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AIBending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari says falling software valuations are creating acquisition opportunities as AI reshapes the industry. He says the company benefits from cheaper targets and from using AI to write code, improve products and scale its acquisition model. Bending Spoons says AI now writes at least 90% of its code.

AIRevolut CEO Nik Storonsky says the fintech aims to crack the US market and compete with JPMorgan and American Express. He says Revolut plans a full digital banking offer, from credit cards to loans, and will test AI agents that can shop and transact for users.

AIOpenAI reportedly assured investors it expects to reach a $70 billion annualized revenue target this year, an apparent effort to ease concerns that it is missing earlier projections. The figures matter because they are seen as a gauge of underlying demand for cutting-edge AI models and a justification for huge spending on tech infrastructure. Some analysts, however, say the annualized revenue metric itself is flawed.

AIA company used AWS to migrate its entire COBOL-based central reservation system to microservices. The migration handles 50 million daily availability requests, up from 26 million, with faster response times.

AILenovo's TianxiCode, paired with DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash, ranked first on the SWE-bench-Live Lite leaderboard with a 71% issue resolution rate and passed official Verified review. The framework combines multi-hop retrieval, autonomous planning with multi-turn tool calling, and test-driven self-correction, and will be applied to Lenovo AI hardware products.

AIMeta has released Muse, its A.I. agent app, after delaying it for months over safety concerns. According to the source, new competition pushed Mark Zuckerberg to proceed with the launch.

AIOpenAI says an internal investigation found Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni breached policies on handling sensitive information, and denies the dismissals were tied to their safety concerns. The researchers had published an open letter on Thursday saying they were fired for raising safety concerns and had acted within OpenAI's mission. OpenAI said the investigation found breaches beyond those in the letter but did not provide details.

AIAnthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model, which it says costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5. The author argues Anthropic is the only frontier model builder, though the piece also covers Nous Research's $90 million Series B and OpenAI's revenue discrepancy.

AISophos is using OpenAI's Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of its MDR cases. The source says the approach preserves human oversight.

AISophos says agents built through OpenAI Daybreak, combined with its cybersecurity expertise, cut average response time from 38 minutes to 89 seconds for cases handled by those agents. The company says the agents help its MDR team investigate threats faster and protect customers at scale while keeping human judgment central.

AIJapan's government has called for security checks after a cascade of cyberattacks hit Japanese companies over the past few weeks. The government cited AI tools lowering the barriers to large-scale hacking.

AIFirmus abandoned its attempt at one of Australia's biggest-ever initial public offerings after failing to attract global investors wary of frothy AI valuations. The Nvidia-backed data center company's withdrawal reflects growing investor skepticism toward AI-related companies.

AIOpenAI told investors it expects $50bn in revenue this year, about $20bn less than the $70bn it had signalled last month. The gap stems partly from comparing with Anthropic, which counts revenue sold through cloud partners such as AWS and Google Cloud, while OpenAI does not. The news weighed on US tech stocks, and OpenAI is in early talks to raise $30bn at a valuation of about $1.4tn.

AIOpenAI exposed a Russian and an Iranian influence operation and banned the ChatGPT accounts involved, both of which planted content in legitimate media using fake identities. The Iranian operation, "Bogus Bylines," used seven fake journalists to place nearly 100 articles about the US-Iran conflict, while the Russian "Dark Clark" operation triggered fact-checks and official denials in Ecuador and Peru. Both operations used AI mainly for internal reporting and adapting propaganda to different languages.

AIOpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is rolling out in the API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work, running up to 8x faster than Sol Standard at $12/$60 per million tokens. StepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter MoE model with 27B active parameters, is now on OpenRouter, and JetBrains released the open 12B MoE coding model Mellum2.1 under Apache 2.0.

AIOpenAI has made GPT-6 available to all ChatGPT free and paid users worldwide, replacing GPT-5.6 SOL and GPT-5.6 LUNA. The model integrates Astra safety improvements that strengthen safeguards against misuse in cyber, biological, and violent domains.

AIRichard Yu said more Huawei phones will adopt LogicFolding chips built under the Tau Scaling Law, though no models or timetable were given. He said the Kirin 9050 Pro's performance is 31% higher than its predecessor, and the source outlines a roadmap reaching 5.0 GHz by 2031.

