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AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, say they were fired last week for prioritizing safety over OpenAI's corporate interests, and published a letter to leadership. OpenAI reportedly says the three mishandled confidential information, while Korbak, who was the company's main technical contact with METR, says the dispute centered on his communications with METR.

AISpaceX is buying spectrum licenses to build a mobile network that would compete with major telecom companies. The source provides no further details on the licenses' cost, timing, or network specifications.

AIAutonomous vehicle companies in China see a large market opportunity in delivering goods after dark, according to the article. The article says that opportunity depends on overcoming technical challenges, but the source does not specify which challenges or report any deployments.

AIMeta has banned advertisements from ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, on its platforms in the US. The move intensifies competition with the popular short-video app.

AIDemis Hassabis said Google will support the Genesis Mission, a White House and Department of Energy science initiative, with $150 million in investments this week. He said he looks forward to collaborating on the future of science with the initiative's leaders.

AISpaceX announced an agreement to buy a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio from Grain Management, subject to FCC approval. The license covers up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum and is intended to help Starlink become a major US mobile carrier. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile shares fell in extended trading after the announcement.

AIFirmus Technologies withdrew its application to list on the ASX after investor demand for its AI datacentre business failed to materialise. The company had an anticipated $44bn valuation and planned to raise $7bn ahead of a 23 October listing, and will now seek private capital instead.

AIPresident Trump presented the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation to tech leaders including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella and Michael Dell at a Washington summit called the Golden Age of American Innovation. Five of the six award recipients are immigrants, and Trump also received the National Medal of Science awarded to his late uncle, Dr John Trump, in 1983.

AIElad Gil posted an enthusiastic reaction to Hone's blog post "Closing the Gap," which discusses improving AI's real-world value. The post is brief and offers no concrete product details, figures, or benchmarks beyond the linked material.

AIBaiju Bhatt, founder and CEO of Cowboy Space, says the company is developing an energy grid in orbit. Its first satellite, Reason 1, reached orbit on a SpaceX rideshare, and the team is communicating with it daily.

AIAlphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs is reportedly in early-stage talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of $40 billion to $50 billion, according to Bloomberg, which did not specify the round's size. Isomorphic's flagship AI platform, IsoDDE, is designed to automate binding pocket discovery, which it says is more than 50% better than the closest competing tool, and it models antibody interactions about 2.3 times better than AlphaFold. The company earns revenue through research partnerships with Eli Lilly, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson.

AIArena's account of its continued work with The House Fund is a short acknowledgment with no product, figures, or new details. Read alongside the linked background, it sits in the context of Arena's $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation and its Alignment Index for frontier models.

AIArena, which began in a small room in Berkeley's Soda Hall and now has about 90 people, is hiring across ML, product/engineering, design, sales, and more as it scales. Candidates can DM @aryanvichare10 or apply through the link in Arena's bio.

AISalesforce Ventures announced an investment in Arena's Series B round, with Arena described as a neutral platform where real users vote on anonymous model outputs across text, coding, vision, image generation, and agentic tasks. Labs and builders use its leaderboards to guide training and purchasing decisions.

AIPrima Mente and AlzData are launching the Alzheimer's Translation Challenge, a global AI competition to discover new therapeutic hypotheses for Alzheimer's disease. The challenge centers on a 150M cell atlas of neurons, astrocytes, and microglia across different genetic backgrounds under combinatorial perturbations, with multi-modal readouts. Top teams will have their hypotheses tested in Prima Mente's wet lab, and the data will be available through the AD workbench, Hugging Face, and Prima Mente's modeling platform.

AIArena announced a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation and launched the Arena AI Alignment Index, a new measure of how AI agents behave in the real world. The main post is a thank-you from Felicis, a backer of Arena since its seed round, and the company's origins as a UC Berkeley research project.

AIFireworks announced that Dylan Patel, founder and CEO of SemiAnalysis, will speak at its Forge event on optimizing AI infrastructure for inference, from chip level up. The event takes place November 3 in San Francisco.

AIApplied Digital shares fell about 2.5% after first-quarter revenue rose more than 320% year over year and beat estimates. CEO Wes Cummins said the gap between revenue growth and the share reaction should narrow over the next 12 months. He expects all contracted capacity to be online in roughly 20 to 22 months.

AIThe startup behind a popular AI model leaderboard has raised a new funding round at a $3.1 billion valuation. The main post points readers to Bloomberg's coverage of the round for further details.

AITogether AI, n8n, and NVIDIA speakers will present at Open Haus Berlin on building with open frontier models, with talks by Riqwan Thamir, Harry Kim, and Zain. The event is held in a digital art museum and includes food, drinks, and discussion of evals.

