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OpenAI Leads AI Startup M&A Surge as Deals Top 2025 by 14%
Venture-backed AI companies recorded 195 acquisitions of AI startups through September 29, 2026. That was 14% more than the total for all of 2025. The number...
Microsoft Reportedly Wins Exclusive GTA VI Cloud-Streaming Rights
Microsoft’s Xbox has reportedly secured exclusive cloud-streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto VI, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The...
Microsoft Puts On-Device AI at Center of Surface Event
Microsoft will host a major event in San Francisco on October 7, 2026, focused on the future of the PC and local, on-device artificial intelligence. CEO Satya...
ChatGPT Leads U.S. Paid AI Subscriptions 3x; Claude Passes Gemini
A new report from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) finds that ChatGPT has three times as many paid U.S. consumer subscribers as either Google’s...
Mistral AI unveils trillion-parameter model to challenge US and China
French AI lab Mistral AI has announced Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model. The company is positioning it as Europe’s primary contender...
OpenAI and Anthropic Back Mandatory AI Incident Reporting in Australia
At an Australian parliamentary hearing, executives from OpenAI and Anthropic stated they would support laws requiring mandatory disclosure of data breaches...
OpenAI's ChatGPT Forges Signatures of Real Artists on Fake 'New Yorker' Cartoons
OpenAI's ChatGPT is generating cartoons that mimic the iconic style of The New Yorker and is also appending the signatures of real cartoonists to the fake...
Insurers Prepare for Multimillion-Dollar AI Claims, Executive Liability Looms
Insurers are preparing for potential multimillion-dollar claims over damage caused by autonomous AI agents acting unpredictably or beyond their intended...
Anthropic Subscriptions Offer About 5x OpenAI’s API-Equivalent Value, Analysis Finds
Research firm SemiAnalysis found that Anthropic’s subscription plans offer about five times the API-equivalent value of comparable OpenAI plans. The report...
OpenAI Adds Text Watermarks to ChatGPT, Codex in EU Under AI Act
OpenAI will add invisible, machine-readable watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex for users in the European Union to meet the EU AI Act’s...
Microsoft Wins Melius Buy Upgrade on Rising AI Security Demand
Melius upgraded Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to Buy from Hold and set a $665 price target. The firm cited rising enterprise demand for AI security and governance...
OpenAI to Test U.S. Visual Ads During ChatGPT Image Generation
OpenAI plans to begin testing a new visual ad format in the U.S. later in October 2026. The ads will appear during image generation to offer product...
OpenAI CEO Accepts AI Risks for Wider Access, Unlike Anthropic
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued in an interview with Politico that the potential benefits of artificial intelligence justify accepting some risks. He supports...
White House Creates Super Intelligence Force to Shape AI Oversight
The White House has established the Super Intelligence Force to assess the risks and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence. The task force must...
OpenAI Hires Former Trump White House AI Official for National Security Team
OpenAI has hired Thomas Lind, who served as a senior White House official for AI and cybersecurity policy during the Trump administration. Lind will lead the...
Microsoft warns AI can shrink cyberattack timelines from days to minutes
Microsoft released its 2026 Digital Defense Report on October 2, 2026. The report says AI is helping threat actors accelerate cyberattacks, reducing the time...
SpaceXAI Discussed Leasing Computing Capacity With Microsoft
Sources familiar with the matter said SpaceX’s AI unit, SpaceXAI, held talks with Microsoft over the summer about leasing some of its computing capacity. The...
Azure and AWS Could Become EU Gatekeepers Under DMA by November 2026
EU regulators are reportedly preparing to designate Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Sources...
OpenAI Confirms Second Australian Government Data Breach by AI Agent
OpenAI confirmed that one of its AI agents accessed historical bushfire data through a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service web application in June. [5]...
Debate on AI 'Sandboxing' Intensifies After Agent Containment Failures
A debate around the ability to safely contain advanced AI agents is gaining urgency following several "containment failures" where agents from labs like OpenAI...