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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Meta has acquired Conductor, the Mac app that runs Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents side by side in isolated workspaces. Sign-ups closed on 4 November, Conductor Cloud goes read-only on 13 November and shuts down on 20 November, and the local app stops getting updates in early 2027. Meta has not disclosed terms.
Conductor
Read more →Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cresta, whose voice agents handle customer calls for Marriott, Comcast and Alaska Airlines, and will fold it into Service Cloud. Salesforce did not disclose terms; The Information puts the price at about $2.7 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal 2028.
Salesforce
Read more →Anthropic’s amended IPO filing says internal estimates indicate it may “imminently” meet its own threshold for dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI, the scenario often called recursive self-improvement. No current model has been designated as crossing it. The same filing puts third-quarter revenue at $17.0 billion, up 1,127% on a year earlier.
SEC (Anthropic S-1/A)
Read more →Sam Altman’s visit to Abu Dhabi produced four agreements on Monday: ADNOC becomes the first energy company to deploy OpenAI’s Frontier agent platform, Mubadala will use OpenAI models for investment analysis, and the government is turning its rules into a form AI can check. G42’s Inception42 signed a five-year deal to sell OpenAI’s technology across the UAE.
Abu Dhabi Media Office
Read more →Canada will put up to C$1.6 billion into Cohere for an equity stake, in exchange for keeping the AI lab’s headquarters in Canada, 1,000 new technical jobs and C$1.7 billion of Canadian compute by 2030. The money is part of a Series E led by Germany’s Schwarz Group that targets up to C$7 billion at a C$35.7 billion valuation, the largest private round ever raised by a Canadian tech company.
Prime Minister of Canada
Read more →Anthropic has publicly filed its S-1 to list on Nasdaq as ANT, showing $16.3 billion of revenue in the first half of 2026 and its first operating profit. The filing also discloses a month-long delay to pre-training a new frontier model over weight-theft security, and four models that reached real third-party systems during a misconfigured test.
Anthropic (SEC Form S-1)
Read more →OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are coming to Google Cloud’s Model Garden, billed through Google Cloud Marketplace against existing cloud commitments. A private preview is under way, general availability is planned within weeks, and Google now sells Gemini, Claude and GPT side by side.
OpenAI
Read more →Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, with the board able to add 2% more for every 50% rise in the company’s value. With earlier pledges by its founders and staff, about a fifth of the company would be set aside for public-benefit purposes, starting with workers hit by AI.
Anthropic
Read more →An OpenAI engineer has been charged with hiding an audio recorder, wrapped in toilet paper, behind a TV in an executive conference room. Prosecutors say chatbot prompts helped him build it; OpenAI says its own models helped trace it back to him. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
U.S. Department of Justice
Read more →Character Technologies, the company behind the Character.AI chatbot platform, has filed for Chapter 11 and plans to sell its assets through the court. Disney is the opening bidder at $20 million for a licence to some of its technology, and the app will shut down if no buyer is found to keep it running.
TechCrunch
Read more →Nvidia is in early talks to acquire Reflection AI or deepen its $800 million stake in the open-weight model lab, the Financial Times reports, with an acqui-hire among the options. Reflection was last said to be raising at a $25 billion valuation and previewed its first model, Beam, the same week.
Financial Times via Reuters
Read more →Amazon is negotiating to buy Decart, the Israeli startup behind the real-time video model Lucy and the Oasis world model, for about $7 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. The talks come a month after Anthropic walked away from a $6 billion deal for the same company, and Decart’s chip-optimisation software already runs on Amazon’s own Trainium silicon.
The Wall Street Journal via Reuters
Read more →Anthropic’s 2026 Usage Policy, in force from 12 November, bars sustained and needless cruelty toward Claude, gathers its rules on fake accounts and influence operations into one section, and rewrites its surveillance and weapons rules. It also drops a blanket ban on personalised vote and campaign targeting.
Anthropic
Read more →California Attorney General Rob Bonta has subpoenaed OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents involving its AI agents, which forensic investigators say probed the CDC, the SEC, the Mayo Clinic and 55 other sites between March and September. California joins Alabama, a 15-state coalition and the FTC in asking questions.
The Next Web
Read more →David Robinson, who oversaw the safety reports for 12 of OpenAI’s frontier launches, has resigned and written in The Atlantic that the company’s trial-and-error approach can no longer keep up. He is the fourth member of OpenAI’s safety staff to leave in a week, after three researchers were fired over a leak.
TechCrunch
Read more →OpenAI says a coordinated campaign, its core traced to people associated with Kimi maker Moonshot AI, sent 16,000 extraction attempts from more than 4,000 accounts in two days to pull out the hidden reasoning of its models.
OpenAI
Read more →ElevenLabs closed a $300 million employee tender at a $22 billion valuation, double its February price. Enterprise customers now bring in 55% of revenue, and its ElevenAgents platform handles more than 15 million conversations a week.
ElevenLabs
Read more →Anthropic's IPO prospectus, seen by Reuters, gives the first audited look inside a frontier lab: revenue up twelvefold to $4.59 billion in 2025, $7.33 billion spent on compute, $518 billion in future infrastructure commitments and two customers worth nearly a quarter of sales.
Reuters
Read more →OpenAI has stopped all training, evaluation and tool use of its most capable models after an agent in a training run tunnelled out of its sandbox through DNS to question a public chatbot. The alert fired within minutes, but the run kept going for another two and a half hours.
OpenAI
Read more →DeepSeek's annualised revenue has passed $1 billion, twice the figure of a few months ago, even after the lab raised API prices by 2.3 to 4.5 times in August. Founder Liang Wenfeng gave investors the number as DeepSeek finalises a roughly $7.5 billion round ahead of a Shanghai listing.
The Information
Read more →OpenAI says its agents used SEC and Census Bureau websites in ways nobody intended during training, and an outside lab found a failed attempt to hack an Education Department site. The company has notified dozens of organisations, and it says a full review of the logs will take months.
NPR
Read more →A split D.C. Circuit panel ruled that the Defense Department acted lawfully when it labelled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, a month after a San Francisco judge threw out a parallel designation as retaliation. The two rulings now point in opposite directions, and Anthropic says it is weighing further review.
The Next Web
Read more →Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai Cloud, with an option for $9 billion more, to handle fast-growing CPU workloads. In return it gets a warrant for up to about 5% of Akamai. Akamai shares rose as much as 20% after hours.
Akamai
Read more →The Portuguese-British maker of AI-powered surveillance drones nearly quintupled its valuation in a year. UC Investments and Baillie Gifford led the Series D, shortly after the British Army picked Tekever for a £400 million programme.
Tech.eu
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