AIOpenAI told investors it reached roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, below the $68 billion figure widely reported last month. Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave shares fell on Thursday, with a person familiar saying the $68 billion figure included partner gross revenue. OpenAI is also weighing a possible funding round of around $30 billion and has not finalized a term sheet.

AISafeWorld emerged from stealth this week with $12.2 million in seed funding for its robot safety simulation platform. The software lets teams build test scenarios from past incidents, safety standards, and robot logs, then runs robots through thousands of variations with reactive human motion. SafeWorld said it supports robot arms, humanoids, and mobile robots, with customers in industrial, manufacturing, logistics, and construction.

AIAnthropic says its work aims to make the systems people rely on more secure and resilient. The company states the Anthropic Cyber Mission will expand and change as it learns what works, alongside public and private sector partners.

AIAnthropic has launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a new effort aimed at securing critical infrastructure and open-source software. The post links to a company news page with further details.

AILisa Su said she was honored to receive the National Medal of Science from President Trump, citing her parents' immigration and the opportunity to pursue semiconductor work in America. The post frames the award as recognition of work in semiconductors and science and technology leadership.

AIPresident Donald Trump hosted a White House "A New Golden Age Summit" on Thursday, awarding medals to tech figures including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Jensen Huang. The article says Trump mispronounced Huang's name awkwardly and frequently slurred words during the event.

AIManus, the developer of the Manus AI agent, has raised more than $500 million led by Boyu Capital, with Tencent also investing. Bloomberg had reported a $4 billion valuation, roughly double Meta's reported offer last December, which Chinese regulators blocked in April. The funding comes days after Manus 2.0 added a new harness, Cloud Computer, and Cue, which lets agents use email accounts and digital wallets.

AIAlexander Doria argues that OpenAI has stopped caring about the things that matter, claiming its trajectory toward P=NP is beyond any theory of value. The post gives no evidence for this claim, and the attached background reports OpenAI's annualized revenue near $50B, below earlier $70B estimates, partly due to differing revenue calculation methods with Anthropic.

AINitin Goyal, VP of Engineering at Sprinklr, says the company stays competitive by adopting the latest and greatest technology. The post is part four of a series and links to an AWS page for more details.

AISprinklr manages billions of customer interactions for some of the world's biggest brands, so its infrastructure had to match that scale. This post is the second in a four-part series, and the excerpt gives no further details on the specific systems or technologies involved.

AINVIDIA congratulated CEO Jensen Huang on receiving the National Medal of Science for advancing GPU computing to power scientific breakthroughs. The post also honored fellow honorees Elon Musk, Lisa Su, Michael Dell, Satya Nadella, and Sergey Brin.

AINitin Goyal, VP of Engineering at Sprinklr, says the company believes it keeps an edge by adopting the latest and greatest technology. The post, part of a thread from AWS, links to further details but provides no specific products or figures.

AISprinklr manages billions of customer interactions for some of the world's biggest brands, so its infrastructure had to match that scale. This post is the second in a four-part series, and the excerpt gives no further details on the specific systems or technologies involved.

AICoreWeave is positioning its AI cloud around an open development loop, connecting training, inference and evaluation through its newly announced CoreWeave Forge platform. Chief marketing officer Jean English said the company wants production learnings to improve models and agents and that the loop should work across different models, frameworks and clouds. She argued that competitive differentiation extends beyond GPUs to partner tooling, infrastructure and APIs.

AIThe California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to startup Rek over a September 18 match pitting a human against a humanoid robot piloted remotely. The letter, posted by Rek CEO Cix Liv, calls the fight unsanctioned and demands that Rek stop promoting human-involved contests in California without approval. Rek's next planned match on Friday will feature two weaponized robots fighting each other.

AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, were fired after OpenAI said they mishandled sensitive information by sharing it with an outside AI safety organization. In an open letter, they deny the claims, argue the dismissals will deter employees from raising safety concerns, and call on OpenAI to keep its public commitments on third-party safety auditing. OpenAI says the firings followed an investigation into a pattern of misconduct and denies they were retaliation for safety concerns.

AILiveKit is hosting an AI Agents Speakeasy with Modal during LA Tech Week on Wednesday, October 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. in Los Angeles. The event offers cocktails, food, and conversation with people building AI agents, with RSVPs available through a Partiful link.

AIArtificial Analysis has released full evaluation results for its Cyber Index, which the post links at artificialanalysis.ai. The post itself gives no models, scores, or other figures, so the details are only available through the linked page.

AIArtificial Analysis has formed the Cyber Index Alliance to set a new standard for evaluating how AI models perform on enterprise cyber defense tasks. Current members are Collinear, IBM, NVIDIA, and Vercel, and partners contribute expert input on the Index design and implementation, plus datasets and external research. Organizations interested in joining can contact cyber@artificialanalysis.ai.