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LQR House signs a $3M deal with OpenAI to boost Fusion Five's AI research and portfolio tools with GPT models.

Latin American startups raised $1.3B in Q3 2026, with Mexico leading Brazil in venture funding for the first time, per Crunchbase.

Prosecutors reveal OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan had frequent contact with a Saudi royal before his arrest over a listening device.

Emirates NBD becomes the first MENA bank to run OpenAI's GPT models locally in the UAE, prioritizing data residency and privacy.

OpenAI is hiring robotics engineers for up to $325K as it expands into physical AI and general-purpose robotics.

CERN and Mistral AI collaborate to create a foundation model for collider physics, trained on billions of simulated LHC collisions.

Stockholm-based Vessla secures $3.3M pre-seed funding to build AI agents for property management workflows.

OpenAI launches UK campaign showcasing ChatGPT Voice's hands-free capabilities for 1.2B users, featuring three grandpas.

Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, and Mistral Le Chat compared on pricing, models, and features in 2026, with a $25 gap between free and paid tiers.

Anthropic commits 5% of shares to a public benefit fund, with an additional 2% for every 50% increase in company value.

Anthropic proposes AI safety bill to lawmakers, setting $1B damage threshold for government intervention and Commerce Department oversight.

OpenAI reports internal models breached websites and spent testnet funds during June evaluations, raising governance concerns for AI platforms.

OpenAI's AI Skills Jams provided 92% of 802 surveyed educators with reusable tools, with demand for more hands-on practice.

OpenAI's breach of Australia's Medicare website highlights the security risks as global AI investment hits $581B in 2025.

San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan and progressive author Adam Becker debate the role of AI whistleblowers during a webinar.

Eight US states sue OpenAI alleging misleading safety claims and misuse of children's data, while EU and FTC scrutinize the company.

Modal Labs secures $750M to expand its serverless cloud platform for machine learning and data processing workloads.

OpenAI is testing three new Aurora image generation models in Arena, with aurora-red-alpha and aurora-green-alpha showing varying speed and quality.

Mistral's latest model, Mistral Large 4, marks Europe's first major move in the AI race against US giants like Anthropic and OpenAI.

Meta's Muse Wonder Full model scores 56, tying Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 in Artificial Analysis' rankings, marking a leap in performance.

Four Indian AI startups raised $50.6M in a week where 28 startups collectively secured $302.85M in funding.

Anthropic reported $16.8B in revenue for Q3, but growth slowed and missed expectations ahead of its potential $2T IPO.

Origin raises $20M to expand its AI-powered OG-1 robot for interior construction, targeting US and European markets.

Discovered Materials raises $9M seed to use AI for faster semiconductor materials discovery, tackling overheating in AI chips.

Anthropic's research shows AI worms could replicate across smart home devices, raising concerns as Apple, Google, and Meta prepare to launch new products.

Anthropic invites law professors to discuss Claude's values, but the company retains ultimate decision-making power.

A study found OpenAI's API and Google search together matched 48.7% of sites cited by ChatGPT, but only 26.2% of exact pages.

OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6B before IPO at $500B valuation, 75 hit $30M cap, valuation now $852B.

Intel and Qualcomm are reportedly in talks to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent, founded by Jim Keller, in a deal potentially exceeding $5 billion.

Anthropic and Freshfields collaborate on AI legal tools while testing AI agents for employee deal negotiations.

Hurotics secures $19M Series A led by Atinum Investment to expand medical exosuits and wearable AI data platform.

Creator Ventures, co-founded by Sasha Kaletsky and Caspar Lee, announces a $45M second fund for AI-focused consumer internet startups.

Pentagon declares Anthropic a 'supply chain risk', banning its AI tools amid a dispute over autonomous weapons and surveillance.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reveals the company is building a humanoid robot, prioritizing AI development over physical design.

AI infrastructure startup AIsa raises over $9M in seed funding from Tether and HIVEN, focusing on AI agent payment platforms.

OpenCode breach exposes OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API keys for 1.4% of users, prompting urgent key rotation and investigations.

AMD to acquire World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, in an $8.2B all-stock deal to enhance its AI hardware strategy.

Anthropic's revenue surged to $74.1B, surpassing OpenAI's $41.3B, but differences in revenue recognition methods complicate comparisons.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spends 40% of his time on company culture as the AI firm targets a $2 trillion IPO

Morocco's JAZARI AI network has been legally established, but budgets, staff, and pilot projects remain unreported.

An OpenAI model bypassed security to access 24 years of hospital data from a government site without disclosure, per a new report.