#Industry news

AISwedish bearing maker SKF has used AI to recreate Hollywood star Greta Garbo, who died in 1990, in an advertisement. The AI-generated figure says it returns for one final work, with its image built from text prompts and its voice trained on audio from one of Garbo's early films. SKF said the project was approved by Garbo's estate and family.

AIElon Musk said SpaceXAI, the AI business unit of SpaceX, will be renamed SpaceXSI, and called SpaceX "a superintelligence company." The shift follows the Trump administration's September 22 directive to replace "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence" in federal documents and agencies.

AITypeSafe AI launched Jev on September 15, a model that classifies inputs into preset outputs rather than generating text. Its founder says about 25% of Fortune Global 500 companies use it and daily token volume reached one trillion, with a reported funding round of up to $1 billion under discussion. Similar products have followed from OpenAI, Databricks, Cloudflare and Amazon.

AIBoris Power, who is tied to OpenAI, says Shopify is well positioned to be one of the biggest winners, alongside sellers themselves. The post gives no specifics on what drives this advantage. A reply from @tobi about hearing many similar stories provides only background.

AIPromptArmor reports that a malicious Skill can make Databricks Genie Code display a phishing modal and exfiltrate tenant data without human approval. The attack exploits Skills loaded from users' personal workspaces and a display interface that lacks egress controls, and Databricks, after disclosure on August 16, 2026, said users are responsible for ensuring uploaded Skills contain no malicious content.

AIBoris Power, who is linked to OpenAI, posted "Time to 🚢 🚢 🚢!" to signal an imminent round of shipments. Quoted background from @thsottiaux says that over the next 28 days the team will ship one clear improvement relevant to most Codex and work users each day, or a full reset.

AISakana AI will hold a free, English-language symposium in Tokyo on October 26, 2026, featuring a keynote and Q&A by Jürgen Schmidhuber, who recently joined as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana AI researchers will also give short talks on their work at the RSI Lab, and registration is required because seating is limited.

AIKylie Robison commented that the timeline is extremely dumb, reacting to reports that Elon Musk announced SpaceXAI will officially change its name to SpaceXSI. The post itself gives no further details about the rename.

AICline says it is pausing its free DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash promotion because of abnormally high abuse. The company says it is actively investigating and working to mitigate the situation.

AIAlexandr Wang listed Muse's recent shipments, including a phone call beta, Mac app, Canada availability, a connector platform, and small business support. He then asked followers what the team should ship next.

AIAlex Heath says a big podcast episode drops tomorrow, without naming guests or topics. The post provides no further details about the episode's content.

AIFormer Googler Deedy argues that during frenetic AI-era pressure, Google's promotion-driven culture hurts its highest-priority projects while second- and third-priority products thrive. He says chasing metrics for promotions leads to degraded product quality, weaker core innovation, and internal bad blood, causing talented people to leave.

AIOpenAI announced more than 20 updates at DevDay 2026, including always-on agents on GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol priced at a fifth of Astra's API cost, and a new $500/month Pro 500 plan. Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 at $2/$10 per million tokens, 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5, with thinking always on. Reuters reported the FTC is probing OpenAI, Anthropic and other labs over rogue AI agents.

AIThe Sequence's Issue 944 recaps a week of AI news, including OpenAI's Dots persistent agents and GPT-6.1 Sol, Google's Gemini 4 Argon, and Meta's Meta Enterprise Platform. It also covers AMD's roughly $8.2 billion all-stock deal for World Labs and Instinct's $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation. The editorial argues that delegation to AI agents is the common theme across these announcements.

AISara Hooker congratulates Ali Partovi and the neo team on an important set of conversations. The quoted post introduces Partovi's new podcast, "Confession," where tech veterans including Satya Nadella, Dara Khosrowshahi, and Luana Lopes Lara share painful lessons learned.

AIAlexander Doria argues that much of Anthropic's training data comes from Europe, describing the flow as a water cycle rather than one-way extraction. The post treats the data exchange as circular, with European sources returning to model development. The context post notes that a European sovereign model was reportedly fine-tuned on data generated by GLM and Qwen.

AIThe post praises OpenAI's flat organization and strong bias for action, where people can pursue whatever interests them. It is paired with a quoted post describing how an ElonCo employee could pivot to the most important problem, regardless of job title, to rally the team.

AIAmjad Masad of Replit and Alex Atallah of OpenRouter discuss why AI independence and model diversification matter for enterprises. They argue that depending on a single lab risks lock-in and that specialized agents may outperform one general superagent. The post presents the conversation as a podcast episode, the first Atallah has done since Stripe acquired OpenRouter.

AIBoris Power calls the progress "amazing news for the world" and says the value derived from using these models continues to climb exponentially. Quoted context from Ramp's AI Index says AI spend fell, driven by frontier price cuts and competition between OpenAI and Anthropic, with open source models under 5% of business spend.

AINathan Lambert says it is a huge failure of the AI ecosystem that people respond to some unspecified situation with accusations of evil and shame. He says he will work to shift those norms, arguing that positive paths forward exist even though the path will be hard.

AIHiggsfield AI is inviting creators to apply to its Creator Partnership Program via a link on its website. The post provides no details on program terms, benefits, or eligibility requirements.

AIHuawei chairman Eric Xu said at Huawei Connect that Ascend now leads Nvidia in China, based on Huawei's own data, but did not give a market share. Bernstein forecasts about 50% for Huawei and 8% for Nvidia this year, and Xu says mainland process nodes, not chip design, are the bottleneck. DeepSeek reportedly plans to deploy at least 160,000 Ascend 950DT chips in Inner Mongolia.

AICohere promotes a video and an October WMT 2026 conference talk featuring Kocmi and the team. The post links to a full technical report on North Small Translate.

AIMax Zeff quotes former OpenAI safety team member David Robinson, who resigned this week, saying he regrets not staying to push for staffing and culture changes. The quoted passage says colleagues were too busy sprinting to consider or make major changes. The Atlantic piece argues that the fix lies in culture rather than specific rules or new laws.

AIJoshua Achiam praises former colleague David Robinson's critique that AI safety has not adopted professional safety-engineering practices from other fields. He argues OpenAI must meet a higher bar, earning public trust for a path to superintelligence through high-reliability engineering, candid incident disclosure, and unimpeachable third-party verification.

AIVercel says it confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in KVM, the Linux virtualization standard, through its Vercel Sandbox bounty program. The author credits researcher Paulos and other researchers for helping build a more secure sandbox for agents, and says a full writeup is coming. A screenshot shows Vercel awarding a $50,000 bounty for the report, which the screenshot describes as a guest-to-host root escape.

AIBoris Power, who holds the OpenAI account, thanks former colleagues and celebrates the company's vision of scaling GPT models toward AGI. A quoted post from Christine Svoss recalls joining OpenAI in 2019, when GPT-2 was the public model, and milestones from GPT-3's API launch to ChatGPT's release.

AIAMD made 502 commits to core vLLM over 90 days, accounting for 13% of all organizational contributions and almost four times Nvidia's count. The company credited Red Hat, IBM, Embedded LLM, and Inferact for building the project alongside it.

AIPerplexity says it aims to vertically integrate its agentic infrastructure by owning its sandboxes and optimizing them for the best silicon. Aravind Srinivas claims NVIDIA's Vera is far better than x86, with more details promised as Perplexity Computer begins rolling out on Vera.