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SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min (SpaceXSI)
Sources: Anduril opens a tender offer of up to ~$1.3B for staff at a ~$90B valuation, available in 16 countries for the first time; it was valued at $61B in May (Bloomberg)
Meta says hackers stole some code and personal data of roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, after compromising some of its GitHub repos (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)
Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks (Meta AI Research)
A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access (CBS News)
Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the US; it already offers some prediction markets internationally (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50B at the end of September, well below the $70B reported by media based on investor docs (Financial Times)
Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026 (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
A look at consumer AI trends: ChatGPT has 3x more US subscribers than Claude or Gemini, the top 1% of spenders drive 19.5% of spend, and AI agents gain traction (Olivia Moore/Andreessen Horowitz)
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta testified at a New York City Council hearing on AI safety (Bloomberg)
Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages (Owen Dahlkamp/Politico)
In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters)
DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's "third-party infrastructure arm" after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed (Financial Times)
David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (David Robinson/The Atlantic)
Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, as it fully embraces the neocloud business despite Musk's initial reluctance (Grace Kay/The Information)
Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for its IPO as soon as the week of November 9, putting it in line to begin trading before Thanksgiving (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the construction industry, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, taking its total funding to $78M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
A live blog of the OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote, where Sam Altman is expected to announce ChatGPT and Codex updates (Engadget)
Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create custom versions of Gemini, to "skills", starting Nov. 17; Google introduced skills with Gemini Spark (Abner Li/9to5Google)