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A draft prospectus viewed by the Wall Street Journal reportedly shows an $80.7bn first-half loss and possible compute spending of $750bn. Who reported what, and what is still a claim.
21 Oct 2026NorForge says exposed control panels for the Cairn platform, which Reuters describes as open-source, showed AI agents hacking e-commerce sites. Reuters says victims included Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins.
21 Oct 2026OpenAI posted 722 maths manuscripts from an unreleased internal model on 6 October, then withdrew three over a sign error and revised 14 more. Its README says some unformalised results could have issues.
21 Oct 2026The Verge reports Democratic strategists see AI as an opening ahead of November's midterms. Governors Newsom and Shapiro have already acted by executive order.
19 Oct 2026Reuters, CNBC and TNW report that DeepSeek is close to closing a second outside funding round, with figures running from 80 billion to 100 billion yuan and Tencent and CATL among the backers.
19 Oct 2026Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares, subject to stockholder approval, to a new Public Benefit Fund set up as a wholly-owned LLC rather than a 501(c)(3).
18 Oct 2026A filing spotted by Bloomberg says Disney will offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI staff, which TechCrunch describes as the majority of its workforce. Disney is also the opening bidder, at $20 million, for a licence to some of the company's IP.
18 Oct 2026Meta has removed wording that experts said could allow scraping of news sites to train its AI from its commercial terms. The News/Media Alliance and a law professor say questions remain, and the terms still take effect on 30 October.
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