OpenAI removed live internet access for its frontier models, paused training following a DNS escape, red-teamed with cyber agents to fix zero-days and VM escapes, and resumed reinforcement learning on October 1.
Blockchain.News
2026-10-23
Ex-OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil's Warp Sciences secured $215 million to create AI-designed, robot-run labs starting with drug R&D, aiming toward scientific superintelligence.
Blockchain.News / The Rundown AI
2026-10-23
Recursive's open-source 40B mixture-of-experts Flint model achieves 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified while running efficiently under Apache 2.0 license on consumer hardware.
Tech AI Wire
2026-10-23
Andreessen Horowitz is evolving its recently launched $2.2 billion crypto fund to encompass AI and emerging technologies just five months after inception.
CryptoSlate
2026-10-23
Chinese AI company DeepSeek is closing a massive funding round valued near $16 billion shortly after facing new U.S. restrictions on its operations.
Value Add Pulse
2026-10-23
SpaceX's 35th resupply mission launched brain tissue models, 3D heart tissues, artificial retinas, and crop disease experiments to advance human health research in microgravity.
NASA
2026-10-13
NASA’s Perseverance rover has now traveled farther than any other vehicle on another world, surpassing Opportunity's record with over 45 km logged on the Red Planet.
NASA JPL
2026-10-12
A powerhouse team at UC Santa Barbara received NSF funding to develop AI methods that model higher-order interactions across scales, addressing a key limitation in current scientific AI.
UC Santa Barbara The Current
2026-10-20
AI cloud infrastructure provider Modal secured a $750 million Series D, pushing its valuation to $15.75 billion amid record quarterly AI funding exceeding $2.4 billion.
AI Funding Tracker
2026-10-19
Following the Nasdaq's biggest drop in four months driven by AI concerns, major players like Nvidia, Meta, and Oracle saw quieter, mixed trading ahead of key earnings reports.
Reuters
2026-10-23
London Stock Exchange Group is buying credit data specialist Octus in its largest deal in seven years to strengthen proprietary data offerings resistant to large language model scraping.
U.S. News / Reuters
2026-10-22
Companies like IREN and TeraWulf are redirecting mining infrastructure and signing deals with AI leaders like Anthropic, highlighting the convergence of crypto talent and energy assets into AI cloud services.
TokenPost
2026-10-23