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Stripe bought AI model marketplace OpenRouter for $8 billion. Nvidia was reportedly getting ready to make a last-minute counteroffer
According to The Information, Nvidia told OpenRouter it was prepared to make a counteroffer to Stripe’s deal, but it never submitted a formal bid.
The University of Cambridge rejected Turnitin’s new terms because student work could be used to train AI
According to Varsity, Cambridge refused in July to sign Turnitin’s new user agreement, which opened the door to student work being used to develop AI tools.
A judge dismissed the antitrust suits filed over Google’s AI Overviews: “An expectation is not an agreement”
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on September 30 dismissed the antitrust suits that Chegg and Penske Media filed against Google over its AI Overviews summaries.
Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, following Trump’s “Super Intelligence” order
On October 4, Musk confirmed on X that SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, following Trump’s order telling federal agencies to say SI instead of AI.
The Information: Anthropic’s employee donation-matching cost topped $660 million in six months and could reach billions after the IPO
According to The Information, Anthropic booked more than $660 million in non-cash expenses from October 2025 to March 2026 to match employee donations.
Anthropic commits $100 million to train 10,000 AI engineers by the end of 2027
Anthropic announced the Claude Frontier Academy on October 2, backed by a $100 million commitment to train 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027.
Robinhood unveiled agents that analyze markets and trade 24/7 on users’ behalf
At HOOD Summit 2026 on September 29, Robinhood unveiled Robinhood Agents, built into its app to analyze the market and trade on users’ behalf.
Meta’s AI bet is paying off after the metaverse
After spending more than $80B on the metaverse, Meta turned to AI. Its Muse agent launched in September, and Meta shares rose more than 20% in two weeks.
The neolab wave: 102 AI startups raised $70 billion, with combined revenue under $1 billion
According to a tally Paul Bonnet shared on X, 102 neolabs have raised $70 billion at a combined $320 billion valuation, with combined revenue under $1 billion.
An Australian tutoring company closed its centers and told parents to use AI
Dymocks Tutoring and Talent 100 is closing its five Sydney centers, saying the traditional tutoring model can no longer compete on price or utility.
As OpenAI launches dots, dot.com redirects to Musk’s Grok Bot
Typing dot.com into a browser opens Grok Bot’s page. Records show the domain moved to Musk’s company in July, months before OpenAI launched dots.
Google is testing Flipkart shopping directly inside Gemini in India
Google is testing a Buy button next to select Flipkart products in Gemini and AI Mode in India that opens a Flipkart checkout without leaving the AI interface.
The US 10-year Treasury yield is at its highest since 2007, and AI borrowing is among the reasons
The 10-year US Treasury yield hit 5.23%, its highest since 2007; alongside inflation and Fed expectations, heavy AI-related borrowing is adding pressure.
The ghost jobs report: 28.3% of open listings are more than 90 days old
Unlisted’s September 2026 report swept 607,050 postings on employers’ careers sites and found 28.3% open more than 90 days, with hospitality the slowest.
The founders of DeepSeek and Moonshot were left off Xi’s US delegation
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng and Moonshot AI’s Yang Zhilin are absent from the reported list of Xi’s US delegation, which Beijing has not announced officially.
Qualcomm and Apple extended their patent agreement from 2027
Qualcomm will keep licensing its cellular patents to Apple under a new deal taking effect on April 1, 2027; duration and financial terms were not disclosed.
Oracle sent a force majeure notice over its OpenAI-linked New Mexico data center
Oracle sent a force majeure notice to a Blue Owl unit developing the 1,400-acre Project Jupiter campus in Doña Ana County, citing delays in securing power.
OpenAI fired contractors who used AI while training its models
According to 404 Media, contractors hired to review and improve ChatGPT’s responses were fired or removed from projects for having AI do their work.
Harvey, Abridge and Ramp moved from frontier lab APIs to open-weight models
According to Bloomberg, token costs pushed Harvey’s margin from about 50% to minus 50%; it turned positive again after Harvey trained its own model on Kimi K3.
ASML: we sold not a single machine in Europe in the first half of this year
Frank Heemskerk, who runs ASML’s global public affairs, said Europe is not investing and no chip plants are being built there.
