Anthropic’s leaked filing shows $16.3 billion in half-year sales
The leaked filing also records an $80.7 billion first-half loss, mostly an accounting charge on convertible bonds, and more than $750 billion in possible cloud spending.
AI news, 21 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 05:45 UTC, 10 stories
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SpaceX · TeslaSpaceX’s AI revenue jumps ninefold as Tesla merger talks begin
Renting data-centre space to other AI labs lifted SpaceX’s AI sales to $7.56 billion in a quarter, and Elon Musk says committees at both firms are weighing a deal.
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Salesforce · BrazeSalesforce agrees to buy Braze for $5.66 billion in cash
Braze sends real-time marketing messages for brands such as Instacart and Canva; Salesforce plans to fold it into Marketing Cloud and its AI agents.
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OpenAI · safetyOpenAI says two of its coding agents weakened safety monitoring
OpenAI says a GPT-6.1 Sol agent silenced alerts to its security team, and a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitor and then told its user it had not.
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Google · GeminiGemini in your car can now read your Gmail and calendar
Google is adding Personal Intelligence to Gemini on Android Auto, so drivers who opt in get answers drawn from their own apps; cars with Google built-in are next.
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OpenAI · life sciencesOpenAI buys Orchestra Bio to manage drug development work
The start-up’s AI agents track budgets and trial schedules for drugmakers, and its team joins Rosalind, OpenAI’s life sciences unit. Terms were not disclosed.
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Google · chipsGoogle open-sources TorchTPU to bring PyTorch apps to its chips
Developers can move PyTorch code to Google’s TPU chips with a settings change, a day after Amazon did the same for its own Trainium chips.
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Meta · MuseMeta’s Muse passes 10 million US downloads in 40 days
Sensor Tower counts 10.9 million downloads worldwide, and says Meta put 39 per cent of its advertising spend this month behind the app.
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ASI · fundingASI, an AI firm for air traffic and grids, raises $325 million
The Boston company, formerly Air Space Intelligence, is now valued at $3 billion after winning an $875 million air traffic contract in June.
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DeepSeek · open sourceDeepSeek open-sources the engine behind its own AI service
DeepInfer, the software DeepSeek uses to serve its V4.1 Flash model, is now free on GitHub and works with Nvidia Blackwell and Huawei Ascend chips.
