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Stripe says AI agent purchases are growing but won’t say how much
Transactions made by AI agents through Stripe’s Link payment service grew 38-fold in September, and payment volume grew 20-fold. Stripe won’t say what those multipliers are multiplying. The…
OpenAI engineer arrested over hidden recording device
Someone hid a recording device in toilet paper, plugged it into a USB port behind a TV in an OpenAI executive conference room and left it there. Two…
Satya Nadella said we should assume every AI model is ‘compromised’
Microsoft’s CEO wants an emergency brake on AI. And he wants you to start from the assumption that the model you're using has already gone wrong. Satya Nadella…
OpenAI’s revenue keeps surging as it seeks $30 billion in fresh capital
Manus raises $500M after China blocked Meta’s $2B buyout
Manus spent the spring watching Beijing tear up Meta’s roughly $2 billion acquisition. It just raised more than $500 million anyway. Its parent company, Butterfly Effect, confirmed the…
OpenAI Clawed Back Tons of Market Share From Anthropic in 2026, Report Suggests
At the start of 2026, OpenAI’s share was less than 25%. Last month, it was nearly 50%. Those numbers come from a report built on data from OpenRouter…
CATL and Tencent back Deepseek’s swelling funding round as it eyes a 2027 IPO
Deepseek went looking for about $7.5 billion. It’s now close to raising at least $12 billion, Bloomberg reported, and people familiar with the matter said the final total…
Cohere pitches North 2 as an enterprise AI control room for any model
Most enterprise AI platforms want you to commit to their models. Cohere’s North 2 is built on the opposite bet: bring whatever model you like, and Cohere will…
Google’s new Gemini tiers leave free users with its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
Until now, a free Google account got you Gemini 3.6 Flash and some access to 3.1 Pro, though how much varied. Starting in October 2026, it gets you…
