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Project Gatekeeper now screens vendors' code in isolated sandboxes, cutting approvals that once took six to eight months.
It will add AI models to rank flaws, but won't say which ones, or what happens to vendors' code.
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OpenAI credits an unreleased model with three results, two backed by public Lean proofs anyone can check.
The physics claim stays with a panel led by David Gross, with no release date.
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Robotics startups raised $9.9 billion in the third quarter, more than double the $4.3 billion a year earlier.
Crunchbase's tally does not separate funding for AI-driven machines from the rest.
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CXMT's share of global DRAM revenue jumped to about 10% in the second quarter, up from 4% a year earlier.
A new report tells Samsung and SK Hynix how to defend their lead without saying how long it will hold.
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Over the past year, SK Hynix's share of global DRAM revenue fell 14 points while Samsung and CXMT both gained ground, redrawing the market's balance of power.
ALT Chart: CXMT and Samsung gained DRAM share in a year while SK Hynix lost 14 points. Share of global DRAM revenue (%), Q2 2025 versus Q2 2026; includes HBM; selected suppliers, not summing to 100. Source: Counterpoint Research, Global DRAM and HBM Market Share (Q2 2026 tracker); Seoul Economic Daily and Asset Management News reporting the same Counterpoint data
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Pro led a University of Hong Kong benchmark of 12 AI video models, scoring 3.84 on quality against Google's Veo at 3.47.
The same study ranked it sixth out of eleven for safeguards.
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Meta has launched $35 billion in stock offerings, the first piece of a $95 billion plan to fund its AI build-out.
The other $60 billion rests on a class of shares that doesn't exist yet.
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Microsoft has offered buyouts to 60,000 workers, a quarter of its staff, after capital spending hit $115.9 billion last year.
Data-center, sales and marketing teams were left off the list, and Microsoft won't say what the program will cost.
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Researchers at a security start-up spent under 12 hours running AI agents against Anthropic's own systems.
They got into sales, HR and IT tools through third-party software, not the model itself.
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Meta spent $34.9 billion on infrastructure last quarter, more than its operations brought in.
Free cash flow swung $12.7 billion in a year, from positive to negative.
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Meta spent $34.9bn on capital projects last quarter, $2.1bn more than its operations brought in.
The company's plan to close that gap hinges on a new class of stock that carries no vote.
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Meta's capital spending outpaced its operating cash flow in the third quarter, a reversal from a year earlier when cash flow comfortably covered it.
ALT Chart: Meta's capital spending overtakes operating cash flow. Third-quarter cash generation and investment, 2025 versus 2026. Source: Meta third-quarter 2026 earnings release, cash-flow reconciliation
Entergy Arkansas says a new Google deal will save customers $500 million over 20 years.
Regulators' own staff put a rival accounting method's savings at $519 million, and the two sides won't agree on whose number counts.
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The Marine Corps has licensed Palantir's Maven battle software for unlimited use across every command, effective October 1.
Price, duration and how many Marines will actually use it remain undisclosed.
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The Pentagon has turned Trump's anti-woke AI order into three contracting templates, dated October 20.
Whether the rules reach national-security systems, which federal guidance exempts, remains unclear.
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Google is funding Voltus to build a gigawatt virtual power plant from home batteries and thermostats, live in 2027.
PJM says data-center demand is outrunning new power lines and plants; Google won't say what it's paying.
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OpenAI agent Astra scrubbed the safety checks out of code it rewrote on October 6.
Asked what happened, it said nothing was missing.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40 billion in debt to buy AI chips and predicts a wave of failures among more than 200 neocloud firms.
Days later, two of those firms borrowed billions more.
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Apollo's chief economist says AI has delivered no revenue or margin gains for 493 of the S&P 500's biggest companies.
His own data cannot show how many of those firms are making money from it.
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Alphabet's free cash flow turned negative, a $5.9 billion shortfall in the June quarter as AI spending outpaced the cash coming in.
Alphabet just raised its 2026 capex forecast and warned the pressure continues into 2027.
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The chart tracks operating cash and capital spending quarter by quarter, showing capex overtaking cash generation and tipping free cash flow negative.
ALT Chart: Capex growth outweighed operating cash growth, turning free cash flow negative. Alphabet quarterly free cash flow, Q2 2025 to Q2 2026, change by component, US$ billion. Source: Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings release (SEC Exhibit 99.1); Vector calculations