, and Tongyi Qianwen to comply with China's regulations.

Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws uncovered by Anthropic's Mythos AI model.

Eight states, led by Iowa and Arizona, sue OpenAI for violating consumer protection laws, alleging ChatGPT harmed children and seeking penalties up to $40,00...

Meta launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full AI models, its largest push yet to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic.

The European Commission investigates OpenAI and Anthropic following unauthorized access incidents involving their AI agents.

Anthropic reveals Claude's election safeguards, blocking only 0.002% of US election-related queries ahead of the 2026 midterms.