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OpenEvidence

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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.

Lovable Enterprise

Lovable AI

Hivemind

Tinker

Mercor, Harvey, Cognition and Ramp reported that small targeted datasets improved NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super on held-out legal, software-engineering and accounting work.

Glean Skills

Krea 3 · 3

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.

ChatGPT

Grok Voice

ChatGPT

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

Lovable Enterprise

Lovable

Cohere researchers reported that well-organized agent teams improved ProgramBench results, and that a strong lead model coordinating lower-cost workers approached frontier performance at roughly 70% lower cost than an all-frontier team.

Modal reported a $15.75 billion post-money valuation alongside its Series D financing.

Modal raised a $750 million Series D led by Accel, with Kleiner Perkins and existing investors participating.

Modal said it had crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate after usage tripled in five months and grew more than fifteenfold year over year.

Modal reported a team of more than 200 people across New York, San Francisco and Stockholm.

Legora aOS

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.

OpenEvidence

Hivemind Enterprise

Notion Agent · 3.8

Legora Intake

Abridge Assistant

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.

Gemini 4 Argon · Gemini 4 Argon

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.