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SpaceX's Form 8-K describes a binding commitment letter for a master finance lease with an Apollo-managed entity, with about $40 billion in expected principal payments. The fixed rate is still to be set.
26 Oct 2026Microsoft told staff on Monday 26 October about a Voluntary Exit Offer for eligible employees in the US, Canada, India and the UK. Around 60,000 people are eligible, though only some teams are taking part.
26 Oct 2026OpenAI says its latest models are stronger at migrating COBOL, and BleepingComputer reports OpenAI's figures showing far higher migration accuracy than GPT-5.6 Sol. Academics who spoke to The Verge say the test leaves out much of what makes replacing legacy systems hard.
26 Oct 2026OpenAI's changelog confirms an 80% cut to GPT-5.6 Luna, and Anthropic says Opus 5.5 costs 40% less than Opus 5 on typical workloads. Former BuzzFeed data scientist Max Woolf sets out why.
26 Oct 2026Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok says flat margins and revenue per worker outside the Mag 7 show no AI payoff yet. Here is what the note shows and where it is thin.
26 Oct 2026The Verge reports Microsoft saying its Diagnostic Orchestrator can diagnose up to four times more accurately than human doctors. Here are the new figures and how they compare with Microsoft's 2025 preprint.
25 Oct 2026Both companies' boards have formed special committees to look at a possible combination, according to Elon Musk and both companies' filings. Neither filing describes an agreed price, structure or timetable.
25 Oct 2026Google's Gemini 4 Argon launch post puts a 1M-token figure on output. The model card describes a combined input-output window of up to 1M. Here is what each Google page says.
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