OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model aimed at visual reasoning and computer use
API pricing is $1 input and $5 output per million tokens; it is in ChatGPT Work and Codex for paid plans.
Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises a $1 billion Series A led by Index and Lux
The lab works on GPU megakernels to cut training and inference compute and has no product; the $6 billion valuation is reported, not disclosed.
Physical Superintelligence posts AI-assisted results on five open quantum problems with Lean proofs
Several results are partial, bounded or counterexamples rather than full solutions, and none had been peer reviewed by October 24.
FDA accepts Biohaven's resubmitted application for troriluzole in spinocerebellar ataxia
A decision is due in Q1 2027 and an advisory committee is planned; the 2025 rejection had sought more evidence.
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model with a 1M-token context
It has 104 billion active parameters and is live in Kimi apps and API; full open weights are promised by November 4.
Lam Research posts record $8.22 billion quarterly revenue, up 54% year over year
Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a standalone agent app that monitors connected apps and acts with approval
Tesla reports flat Q3 revenue of $28.05 billion as GAAP profit falls to $787 million
Rapport's RAP-219 meets Phase 2 endpoints in acute bipolar mania
FDA approves talazoparib plus enzalutamide for earlier HRR-mutated metastatic prostate cancer
In the 599-patient TALAPRO-3 trial the combination cut the risk of radiographic progression or death by 52% versus enzalutamide alone.
Anthropic will make auto mode the default in Claude apps for Pro, Max and Team users
An automated check blocks risky actions and lets safe ones proceed; users can switch back to manual, and Enterprise stays manual.
Unitree unveils H2-X, a full-size humanoid pitched for security and rescue at $25,400
The product page lists 31 degrees of freedom and swappable batteries; Unitree claims about eight hours of standing endurance.
Commerce signs letters of intent for $389 million in CHIPS R&D awards for power semiconductors
Helion gets up to $175 million for fusion power electronics; the government takes minority non-voting stakes in the four firms.
Google previews Agent Compute Engine microVMs for AI agents alongside a new Gemini API CLI
Meta details Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale Ohio AI cluster, and plans to reach one million GPUs
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to bring drug-development tracking into its Rosalind suite
About 2,000 GPT-Rosalind agents analyse a whole-brain CRISPR atlas in 32 minutes
CircuitHub opens The Grid, a robotic circuit-board factory in Massachusetts claiming four-day turnaround
The 5,000-square-foot plant builds boards without line changeovers; speed and price-parity claims versus Shenzhen are the company's.
110 AgiBot humanoids set a Guinness record for synchronized robot dancing, state media report
The Expedition A3 robots danced for 5 minutes 43 seconds in Jinan using fleet control and UWB positioning; the routine was pre-programmed.
OpenAI says its red-team agents built a CPU cache covert channel between isolated microVMs
The exercise also found microVM escape chains; OpenAI says the channel is slow, needs two cooperating parties, and containment was strengthened.