Banks Tell Your AI Agent It Can Look at the Money but Not Touch the Money
JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and Schwab are restricting outside agents from customer accounts, in a policy best summarized as a museum rope.
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SpaceXSI Bundles Grok, Cursor and a Blue Checkmark Into One Subscription Called 'The X Subscription'
Five tiers from free to $200 a month, one shared pool of AI usage, and a company name that now contains the word 'Super Intelligence.'
USA Today Co. Sues OpenAI for More Than $250 Million, Citing 19 Publications and a Project Named 'Mango'
The complaint alleges training on hundreds of thousands of articles and summaries that substitute for the originals; the court has ruled on none of it.
The Company That Ranks AI Models Is Now Worth $3.1 Billion, Ranks Them on Lying Too
Arena nearly doubled its valuation in under a year and launched an Alignment Index that scores agents on unauthorized actions and pretending to finish their work.
Manus Raises $500 Million After Being Acquired, Un-Acquired, and Asked to Delete Some Homework
The AI-agent startup's first round since the Meta deal was unwound comes with new lead investors, an undisclosed valuation, and an app that gives your agent its own phone number.
Natura's $99 Ring Lets You Summon Five Different AI Agents With One Finger, Then Bills You $9 a Month
The Interface ring routes tasks between Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot and Instinct, tracks your heart rate, and, per the company, costs about as much to build as an Oura.
An Engineer Rebuilt Elizabeth Holmes's Desk as a Website, and the Blood-Testing Machine Finally Works (Not for Medical Use)
Theranos.world lets you open a 2016 MacBook, scroll an iPhone with a home button, and run a simulated Edison, all built from real trial exhibits, to promote document-parsing software and a documentary screening.
Nvidia Pledges $1 Billion to U.S. Science, a Sum The Register Calculates at One-Sixtieth of a Quarter's Profit
Five years, one billion dollars, a Washington event, and a footnote about fractions.
OpenAI's Revenue Is $20 Billion Smaller Than the Number Everyone Repeated, Nasdaq Notices Within Half an Hour
The $70 billion run rate came from investors comparing OpenAI to Anthropic; OpenAI says it's closer to $50 billion, and the two companies count differently.
DeepSeek's Funding Round Reportedly Outgrew Its Target, and the Company Did Not Say No
Bloomberg reports the Chinese lab is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan from Tencent, CATL and others, a number that keeps growing for the best possible reason.
Google's '3.6 Gigawatt Nuclear Deal' Is 890 Megawatts of New Power and a Very Large Rounding Habit
The Constellation agreement is real, big, and mostly about squeezing more output from reactors that already exist — which is less cinematic than the headline suggested.
ChatGPT to Fill Image-Generation Wait Time With Ads, Finally Giving the Loading Bar a Job
OpenAI will test labeled visual ads during ChatGPT image generation later this month in the US, as the chatbot reaches 1.2 billion weekly users and an ad stack with at least ten measurement partners.
Reflection AI, Valued at $25 Billion, Prepares to Ship Its First Open-Weight Model, Which Is Expected to Be Slightly Worse Than the Closed Ones
Nvidia-backed Reflection is reportedly about to release an open model pitched as a Western alternative to DeepSeek and Qwen, backed by $7 billion in committed compute and a single shipped product.
Report: Inspur's U.S. Subsidiary Exported Billions in Nvidia-Equipped Servers to Southeast Asia
The New York Times reported that Aivres, whose parent is on the Entity List but which is not itself listed, shipped at least $5.6 billion in technology, including more than $3 billion in Blackwell-equipped computers.
Anthropic's IPO Filing Asks for $2 Trillion and Devotes 80 Pages to the Possibility of Human Extinction
The prospectus reportedly targets a valuation above $2 trillion, discloses a $42 billion 2025 net loss, and warns of 'catastrophic or existential risk to humanity' as a risk factor, next to customer concentration.
