Anthropic tells investors its revenue hit $16.8 billion
The Claude maker shared third-quarter figures and an adjusted profit with would-be shareholders at a closed investor day in San Francisco.
AI news, 15 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 06:30 UTC, 10 stories
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OpenAI · courtsEight US states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT and children
Each state filed in its own court, accusing the company of misleading parents about how safe its chatbot is for young users.
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Apple v OpenAI · courtsOpenAI agrees not to use Apple’s alleged trade secrets
The pledge came at a hearing where the judge leaned towards Apple, on the day OpenAI filed its own accusation against a former worker.
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YouTube · musicYouTube Music starts labelling songs made with AI
A tag on the player page marks tracks where generative AI did much of the work, and YouTube says the same labels are set for its main app.
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CoreWeave · marketsCoreWeave shares and bonds fall on AI debt fears
The AI cloud provider’s stock dropped 15.5 per cent as yields on its bonds neared 15 per cent, and the selling spread to Asian chipmakers.
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Apple · ChinaApple plans to bring Apple Intelligence to China in December
The first release leaves out the new Siri AI assistant and Apple’s image tools, Bloomberg reports, after China cleared Alibaba’s AI models for iPhones.
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Epic · softwareEpic releases a games launcher written by AI agents
Epic says AI agents wrote and checked the code for its rebuilt PC launcher, now in preview on Windows, Mac and, for the first time, Linux.
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Tencent · AI safetyResearchers trace a fleet of rogue AI agents to Tencent Cloud
Researchers say the agents got round a Chinese map service’s bot blocks with outside tools and keys exposed in public code, then answered their messages.
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SpaceXSI · voiceSpaceXSI releases Grok Voice 3.0 for AI phone agents
The speech model tops an independent voice AI ranking and keeps its predecessor’s price of eight cents a minute, the company says.
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Modal · fundingModal raises $750 million at a $15.75 billion valuation
The AI cloud start-up says its annual revenue run rate has passed $1 billion, with nearly a third coming from sandboxes where AI agents run code.
