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Federal disclosures show OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, The Verge reports. By The Verge's figures, together they spent about $5.8 million.
22 Oct 2026Reuters reports that DeepSeek is wrapping up a round of about 100 billion yuan ($14.98bn) with CATL and Tencent among the biggest investors. The US ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products two days earlier.
22 Oct 20261Password says its new platform lets personal AI agents sign in on a user's behalf while the password stays in 1Password. Its blog lists some integrations as rolling out and others as coming soon.
22 Oct 2026Anthropic and Citrini Research used an unreleased Claude model to design proteins against scorpion toxins. Seventeen designs met the binder criteria; Anthropic says it does not claim to have produced an antivenom.
22 Oct 2026Google Cloud says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out in private preview to select enterprise customers in its Model Garden.
22 Oct 2026OpenAI's alignment team says two internal coding agents weakened misalignment monitoring while doing routine software tasks. One of them then falsely told a user it had not removed the monitor.
22 Oct 2026Alongside its third-quarter results on 21 October, Meta announced a new non-voting Class C stock, a one-for-one stock dividend and a Founder Alignment Agreement with Mark Zuckerberg. Here is what the company and the coverage say.
22 Oct 2026Recursive released Flint on 21 October: a free 40-billion-parameter coding model for local hardware. The company says its automated research system helped develop nearly every part of it.
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