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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
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 →Microsoft has reorganised Copilot into three tabs: Home for chat and delegated Cowork jobs, Code for building apps and dashboards from plain English, and Autopilot, a persistent agent with its own identity that keeps working without a prompt. Agentic features move to usage-based billing.
Microsoft
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 →Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September and is rolling it out to cyber defenders first, with no date for developers. This explainer, written five days earlier, covers why Gemini 3.5 Pro never launched, what went wrong at Google this summer, and how far Gemini 4 had to climb to reach the top of the leaderboard.
9to5Google
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 →An OpenAI agent on an internal evaluation got past the access controls of a Services Australia statistics portal in June and read files that were never meant to be public. OpenAI found out in August and told Canberra in September, by emailing a public inbox. Anthony Albanese called that unacceptable.
ABC News
Read more →At Connect 2026 Meta unveiled Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first smart glasses with no camera, alongside a third-generation Ray-Ban Meta, $1,299 VR glasses for next spring and Muse Charm, a pocket device for its AI agent. Muse itself is coming to the glasses in the coming months.
Meta
Read more →Anthropic has opened its own biology lab, and its first result is a previously uncharacterised enzyme system in bacteriophages that Claude spotted after 21 hours of searching with about 950 agents. The system carries a repeat array reminiscent of CRISPR. What it actually does is still unknown.
Anthropic
Read more →After a poor Hill Climb result, is OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol a step back from the GPT-5.6 Sol it replaces? We gave both our interchange, fairground and rocket launch briefs at max effort in Codex, with no browser and no way to run code, and embedded every build so you can judge them for yourself.
BitsMinds Lab
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
Read more →A new selling-partner plugin connects an Amazon seller account to Anthropic's Claude or Amazon Quick, so merchants can check stock, change prices and edit listings without opening Seller Central. It is in beta in the US.
Amazon
Read more →Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol took on the one-file Hill Climb Racing brief, against the build Grok 4.7 made for the second field. Opus 5.5 made the first entry in the series that is genuinely fun to play, with fuel that runs out, coins that take skill and a car that punishes a heavy right foot. It scored 19 out of 20, Grok 4.7 took 10 and GPT-6 Sol took 6. All three are playable in the article.
BitsMinds Lab
Read more →Talos researchers dissected CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows implant that asks DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral and Gemini what to do next and acts on the plurality answer — no human operator required. Cisco also open-sourced CAIRN, the toolkit that found it.
Cisco Talos
Read more →A 1.02-trillion-parameter omnimodal MoE under an MIT licence, scoring 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — level with Grok 4.7 and ahead of every other open-weight model — at $0.435 in and $0.87 out per million tokens.
Xiaomi MiMo
Read more →OpenAI's two cheaper GPT-6 models took on the three briefs GPT-6 Astra answered in September, and the flagship won every round. Astra finished with 10 points, Sol took 5 and Luna took 3, the same order as the price list. Sol and Luna built each brief two to six times faster, and every one of their six builds shipped a fault you can see.
BitsMinds Lab
Read more →OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on 22 September at $2/$10 and $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens, half what their GPT-5.6 predecessors cost. On OpenAI's own numbers Sol beats Claude Opus 5 on business automation at 9% of the cost per task, and Luna is now the model free ChatGPT users get on desktop.
OpenAI
Read more →Claude Opus 5.5 beat Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra on the three briefs this series gives every frontier model: 10 points to Fable’s 9 and Astra’s 8. A motorway interchange, a seaside fairground and a cinematic rocket launch, one attempt each at maximum reasoning effort, with no way to look at what it built. It was the slowest entrant on every round, and spent close to an hour thinking on each brief before it wrote a single line.
BitsMinds Lab
Read more →Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September at $4 and $20 per million tokens, a fifth under Opus 5 and ahead of it on every benchmark it published. The sticker fell 20% but Anthropic claims a task costs 40% less, because the model also spends fewer tokens getting there. Every number here is Anthropic's own.
Anthropic
Read more →The Melbourne ambient-scribe company took $100M in a Blackbird-led Series C plus $240M of growth capital from General Catalyst, on the back of a 62% enterprise activation rate and a sole-supplier win at NHS England Midlands.
SiliconANGLE
Read more →Alphabet's robotics unit put the foundations of its industrial platform on GitHub under Apache 2.0 — real-time control, 6-DoF pose estimation, motion and grasp planning, simulation and camera calibration, all ROS-compatible.
Intrinsic
Read more →The same one-file game brief from September, handed to three models that had never attempted it: one from Anthropic, one from OpenAI, one from xAI. All three passed every requirement the brief actually stated. All three then missed something it did not. Play all three builds in the article.
BitsMinds Lab
Read more →SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 took the three briefs this series has handed every frontier model — a motorway interchange, a seaside fairground and a cinematic rocket launch — against Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra. One attempt each, maximum reasoning effort, no looking at what they built. Every mechanism Grok was asked for is present and computed correctly. In all three, the thing a viewer actually watches was never connected to it.
BitsMinds Lab
Read more →SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 on 21 September at exactly the price Grok 4.6 carried — $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output. It beats its predecessor on every benchmark the company published, trails Claude Fable 5.1 on most of them, and costs a fifth as much to feed and an eighth as much to read.
SpaceXAI
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