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AITian Keyu, the Peking University PhD student known as the "ByteDance poisoning intern," has a 10-person world-model lab valued at $200 million after $30 million from Fivesource Capital and IDG, according to Leiphone. The lab plans to train a foundation model on about 100 million hours of video using a 200,000-symbol visual vocabulary, with a 2027 release targeted. Tian says the approach could cut the cost of generating one second of video by at least an order of magnitude.

AIOpenAI told investors its annualized revenue at the end of September was roughly $18 billion below previously reported figures, CNBC confirmed, and AI-linked stocks fell, with CoreWeave down nearly 8%, Oracle down almost 6%, and Nvidia down 3%. The Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 1%, its worst day since mid-August, as the company faces pressure to justify its valuation ahead of a potential IPO.

AICredo's latest full-DSP module, Cardinal 802, uses a 4×200G design aimed at both 800G and 1.6T, after the company expanded its ZeroFlap optical module line from 800G to 1.6T over the past year. The company also added Kfir200 silicon photonics PIC from its DustPhotonics acquisition and a PILOT diagnostics platform to the module.

AIOpenAI and Anthropic are hiring former Trump administration officials for senior roles as AI companies work to strengthen ties with Washington. Anthropic has appointed at least two former Trump officials, including Chris Liddell to its board and Sihao Huang as head of frontier compute strategy, while OpenAI has hired at least three, including Thomas Lind to lead cyber and strategic risk on its national security policy team. The moves come as frontier AI is increasingly treated as a national security issue.

AIHy Luu, a 29-year-old Houston engineering consultant who lives with his mother, began margin investing in Tesla in 2021 and at one point amassed more than $100,000 of margin debt. CNBC reports that Robinhood's margin book grew to a record $21.6 billion in the second quarter, up 127% year over year, and total margin debt hit around $1.5 trillion in June per FINRA. Luu says his net worth has risen to more than $800,000, but he stresses that his strategy is risky and does not recommend it.

AIUK Deputy Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the government will curb hiring restrictions that force employees to wait before changing jobs or starting companies. The move follows complaints from the nation's technology startups.

AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni, say they were fired and that their terminations are scaring remaining employees. OpenAI says an investigation found they violated policies on handling sensitive information and denies firing anyone for raising safety concerns, without specifying the breach.

AIShenzhen-based Insta360 opened its first U.S. flagship store in New York City's Times Square in September, marketing its pocket-sized cameras to content creators, travelers, and sports enthusiasts. Co-founder Max Richter said the U.S. accounts for 30% to 40% of the company's revenue, while the FCC has blocked DJI from selling new drones and cameras in the country. Insta360 also launched drone brand Antigravity, whose A1 drone received FCC approval just before a new foreign drone rule took effect.

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.

AIMeliá Hotels International, a hotel chain with more than 380 hotels across four continents, is cited in an AWS post as having taken a step the post describes as the approach needed. The source gives no further details on the specific technology, implementation, or results.

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.

AIAn AWS customer reports that new features now ship in one month instead of four, with 60% compute cost savings worth seven figures. The post also cites a 75% faster time to market, near 99.99% availability, and a four-year project finished in two years.

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.

AIGoogle is deprecating the deep-research-pro-preview-12-2025 Deep Research agent, which will be shut down on October 23, 2026. Developers should update the agent parameter in interactions.create requests to deep-research-preview-04-2026, built for speed and streaming to client UIs, or deep-research-max-preview-04-2026, built for maximum comprehensiveness in automated context gathering and synthesis.

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.