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)
Davis Giangiulio / CNBC : Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event contrac…
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)
Financial Times : Docs: OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $5…
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)
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch : Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly l…
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)
Olivia Moore / Andreessen Horowitz : A look at consumer AI trends: ChatGPT has 3x mo…
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)
Bloomberg : Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and representatives from Anthro…
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)
Owen Dahlkamp / Politico : Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-at…
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)
Chandni Shah / Reuters : In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its …
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)
Financial Times : DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment grou…
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)
David Robinson / The Atlantic : David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lac…
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)
Grace Kay / The Information : Sources: SpaceX's AI unit held talks about leasin…
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)
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg : Sources: Anthropic could start formal marketing for…
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)
Chris Metinko / Axios : Miter, which provides workforce management tools for the co…
A live blog of the OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote, where Sam Altman is expected to announce ChatGPT and Codex updates (Engadget)
Engadget : A live blog of the OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote, where Sam Altman is expec…
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)
Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google says it will migrate Gems, which let users create cu…
Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety incidents, risks of removing guardrails while testing 10x-larger future models, a cross-industry safety body, more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : Q&A with Mustafa Suleyman on recent AI safety inc…
A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's $124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~$170M to safety initiatives (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal : A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic'…
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune : Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korea…
A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters : A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico re…
Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed (Politico)
Politico : Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new mod…
Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab (Robert Hart/The Verge)
Robert Hart / The Verge : Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzym…
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