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Starting October 2026, Google is restricting Gemini models by plan: free users will get only Flash-Lite, and the AI Plus plan (4.99 USD/month) loses Pro. All models will only be offered with AI Pro (19.99 USD) or AI Ultra (99.99–199.99 USD).
According to the Ramp AI Index, usage has grown by approximately 50% since the July spending peak, while API spending is declining. Usage reached a record at the end of September. The analysis has a higher representation of large customers.
The Wall Street Journal names the laid-off researchers as Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni. OpenAI has not confirmed the names; it cites violations of rules on handling sensitive information as the reason for ending the collaboration.
New: The Wall Street Journal names the laid-off individuals as Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni.; Tomek Korbak worked on the security team.; Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni worked on alignment.; OpenAI has not confirmed the names of those laid off.; Korbak was OpenAI's technical point of contact for METR and Redwood Research.
Albertsons Companies uses ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API. According to OpenAI, this speeds up the work of its teams and makes grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
Photon has raised $4.5 million in seed funding to develop a platform for AI agents in communication services. According to the company, more than 40 000 developers have registered, and revenue grew tenfold over four months.
According to The Verge, resident opposition and political conflict halted the Stratos project, also known as Wonder Valley. The planned AI complex in Utah was to cover 40 000 acres and have a capacity of nine gigawatts. Residents only learned of the plans at a public announcement.
According to the article, the GLM model from the company Zhipu competes with the products Claude and ChatGPT at a fraction of the price. The author anticipates pressure from cheaper open models on the margins of Western AI companies. It does not state specific prices or the model version.
According to NVIDIA, AI infrastructure costs approximately 60 million dollars per megawatt. The company breaks down the return on these investments and cites the potential annual return as one of its factors.
The company Elredo has secured an investment of over one million euros in a round led by the fund JIC Ventures. It will use the funds to enter the US with automated AI-based audiobook production. It is relocating part of its business, production, and support team to New Jersey.
The IP Lab Ventures Fund I fund is meant to support approximately 40 research projects, mostly in the Czech Republic, including AI, chips, and robotics. 650 million crowns from the National Recovery Plan are flowing into it; according to the main text, the target amount exceeds 1.2 billion crowns.
Barclays bank is expanding its cooperation with Anthropic. By the end of 2026, it expects 50% of developers to use the Claude Code tool. The Colleague Knowledge Assistant tool is already used by over 16 000 employees, according to Anthropic.
OpenAI and Synopsys have entered into a multi-year partnership to develop the GPT-Synopsys model. The model is intended to help with chip design and verification and to directly operate Synopsys's tools. The first tests with customers from the semiconductor industry are already underway.
ElevenLabs allowed employees to sell some of their shares in a transaction worth 300 million dollars. The valuation reached 22 billion dollars, twice the February value. The transaction was jointly led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
Google.org will provide MIT's Transit Lab with $2.1 million for the three-year development of the PTIQ platform. It is meant to connect operations tracking, transit management, and passenger communication. Decision-making will remain with the operators' employees.
Berlin-based startup Restate, which builds infrastructure for reliable (durable) multi-step workflows, has raised $20M in a Series A round led by Singular. The technology has proven to be key for running AI agents.
The McDonald's chain in the US uses a machine learning system that recommends prices based on transactions, local willingness to pay, and competitors' prices. According to the company, franchisees decide; the algorithm's influence on specific price differences has not been proven.
The Czech platform Everbot, which aggregates over 80 AI models, is launching a Polish version and preparing customer support as well as a branch in Katowice. Poland is meant to be the first step of a European expansion, with Slovakia to follow in the autumn.
Starting October 5, OpenAI is introducing three API usage tiers instead of the previous five: Build, Launch, and Grow. Organizations are moved to a higher tier automatically based on the total volume of credits purchased.
Companies working in AI are borrowing trillions of dollars for data centers, competing with governments for capital in bond markets. The yield on US 10-year bonds rose to 5 %, its highest level in almost 20 years, with yields similarly rising in the UK and France.
A sponsored article from HPE on MIT Technology Review claims that for sustained AI operations, companies may find it more economical to own infrastructure instead of paying per token – there is a so-called crossover point where owning capacity becomes cheaper, but the threshold varies by workload type.
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