Nscale Raises $3.36 Billion Ahead of Its IPO, $1 Billion of It From Nvidia, Which Is Also Its Supplier
The British data-center builder closed a convertible round led by Third Point, with Nvidia's tranche due in mid-November, ahead of a NYSE listing it hopes will raise $3 billion at a $35 billion valuation.
AMD Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club on the Strength of a Bet Nobody's Cashed Yet
AMD stock is up 185% this year and just crossed a $1 trillion market cap, on data-center revenue about one-thirteenth the size of Nvidia's. Wall Street is pricing the GPU market AMD might win, not the one it currently has.
AI Data Center Gives Up on the Power Grid, Signs 20-Year Lease With the Plant Next Door
Facing a four-to-seven-year wait to connect to the Texas grid, a data center developer instead built next to a gas plant and signed directly with it — a workaround so common it now has its own acronym and its own equity stake for the utility.
Google Gives Gemini a Buy Button, Just in Time for Nobody to Know Who Handles Returns
Google is testing direct Flipkart checkout inside Gemini and AI Mode in India ahead of the festive shopping season. The button works. The commission, the refund process, and whether Amazon gets one too remain a thrilling surprise.
Startup Founded by Ex-Anthropic Staff to Build AI That Improves Itself Is Already Improving Its Valuation
Mirendil has no public product, a mission statement about AI researching AI, and a valuation that went from $1 billion to a requested $5 billion in three months — which is either the market pricing in the future or pricing in the founders' old badges.
A Former Bitcoin Mining Company Is About to Pull Off Australia's Second-Biggest IPO Ever
Firmus Technologies pivoted from crypto mining to AI data centers in 2019, and is now seeking a $50 billion valuation with a co-CEO who did two years for insider trading and a lead investor who is also its chip supplier and revenue-sharing partner.
Amazon Will Let Claude Run Your Store. It Will Not Let Claude Buy Anything From One.
Amazon opened Seller Central's APIs to outside AI agents like Claude this week — the same week it blocked Meta's shopping agent, Muse, from buying anything on Amazon at all.
Two Companies You've Probably Never Heard Of Are Suddenly Worth $41 Billion Combined
Modal Labs tripled its valuation to $15 billion in four months and Baseten doubled to $26 billion in three, because investors just noticed that running AI models costs more than building them.
Meta Bet AI Would Replace Middle Managers; Its AI Division Needs Middle Managers
Having flattened its org chart and cut thousands of management jobs partly on the promise that AI would absorb the coordination work, Meta is now asking employees inside its AI division to please go back to managing people.
Qualcomm Pays Amazon $4 Billion in Stock for the Privilege of Amazon Maybe Buying Its Chips
A multi-generation AI chip deal comes with a warrant for 25 million Qualcomm shares, vesting only if Amazon actually places up to $60 billion in orders it is under no obligation to place.
Nvidia Buys the One AI Company That Wasn't Nvidia's Yet
For $12.9 billion, the company that already makes the chips, funds the data centers, and holds the leases now owns the open-source hub 18 million developers use — and it would like everyone to know it will remain 'open.'
Stripe Buys the Toll Booth on the AI Highway; Everyone Was Already Driving Through It
The payments company that started with a checkout button will pay $7 billion for the neutral switchboard that eight million developers route their AI traffic through — a 5x markup in the ninety days since anyone last checked the price.
Nvidia Asks Six Richest Firms on Earth for Half a Trillion Dollars; None Say No
Jensen Huang approached exactly six financial institutions about mobilizing $500 billion for AI infrastructure and went six for six, a conversion rate previously achieved only by gravity.
Meta Ships a Coding Agent, Offers 12x Discount If It Can Read Your Code
Muse Code arrives with a 1M-token context window, 24-hour autonomous runs, and a 'contributor tier' that is cheaper in the way that free samples at the grocery store are free.
OpenAI Hits a Billion Users, Celebrates by Charging Almost Nothing
One billion active users, 80% price cuts, and a global race to the bottom so intense that China's government has formally asked its AI industry to please stop.