AIShares of Chinese optical chipmakers fell for a second straight session on Friday amid fears of potential US trade curbs on next-generation optical transceivers for data centres. China's CSI 300 Index slid 1.3 per cent by midday to its lowest level since August last year, with upstream laser chip suppliers falling more steeply than downstream transceiver makers.

AIAsia's booming data-center industry faces growing political risk because billions of dollars in investment depend on a few US technology giants, Jardine Matheson's chief executive warned. He said those companies' ability to operate globally could be disrupted by Washington's increasingly unpredictable stance toward China.

AIOpenAI expects to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, according to people familiar with the matter. The company's annualized revenue was roughly $50 billion at the end of September, those people said.

AIDayOne Data Centers Ltd., a Singapore-based company, has held preliminary talks with banks for weeks about a potential $500 million bond offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The discussions are taking place even as the company plans to list in the US.

AIFirmus Grid Ltd. is exploring a private funding round to raise as much as $3 billion after its planned initial public offering collapsed. The data center operator is seeking alternative financing options following the failed IPO.

AITom Watson, now a senior vice-president at Palantir, warned UK ministers against letting "mob rule" dictate public procurement, saying they could get "in a lot of trouble" if they do. The former Labour deputy leader's comments come as Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces pressure to drop Palantir from government contracts, including a £330m NHS software deal.

AIAustralian cloud-computing firm Firmus Grid scrapped its IPO, which had sought a $30 billion valuation. The company had only two operational data centers at the time.

AIOpenAI defended its decision to fire three safety researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, saying they committed a "significant breach of trust." The company said the dismissals were not about the researchers raising safety concerns, though it agreed with the letter they sent to board members and safety committees about preserving the monitorability of frontier models.

AIOpenAI says it parted ways with researchers Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek after an internal investigation found they violated policies on handling sensitive information. The company says the decisions were not about raising safety concerns, which it says it encourages, and that it has not terminated any employee for raising concerns. OpenAI also says it is finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors and will announce details in the coming weeks.

AIGeekPark reports that Krinwave, a Shenzhen company, has completed a new 400 million yuan round with XVC and Sequoia China as new investors. The company says its low-frequency ultrasound captures brain structures through the skull, which conventional high-frequency devices cannot, and it aims to supply hardware and its kOS software platform to brain-computer interface and NeuroAI groups.

AIChina's tech hardware shares are falling rapidly after strong gains earlier this year, as doubts over the global AI trade make high-valuation names especially vulnerable. The selloff reflects growing valuation concerns in the sector.

AIMusician Grimes has announced a new album titled Psy Opera, described as AI-inspired. The announcement was shared via a Pitchfork article linking to the first song from the record.

AIAsia's largest software outsourcing provider said new US curbs on visa-based immigration will not affect its hiring or business strategy. The company did not name itself in the source text, and the summary avoids adding details beyond that statement.

AISoftBank Group Corp. is seeking to raise as much as $100 billion from Gulf investors to expand its AI investments, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The report did not specify the timing or terms of the proposed fundraising.

AIXPENG has named its robotaxi business XPENG YOYO and launched a ride-hailing mini program that lets invited members of the public test the service. The company says its first production robotaxi, based on the flagship GX model, rolled off the line in May 2026, and it has completed more than 2,000 internal test rides in Guangzhou. XPENG says YOYO uses four in-house Turing AI chips delivering 3,000 TOPS, a second-generation VLA model, and a vision-based approach without high-definition maps or LiDAR.

AIAdo Kukic posted a salute emoji reacting to Anthropic's launch of OSS Scanner, which uses frontier models to periodically scan opted-in open-source projects for vulnerabilities at no cost. The reports include a proof-of-concept, explanation, and suggested fix.

AIAnthropic has paused the Claude Team plan and $1,000 API credit offers for its Claude Startups program after underestimating demand, with hundreds of thousands of applicants. Claimed offers will remain in accounts, but some approved applicants who had not yet claimed their offers will lose access as applications are re-reviewed. Startup Stack and Applied AI office hours remain available to accepted members.

AIOpenAI's most senior Asia-Pacific public policy executive is leaving after six months in the role, according to a person familiar with the matter. The departure comes as the ChatGPT maker faces regulatory scrutiny in the region.