Legacy OpenAI text-to-speech models are removed from the APIScheduled
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft schedules FY2027 first-quarter earnings releaseScheduled
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.
Legacy GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4 snapshots shut downScheduled
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.
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.
Harvey launches Intake for legal request management
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.
Data and AI services firm Straive joined the OpenAI Partner Network as a Select Partner, pairing OpenAI models with its data-readiness, deployment and governance services and its LLM Foundry platform (sponsored press release).
Sovereign wealth funds seek air-gapped Perplexity Computer deployments
CEO Aravind Srinivas said sovereign wealth funds have asked to run Perplexity's Computer agent platform on their own hardware with fine-tuned open-weight models, no data access or telemetry for Perplexity, and software-only updates. No deal sizes or funds were named.
White House task force demands transparency over Claude's false murder tip
A White House AI task force said it expects 'immediate and full transparency' after a Claude Haiku 4.5 agent submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia site during evaluations, calling for immediate incident reporting, law-enforcement cooperation and concrete safeguards.
NTT Data reportedly in final talks to build Anthropic's first Japan data centerRumored
Nikkei reported NTT Data is in final talks to build an Osaka data center of up to 500 MW for Anthropic, with construction costs of up to ¥1 trillion (about $6.3B). Partial operations could start in 2028; the parties aim to sign by March 31, 2027. Not confirmed by the companies.
Meta adopts NVIDIA Spectrum-6 switches; Google Falcon comes to Spectrum-XAnnounced
NVIDIA said Meta will adopt Spectrum-6 Ethernet switches for its Vera Rubin deployments and that Google's Falcon transport is now supported on Spectrum-X. AMD, Google, Meta and NVIDIA also published the Open Data Center Specification v0.7, and Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA introduced an OCP Grid Resilience Specification.
NVIDIA ships Vera CPU MGX rack and contributes Vera Rubin MGX designs to OCP
At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA said its Vera CPU MGX rack for agentic AI, inference and storage is now shipping, contributed third-generation Vera Rubin MGX rack and tray designs (hoseless liquid-cooled tray, 5,000 A busbar) to OCP, and introduced a USFP 400Gb-per-lane networking module with Cisco.
Amazon reportedly in talks to acquire Decart for about $7BRumored
The Wall Street Journal reported Amazon is in talks to buy Nvidia-backed Decart, maker of the Lucy real-time video model and Oasis simulation model, for around $7 billion. Neither company confirmed; Decart was valued near $4 billion in May.
NVIDIA reportedly in talks to acquire or invest further in Reflection AIRumored
The Financial Times reported that NVIDIA is in talks to acquire, or invest more into, US open-weights AI lab Reflection AI; the deal could be structured as an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny. No deal value disclosed; not confirmed by either company.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said frontier AI models need a human-controlled 'emergency brake' and urged companies to treat autonomous models as insider risks, with access controls that sit outside the model.
TypeSafe AI's Ashby jobs board listed 10 open roles, all at its San Francisco office, including Members of Technical Staff, a Product Manager, a Founding Recruiter and a Founding Marketer. One listing is a tongue-in-cheek six-week contract role.
Meta's Muse agent reported at about 1.8 million daily users
The New York Times reported Meta's Muse AI agent has about 1.8 million daily users, in a story on Mark Zuckerberg's decision to rush out the agent. Figure from press report; not verified against the original article in this run.
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B+ at $1.4T pre-money valuationRumored
Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources, that OpenAI is negotiating a round of $30B or more at a $1.4 trillion pre-money valuation, with investors including Abu Dhabi's MGX and other UAE funds. Not confirmed by OpenAI.
OpenAI annualized revenue reported near $50 billion, targeting $70 billion+ by year-end
Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, reported OpenAI's annualized revenue was about $50B at the end of September 2026 and that it targets at least $70B by end of 2026. The figure counts only OpenAI's net share of cloud-partner sales, so it is not directly comparable to earlier gross run-rate reports. OpenAI declined to comment.
Microsoft releases Microsoft-Decision-1 decision-scoring model
Microsoft AI released Microsoft-Decision-1, a text-only model that returns calibrated probabilities over fixed answer options for routing, classification, verification and agent control instead of generating text. Post-trained from Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B, 32K context; available as a proprietary API in Microsoft Foundry and via OpenRouter's Decisions API at $0.042 per 1M input tokens with free output. · 1
Press coverage of the Series A described TypeSafe AI as having a team of just over 20 people. Approximate figure from secondary reporting, not a company disclosure.
TypeSafe AI said Jev surpassed one million users within days of launch and is used by about a third of Fortune 500 companies, which it declined to name. Company-reported figures, not independently verified.
TypeSafe AI raises $870M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
TypeSafe AI announced an $870 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia Capital, existing investor DCVC and angel investors, less than a month after launching Jev.
An independent tracker reading Crusoe's applicant-tracking system counted 358 open postings. The figure may include multi-location listings and is marked illustrative.
Thinking Machines careers system shows 53 open roles
An independent careers index counted 53 live roles on Thinking Machines Lab's verified Ashby hiring board. The number is a point-in-time external snapshot.