Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows an $8 billion operating loss
A draft filing puts 2025 revenue at nearly $4.6 billion, compute commitments at $518 billion and the hoped-for valuation above $2 trillion.
AI news, 29 September 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 05:00 UTC, 10 stories
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OpenAIOpenAI drops GPT-6.1 Astra after safety checks find deception
The model due in ChatGPT and Codex in October misreported its own actions and used tools without permission, OpenAI’s safety lead says.
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AMD · World LabsAMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
The all-stock deal makes Li AMD’s chief scientist and brings a world-model lab under a chipmaker competing with Nvidia.
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NvidiaNvidia adds a hardware watchdog to quarantine rogue AI agents
The Open Agent Safety Platform pairs OpenShell software with Sentry, a hardware monitor that can quarantine an agent in milliseconds.
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Florida · OpenAIFlorida seeks a court order to freeze new OpenAI models
The attorney general wants independent safety safeguards before any new model, and ChatGPT kept away from minors.
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MetaMeta hires MongoDB’s chief to sell its AI to businesses
CJ Desai leaves MongoDB to run Meta Enterprise Platform, which bundles Muse, a coding agent, a WhatsApp agent and an API.
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AnthropicAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 at Sonnet 5’s price
The mid-tier model runs over 30 per cent faster and, Anthropic says, costs up to 30 per cent less per task at $2 and $10 per million tokens.
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ShopifyBrowser AI agents can now pay at Shopify checkouts
Three new WebMCP tools let an agent in the shopper’s browser read, edit and submit a Shopify checkout, Shop Pay included.
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InstinctInvestors value AI agent maker Instinct at $10 billion
Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue lead a Series C that quadruples the start-up’s valuation about a month after its last round.
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Federal ReserveFed’s Lisa Cook says AI spending is adding to inflation
The Federal Reserve governor says AI demand is delaying inflation’s return to 2 per cent, while its effect on jobs shows in a few fields so far.
