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Fri, Oct 16
Tesla unveils the next-generation Roadster, with the fastest version using cold-gas thrusters to hit 60 mph in under 0.59 seconds
A sports car with no price or production date was staged as a technology show, displaying less a car than the engineering Tesla and SpaceX can share.
Fri, Oct 9
OpenAI tells investors annualized revenue is about $50 billion, below the $68 billion figure that had circulated, and Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave shares fall
The two leading model companies are hard to compare because nobody agrees whether sales made through cloud providers count as their own; prospectuses will force them onto the same arithmetic.
Thu, Oct 8
Manus parent Butterfly Effect announces a funding round of more than $500 million led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital
An application company raising $500 million without a large model of its own shows investors are betting that the agent layer itself can hold users and revenue, not the model underneath.
Wed, Oct 7
Anthropic's prospectus shows CEO Dario Amodei earned $18 million last year, mostly in stock and options
The founders' pay figures are restrained, and the real transfer of wealth is written into the equity and donation arrangements, which will draw more questions after listing than the payroll does.
Tue, Oct 6
Huawei and Qualcomm sign a multi-year patent cross-license that gives Qualcomm rights to Huawei's LogicFolding chip technology
A company barred from buying advanced equipment is now selling technology licenses to a US chipmaker, so controls have changed where goods flow without stopping technology from creating value.
Mon, Oct 5
The New York Times: Anthropic lobbied the Vatican to take AI consciousness seriously, and the pope's encyclical still rejected it
Science has not settled whether AI is conscious, but who gets to define the question is already contested, and neither the lab nor the church wants to cede that to the other.
Sat, Oct 3
An engineer uses GPT-6 Astra to break a Napoleonic-era cipher letter in six hours, and a 217-year-old puzzle is marked solved
General-purpose models have turned breaking old ciphers from a craft of a few specialists into something any patient person can attempt, so what history will run short of is verifiers, not solvers.
Fri, Oct 2
Trump says he "might" take stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic but rules out nationalizing frontier labs
A government that wants AI's upside without running the business faces one hard question: whether a passive stake gets a say in the decisions that matter.