Releases

OpenAI will remove tts-1, tts-1-hd and two GPT-4o mini TTS snapshots from the API on January 6, 2027. The recommended replacement is gpt-realtime-2.1-mini.

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OpenAI is scheduled to shut down the v1/prompts API and reusable prompt objects on November 30, 2026. The migration path is to keep prompt content in application code.

OpenAI is scheduled to shut down the Evals dashboard and API on November 30, 2026, after making existing evals read-only on October 31.

AWS re:Invent 2026 is scheduled for November 30 through December 4 in Las Vegas, featuring cloud and AI announcements, keynotes and technical sessions.

Microsoft Ignite 2026 is scheduled for November 17–20 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, with an online digital experience focused on AI, cloud and enterprise technology.

Grok Imagine model family

Mistral will retire the third-party zai-glm-5-2 model from its API on October 31, 2026. Mistral directs integrations to zai-glm-5-3 at the same price.

OpenAI says existing content on the deprecated Evals platform becomes read-only on October 31, 2026, ahead of the platform shutdown on November 30.

Microsoft scheduled publication of its fiscal 2027 first-quarter financial results for October 28, 2026 after market close, followed by a live earnings webcast at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

Oracle AI World 2026 is scheduled for October 25–28 at The Venetian Convention and Expo Center in Las Vegas. Oracle's flagship conference will feature executive keynotes, product announcements and demonstrations, customer case studies, technical sessions, hands-on labs, and training focused on Oracle's AI, cloud infrastructure, database, and applications portfolio.

OpenAI will remove gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 and gpt-4-0613 snapshot aliases from the API on October 23, 2026. The documented replacements are GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Sol respectively.

NVIDIA DGX Spark

NVIDIA's GTC conference comes to Berlin on Oct 20–22, 2026, with a keynote. Bloomberg reported Jensen Huang plans about $2B in European AI deals around the trip.

Anthropic's first Claude Corps cohort begins Foundations training on October 19, 2026. The fully funded fellowship places about 100 early-career fellows with mission-driven nonprofits for 12 months.

Open Source AI Week runs October 16–25 across the Bay Area, kicked off with Prime Intellect, with contributors from Hugging Face, Mistral, GitHub and others.

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Krea said Krea 3 was available to its 30 million users.

Axios reports the FTC sent Anthropic (and OpenAI) a 50-page civil investigative demand covering security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy; the probe cites an Anthropic model that submitted a false murder tip to Philadelphia police.

Axios reports the FTC sent OpenAI (and Anthropic) a 50-page civil investigative demand covering security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy policies, as part of its consumer-safety probe into frontier AI labs.

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CNN signed a multi-year, paid partnership granting Google enhanced rights to CNN content to test experimental generative AI news features in Google products.

Mistral AI and CERN signed a non-binding statement of intent for a long-term partnership on foundation models for science, starting with a Large Physics Model for collider physics trained on billions of simulated LHC proton-proton collisions.

Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire Prague-based AI security startup AISLE, whose autonomous scanners have found 500+ CVEs. AISLE CEO Ondrej Vlcek will lead a new Cohere Cyber unit, Jaya Baloo becomes Cohere's global CISO and Stanislav Fort leads AI security research. Terms were not disclosed; the deal has not closed.

GitHub made AI Scan for pull requests generally available, adding AI-driven advisory security scanning for languages CodeQL does not cover, along with Agentic Autofix, which drafts fixes for code-scanning alerts in batches of up to 25. Both are billed through AI Credits.

Claude Opus 5.5 · claude-opus-5-5

GPT-Live · GPT-Live-1.1

FLUX 3 · FLUX 3 Image Klein

MAI · MAI-Base-2

NVIDIA Nemotron · 3.5

Muse · Muse Spark Open

Caijing, as reported by Seoul Economic Daily, says DeepSeek is close to completing a second round of about 100B yuan (~$14B), double the original 50B-yuan target, at roughly 500B yuan valuation. New investors reportedly include GigaDevice, SMIC and Geely; proceeds fund an Inner Mongolia data center with 160,000+ Huawei Ascend chips. Unconfirmed by the company.

OpenAI named Uday Ruddarraju, formerly of xAI and most recently its CTO of Compute, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses, including Stargate. He replaces Sachin Katti, who will stay on as an adviser. OpenAI now projects about $750B of compute spending through 2030, up from roughly $600B.

Reuters, citing two people at Anthropic's pre-IPO investor day, reported Q3 2026 revenue of $16.8B, up 45% from $11.6B in Q2. The company told investors it was profitable on an adjusted basis. Anthropic has not publicly confirmed the figures; its IPO is reportedly targeting a valuation above $2T.

Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office, in Singapore, and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The MOU covers AI safety, security and evaluation, adoption research, and responsible public- and private-sector adoption. Anthropic says more than 1,500 GovTech Singapore staff use Claude Code.

Anthropic plans to share third-quarter financial updates with prospective institutional investors at an investor day in San Francisco on Oct 14, per CNBC and Bloomberg reports. Reports cite a potential IPO valuation of about $1.8–2 trillion; no IPO date or public S-1 yet.

At Workday Rising 2026, Workday said Jev, a model from TypeSafe AI, lets its new Sana home experience generate forms, calendars and approval cards on demand.

NVIDIA announced a five-year compute donation worth $250M (about $50M a year) for UK research on agentic AI safety and security. Recipients include the wider UK research community, Oxford's BOLD lab, UCL's SOFAIR and Imperial College London, with compute delivered through UK-based NVIDIA Cloud Partners.

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OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to buy security research firm Trail of Bits, per The Information. Deal size is undisclosed and neither company has confirmed.

Applied Intuition has reportedly received multiple investment offers valuing it at a minimum of $30 billion, double its June 2025 valuation of $15B, ahead of a possible round that could exceed $1B. Unconfirmed by the company.

Anthropic published how a seven-person team built Scion, a server-centric version control system, and migrated its monorepo off git in five months. Daily merged changes rose from about 2,500 in May to over 30,000 by September; Scion uses about 200x less CPU and memory than the prior git mirroring setup.

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Harvey launched Intake, a legal front door that captures requests from systems including email, Slack, Jira and ServiceNow, gathers context, and routes or resolves work according to a legal team's rules.

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