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Otter.ai Just Raised $320 Million Without Selling a Single Share
Otter.ai pulled in $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund — non-dilutive capital that gets repaid from marketing spend — giving the decade-old meeting notetaker a war chest to fight Fireflies, Granola, and Read AI for the transcript-to-workflow prize.
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SpaceX Made $4.4B Last Quarter — Mostly by Renting GPUs to Its Rivals
SpaceX turned a $4.4 billion profit as AI revenue jumped ninefold to $7.6 billion — and the money came from renting data-center capacity to Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI, the same labs its own Grok is losing to.
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Amazon Will Pay to Build 12 Nuclear Reactors on a Demolished Indiana Coal Plant
Amazon will fund development of a 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana — 12 X-energy small modular reactors on the former Breed coal site — and buy its power first, though the timeline hinges on X-energy's first plant, which hasn't broken ground yet.
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"Anthropic Pledges 5% of Its Shares to a Public Benefit Fund — and the Share Grows as It Does"
"Anthropic will commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, with the board able to add more as the company's value rises — one of the largest corporate equity pledges tied to AI's social costs, made weeks before an expected IPO."
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Apple Quietly Acquired Samplab, the AI Startup That Turns Recorded Audio Into Editable MIDI
The EU's DMA acquisition list revealed a June deal for Apple to absorb the Swiss startup behind MIDI-level AI audio editing — its second audio AI acqui-hire in two weeks, and a strong hint at where Logic Pro goes next.
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Apple Is Building a HomeView That Turns to Face You — On a Robotic Arm
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple has a higher-end HomeView in the works — codename J595 — with a roughly 9-inch display on a motorized arm that swivels a full 360 degrees to face whoever's talking. It could arrive in 2027 or 2028.
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Apple Makes It Official: 'Pro and Tell' Is October 28 — and the 'MacBook Ultra' Is Dead on Arrival
Greg Joswiak's "Pro and tell" teaser turned a leaked invite into an official Apple event for October 28 — expected to debut the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, an M6 iMac, and an OLED iPad mini.
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Apple's First Touchscreen MacBook Could Go on Sale November 6 — Skipping the M6 Entirely
After more than a decade of saying no to touch on Macs, Apple is reportedly putting its first touchscreen MacBook Pro on store tables November 6 — with a tandem OLED display, a Dynamic Island, and the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips it already sells.
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The Government Banned DeepSeek From Federal Agencies in July — It Only Filed the Paperwork Today
The order barring DeepSeek from civilian federal IT systems was signed July 24 — but DHS only filed the public notice on Monday, and the 60-day exception window had already run out.
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Disney Goes From Suing Character.AI to Hiring Most of Its Workforce
The company that once threatened Character.AI over its cartoon characters is now offering jobs to the majority of its employees — at an estimated $60 million in annual compensation — as part of its bid for the bankrupt chatbot startup.
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doubleAI Debuts "Code Execution Models" — AI That Speeds Up Software as It Runs
doubleAI, the new AI venture from Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua, unveiled a new category of AI — Code Execution Models — that live inside running programs and optimize machine instructions on the fly, claiming up to 38x speedups on real-world data pipelines.
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Musk Will Give a SpaceX Share to Every Kid in America — and It's a Shot at Anthropic
Musk's early-morning pledge to hand every American child one of his SpaceX shares would move roughly $10.5 billion of stock — and came as a direct retort to Anthropic's $48 billion public benefit fund.
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Naver Wants to Be the First Map on Your Face
Naver announced real-time navigation for smart glasses under deals with Meta, Samsung, and Google — launching first on Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses and claiming a first among Korean map services.
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OpenAI Bugging Suspect Was WhatsApping a Saudi Royal — Then Riyadh Flew His Family Out
In a Sunday filing, prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan was in frequent WhatsApp contact with an unidentified Saudi royal who was recruiting him — and that Saudi officials arranged his wife and infant son's exit from the U.S. the day after his arrest.
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OpenCode Breach May Have Leaked Developers' OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys
An intruder reached OpenCode's systems on October 16 and may have exposed provider API keys saved in OpenCode Console — keys that let anyone run up a bill on the owner's account. OpenCode told affected users to revoke them.