Releases

Lovable launched a private preview allowing Enterprise customers to run Lovable apps and their data inside their own AWS accounts.

Lovable added growth planning and execution tools spanning Google Search, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Ads, Facebook and Instagram.

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 launched an ecosystem of more than 30 integrations spanning document management, enterprise search, data rooms, eDiscovery, ethical walls, billing, contracting and productivity applications.

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 and Johns Hopkins Medicine announced a collaboration to design AI-native medical education and develop human-first clinical AI systems grounded in patient history and evidence-based practice.

Honeywell Aerospace completed two autonomous flight demonstrations using Shield AI's Hivemind, progressing from the start of Hivemind Enterprise training to a first autonomous flight in six weeks and culminating in coordinated two-aircraft ISR.

Notion 3.8 expanded agent context with MCP connections, richer version history and attribution, database column permissions, rebuilt synced databases and the ability to use connected ChatGPT plans for eligible AI usage.

Legora launched Intake, an agentic front door for in-house legal teams that converts Slack requests into tracked work and prepares responses using the team's Skills and playbooks.

Abridge launched an enterprise clinical assistant that answers questions using patient-chart context and cited medical sources, pre-fills calculators, and drafts handoffs, referrals and work notes for clinician review.

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.

Google made Gemini 4 Argon available globally through the Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini platform, as well as the Gemini app and AI Mode for AI Pro/Ultra subscribers. It has a 1M-token context and introductory pricing of $2/$10 per 1M input/output tokens through Nov 30, 2026, rising to $4/$20 afterwards. Google reports a #1 ranking on the Vals Index and 87% on ERQA.

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.

Physical Intelligence launched a beta of the Pi API, letting developers upload robot data, fine-tune its π robotics models on managed infrastructure and run them via a hosted inference gateway. Access is via a use-case-gated waitlist; a small group of companies has early access.