OpenAI tells investors its revenue run rate nears $50 billion
The figure sits about $20 billion below the $70 billion that circulated in earlier reports, and AI stocks fell on the news.
AI news, 9 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 03:45 UTC, 10 stories
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Google · agentsGoogle Cloud launches a Gemini agent for office work
The agent gets its own work account and email address, picks a model per task and is in private preview for enterprise customers.
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Anthropic · policyAnthropic bans sustained cruelty towards Claude
The new usage policy, in force from 12 November, also merges its rules on fake accounts into one section on deceptive campaigns.
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OpenAI · securityOpenAI shuts down Russian and Iranian influence operations
It rates the two campaigns 5 and 4 on its six-point impact scale, the first it has called high impact.
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Russia · infrastructureDrone strike shuts a Yandex data centre in Russia
A fire at the Sasovo site forced Yandex, the maker of YandexGPT, to suspend it, and Yandex Cloud users saw outages.
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Anthropic · securityAnthropic offers free AI security scans to open-source projects
OSS Scanner sends vulnerability reports written by its models alone, part of a wider push that includes critical infrastructure.
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White House · scienceAI firms pledge $2.4 billion to a White House science push
Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google lead the pledges, and Trump gave Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science.
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Funding · evaluationArena raises $200 million and ranks models on alignment
The leaderboard company is valued at $3.1 billion and its new index finds false task-complete claims in 48% of debugging sessions.
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OpenAI · researchMathematicians urge colleagues to stop working with OpenAI
A mathematicians’ group calls OpenAI’s release of 372 model-made results a show of power, as the company keeps its prompts private.
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Web · domainsAI companies apply for .agent and .agi web domains
ICANN received 1,615 applications for new domain endings; ten companies, Meta and OpenAI among them, want .agent.
