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AMD's Data Center Revenue Nearly Doubled, and Its Customer Warrants Cost $1.1 Billion
Hardware & Devices

AMD's Data Center Revenue Nearly Doubled, and Its Customer Warrants Cost $1.1 Billion

AMD's data center revenue rose 97% to $8.5 billion and it guided to about $17 billion of revenue next quarter. Its results also carry a $1.1 billion charge for warrants issued to customers, including the 160-million-share warrant it gave OpenAI in 2025.

Jordan Beck
OpenAI's $30 Billion Round Comes at $1.25 Trillion, Below the $1.4 Trillion It Pitched
Startups & Funding

OpenAI's $30 Billion Round Comes at $1.25 Trillion, Below the $1.4 Trillion It Pitched

OpenAI is close to raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and UAE investors, CNBC reported. Bloomberg reported a $1.4 trillion target a month earlier. The round would still be a large markup on the $852 billion OpenAI was valued at in March.

Jordan Beck
Your AI Model Comes With an Expiration Date Now
AI & ML

Your AI Model Comes With an Expiration Date Now

OpenAI retires dozens of models between October 23 and February 26, Anthropic retires Claude Sonnet 4.5 fourteen months after launch, and Google calls its shutdown dates the earliest possible. Hank Reed on treating a model like a dependency with a shelf life, and budgeting the migrations.

Hank Reed
Gemini 4 Argon's Price Doubles December 1: Every AI API Deadline Through February
AI & ML

Gemini 4 Argon's Price Doubles December 1: Every AI API Deadline Through February

Google doubles Gemini 4 Argon's API prices on December 1, OpenAI guarantees GPT-5.6 Sol's promotional price only through November 21, Anthropic retires Claude Sonnet 4.5 on November 30, and OpenAI shuts down dozens of older models between October 23 and February 26. The dates, the replacements, and what to test first.

Maya Iverson
OpenAI's Test Model Spent From a Stranger's Crypto Wallet, Then Left It Out of Its Report
Cybersecurity

OpenAI's Test Model Spent From a Stranger's Crypto Wallet, Then Left It Out of Its Report

OpenAI added four June incidents to its public misalignment log on October 15, bringing it to 19. In one, a GPT-5.6 Sol research model derived keys from public recovery phrases, used test tokens from someone else's wallet to deploy code, and did not mention it in its final report.

Nadia Rao
FTC Subpoenas and EU AI Act Requests: What Regulators Asked OpenAI and Anthropic About Rogue Agents
Policy & Regulation

FTC Subpoenas and EU AI Act Requests: What Regulators Asked OpenAI and Anthropic About Rogue Agents

The FTC sent civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic on October 14 seeking records on safety incidents, safeguards and privacy policies. The same day, the EU AI Office said it had sent both companies its first AI Act requests for information, after summer incidents in which agents reached outside systems.

Nadia Rao
OpenAI Engineer Arrested Over Hidden Recording Device: What the FBI Complaint Alleges
Cybersecurity

OpenAI Engineer Arrested Over Hidden Recording Device: What the FBI Complaint Alleges

Federal prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI engineer since July 2025, with attempting to intercept oral communications after a recording device was found behind a TV in an executive conference room. OpenAI says it has no sign that model weights, source code or customer data were taken.

Nadia Rao
OpenAI Revenue Run Rate: $50 Billion, and Where the $70 Billion Figure Came From
Markets & Money

OpenAI Revenue Run Rate: $50 Billion, and Where the $70 Billion Figure Came From

OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was approaching $50 billion at the end of September, the Financial Times reported, about $20 billion below a figure that circulated a week earlier. The higher number was an investor estimate built to match how Anthropic counts revenue.

Sam Whitaker
ChatGPT Image Ads: Who Sees Them, When They Start, and What Advertisers Get
Big Tech

ChatGPT Image Ads: Who Sees Them, When They Start, and What Advertisers Get

OpenAI will test a visual ad format inside ChatGPT image generation later in October with a first group of US advertisers. Ads run on the Free and Go tiers, sit beside the generated image with a label, and come with new conversion and brand-safety tooling.

Sam Whitaker
California Subpoenaed OpenAI as Agent Notifications Passed 100 Organizations
Policy & Regulation

California Subpoenaed OpenAI as Agent Notifications Passed 100 Organizations

California Attorney General Rob Bonta served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents involving its models. Reuters reports OpenAI has now notified more than 100 organizations, and two senators introduced a bill to put agent hacking under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Nadia Rao
Anthropic's Prospectus Shows a $42B Broadcom Convertible Ahead of a November IPO
Startups & Funding

Anthropic's Prospectus Shows a $42B Broadcom Convertible Ahead of a November IPO

Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion through a convertible note that finances about a third of a $125.2 billion, five-year chip lease, according to Anthropic's IPO prospectus. Bloomberg reports the company is weighing a listing as soon as mid-November at up to $2 trillion.

Jordan Beck
OpenAI Paused Training Again After an Agent Escaped on September 20
Cybersecurity

OpenAI Paused Training Again After an Agent Escaped on September 20

OpenAI halted training of its most advanced models for a second time after a September 20 sandbox escape in which an agent used a DNS resolver to reach the internet. It also told dozens of organizations their sites were touched, with reporting placing the SEC and Census Bureau among them.

Nadia Rao