Akamai signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion deal with Anthropic
Akamai signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion contract for Anthropic’s CPU workloads; the deal can grow by a further $9 billion to about $20 billion in total.
DeepSeek’s annualized revenue passed $1 billion after it raised API prices
DeepSeek’s annualized revenue passed $1 billion after a price rise lifted model usage fees by 2.3 to 4.5 times; a few months ago it was under $500 million.
FT: OpenAI projects $278 billion of negative cash flow between 2026 and 2030
A July presentation seen by the Financial Times shows OpenAI projecting $278 billion of negative cash flow in 2026-2030 and about $856 billion in compute costs.
Japan’s used bookstores saw sales quintuple as 50 tons of books shipped to the US
Japanese used bookstores have seen bulk orders since August, and export records show a distributor’s group company shipped over 50 tons of books to the US.
Anthropic pushed its IPO to November as annualized revenue passed $100 billion
According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic moved its IPO from October to November, as its annualized revenue run rate crossed $100 billion.
Shopify’s founder turned his wine cellar into a server room
Shopify founder Tobi Lütke posted on X on September 18 that he had given the glassed-in wine cellar in his Toronto house over to a server rack.
OpenAI released Astra for Law on September 17
OpenAI released Astra for Law on September 17. It is not a new model but GPT-6 Astra configured for legal work, with a legal index of over 230 million URLs.
Disney made Character.AI’s former CEO its first chief technology officer
Disney named former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand to its newly created chief technology officer role; he starts October 2, reporting to CEO Josh D’Amaro.
Anthropic will pitch investors a $30 trillion revenue opportunity
According to the Wall Street Journal, Anthropic will tell IPO investors its addressable market tops $30 trillion, above SpaceX’s $28.5 trillion estimate.
Huawei pulled the Ascend 960DT launch forward by three quarters
Huawei moved the Ascend 960DT up to the first quarter of 2027, while Eric Xu admitted it cannot build enough AI computing equipment to meet demand in China.
SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US for the first time
According to Reuters, SK Hynix is weighing a lease at Intel’s planned Ohio plant or a joint venture; the company said no plans have been confirmed.
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming became Asia’s richest person with $105 billion
Bloomberg data shows ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming passed Gautam Adani to become Asia’s richest person, with a fortune of $105 billion.
Taboola is buying London-based finance ad network Dianomi for up to 27 million pounds
Taboola offered up to 27 million pounds for London-based finance ad network Dianomi. The deal is expected to close before the end of 2026.
OpenAI’s Economic Research team published a report on new ways of working
OpenAI’s Economic Research team published a report on new ways of working, titled “How workers are unlocking new ways of working.”
OpenAI’s Temporal usage grew 60x in under a year, and Snap moves 414 million Stories a day
According to Temporal, OpenAI’s use of its platform grew 60x in under a year. Annualized revenue passed $250 million, growing more than 200% year over year.
Legal AI firm Legora raised $550 million and network infrastructure maker Nexthop AI $500 million
Legora builds software for lawyers, while Nexthop AI tackles the network bottlenecks created by AI workloads. Both March rounds show where capital is moving.
Amazon stopped taking new Mechanical Turk customers, closing an era in data labeling
Mechanical Turk, for years the standard tool for labeling AI training data, stopped accepting new customers, a sign of that work shifting to automated systems.
Ellison’s fortune shrank by about $200 billion in a year as Oracle fell 64% from its peak
Larry Ellison’s fortune shrank by about $200 billion in a year. Bloomberg’s index put him seventh with $204 billion as of September 13 as Oracle stock slid.
Oracle’s quarterly capital spending hit $28 billion and free cash flow turned negative
Oracle’s quarterly capital spending hit $28 billion. The company’s backlog reached $664 billion while free cash flow came in at minus $5 billion.
Larry Ellison canceled a $7.5 billion share sale in one day, without selling a single share
Larry Ellison canceled a plan covering 50 million Oracle shares one day after a regulatory filing revealed it. Not one share was sold under the plan.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
CNBC and Fortune reported on August 27 that Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face, the hub of open-source AI, for around $12.9 billion.
Anthropic just committed $45 billion more to compute
Anthropic will pay UK-based Nscale roughly $45 billion over six years to rent 460 megawatts of compute at the Monarch campus in West Virginia.